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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?

On 10 June, there will be another nationwide protest against higher education cuts. We call on UU students to join together to send a strong message.

A new round of financial support is offered by the Dynamics of Youth community Youth Education & Life Skills (YELS) to promote and support research activities. Submit your proposals by June 13, 2025.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

During the annual science communication competition Breaking Science starting researchers will have 3 minutes to pitch their research or a scientific concept from their field.

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.

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.

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

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: poetic scholars.