2022

A circular bioeconomy can dramatically rein in the fast-growing plastic sector’s climate, pollution, and resource consumption impacts. Under current policies, global plastic production will likely triple by the year 2100. Today, the…

The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) has been awarded The MRS President’s Medal. The group was awarded for their research on Iranians’ attitudes towards different social and political topics. GAMAAN operates…

Unique genetic research shows that the Ashkenazi Jewish community has been a virtually closed group since the 14th century. The international and interdisciplinary Genetic Legacies project examined DNA from the teeth of dozens of medieval…

When tectonic plates collide and thrust over each other and cause an earthquake, a tsunami can occur. That should not happen in an earthquake where the plates slide past each other. And yet that was exactly what happened on 28 September…

Virtual characters are becoming increasingly lifelike, which makes them more and more engaging to interact with. Utrecht University recently opened its Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Lab, equipped with the latest technology available…

Marta de Ruijter-Villani, Assistant Professor at Clinical Sciences and UMCU, receives a ZonMw Open Competition grant together with Geert Kops and Takashi Hiiragi. Attached to the grant is a sum of €770,000, which the researchers will use…

It seemed like such a nice idea: biomass plants would reduce our dependence on coal and natural gas and were therefore given a key role in the energy transition in the 2019 Dutch Climate Agreement. However, three years later, not only do…

This week, the biodiversity conference takes place in Montreal, after it was postponed by Covid-19 in the Chinese city of Kunming last May. That postponement was worrying, says Professor of Land Use and Biodiversity Merel Soons, because…

Agriculture is one of the leading causes of human induced land-use change globally. Our food consumption and production, especially in industrialised countries, is thereby damaging the planet. Over a third of the world’s total land…

To help UU researchers make their work more open, two funds will start accepting applications from 15 November 2022 onwards. The FAIR Research IT Innovation Fund external link awards grants between 25,000 or 50,000 for staff who want to…