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Recently, waste has been collected separately in all buildings in the Utrecht Science Park and at the International Campus Utrecht.

Lab staff actively collected plastic separately for four weeks in three different laboratories at the Vening Meinesz Building B

The entrance of the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library City Centre has a new flexible layout with sustainably sourced furniture.

From 1 July, no disposable plastic cups and containers for drinks and meals may be offered for free, and from 1 January 2024 this will be banned altogether.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has decided to remove disposable cups from all coffee machines from 1 November

From 1 July, the Billie Cup will replace the disposable cup in all staffed restaurants and coffee corners in UU buildings

What is waste for one person is the raw material for an experiment for another. This was also the thread of the project dismantling the Earth Sciences Building external link: an experiment with how far you can get with your ambition to dismantle a building as much as possible in a circular way.

The Executive Board has commissioned an independent fact-finding investigation into the protests and occupations of May 7 and 8.

On June 1, 2024, Ted Sanders took over the presidency of the Faculty Club from Ronald Bleys. Ted Sanders is Professor of Dutch language use and discourse studies at the Faculty of Humanities and also Vice-Rector of Research at UU. Ted knows the club very well and believes strongly in the Faculty Club as a meeting place and living room of the UU.

In this article, you can read how the dialogue on Gaza and Israel from Friday 12 July went.

Update on the evaluation of collaboration with Israeli partners

The Active Learning Space (ALS) might be something for your teaching. This new teaching space in the Androclus building can be booked by all UU lecturers from 11 September 2024.

Sensors can do an excellent job of mapping the well-being and health of cows by measuring their behaviour.

A dedicated team at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ aims to reestablish twenty icon species by 2035, including badgers, little owls, roe deer, and weatherfishes.

On 12 July, students, staff and members of the Executive Board will have a dialogue on issues our university community is concerned about in response to the situation in Gaza and Israel.

As of today, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has a centre for living labs. The UULabs initiative which started in 2022 continues under the name Centre for Living Labs UU (CLU).

In a new study published in Physical Review B, researchers led by professor Zeila Zanolli and PhD candidate Riccardo Reho from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, explored the impact of stacking, twisting, and interlayer distance on the electronic and optical properties of structures made of specific two-dimensional quantum materials.

Johan Garrsen, Chair of Future Food Utrecht, went on an innovation mission to France.

Pathways to Sustainability awarded nine teams with an Incubator Grant, two of these projects are linked to Future Food Utrecht.

Throughout history, people have tried to give shape to the future. This piece offers no comprehensive tour of this history. Yet it does share some glimpses of how we might see the future in different ways, or rather different worlds. Here we begin our journey around the future in eighty worlds, even if we visit just a few for now…