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Internationals feel excluded from student life in Groningen

Internationals are feeling excluded from Groningen student life because Dutch is the dominant language, so says an investigation by the Groninger Studentenbond.

Longer sentence in infamous UG fraud case

Hans G., the former manager of the UG’s technical department, has received a longer sentence on appeal of 32 months in jail.

UG nabs both Spinoza and Stevin prizes

The UG has nabbed two of the most prestigious science prizes this year. Philosopher Pauline Kleingeld has won a Spinoza Prize, also known as the Dutch Nobel Prize. Environmental psychologist Linda Steg has been awarded a Stevin Prize.

Drawings of a remarkable city

Student Arida Fitriana Yasmin has an unusual hobby: she draws the iconic structures in Groningen, down to the smallest detail.

Felipe’s vlog #4: Felipe is finally allowed to hug his family

Since returning to Brazil, Luis Felipe Fonseca Silva has been quarantined from his family. Sick of not being able to touch anyone, he goes to the doctor to get test for the coronavirus.

Racism

There is a lot more connecting the murder of George Floyd, Groningen and the UG than meets the eye. These connections extend beyond the...

Students get rid of potato parasite

Kim van Maldegem and Jelle Molekamp are participating in the international student competition iGEM. They're trying to fight potato cyst nematodes.

You can’t work on a dining room chair

The board is thinking about using the employee bonus to facilitate them working from home. With hybrid education being a likely reality, employees need better seats than their dining room chairs.

Mónica López López is the Netherlands’ best PhD supervisor

UG associate professor Mónica López López was named national Supervisor of the Year by PNN for being a versatile and inspiring supervisor. What's her secret?

‘Passport professor’ Kochenov did nothing wrong, but he was negligent

Law professor Dimitry Kochenov was not involved in the controversial trade in Maltese passports. But he did fail to report his extracurricular activities to the UG. For that, he’s been given a warning,

Felipe’s vlog #2: From Ghent to Groningen to Brasilia

Brazilian native Luis Felipe Fonseca Silva was forced to leave Groningen much faster than he had planned. Part 2 of a vlog series: The long journey home.

Rectors call on public transport: ‘Give students space rather than limit it’

The timeslot in which students can make use of public transport to travel to campus is too short, say fifteen Dutch universities’ rectors, including UG’s own Cisca Wijmenga.

Felipe’s vlog #1: Covid-19 forces a hasty return to Brazil

Brazilian native Luis Felipe Fonseca Silva was forced to leave Groningen much faster than he had planned because of the coronavirus. Part 1 of a vlog series.

UG wants exchange programmes to continue where possible

As far as the UG is concerned, students will still be able to go on their exchanges planned for the first semester of next academic year, in spite of the corona outbreak.

Sit-in to protest racism: ‘In four years, I had only one black professor’

Hundreds of people gathered at the Grote Markt on Tuesday night for a sit-in to protest against racism. UG students helped organised the protest.

Open letter to the new dean of graduate studies

A group of scholarship PhD students calls on the new dean of graduate studies to solve the problems with the scholarship experiment.

Best laid plans

Uncertainty has become the new normal. What’s stranger still is that questions like ‘When will the university reopen?’, ‘When can I go back to...

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