UTRECHT UNIVERSITY HAS A LONG TRADITION OF OFFERING HONOURS PROGRAMMES TO STUDENTS WHO ARE LOOKING TO BROADEN THEIR HORIZON. The Strategic Plan of 2016-2020 refers to our honours programmes as follows: “We will further expand our honours programmes and will establish a university Honours College as a central, physical location for university-wide, interdisciplinary honours programmes….

The first symposium of the year! This symposium will be held on Tuesday, October 22 from 17:00 until 21:00, the theme will be the history of natural science. The speakers will be Daan Wegener, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, and Albert Philipse. The symposium will take place in the Ruppert building. You will earn 0.25 ECTS (in…

Bingo night in the SHA room, organised by the Excursion Committee on the 15th of October 2019. It will start at 17.00 and ends at around 19.00 and there are some magnificent prizes to be won! (+ losers still get social points). If you’d like to join, please fill in the form before 14 October…

The Opening of the Academic Honours Year 2019-2020 is an amazing time to meet all your fellow honours students and to celebrate another wonderful year! This event will take place on Monday 14 October at the Aula of the Academiegebouw between 19.30 and 21.30 hrs. The opening speech is held by professor Media and Digital…

The academic year has only just started, but we are here to plan your next vacation. Every year, an educational trip is organized the International Trip Committee, and this year we are going to… Brno! From the 11th until the 16th of November 2019, you can join us on the international trip. We will leave…

Dear new SHA students, We are super excited to welcome you to our community, the SHA! Which is why we planned an evening for you to meet your fellow SHA students and improve your pooling skills! We will be eating pizzas with the students from all the different disciplines, who you can challenge in playing…

On January 17th the SHA Excursion committee organised a beer tasting night! Accompanied by some french fries and a snack to lay a goede bodem, as many as 5 ‘speciaalbiertjes’ were available, going from the lowest alcohol percentile (6%) to the highest (10.5%). Beers were drunk, stories were shared and games were played, but it…

By a National Trip visitor: ‘The National Trip to DIFFER was a fun and new experience for me. I felt like I got to look around in a unique facility. It was great to see so many different groups and scientists all working together to try and generatie energy much more efficiently and sustainably. I…

The Sinterklaas reception was the second SHA reception of this year, and it was a success. Coming into the SHA room, we were greeted with a nice cup of hot chocolate or some glühwein. The room was decorated in the Christmas theme, with paper snowflakes on the windows and light strings all across the room….

Last week the SHA pub quiz committee organized their first activity; a Sinterklaas pubquiz! A selective group of students made their way to Mick O’Connells through typical dark Dutch autumn weather. Just a casual knowledge on Sinterklaas was not enough. The questions challenged our students’ creativity and knowledge on the history as well as the…