The UG will award four honorary doctorates during our
#lustrum
celebrations 🤩 The recipients are Gerrit Hiemstra,
@katecrawford
,
@DrTedros
Ghebreyesus and Mariana
@MazzucatoM
👏 Congratulations!
Read more about the recipients below 👇
We are very proud to announce our new Board members:
@wijmenga_cisca
& Hans Biemans🎉. After 405 years Prof. Wijmenga is our first female Rector👩🎓. Mr. Biemans is the new vice president. Together with
@JoukedeVries
they form the Board of the
#UniversityofGroningen
.
#since1614
We zijn trots om mee te delen dat
@NOS
-Rusland-correspondent Iris de Graaf (
@irislarisa
) RUG-Alumnus van het Jaar 2022 is! 🎊🎓
Jury: 'De Graaf een
#journalist
die in roerige tijden als deze het kaf van het koren kan scheiden.' En dat is belangrijk! 👉
We are proud🎉! The highest Dutch scientific awards - the Spinoza Prize and the Stevin Prize - will be awarded by
@NWONieuws
to UG Professors Pauline Kleingeld and Linda Steg 👩🎓💪. Check out our news article and the tribute websites:
#UG2020
#spinoza
The Academy Building... made out of
#Lego
? 🧱
Student Johannes Bey, who graduated today, took up the challenge. 4,5 years, 600 hours of work and 70.000 pieces later, the result is here. And it look stunning! 🌟
Take a look for yourself 👇
The UG is concerned about the proposal of Minister
@RHDijkgraaf
on internationalisation in higher education. These concerns are about the measures regarding the main language for the programmes and the impact they may have on teaching and research.
Today French schools pay tribute to
#SamuelPaty
who was murdered for teaching in freedom. We stand in solidarity with the French educational system: our 🇳🇱 is flying at half mast in front of the Academy Building to demonstrate our commitment to freedom of expression in education
4.5 years ago, when he received the Nobel Prize, Ben Feringa made a resolution: I will put science on the map! Now there is the Ben Feringa Fund, which aims to increase public interest in science, starting with a quiz and a tour of schools. 👏🧑🔬
Good news: out of all the larger cities in the Netherlands,
#Groningen
has the cleanest air, according to the European Environmental Agency! One more reason to love our city 💚 Hopefully it can improve even more in the future!
#cleanair
#lucht
On this day, 150 years ago,
#Aletta
Jacobs applied for the UG and became the first female student at a Dutch uni. We celebrate this with an Aletta Year, which highlights the theme of ‘women in academia’ and draws attention to diversity. Read more!👩🏼🎓🎉
Vanmiddag liepen 9 meisjes 👧 (8-10 jaar) 20 km van Zuidlaren naar Academiegebouw Groningen voor
@StVluchteling
voor vrijheid van onderwijs voor alle meisjes en hebben €9315 opgehaald, geweldige prestatie!
Great news! Prof of Systems Chemistry Sijbren Otto has received the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the
@AmerChemSociety
🎉
Otto got it for his leading contribution to establishing the field of systems chemistry🧪Congratulations!
@wierdduk
@telegraaf
Cliteur is door de organisatoren van de Nacht vd Filosofie, waaronder de RUG, uitgenodigd. Aan de RUG is ruimte voor iedere mening. Als ‘t erop aankomt is het aan de academische gemeenschap om intellectuele vrijheid en diversiteit te beschermen
News: From now on, asst. professors at the UG are able to act as primary supervisor when supervising PhD students. This was decided by the PhD Board on 14 Feb. Assistant professors can obtain the ius promovendi under certain conditions 🎓
Read more 👇
The world famous
#Ravensburger
puzzles now have a
#Groningen
edition, which features the Academy Building! How cool is that? Comedian Bert Visscher and President of the Board
@JoukedeVries
received the first two versions from illustrator Frans le Roux. 🧩
Deze week is een van onze medewerkers van RUG getroffen door een lastercampagne. Het CvB verwerpt deze grove inbreuk op de academische vrijheid. We staan achter onze medewerkers en ondersteunen hen volledig.
