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As a result of popular smartphone games like Pokémon GO, companies and government bodies have begun ‘crowdsourcing’ data on public spaces. Using location data, camera images or short surveys, information is collected from a large number…

Hopefully, she will be able to start in 2022, she says elatedly from behind her screen in her home in Germany. Lisa Herzog embodies the saying that the economy is too important to be left to economists. As a philosopher, she has spent a…

Stek already has a long history at the KNIR as an archaeologist. As he himself describes it, the KNIR has shaped him: as a student, as a PhD student, as a (senior) researcher, and since 2018, as Head of Antiquities at the Institute.Stek’s…

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from 11 different countries are starting a project on speeding up the development of vaccines. Researchers from the University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)…

UG economists Fabian ten Kate and Elmer Sterken predict that the Dutch Olympic team will have its most successful Olympic Games ever in Tokyo. According to Ten Kate and Sterken, the team will win 12 gold medals (just like in Sydney in…

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant of €800,000 to Julia Kamenz, Vânia Correia de Aguiar, Alberto Godioli, Gert Stulp and Marco Demaria. With this grant, the researchers can develop their own innovative five-year…

Ondansetron prescribed by General Practitioners to children who are sick from stomach flu appears to be effective in reducing vomiting and preventing dehydration. This is the finding of a study conducted by GPs in the Northern Netherlands…

“Technology and Society in Equilibrium” – a new sector portrait for Design Engineering Sciences - has been presented to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The report paints a picture of this unique sector which includes the…

Individuals aged 75 and above who still have their natural dentition generally are in better health than those of the same age who are edentulous. They are on less medication, have fewer diseases and are less often committed to hospital.…

From when Aletta Jacobs registered at the UG in 1871 to the professorship of Tine Tammes in 1919: there are countless stories to tell about women at the University of Groningen. The new UG city walking tour guide collates a number of…