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Een dijk aan de zee met windmolens.
Higher dykes will not protect us from the water
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Sol van de Universiteit Utrecht in glas in lood in het Academiegebouw.
Utrecht University appoints ‘Lifelong learning’ Dean
Impulse to education for professionals
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Save energy by playing a game

"People will stick to a task longer when you turn it into a game.” Jan Dirk Fijnheer’s publication about saving energy received the Best Paper Award in Palermo.

Powersaving Game
Highly cited researchers
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Electrons in bonding (left) and non-bonding (right) Sierpiński triangles; scale bar 2nm. (Figure: Kempkes et al., Nature Physics, 2018)
What the frac?

Electrons behave very differently in different dimensions. But what happens if they live in 1.58 dimensions? To figure this out theoretical and experimental physicists at Utrecht University Utrecht built a fractal shape out of electrons.

Publication in Nature Physics

News

11 December 2018
Daan Crommelin receives honorary doctorate from Semmelweis University
Crommelin and seven other prominent professors received the honorary doctorate from Béla Merkely, rector of Semmelweis University.
11 December 2018
Volunteers needed to learn more about letters from the 16th to 18th centuries
New project focuses on letters from the 16th to the 18th century with a learned character.
7 December 2018
Easier to save energy by playing a game
Households are better able to follow tips to save energy by playing a game than using a standard dashboard with instructions.
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Monday 19 November 2018 12:00 to Monday 31 December 2018 12:00
Join our free online course on child development
Our Massive Open Online Course 'Understanding child development – from Synapse to Society' starts again on 19 November. Enroll now!
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Dec
Tuesday 11 December 2018 09:00 to 18:00
the Utrecht Brain Conference
This is the 2nd conference that focus on brain development, function and disorders.
11
Dec
Tuesday 11 December 2018 12:45 to 13:45
PhD Defence: Immunomodulatory effects of non-digestible oligosaccharides in peanut allergy
PhD Defence of Simone Hayen
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Twee onderzoekers bekijken een historisch manuscript
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Kweekbakjes in laboratorium
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Universitaire vlag bij Academiegebouw
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