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The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) is pleased to announce that as of 1 May, professor Lineke Sneller will be appointed as Professor Practice of Digitalization & AI in Accounting and Auditing. The chair is situated within the department of Accounting and Auditing.

Jenny van Doorn and co-authors Martin Mende, Maura L. Scott (both Florida State University), Dhruv Grewal (Babson College) and Ilana Shanks (Stony Brook University) have won the 2024 Weitz-Winer-O’Dell Award. They received the award for their paper “Service Robots Rising: How Humanoid Robots Influence Service Experiences and Elicit Compensatory Consumer Responses” that was published in the Journal of Marketing Research.

The Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health is organizing a summer school on health equity from July 1 to 5. Growing older leads to more health problems, that's natural, but even within the same age groups, health is not equal. According to Marije Bosch and Erik Buskens, the coordinators of the summer school, that's a big problem. ''We need to create an environment where people are empowered to engage in healthy behaviors, thus preventing unwanted and unfair inequality.''

Stellenbosch University and the University of Groningen are committed to the internationalization of higher education and to building sustainable and equitable partnerships for the benefit of students, staff, and society.

Our final application deadline is almost here: make sure to apply before 1 May, 23:59 CEST.

On 19 March, Business Generator Groningen and the UMCG Innovation Center jointly organized Science with Impact.

The outgoing Cabinet recently announced ambitious plans to boost the Dutch chip sector. These plans foresee an important role for the University of Groningen, President of the Board Jouke de Vries proudly notes.

Margo van den Brink, associate professor of Water and Planning, says that we should adapt our spatial design to the changing climate. This implies difficult choices have to be made because the space is limited and the needs are great.

Nine researchers of the Faculty of Science and Engineering have received a Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Network grant.

Assistant professor Yuliya Hilevych from the Faculty of Arts researches regional depopulation in the Netherlands, Finland, and Ukraine by placing the phenomenon in a social-historical perspective.