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| On this newsletter, we invite you to take a look at UU's past, present and future: you can take our lustrum quiz about the university's relationship with the city in the past 385 years, or read about the plans for this year's introduction week, or learn more about the municipality's plans to make the Utrecht Science Park a much livelier place going forward. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| Future plans for the Utrecht Science Park: more jobs, more homes, fewer cars
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| Over the next few years, the Utrecht Science Park will be getting an additional 4,000 homes and 4,000 workplaces. The supermarket will increase in size and cafés and restaurants will replace the canteens. The USP should also keep its "green" character, becoming more sustainable. Read more
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| Lustrum Quiz: how much do you know about UU? Win a framed picture of the city
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| What did UU do to attract students back in 1636? Why are there flowers by the Anne Frank statue? If you know the answers to these questions, make sure to participate in DUB’s Lustrum Quiz. Three lucky winners will get a framed picture of their choice from the Utrecht Archives. Read more
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| Dutch PM is working with two scenarios for the next academic year
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| Dutch higher education institutions are being instructed to prepare themselves for two possible scenarios when it comes to the new academic year: one with social distancing and one without it. The government’s message is not getting a warm reception, however. Read more
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| A Master’s and a PhD at Harvard: UU student Mira is going for it
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| Studying at an Ivy League university in the U.S. may seem like an unattainable dream, but Mira Sinha, who's recently graduated from a Bachelor's in Biology at UU, is starting a Master's-PhD track at Harvard. She tells us all about how she did it. Read more
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| National survey: students give lower grade to higher education
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| How satisfied are higher education students with the education they're being given? Given the coronavirus pandemic, the outcome isn't so surprising: in general, they are less pleased than in previous years. Read more
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| UIT 2021 gets hybrid programme: half of participants welcome in the city
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| The Utrechtse Introductie Tijd (Utrecht Introduction Period), also known as UIT, is a week where new students get to know each other, the city and the university. Last year, UIT had to be held completely online, but this year the board has managed to organise a hybrid form. Read more
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| Universities hoping for introduction week without restrictions
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| Even though they're preparing themselves for every eventuality, universities in the Netherlands hope that first-year students will have a normal introduction week in September, without all the hassle caused by social distancing and other restrictions. Read more
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| Graffiti reminds students to lock their doors and avoid break-ins
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| Two huge keys have been painted in the vicinity of student housing complex IBB to remind residents to lock their doors to avoid burglars. Made by Graffitinetwerk, the work was committed by the municipality. Read more
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| Studying abroad, watching your country bleed
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| Blog - If you want to understand what is going on in Colombia right now, you should definitely read Valentina's blog. She is a UU student from Colombia and writes about how to make a difference from afar. After all, it can be quite hard to watch your own country struggle from a distance. (Photo: Oxi.Ap via Flickr) Read more
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| Will Covid kill the live lecture? DUB panel reacts
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| The age-old practice of gathering hundreds of students in a lecture hall might soon be a thing of the past. Large gatherings will remain scary and risky for a while. Would it be a bad thing if face-to-face classes disappeared altogether? We asked the DUB panel and their opinions vary. Read more
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| Executive Board allows second camera for proctoring despite privacy objections
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| Study programmes may continue to ask students to film themselves with a second camera during proctoring exams. However, the students who do not feel comfortable doing that must be offered the opportunity to take the exam in person, at the university's premises. Read more
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| Students satisfied with ‘alliance course’
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| A course called "Covid Challenge" is being offered by the alliance comprising UU, UMC Utrecht, Wageningen University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. Students are required to come up with solutions for societal issues that have come to light thanks to Covid-19. Read more
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| The Utrecht Archives are launching a coffee table book to go along the exhibition Heel Utrecht Loopt Uit!, which features pictures of UU's lustrum celebrations from 1901 to 1961. DUB is giving away three copies of the book. Interested in getting your hands on one of them? Then send us an e-mail with your full name and phone number, telling us why you'd like to have it. E-mail us no later than August 1. DUBprijsvraag@uu.nl
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| Jitte is a minister in the Student Cabinet, a group standing for more science in politics
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| The Student Cabinet is a group of students appointed by their universities to act as "ministers" of relevant topics. The goal: inspire politicians to make choices based on science. UU student Jitte is the Minister of Healthy Living. Read more
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| Thirty-one researchers get a Rubicon grant, two of them from UU
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| It was a bit of a wait, but 31 newly minted PhDs have now been awarded a one or two-year Rubicon grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to gain international experience in their field. Two grants went to Utrecht University. Read more
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| Longing for moments 'inside the box'
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| Blog - Lecturer and researcher Martine Veldhuizen hopes that, in the next academic year, UU scientists will have the time to sit "inside the box" to quietly concentrate on their research. After all, peace and quiet to work is one of the things she missed the most last year. Read more
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| "What have you done?" About 20 percent of UU staff falls for phishing e-mail
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| Almost 20 percent of UU's employees clicked on a phishing e-mail sent by Information and Technology Services to 13,000 employees. It was a test to warn employees about how easy it is for hackers to invade the UU network. Read more
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| Universities to help pension fund ABP with sustainable investing
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| Dutch universities have assigned a committee of experts to keep a critical eye on the investment strategy of pension fund ABP, which is mandatory for all higher education workers. They will issue an advice twice a year. Read more
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| The university as a haunted house
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| Opinion - Everyone at the university is welcome and allowed to be themselves, according to the symbolic rainbow bike path at the Utrecht Science Park. But, for environmental philosopher Floris van den Berg, this discourse sounds much better in theory than in practice. Read more
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| Overnight stay at Sonnenborgh top prize in renovation raffle
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| The Sonnenborgh Observatory and Museum, located in the Zocher Park in Utrecht, is holding a raffle to raise 15,000 euros to fund the renovation of the museum's garden. The top prize is an overnight stay at ‘Camping Sonnenborgh’, a one-time initiative. Read more
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| Dutch Minister of Education: stop collaborating with Confucius Institutes
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| Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences worried about the erosion of academic freedom would do well to end their association with China’s Confucius Institutes, states the Dutch Minister of Education. Read more
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| Court of Audit: university funding based on 37-year-old data
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| Dutch universities need to receive more money from the government, a new report issued by the Dutch Court of Audit indicates. Current funding formulas are based on obsolete calculations from the 1980s. Read more
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| Beware of the cloud, say cyber experts
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| A group of professors from several Dutch universities wrote an open letter to urge their institutions to stop using American cloud services in order to protect their students and staff. They think we're giving way too much power to the "Facebooks, Googles, and Amazons of this world". Read more
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| A badge for your volunteer work in the Netherlands
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| Students will soon be eligible for a certificate if they have done volunteer work alongside their studies, announced the Dutch Minister of Education, Ingrid van Engelshoven, while addressing the Parliament. Read more
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| Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest news about UU and university life. If you would like to share something with us, please feel free to send us a message. Prefer sending an e-mail? No problem. Write to dubredactie@uu.nl.
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| Read more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: survey reveals "social divide" between international students and Dutch students; the return of graduation ceremonies after lockdown; a behind-the-scenes look at student housing provider SSH.
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