#academischevrijheid
Jacquelien Scherpen is the new rector magnificus of the University of Groningen. We are very pleased with her appointment and have great confidence in her!
We wish her all the best as rector of our beautiful university 💪
More information:
Fantastic news for Maria Antonietta Loi, Bart van Wees and Siewert-Jan Marrink! 🎇 Each of them receives an
@ERC_Research
Advanced Grant of max. €2.5 million. Congratulations on this great achievement 👏
Interested in their research proposals? 👉
❤️Laat het hart kloppen in het Noorden! ❤️
De vlag hangt uit bij het Academiegebouw voor het behoud van het
#kinderhartcentrum
van het
@umcg
🏥
Maar liefst 262.100 tekenden de petitie die vandaag in Den Haag wordt aangeboden.
#haalhethartnietuitUMCG
#Groningen
We are proud! The highest Dutch scientific award - the Spinoza Prize - has been awarded to UG Professor in Astronomy Amina Helmi 💪🌟. Check out our news article and special newspaper:
#astronomy
@NWONieuws
#science
Big congratulations to Lisa Herzog, Marleen Kamperman,
@MingCao10
, Floris Foijer! 🥳🎈
They each receive an
@NWONieuws
Vici grant of up to €1.5 million to develop an innovative research line and to set up their own research groups 👇
Today we are celebrating
#InternationalWomensDay
. We would like to introduce you to some very talented female academics: our new Aletta Jacobs professors and Rosalind Franklin fellows. We are proud to have them at our university! 👏🏼🎉
#womensday
#iwd2021
#coronavirus
update: the University of Groningen takes measures to contain the corona virus. All lectures, exams and events are cancelled until 10 April and where possible, lectures and exams will be offered online. Read the full update:
#covid19
Today on
#InternationalWomensday
astronomer Amina Helmi of UG receives a Suffrage Science Award in the Royal Society in London. These awards celebrate women in science and engineering and encourage others to enter science. Congrats Prof. Helmi! 💪🌹
#IWD2019
#suffragescience
Today is our official 405th
#DiesNatalis
🎉 The founding of our university on 23 August 1614 was an initiative taken by the people namely the council of the province
#Groningen
. UG started under the leadership of Ubbo Emmius with 4 faculties: Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy
Great news! 🎉Thanks to a wonderful donation we received from an alumnus, we will create 50 extra PhD positions for
#research
projects in the new UG Schools over the next five years. The schools focus on interdisciplinary research👉
@AlumniGroningen
Cool news!
#Groningen
ranks as the healthiest city in 🇳🇱! 🤍💚🤍
Factors such as green spaces, but also
#accessibility
were taken into account 🚌🚃
We like to contribute to this. For example through applicable research on sustainable urban
#logistics
👉
Hoogleraar Ethiek en haar Geschiedenis Pauline Kleingeld ontvangt op 30/9 de Spinozapremie. En hoogleraar Omgevingspsychologie Linda Steg ontvangt op hetzelfde moment de Stevinpremie. Dit zijn de hoogste wetenschappelijke prijzen van NL 🔥
@NWONieuws
#RUG
Our
@NobelPrize
laureate Prof.
#Feringa
was meant to give a lecture in San Francisco in March, together with
@Stanford
professors. Well COVID-19... Instead he will be giving a virtual lecture on 20 Nov about his work & research in
#corona
times. Register:
En dan heb je
@MinPres
te gast in je college Intensive care & Anesthesie! Prof.dr Eric van Roon is apotheker in MCL en daarnaast buitengewoon hoogleraar
#Farmacie
. Hij en masterstudenten Maxime en Frank delen hun ervaringen met online onderwijs aan de
#RUG
.
#connectuniversitiesNL
Goed nieuws! RUG-onderzoekers
@marthewalvoort
en Tessa Quax
@QuaxLab
krijgen de
@_knaw
Early Career Award 🥳
De prijs is bedoeld voor jonge onderzoekers in 🇳🇱 met vernieuwende, originele onderzoeksideeën.
