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• Faculty of Humanities
  Humanities
  
  The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
  
• Department of Arts & Languages
• Department of Theology
  Theology
  
  Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
  
• Department of Philosophy
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
  
• Faculty of Social
  Social sciences
  
  The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
   and Behavioural Sciences
  Behavioural sciences
  
  Behavioural science is a term that encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world....
  
• Faculty of Law
  LAW
  
  LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
  , Economics
  Economics
  
  File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
   and Governance
  Governance
  
  Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power , or verify performance . It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes....
  
• Faculty of Geosciences
• Department of Earth Sciences
• Department of Physical Geography
  Physical geography
  
  Physical geography is one of the three major subfields of geography. Physical geography focuses on understanding the processes and patterns in the natural environment, as opposed to the cultural or built environment, the domain of human geography....
  
• Department of Environmental Sciences and Innovation Studies
• Department of Human Geography
  Human geography
  
  Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the built environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the Space#Geography of human activity on the Earth's surface....
   and Urban Planning
  Urban planning
  
  Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
  
• Faculty of Medicine
  Medicine
  
  Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
  Veterinary medicine
  
  Veterinary medicine is that branch of medical science,which deals with the study of diagnosis,treatment and prevention of diseases in companion,domestic, exotic, wildlife and production animals....
  
• Faculty of Science
  Science
  
  In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
  
• Department of Biology
  Biology
  
  Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
  
• Department of Chemistry
  Chemistry
  
  Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
  
• Department of Information
  Information science
  
  Information science is an interdisciplinarity science primarily concerned with the collection, Categorization, manipulation, storage, information retrieval and dissemination of information....
   and Computing Sciences
  Computer science
  
  Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
  
• Department of Mathematics
  Mathematics
  
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
  
• Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Department of Physics
  Physics
  
  Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
   and Astronomy
  Astronomy
  
  Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
  

• University College
  University College Utrecht
  
  University College Utrecht is the international Honors College of Utrecht University . UCU is a selective liberal arts, undergraduate college of 700 students within Utrecht University....
   / Roosevelt Academy
  Roosevelt Academy
  
  Roosevelt Academy is a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. It offers a residential setting and is an international honors college of Utrecht University....
  
• Ethics Institute
• IVLOS Institute of Education

Notable alumni and faculty

• C.H.D. Buys Ballot
  C.H.D. Buys Ballot
  
  Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Netherlands chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named....
   (meteorologist)
• Clarence Barlow
  Clarence Barlow
  
  Clarence Barlow is a composer of European classical music and electroacoustic music works. He was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent....
   (composer
  Composer
  
  A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  )
• Nicolaas Bloembergen
  Nicolaas Bloembergen
  
  Nicolaas Bloembergen is a Netherlands/ United States physics and Nobel laureate.He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Leiden in 1948; while pursuing his PhD at Harvard, Bloembergen also worked part-time as a graduate research assistant for Edward Mills Purcell at the MIT Radiation Laboratory....
   (physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Arend Jan Boekestein (Historian
  Historian
  
  A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
  , Politician
  Politician
  
  A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
  )
• Els Borst
  Els Borst
  
  Else Borst-Eilers is a former Politics of the Netherlands Politician, she led Democrats 66 in the 1998 election campaign and served as Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport for eight years, and the last four as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands....
   (former Dutch minister of Health)
• James Boswell
  James Boswell
  
  James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson....
   (author
  Author
  
  An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
  , lawyer
  Lawyer
  
  A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
  )
• Pieter Burmann the Younger
  Pieter Burmann the Younger
  
  Pieter Burman , called by himself the Younger to distinguish himself from his Pieter Burmann the Elder, was a Dutch philology, born at Amsterdam....
   (philologist)
• Michael Clyne
  Michael Clyne
  
  Michael George Clyne Order of Australia is an Australian linguistics and academic.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Clyne studied for his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees the University of Melbourne, focusing on Germanic languages and French language languages....
   (linguist)
• David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
  David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
  
  Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes , was a Scotland advocate, judge and historian, born in Edinburgh....
  , (author
  Author
  
  An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
  , lawyer
  Lawyer
  
  A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
  )
• Peter Debye
  Peter Debye
  
