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Monday, June 16, 2025 is Neurodiversity Pride Day. On this annual global celebration by and for neurodivers people, Network Network USP Inclusive is organizing a symposium.

Many researchers have done this before you. This spring, three more applications have been honored. Below you can read what Anouk Keizer, Madelijn Strick, Rachel Gillet and Jody Metcalfe will do with the money.

Through interviews with industry leaders, Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� research shows that companies are finding innovative ways to balance protection and collaboration.

Professor of Italian Language and Culture Harald Hendrix will retire. What can the Netherlands learn from Italy? And what does he hope to pass on?

NS has announced it will go on strike.

Prof. Helleke van den Braber on joining UU's Bottom-up Initiatives, cultural funding models, and fostering interdisciplinary, impact-driven collaboration.

"Quantum mechanics is quite a technical subject for young children but my current PhD supervisor made a tic-tac-toe game with quantum rules."

The Executive Board of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UU) is planning to revise the rules and responsibilities around demonstrations.

Three researchers at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s Faculty of Science receive grants of up to €400,000 each from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grants are part of NWO’s Open Competition Domain Science-M programme, which aims to initiate new, innovative, and fundamental research projects.

Reducing, simplifying, and reorganising our real estate portfolio is necessary to ensure sustainable financial management.

The SIM Peter Baehr lecture of 2025 will be given by Jolien Schukking, judge at the European Court of Human rights.

The event focused on real-life experiences with diversity, discrimination, and subtle (and not-so-subtle) biases in education and research.

In Fall 2024, Special Interest Group on Student Mobility: Imaginaries, Temporalities and Regimes has been launched to address current research gaps in the field of international student mobility.

The research laboratories of the Division of Pharmacology have been awarded the LEAF Bronze-level award!

Elena aims to better understand climate change with her research. How does she do that? Read it here.

Susanne Schmeier has been appointed Professor of Water Cooperation, Law and Diplomacy as of 1 June 2025.

In the report ‘With combined forces?’ researchers describe the practice of public-private partnerships between the police and private partners.

Dewy van der Valk ’13 develops heart valves that grow with patients. Hear about her research in the new After UCU podcast episode.

A look back at Laying the Ginkgo to Rest

The What If Garden (TWIG) invites you on a journey into radical imagination.

Monday 26th of May was the launch of a new Special Interest Group, co-founded by Robert Weijers and Maarten Hillebrandt.

UU had the honour of hosting visual artist Suzette Bousema for a special screening of her new documentary, Dead Zones. The event was organised by Atlantos Student Association.

Laureen Hu defended her dissertation titled "Family by being, wanting or doing: a legal and moral reconsideration of parentage law."

Marc Baldus has been appointed as new director of national research institute HFML-FELIX.

On Tuesday, 3 June, one of our university buildings (Janskerkhof 15a) was occupied by protesters. On Wednesday morning 4 June, the protestors were officially ordered to leave and decided to do so.