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In the past weeks, staff members and students at UU and HU and other interested individuals entered Utrecht Science Park in order to chart as many plants, animals and fungi as possible.

At ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� College Utrecht, students don’t just learn about the world—they actively shape it. Daniella Mires, majoring in Earth & Environment and Law and chair of EcologiCo (Ecological Committee), is a prime example. Read the interview.

Do (young) people experience loneliness in the same way across cultures? In this interview, Luzia Heu talks about her research topic.

The Centre for Animal-free Biomedical Translation, supported by the Dutch National Growth Fund, was officially launched under its new name: Ombion

The nominees for the Best Master’s Thesis 2025 and Vliegenthart thesis award are: Claudia Ionita, Pepijn de Koning and Bas Kraan. The nominees for the Social Impact Award 2025 are: ‘Rowing Blind’ and Philip Berghoef.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s long history. This time: holidays at university.

Edwin van Leeuwen: "This may offer insights into the evolutionary roots of human culture.”

According to an article in Bioscience, permits and tenders for new wind farms offer a unique opportunity to mandate investments in ecosystem restoration.

On 15 August, Annemarie van Wezel will start as the new dean of the Faculty of Geosciences. We interviewed her to get acquainted.

Carine van Rhijn researched medieval medical texts in unexpected places: “When you start looking at manuscripts, you never know what you are going to find".

Climate Physics master’s students from IMAU were challenged to explain science behind two recently published papers, based on storytelling and scientific rigour. They pleasantly surprised their lecturers with their remarkable creativity and impact.

Alexander Melchior investigated why civil servants make little use of an excellent tool for developing sound policy on complex issues.

As we bid farewell to Huib de Swart, it is impossible to fully capture the depth of his impact on the IMAU, the Department of Physics, our students, and the field of coastal oceanography.

A team has developed a new framework that identifies the key drivers of change in deltas worldwide.

'Working on something that everybody knows, interacts with, and has an opinion about is also nice.'

Would you also like to learn how Brightspace works in a surprising way? You can do so with Illuminate, the escape room for all UU lecturers who want to discover this new Learning Management System. From today, you can join in. Register quickly!

For the first time, scientists have been able to determine how sea level must have varied also on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years.

From programming measurements in the lab to flying over glaciers. Always been curious about the expertise and pursuits of our team of IMAU technicians? Here's your chance to find out.

Veterinarian experts have developed a new method to estimate the age of puppies based on their teeth, thanks to hundreds of dog owners.

The grant is for independent, curiosity-driven research that focuses on projects with a social and/or humanities research question.

NWO has announced 59 allocations for the SSH Open Competition M programme; among them are eleven Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researchers.

A retrospective on the NATO Summit 2025 with Beatrice de Graaf, who attended as historian and expert on security, crisis and terrorism.

The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is proud to present its new training programme! Everybody is welcome to join our special online lecture series and the CLARIN workshop on the ParlaMint Corpora.

Prof. Dr. Johan Garssen, Chair of Future Food Utrecht represented UU|Future Food Utrecht during an inspiring and forward-looking week at the Netherlands Pavilion at World Expo Osaka in June 2025

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