  Peter Joseph William Debye was a Netherlands physics and physical chemistry, and Nobel laureate....
   (physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• René Descartes
  René Descartes
  
  Ren? Descartes , , also known as Renatus Cartesius , was a French philosophy, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic....
   (philosopher, mathematician
  Mathematician
  
  A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
  )
• Frans de Waal
  Frans de Waal
  
  Frans B.M. de Waal, PhD , is a Netherlands psychologist, primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author of numerous books including...
   (zoologist
  Zoology
  
  Zoology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of animals. The most common pronunciation of "zoology" is ; however, an alternative pronunciation is ....
   and ethologist
  Ethology
  
  Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,...
  )
• Christiaan Eijkman
  Christiaan Eijkman
  
  Christiaan Eijkman was a Netherlands physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins....
   (physician
  Physician
  
  A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
  , pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Willem Einthoven
  Willem Einthoven
  
  Willem Einthoven was a Dutch Physician and physiology. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it....
   (physician
  Physician
  
  A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
  , physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Georg Graevius
  Johann Georg Graevius
  
  Johann Georg Graevius was a Germany classical scholar and critic. He was born at Naumburg.Graevius was originally intended for the law, but made the acquaintance of Johann Friedrich Gronovius during a casual visit to Deventer, under whose influence he abandoned jurisprudence for philology....
   (scholar)
• Louis Grondijs
  Louis Grondijs
  
  Lodewijk Hermen Grondijs was a Dutch people war correspondent and byzantinist.Grondijs was born in the Dutch East-Indies, now known as Indonesia, and via his mother was one eighth Indonesian....
   (Byzantologist, war correspondent
  War correspondent
  
  A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war. In the 19th century they were also called Special Correspondents....
  )
• Gerardus 't Hooft
  Gerardus 't Hooft
  
  Gerardus 't Hooft is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Martinus J....
   (physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• J. H. van 't Hoff (chemist
  Chemist
  
  A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Jacobus Kapteyn
  Jacobus Kapteyn
  
  Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, was a Netherlands astronomy, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for Galaxy rotation curve....
   (astronomer
  Astronomer
  
  An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
  )
• Tjalling Charles Koopmans
  Tjalling Koopmans
  
  Tjalling Charles Koopmans was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.Koopmans was born in 's-Graveland, Netherlands....
   (mathematician
  Mathematician
  
  A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
  , physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , economist
  Economist
  
  An economist is an expert in the social science of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist
  Biologist
  
  A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life.Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment....
  )
• Jack van Lint
  Jack van Lint
  
  Jacobus Hendricus van Lint was a Netherlands mathematician, professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, of which he was rector magnificus from 1991 till 1996....
   (mathematician
  Mathematician
  
  A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
  )
• Rudolf Magnus
  Rudolf Magnus
  
  Rudolf Magnus was a Germany pharmacologist and physiologist. He studied medicine, specialising in pharmacology, in Heidelberg, where he became associate professor of pharmacology in 1904....
   (pharmacologist and physiologist)
• Marcel Minnaert
  Marcel Minnaert
  
  Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert was a Belgium astronomer.He obtained a PhD in biology at Ghent University in 1914.He was a supporter of the Flemish movement during World War I and endorsed the replacement of French language by Dutch language during the Western Front ....
   (astronomer
  Astronomer
  
  An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
  )
• Heiko Oberman
  Heiko Oberman
  
  Heiko Augustinus Oberman was a historian and theologian who specialized in the study of the Protestant Reformation. Oberman was born in Utrecht , Netherlands....
   (historian
  Historian
  
  A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
  )
• Mark Overmars
  Mark Overmars
  
  Markus Hendrik Overmars is a Dutch Computer science and teacher of game programming known for his game development application Game Maker. Game Maker lets people easily create computer games using a drag-and-drop interface....
   (Computer Scientist
  Computer scientist
  
  A computer scientist is a person who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
  )
• Abraham Pais
  Abraham Pais
  
  Abraham Pais was a Netherlands-born United States physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jews participation in Dutch universities during World War II....
   (physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , science historian)
• Perizonius
  Perizonius
  
