Utrecht University

Utrecht University has appointed five professors at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. Each of the professorships involves an internal candidate. The appointments are part of a growth programme with extra attention to…

Professor of Religious Studies Birgit Meyer is one of seven academics to receive an honorary doctorate from Universität Zürich this year. The doctorate was awarded last 29 April during the Dies academicus.Numerous impulsesThe Faculty of…

Concerned students and involved parties including End Fossil Occupy Utrecht (EFO Utrecht) are protesting at Utrecht University today. They are occupying an area in the Minnaert building and have written a manifesto demanding an accessible…

Professor in Language, Communication and Computation Antal van den Bosch will become the new chair of the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and also a member of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Executive Board as of 1 July. He…

An international research team led by Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University) and Sara Bals (University of Antwerp) has shown that a promising catalyst for clearing CO2 becomes significantly more active and selective if its pretreatment is…

Ozan Ozavci and Elena Tribushinina have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in the Open Competition SSH programme. With this competition, the NWO Division for Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers…

Artificial intelligence, data science, textmining. These are themes reflected in the research proposals submitted to the FAIR Research IT Innovation Fund. Of the twenty-two submissions we received for the first call, thirteen proposals…

Utrecht University has appointed biologist Rashmi Sasidharan as Professor of Plant Stress Resilience. Together with her research group, Sasidharan aims to pinpoint the mechanisms that help plants cope with stressful environments. This…

The Animal Welfare Body Utrecht has published its Lifelong Learning policy, on behalf of Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht.The Lifelong Learning Policy for professionals within Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht working with laboratory…

Today, the National Geographic Society launched the World Water Map as part of its five-year World Freshwater Initiative to better understand developing freshwater shortages around the world and inspire sustainable action. The Map was…