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Frequin was one of three speakers on the Paleissymposium Assistant Professor Sanne Frequin was one of the three speakers at the Paleissymposium, with King Willem-Alexander as host.

Already in 2016, Geert Wilders' PVV had a huge potential of voters. At the same time, there is an international tendency towards the (radical) right, and compared to that, the electoral success of the PVV is relatively limited.

Lisanne van Weelden , Hans Westerbeek , and Hans Hoeken receive a Netspar Grant for their research on the new Dutch pension system.

This year, seven Utrecht researchers will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. The European Union provides this subsidy of an average of 2 million euros to researchers who have made their mark in science.

Finding ways to make the best use of collected data to gain insight into biodiversity and how it changes over time.

How do you achieve impact through your research findings? By, for instance, publishing a paper in a leading journal, or speaking about it at a public event or in the media.

Utrecht University plans to be zero waste by 2030. With research and teaching laboratories, restaurants, and hundreds of offices, this is no small task.

These days, we no longer believe rankings are that important, but reputation was and is a part of science.

Utrecht University follows the developments in Israel and the Palestinian Territories* with great concern.

Open Science is an increasingly important part of conducting research. To increase the familiarity of the concept, the team of the Open Science Escape Room project (OSER) designed the online escape room Last Contact.

Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away.

From 2024, the so-called Nutri-Score on food products will be introduced in the Netherlands. The scores (from green A to red E) give a visual indication of the healthiness of the products.

As of 15 October 2023, Irene Monasterolo has been appointed as Professor of Climate Finance at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.

From 1 November 2023, Kei Otsuki will be appointed professor of International Development Studies at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the faculty of Geosciences.

Innovation researcher Dr Wouter Boon from the Faculty of Geosciences' Department of Sustainable Development has been appointed as Professor of Innovation and Transition Studies as of 1 November 2023.

These days, people are hard at work in the University Library, and the books are neatly organised and categorised for everyone who wants to use them.

This year's speech from the throne was complexly worded once again, analysis by linguists Leo Lentz and Henk Pander Maat shows. It contained many complicated and unfamiliar words, phrases, and constructions.

Utrecht University has decided to remove disposable cups from all coffee machines from 1 November. Specifically, this means that disposable cups will no longer come out of the coffee machines in the university's buildings.

Making solar cells more efficient, and developing sustainable insecticides with a zombie-making fungus: as of September, a second group of PhD candidates will start their research funded by the Science for Sustainability community at Utrecht University.

Amateur football clubs are vulnerable to (criminal) interference. The influence of, say, a major sponsor can be undermining if this sponsor makes certain demands, or if the club is too dependent on that one sponsor.

Wednesday 6 September sees the University Museum Utrecht - UMU open to the public again. 'The new UMU is the museum for everyone who is curious,' says director Femke den Boer.