  Perizonius was the name of Jakob Voorbroek , a Dutch people classical scholar, who was born at Appingedam in Groningen .He was the son of Anton Perizonius , the author of a once well-known treatise, De ratione studii theologici....
   (scholar)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist
  Chemist
  
  A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
  
  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Switzerland scholar born at Z?rich.The son of the senior town physician of Z?rich, he received his education in that place, and, in 1692, went to the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg, being intended for the medical profession....
   (physician
  Physician
  
  A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
  , scientist
  Scientist
  
  A scientist, in the broadest sense, refers to any person that engages in a system activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy....
  )
• Jan Hendrik Scholten
  Jan Hendrik Scholten
  
  Jan Hendrik Scholten , the Netherlands Protestant theology, was born at Vleuten near Utrecht .After studying at Utrecht University, he was appointed professor of theology at Franeker....
   (theologian
  Theology
  
  Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
  )
• Boudewijn Sirks
  Boudewijn Sirks
  
  Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks , known as Boudewijn Sirks and as A. J. B. Sirks, is a Dutch academic lawyer and papyrology specializing in Roman law....
   (Roman law
  Roman law
  
  Roman law is the law system of ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting Greek language as its official language in the 7th century....
   specialist)
• J. Slauerhoff
  J. Slauerhoff
  
  Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Netherlands poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers....
   (poet
  Poet
  
  A poet is a person who writes poetry....
  , novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology
  Dermatology
  
  Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and Skin disease, a unique specialty with both medical and surgical aspects. The name of this specialty originated in the form of the words dermologie and, a little later, dermatologia ....
   and Venereal Diseases from 1929-1930.
• Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
  Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
  
  Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland was an English statesman.He was the second son of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland and Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland , daughter of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol....
   (statesman
  Statesman
  
  A statesman or stateswoman or statesperson is usually a politician or other notable figure of state who has had a long and respected career in politics at the national and international level....
  )
• Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate
  Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate
  
  Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate , the Netherlands divine, prose writer and poet, was born at The Hague.He started in life as a lawyer's clerk. It was his friend, Dr Heldring, pastor at Hemmen, in Gelderland, who, discovering in Ten Kate the germs of poetical genius, enabled him to study theology at the Utrecht University ....
   (poet
  Poet
  
  A poet is a person who writes poetry....
  )
• Jan Terlouw
  Jan Terlouw
  
  Jan Cornelis Terlouw is a the Netherlands science, politician, and author.Jan Terlouw was born in Kamperveen. He was the eldest son in his family, he has two brothers and two sisters and grew up in the Veluwe....
   (politician
  Politician
  
  A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
  , novelist)
• Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  , Nobel Prize laureate)
• Hugh Williamson
  Hugh Williamson
  
  Hugh Williamson was an Politics of the United States. He is best known for representing North Carolina at the Philadelphia Convention.Williamson was a scholar of international renown....
   (politician
  Politician
  
  A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
  )

See also

• Roosevelt Academy
  Roosevelt Academy
  
  Roosevelt Academy is a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. It offers a residential setting and is an international honors college of Utrecht University....
   International Honors College of Utrecht University located in Middelburg
  Middelburg
  
  Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the Capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated on the peninsula of Walcheren....
  , Zeeland
  Zeeland
  
  Zeeland , also called Zealand in English language and Zeelandic, is a province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium....
  
• University College Utrecht
  University College Utrecht
  
  University College Utrecht is the international Honors College of Utrecht University . UCU is a selective liberal arts, undergraduate college of 700 students within Utrecht University....
  
• Utrecht Network
  Utrecht Network
  
  The Utrecht Network is a network of European University. The network promotes the internationalisation of tertiary education through summer schools, student and staff Student exchange program and joint degrees....
  
• Utrecht School of the Arts
  Utrecht School of the Arts
  
  The Utrecht School of the Arts is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht , The Netherlands. The institution has 570 teachers and staff members....
  
• Utrecht Summer School
  Utrecht Summer School
  
  The Utrecht Summer School, founded in 1987 by Utrecht University, is the biggest academic summer programme in The Netherlands and belongs to the biggest summer schools in Europe....
  
• Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU - Hogeschool Utrecht)

External links

• International Honors College of Utrecht University
• The official Utrecht University Summer School