Utrecht University

Two researchers from Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht received a Rubicon grant. The Rubicon grant allows Erik de Lange and Rogier van der Sluijs to do their research at top institutes and gives them the…

Vitamin K packed in tiny spheres may help prevent severe bleeding in babies. Researchers have now taken an important step in developing this method, bringing an alternative to injections with vitamin K closer to reality. The researchers…

Onshore wind, increased gas prices or a meat tax? What do Dutch citizens think about national climate policy? Researchers enabled 10.000 citizens to advise the government on climate policy through a so-called Participatory Value…

June 17 it is Desertification and Drought Day. The Netherlands is used to keeping and getting water out as quickly as possible; after all, about a quarter of the country is below sea level. But since the prolonged drought of recent years,…

Biological anthropologist Katherine Amato, assistant professor of anthropology at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, is the study's lead author. Amato says, despite a rich body of literature documenting…

KU Leuven is one of the strategic partners of UU. UU and KU Leuven want to intensify ties institution-wide and benefit from each other's qualities better. To this end, UU and KU Leuven together issued a call for Joint PhD trajectories at…

Education, care, research and innovation are central to the USP. We want to keep and further develop this unique character in the future. That is why we are making room for the growth of living, working, sports, accommodation and…

The crisis around the coronavirus makes the 2020 figures more difficult to interpret than usual. On the one hand, additional research was done on COVID-19 in pets and shelter animals, which inflated the figures slightly. On the other…

Meat replacements have been in development for decades, but they still have not been fully embraced as an alternative to animal protein. They taste different, have less nutrients and a completely different mouth-feel. But according to the…

An international research team led by Niels de Winter of Utrecht University has used a new method to reconstruct the monthly temperature differences during the Cretaceous period (78 million years ago). This era, the time of the dinosaurs,…