While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite wiping out the dinosaurs impacted.

The Supervisory Board of Utrecht University (UU) has appointed prof. dr. ir. Wilco Hazeleger as the new Rector Magnificus of UU per March 27th, 2025. He will succeed prof. dr. Henk Kummeling.

Gertjan Plets leads the new international project Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations, which examines the colonial heritage of universities.

A total of nearly 64 million euros has been awarded in the NWO Open Competition ENW-XL. The program funds consortia for curiosity-driven, untied fundamental research in the research areas of the NWO's ...

PhD Defense: Optimizing In Vitro Nasal Epithelial Cell Models for Enhanced Cilia-Related Airway Research ...

Staatssecretaris Jean Rummenie van het Ministerie van LVVN bezocht samen met samen met Tweede Kamer-lid Dion Graus het ExpertiseCentrum Genetica Diergeneeskunde van de Universiteit Utrecht.

In fact, it’s not only employees at the Municipality of Utrecht who can use the search engine, says Schoegje. “Residents of Utrecht can also use the search engine to create a collection of relevant ...

Albert Gatt, Professor of Natural Language Generation, delivered his inaugural lecture on 9 December. He designs systems that don’t just sound intelligent but genuinely understand the meaning behind ...

Equestrian sports are popular and have benefits to human health, however concerns about equine welfare have surfaced. This thesis describes methods to improve both performance and welfare of horses.

WNT proteins are growth factors that promote cell division by binding to Frizzled receptors. These proteins play a crucial role in embryonic development, stem cell regulation, and tissue repair ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC; chemotherapy administered before surgery) is increasingly used in the treatment of non-metastatic breast cancer. However, a significant proportion of patients’ tumors ...

On Wednesday, December 11, the coalition parties reached an agreement with part of the opposition on the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). Based on the available figures, ...