The mission of Marleen Janssen
Marleen Janssen is the world's first professor of deafblindness. Thanks to her academic endeavours, it is becoming ever clearer how to improve the lives of people who can hardly hear and see.
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13 October 2020
First responses to the coronavirus pandemic are lessons for the second wave and the climate crisis
The sometimes powerful responses of citizens and governments at the start of the coronavirus pandemic could be a good starting point when it comes to battling global crises such as the environmental and climate crisis, and possibly the second wave...
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21 September 2020
More sociable after a glass of beer? Is that even really true?
People tend to believe that alcohol makes them more sociable, but is it the truth? Researcher and lecturer at the UG’s department of Psychology, Marije aan het Rot, plans to get to the bottom of it. The Knowledge Institute for Beer awarded the...
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10 September 2020
Meer studenten voor Wijk Inzet door Jongeren en Studenten
Het project WIJS, het initiatief dat de Gemeente Groningen en de Hanzehogeschool in 2014 startten, is uitgebreid met vier partners: WIJ-Groningen, de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Alfa-college en Noorderpoort. Vandaag wordt de komst van de vier...