University of Groningen

Rotary molecular motors were first created in 1999, in the laboratory of Ben Feringa, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Groningen. These motors are driven by light. For many reasons, it would be good to be able to make…

The University of Groningen has 37,137 enrolments as from October 2022. This is slightly less than last academic year, a 3 percent decrease. The number of new registrations mainly seems to be a correction of the increases that took place…

Over the last few years, bird flu has become endemic in large parts of Europe. Wild birds spread the very contagious flu virus that is infecting more and more birds at poultry farms. If bird flu is discovered on a farm, all birds on that…

The Academic Director of the programme is Prof. Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, who describes the programme as:'You can see this LLM as the leader of the next generation of LLMs in Technology Law, building on the pre-existing knowledge many…

Groningen’s solar team Top Dutch Solar Racing recently competed in the iLumen European Solar Challenge (iESC) at Circuit Zolder in Belgium. This special event only takes place once every two years and is a quite a happening in the solar…

Half a century ago, the University Council and the Executive Board of the UG were formally established. This will be remembered on the afternoon of Thursday, September 1, 2022 with the symposium ‘Governance and co-determination: 50 years…

Deep evolution casts a longer shadow than previously thought, scientists report in a new paper published the week of Aug. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Smithsonian scientists and colleagues, including…

For a long time, cells were seen as bags filled with randomly distributed molecules. We now know that cells with a nucleus contain mini-organs (organelles): compartments that contain the machinery to carry out specific tasks. Although…

Various UG research consortia have been awarded substantial grants by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The Open Competition Domain Science–XL grants (ENW–XL, previously called the ENW–GROOT grants), worth a few million euros, have been…

Six recent PhD graduates from the University of Groningen will be able to conduct research at top institutes abroad for two years thanks to the Rubicon programme organized by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The…