Meer over het
#onderzoek
van Walvoort en Quax? 👉
The UG,
@hanze
and
@GGDGroningen
have arranged for students to get their vaccination without an appointment at Martiniplaza, from 16-27 Aug between 9am-1pm. 💉Stay safe by complying with the measures but also by getting vaccinated. More information?
🧡ORANGE THE WORLD!🧡 starts today. On Monday 25, Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 November a number of characteristic buildings in Groningen are lit orange to call attention to violence against women. Like our beautiful
#AcademyBuilding
!
#OrangeTheWorld
@UNWomen_NL
The University of Groningen awards the Aletta Jacobs Prize once every two years to a woman with an academic degree who has promoted emancipation nationally and/or internationally. Previous winners include Khadija Arib, Neelie Kroes, Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, and Els Borst.
We feliciteren Ben
#Feringa
met zijn benoeming tot Lid van de
@royalsociety
, “ter erkenning voor z'n werk in de moleculaire nanowetenschap en zijn ontdekking van de moleculaire motor”. Beroemde leden zijn oa. Christiaan Huygens en Antoni van Leeuwenhoek🔥
Promovendus Maarten van Wijhe concludeert dat 6.000 tot 12.000 sterfgevallen zijn voorkomen onder geborenen tussen 1953-1992. Vaccinatieprogramma’s hebben ook het aantal gemelde ziektegevallen sterk verminderd: 50% rubella tot 90% polio
#RUG
#vaccineren
Hoogleraar Trekvogelecologie Theunis
#Piersma
🐦 heeft de Stairway to Impact Award ontvangen, 1 van 5 nieuwe
#NWO
wetenschapsprijzen!💪De prijs is bedoeld voor onderzoekers die met hun werk maatschappelijke impact weten te creëren
@GlobalFlyway
@NIOZnieuws
Today is
#ComingOutDay
🏳️🌈 We support the idea that everyone should feel free and safe to be the person they are. We want to support and ally with our student and staff LGBTQIA+ community.
Prof Gerry Wakker (
@gcwakker
) and student Ivi Kussmaul raised the flag earlier 👏
We are proud to say we have climbed five places on the
@timeshighered
#rankings
, from spot 80 to 75! 🥳
Out of all Dutch universities, we climbed from spot 7 to 5.
#THEUniRankings
Read more 👉
It's our birthday! 🥳 Today we officially celebrate 409 years of existence. We thank you all for taking part in our community!
Starting May 2024, we will start our anniversary celebration of 410 years with an extensive programme. A little sneak peek 👀👇
The famous
#universitycat
Prof.dr. Doerak received his official UG student ID. Now we want your pictures of Doerak or any other university, campus, college or academic cat in the world. The best 20 will be displayed in our
@UnivMuseum
. Read it:
#campuscat
Mooi nieuws voor
@L_deJonge
: ze is benoemd tot lid van de
@DeJongeAkademie
! Gefeliciteerd! 👏
De Jonge onderzoekt o.a. populisme en neemt regelmatig deel aan het publieke debat. Ze is ook lid van
@YAGroningen
, waar ze zich inzet voor
#socialeveiligheid
👉
Weekend! Time for a good
#podcast
. In episode 18 of 'In Science' Prof
@AlexWFriedrich1
is with us. He is a Medical Microbiologist at
@umcg
. We talk to Alex about the
#coronacrisis
, relaxing the measures and his personal experience in dealing with
#COVID19
Jacquelien Scherpen is de nieuwe rector magnificus van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. We zijn erg blij met haar aanstelling en hebben veel vertrouwen in haar!
We wensen haar heel veel succes als rector van onze prachtige universiteit 💪
Meer informatie:
It's the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women⛔️This issue is severe, also in 🇳🇱.
To raise awareness of this issue, buildings around the world will be lit up orange, including the Academy Building 👉
#OrangeTheWorld
RUG-studente Xandra Velzeboer won gisteren samen met haar ploeggenoten Olympisch goud 🥇 tijdens de relay-finale. Een prachtige prestatie, gefeliciteerd Xandra en ploeggenoten! 🎉
Xandra studeert Life Science & Technology aan de RUG.
