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We spoke to Sabine Corazon Oudt, UU alumnus and maths teacher, about her career, dreams and ambitions.

De Universiteit Utrecht benoemt microbioloog Laura Villanueva tot hoogleraar Mariene Microbiologie. Ze is daarmee de allereerste hoogleraar met deze leerstoel in Utrecht.

Project raised awareness among citizens, schoolchildren and students of soil decomposition processes that play a significant role in climate and biodiversity .

One of the flagship initiatives of Pathways to Sustainability is Future Food Utrecht, where scientists and a wide range of external partners collaborate to transition toward a sustainable food chain. But what makes this transdisciplinary approach so impactful?

In her inaugural lecture, Prof. Laura Villanueva will illuminate the hidden world of marine microbes, and highlight how they influence our planet’s complex systems in remarkable and sometimes unexpected ways.

Sustainability-focused teaching materials encourage students to think critically about the life cycle of plastics and the environmental impact of chemical processes related to plastics.

WICS and the ICS Diversity Committee are working to make the Department of Information and Computing Sciences a more inclusive and welcoming place for everyone.

Jonas Lembrechts: “It is clear that if nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands do not decrease, plant diversity will become increasingly impoverished."

Equipped with advanced robotics, hyperspectral imaging, laser scanners, climate chambers, and other installations, the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) opens its doors today in Utrecht.

Making brains generate their own therapeutics could be a promising approach to slowing or even stopping the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researcher Niels Reinders has shown in lab experiments that this approach could work.

Bart Hameete, a PhD student at the Pharmacology department shared his journey on developing FCS-free cell culture media.

Potentially, simply spraying such molecules on a field could delay the agriculturally undesired effects of aging in crop plants.

Professor Albert Heck of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has delivered the prestigious Mendel Lecture on 17 October 2024. As part of this honour, he received an accompanying Mendel Medal.

Do new medicines really work better than existing ones? And what should we be willing to pay for them? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Wim Goettsch calls for a critical look at medicine costs and more focus on the actual need for new drugs.

The Physica Prize is the most prestigious award for physicists active in the Netherlands.

Due to the use of different methods, there was considerable variation in the conclusions drawn. Jonas Lembrechts was one of the participants of the study.

For a decade now, the Science for Life community has brought together life sciences researchers in Utrecht. What started as a small initiative from the Faculty of Science has evolved into a vibrant, campus-wide community.

In this newsflash, you will find quick, bite-sized updates on a range of topics that we wish to share with you in addition to the other, more extensive articles in our newsfeed.

Classes in the final three years of primary schools in the province of Utrecht can now sign up for the project and contribute to research on plant biodiversity.

Personality determines to a large extend how susceptible a person is to contagious yawning. Researchers conclude this after displaying videos of yawning people to a large and diverse group of test subjects.