Utrecht University

Chiara Stam will be the new student assessor in the Executive Board as of 1 September. She takes up the baton from Anneloes Krul and will become the third student assessor in the history of the Executive Board.Stam is a Media and Culture…

The national Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) annually awards the Comenius grants, on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. These grants enable teachers to bring their vision on teaching into…

The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) has awarded Gönül Dilaver en Leoniek Wijngaards a Comenius Leadership Fellow grant of 500,000 euros. They receive the grant for their project Fostering an open mind and open attitude…

Utrecht University has appointed chemist Eefjan Breukink as professor of Microbial Membranes and Antibiotics. Breukink and his group are engaged in research aimed at finding new antibiotics that target bacterial cell membranes, the…

How do we jointly uncover the need for expertise and continuing education among professionals? How can we meet that need through University Continuing Education? What connections should we need to develop or strengthen? And how do we…

Ralph Temmink is the proud winner of the Agnites Vrolik Prize. On Friday 9 June, he was awarded the fourth edition of the prize worth €25,000 by Prof José van Dijck for his pioneering research on ecosystem restoration. Restoring…

By zooming in to near-atomic level using electron microscopy, Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai and her team were able to identify the proteins that form the molecular machinery that drives sperm motility. More than twenty of these proteins were…

Ilse Rovers, a lecturer of environmental sciences at Avans Hogeschool, and Hiske Vaarwerk, a teacher of generic and medical math at the nursing and care department of ROC Midden Nederland, have received an NWO Doctoral Grant for Teachers…

During the annual conference of the EWUU alliance (TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht), held in the Omnia dialogue centre in Wageningen on 19 April, the alliance partners will show how collaborating across the borders of the scientific…

Lorena De Vita, Merel van Goch, Ruud Hortensius, Verena Seibel, Friedemann Polzin and Iryna Susha are awarded Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition SSH XS funding. The grant of up to EUR 50,000 offers researchers the chance to…