On the 31st of October, SHA members had the opportunity to attend the Halloween reception. During this event honours students were able to get to know each other in a fun and casual way. The reception committee had arranged drinks and food, especially the tostis were a great success! The room was decorated in Halloween…

After the introduction and graduation event on Monday, this Wednesday it was time to officially open the brand new SHA Room.  There was free cake, the possibility to sign up for committees, the chance to meet the new student board and a lot of “gezelligheid”! It was good to see students from different years and…

Introduction, graduation and a board change, a lot has happened this Monday.  The evening started with an introduction into the SHA for the new honours students. They learned about the different activities and the committees that organise them, and they got a chance to sign up for these committees. After a break, the first ever…

Below is the photo report of the poster symposium on 22th of February 2016. Made by Louise Franssen The behaviour of the AMOC and its future implications An interesting project about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which is a major current in the Atlantic Ocean. Changes in this current could have a substantial impact on our…

The subject of the December symposium was the Future of Food. We felt honoured that the head of the Future Food Utrecht focus area of Utrecht University, Rens Voeseneck, agreed to speak in the beginning of the evening. He is very enthusiastic of this department and he was not afraid to show it. His philosophy…

Curiously recurring (Utrecht Maths/CompScience team) with Timon Knigge (SHA CompScience), Harry Smit, Ragnar Groot Koerkamp (SHA Maths) became 3rd (out of 95 teams!) in the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC)! The competition was November 28-29  hosted by Linköping University(Sweden). The NWERC is a contest in which teams from universities all over the Northwestern part of…

Copenhagen Trip 2015 Science Honours Academy Written reportage by: Hugo Damstra (Molecular Life Sciences), Dido van der Gon (Physics), Joyce Kromwijk (Chemistry), Sten Tonkens (Biology), Livia Wilod Versprille (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences)   On Monday evening we arrived in Copenhagen at our beautiful hostel. After quickly dropping our bags in the room, we went to…

The symposium, inspired by the “Future Food” research at UU, will start at 19:00 (welcome from 18:30) and will end around 21:30. The location of the symposium is the Ruppert Blauw Room. The evening will include the following topics and discussions: 19:00-19:30 Opening by Rens Voesenek: Head of the Future Food Program 19:30-20:00 Dennis Oonincx:…

Speakers: Michiel van den Broeke, Marine and Atmospheric Research, GRACE. Coert van Gemeren, Interaction Technology. Laura Filion, Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics.   Report 1: Hylke Kortenbosch The central topic of the symposium “Natural sciences” is quite obvious for an interdisciplinary beta-symposium and was clearly reflected in the three talks of the evening. Despite being focussed mainly on physics…

The SHA brings together all of the honours students from different fields within the Faculty of Science, allowing them to see how their field of study relates to other scientific disciplines. In this interview, Koosje Lamers (Master’s student Environmental Biology and a graduate of the SHA) and Rineke Gordijn (Bachelor’s student Pharmacy and 2nd year honours student) explain why they feel…