On November 3 2025 NWO has announced substantial funding of the FASTTRACK project, to which GRASP makes an important contribution. The support from NWO's National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Facilities ensures that the Netherlands can continue to play at the forefront of particle physics for the next ten years through the Nikhef partnership.
Normally acting as a sponge for refreezing meltwater, the snowy layer covering the ice sheet in Greenland is important for the overall fate of the ice sheet, but it’s changing in ways researchers currently do not fully understand.
Nieuwsuur interviewed Bas Rodenburg, professor of Animal Welfare. He expressed his concern about animal welfare during the transport of “rest piglets”.
A new comment in Nature identifies a pattern in international treaties, which the authors call “institutional paralysis”: many meetings and decisions, but very little real-world impact.
In Utrecht University buildings, all water pipes are currently being flushed. The aim is to complete this before Thursday so that tap water can be safely consumed again from 6 November onwards.
After six years at Utrecht University, graduate Bas Kraan turned his award-winning thesis into a mission: improving employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: labs in Utrecht.
The Staff Symposium on Student Wellbeing will include knowledge sharing for student supervisors, teachers and other colleagues who have contact with students. Employees who are interested in the topic or involved in it in another way are also welcome.
For ~300,000 years, the same craft endures - perhaps revealing the roots of one of our oldest habits: using technology to steady ourselves against change
Researchers from the Department of Methodology and Statistics, together with other universities and research institutes, will build the world’s first population macroscope.
In the research for his new book, cultural historian Arnoud Visser found that know-it-alls have always been among us – as has the resentment they provoke.
At Utrecht University, Bert Weckhuysen and Florian Meirer of the Institute for Sustainable and Circular Chemistry are heading the development of the new lab.
Ten projects involving Utrecht-based researchers will receive multi-million euro investments from the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure.
Professor Anne Beaulieu has been appointed to the newly established Chair in Knowledge Infrastructures for Sustainability within the Faculty of Geosciences’ Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development (Department of Sustainable Development), effective 1 February 2026.
Ban on keeping naked and folded-ear cats whose welfare is affected by their physical characteristics. RTL News discussed this with veterinary specialist Hille Fieten.
What happens when you set out some pots filled only with soil? It may sound like a strange experiment, but that's exactly what children in grades 6, 7 and 8 are investigating in Project Aanwaaiers.
