https://www.uu.nl/en en Sun, 05 May 2024 17:58:05 +0200 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:17:00 +0100 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/seasonal-opening-botanic-gardens Are you also so curious about all the changes at the Botanic Gardens in Utrecht? On Friday 1 March at 10.00 am, the gates will open to the public again. 137929 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:17:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/historical-seed-lists-teach-researchers-about-plant-collections-of-the-past NWO has awarded Utrecht University’s Botanic Gardens a Museum Grant worth 37.000 euros to digitise a portion of their extensive archive of seed lists. This allows researchers to discover previously hidden patterns.  137798 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:55:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/what-is-our-garden-staff-doing-in-lab-coats Every day, the garden team at Utrecht University Botanic Gardens works in dark clothing. What are they suddenly doing indoors , in a white lab coat? 136444 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:42:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-research-unit-unravels-changing-biodiversity-by-extracting-patterns-from-data Research unit Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics is looking for ways to make the best use of data to gain insight into biodiversity and how it changes over time. 135432 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/vote-for-botanic-gardens-utrecht-university-as-the-best-uitje-in-utrecht The Botanic Gardens have again been nominated as Utrecht's most enjoyable ‘uitje’ by the ANWB. 134254 Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:03:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/first-adopted-bench-placed-in-botanic-gardens Eerste geadopteerde bankje geplaatst in Botanische Tuinen 133321 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:38:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/video-from-the-first-day-on-i-always-felt-welcome-here Trainee Ahmad and supervisor Laurens tell about the Incluusion Traineeship, in which status holders gain work experience in the Netherlands. 131285 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/jungle-in-the-room-of-daphne In the run-up to the Spring Garden Weekend, students show their own collection of houseplants. Today: the jungle in the room of Daphne. 128884 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/jungle-in-the-room-of-lotte In the run-up to the Spring Garden Weekend, students show their own collection of houseplants. Today: the jungle in Lotte's room. 128763 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:53:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/from-incluusion-traineeship-to-paid-job Eleven status holders participated in an Incluusion Traineeship at the UU, serving as a spring board to a paid job. 127589 Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/background/bending-the-curve-of-biodiversity-loss-starts-with-insight-into-the-causes Scientists at Utrecht University are studying the causes of biodiversity loss, and the possibilities for bending the curve. 125883 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:57:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/spinoza-laureate-corne-pieterse-im-always-solving-new-puzzles Every year, more than a quarter of all harvests worldwide is lost due to diseases and plagues. The question of how plants can protect themselves against this leads Spinoza laureate Corné Pieterse to the most basic fundamentals of plant life. 120070 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/statistical-paradox-obscures-positive-relationship-between-biodiversity-and-carbon-storage There is hope for conservationists in the Amazon: if you protect carbon-rich forests, you can protect the tree biodiversity at the same time. 116778 Fri, 13 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/drought-diversity-and-production-a-multi-stakeholder-and-long-term-experiment Utrecht University, Stichting Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht, Movares and T-mobile work together in a large scale long-term experiment. 115320 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:09:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/work-on-new-evolution-garden-has-started The work on the new Evolution Garden in the Utrecht University Botanic Gardens has started. The garden will be opened to the public in 2024. 115887 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:52:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/we-are-opening-again From 1 March 2022, the Botanic Gardens will again be open for daily visits. 114224 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:23:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/700000-euro-grant-for-rashmi-sasidharan Utrecht University biologist Rashmi Sasidharan receives a 700.000 Euro grant, allowing her to further extend her research on how plants cope with flooding. 111313 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:11:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/utrecht-university-plants-6000-indigenous-trees-and-shrubs-to-enhance-biodiversity Anton Pijpers dug the first shovel into the ground where more than 6,000 indigenous bushes and trees will be planted. 111271 Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:44:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/meet-the-nocturnal-animals-of-utrecht-science-park Do you know which animals are present at USP during the night? Marijke van Kuijk, associate professor of Tropical Forest Ecology, shows us the ones that have been spotted. 110869 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/expansion-of-southern-hemisphere-plants The current Southern hemisphere bed has been a great success. Therefore we have decided to expand the area. 109211 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:05:00 +0200 Nieuws