A Meets ceremony or an ‘office degree’: graduating is different this year Students graduating from the UG this year are saying a sober goodbye. Most faculties have postponed graduation ceremonies until after the summer. Wed 8/07
Stewards will be used to enforce smoking ban after all Stewards will be approaching people who are smoking near a UG building starting August 1. Earlier, board president Jouke de Vries said he wasn't in favour of that. Wed 8/07
‘FSE needs to hire more international support staff’ FSE risks losing international talents if it keeps insisting its support staff speak fluent Dutch, says faculty council member Marzia Nuzzolo. Tue 7/07
Physicists come up with portable detector for gravitational waves Groningen scientists have come up with a plan to create a gravitational-wave detector that’s four thousand times smaller than the current LIGO experiment. Tue 7/07
Participation was sidelined when crisis started Participation at the UG was sidelined the first few weeks of the corona crisis. There was no way around it, said university president Jouke de Vries. Mon 6/07
FSE wants special funds for rejected proposals The Faculty of Science and Engineering wants to create a fund to finance research proposals that didn’t make the cut for national and European subsidies. Mon 6/07
More money for staff who want to buy new laptop The board of directors is increasing the amount of money the UG reimburses for new laptops. They're also looking at other ways to (financially) support teachers. Wed 1/07
SSH residents get their own tenants’ association Next year, international students renting from SSH will be able to take their problems to the new tenants’ association ISHA. Wed 1/07
