Tag: UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT
Are you still floating? Ask your election questions to political expert Jelle
On Wednesday we go to the polls to elect a new House of Representatives. The debates are in full swing and the fluctuating polls show that these are exciting and…
Slight increase in the number of international students at Utrecht University
A possible explanation is that universities have started recruiting less internationally and providing more information about the shortage of student housing, according to UNL. In higher vocational education, the number…
Utrecht students hold pro-Palestine protest in University Library
Utrecht – Action group ‘Utrecht in Solidarity with Palestine’ organized a show of support for the Palestinian people in the university library on the Drift on Friday. About thirty students…
Hundreds of students sign a call to Utrecht University to support Palestine
The initiators denounce the university’s silence, which they believe is contrary to what the institute stands for. “In doing so, it undermines its own credibility as a center for independent…
Arend keeps dead animals flexible and that saves the UU laboratory animals
In Schot’s Anatomy and Physiology department, laboratory animals are no longer used at all, only animals that are already dead. Stillborn pigs from the farmer, pets that are donated to…
Bullying PhD candidate was rightly no longer allowed to come to work at Utrecht University
The PhD candidate is said to have bullied, intimidated and discriminated against his colleagues on the basis of origin, gender and pregnancy. At the end of March he received an…
Brand new plant lab at UU should provide ‘super strong crops’
Robots, lasers, a conveyor belt and, above all, lots of plants. A new plant laboratory was opened at Utrecht University this afternoon. There, research is done into how plants adapt…
Utrecht University deliberately did not want to be included in the world university rankings
According to Utrecht University, rankings place “too much emphasis on scoring and competition”, while the university says it considers collaboration and openness of scientific research to be more important. Moreover,…
Exhaustion is a major problem among young healthcare workers
Healthy working in healthcare Research into the health of healthcare workers is carried out annually. This year, in addition to the differences in exhaustion between younger and older colleagues, it…
A nakkie the new normal? Documentary maker Kim (22) delved into the Utrecht drug world
It led to a search with the central question whether drug use is the new norm, especially among young people. That venture started at the Uithof in Utrecht, because Kim…