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Masterclass: Data accessibility

Over the course of two evenings, Annelies Verhelst from ‘Digitaal toegankelijk’ gave our students a masterclass on data accessibility. They learned about what data accessibility is, why it matters, what needs to be accessible and how to provide it.

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QBio symposium

Last Wednesday, some of our students attended the yearly QBio symposium, organised by a group of master students for their honours programme. In total, six speakers from various disciplines shared their unique insights regarding the overarching theme “The air we breathe.” Topics such as modeling, disease spreading and climate change were discussed. More information on…

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Van Gogh Exhibition

A group of students got to visit the van Gogh exhibition in Utrecht, learning about his work and life story through a series of visually appealing rooms.

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Masterclass iGEM

This Tuesday, iGEM Utrecht hosted a very interesting masterclass for our students. During this, the speakers discussed the promises and pitfalls of a hot topic in science: Synthetic Biology. The interactive aspect of the masterclass consisted of a problem-solving task. Groups of students had to design a plasmid construct and subsequently present their ideas to…

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Game Night!

The first board-mediated reception was a success! Students got together to get acquianted, have a snack and play various games, such as Black Stories, 30 seconds, Jackbox and more!

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Introduction activities

To kick off the new academic year, the introduction committee organised four activities for new students to get to know the SHA and – ofcourse – each other! A phantom hunt, crazy88, quiz night and escape room were organised, taking place both at Science Park and throughout the city center!

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The new SHA student board 2025-2026 has started!

On the 1st of October the new SHA student board of 2025-2026 has started their year and are looking forward to all the exciting and educational activities of the coming year! Soon, the first events will be announced! We are thrilled to share these with you and start off the new academic year with all…

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Registration Interdisciplinary Project Autumn 2022 has opened!

As you might know, every SHA student is obligated to participate at least once in the Interdisciplinary Project (IDP) in order to graduate with honours. That’s why we would like to invite you for the Interdisciplinary Project Fall 2022! Signing up for the project is possible until Tuesday October 11th. If you would like to…

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Symposium Aging by QBio

On behalf of the Quantitative Biology (QBio) Master’s honours programme, we would like to invite you (again) to join us for an exciting, day-long symposium themed around aging!

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Graduating with honours

Dear SHA student, This post contains practical information for you concerning graduating with honours. Please read this e-mail carefully, to avoid any problems later.   If you want to receive your honours certificate at the yearly honours graduation ceremony in October 2022, you should…   ​(1) Check your SHA points progression on BlackBoard In order to complete the interdisciplinary…

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