#Olympics2022
Faculteit
@rug_gmw
heeft twee nieuwe hoogleraren: prof. dr. Marijtje van Duijn en prof. dr. Hilda Amsing. Dit zijn de eerste 2 benoemingen in kader van het
#AlettaJacobs
stimuleringsfonds. Er volgen nog 13 nieuwe vrouwelijke hoogleraren👩🎓!
#diversiteit
Philosopher Lisa Herzog of the Faculty of
@wijsbegeerte
was member of an international research team that researched how a
#corona
vaccine can be distributed around the world fairly and equitably. The article was published in
#Science
.
#Philosophy
The UG has decided to freeze all relations with Russian non-university partners with immediate effect. For cooperation with knowledge institutions in Russia, the UG will follow the national policy.
Exciting news! UG researchers Mladen Popović, Lambert Schomaker and Maruf Dhali have discovered crucial information about the writers of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. They did this through interdisciplinary
#research
and AI technology📔🔐
#deadseascrolls
For her impressive work and research record, amongst other reasons, the Board has appointed
@brigittoebes
as scientific director of the
@AlettaJacobsSPH
from 1 September on. Congratulations on the appointment! 👏
Big news: three UG researchers, all from the
@FacultyofArtsUG
, receive an
@ERC_Research
Starting Grant for promosing research: Yuliya
@YHilevych
, Geoff Hobbis and Sean Desjardins 💐👏 Congratulations!!!
Read more about their research proposals 👇
On 6 April, students, administrators and staff of all 14 Dutch
#universities
will sound the alarm! We are barely keeping our heads above water. An additional 1.1 billion euros are needed to restore higher education to a
#NormalAcademicStandard
. Join us! ➡
Mooi nieuws voor adjunct hoogleraar
@marthewalvoort
: ze krijgt de NWO Athena Award met €50k bedoeld voor onderzoek. Gefeliciteerd! 🥳
Walvoort onderzoekt de complexe structuren van suikers, die een sleutelrol spelen bij gezondheid en ziekte
Hoogleraar Theunis Piersma en Jos Hooijmeijer hebben van
@minlnv
een subsidie ontvangen voor hun langdurig onderzoek naar de nationale vogel van Nederland. Hiermee kan het grutto-onderzoek van de
#RUG
dat al loopt sinds 2004 weer vijf jaar vooruit
#grutto
15
#female
professors will soon start working at the
#UG
in new chair positions for female professors, the Aletta Jacobs Chairs. The UG is now well on the way to achieving its ambition of having 33% female professors by the end of 2025 👩🎓
As UG we are shocked by the news from
#Ukraine
. We are in close contact with students and staff from Ukraine and Russia, as well as Ukrainian exchange students in Groningen and provide them with support if they need this. Please read more on our website:
Today the university turns purple for Purple Friday 💜 On this day, we emphasize that everyone is accepted at the UG, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression!
Dress up in something purple and show your support! 💪
#PaarseVrijdag
This morning, the Board of the University also uncovered a Stolperstein ("stumbling stone") in the Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat, number 69. This is where former UG-student Benjamin Pais lived, before he was put on transport and eventually died in Bergen-Belsen.
Fantastisch nieuws! Jacquelien Scherpen (FSE) heeft zojuist de Prins Friso Ingenieursprijs 2023 van
@KIVI_NL
gewonnen. Van harte gefeliciteerd Jacquelien! 💐🎉
Voorzitter van het College van Bestuur
@JoukedeVries
is benoemd tot interim-voorzitter van de Universiteiten van Nederland (
@tweetsunl
). Hij zal deze functie voor twee dagen per week vervullen. Hiernaast blijft hij werkzaam als collegevoorzitter.
Meer:
Vijf onderzoekers van
#RUG
en
@umcg
ontvangen een
#Vici
-beurs van
@NWO_Science
: hoogleraar Judith Rosmalen, adj.hoogleraar Liesbeth Veenhoff, hoogleraar Matthias Heinemann, adj.hoogleraar Giovanni Maglia, en adj.hoogleraar Fanny Janssen. Gefeliciteerd!🎉