Ben Feringa himself to present 2023 Ben Feringa Impact Awards in Groninger Forum

This year's edition of the annual Ben Feringa Impact Awards, awarded by the UG to encourage recognition and rewards for impact-driven research, will take place on 25 May. The awards will be presented to the winning researchers and students by Ben Feringa himself.

The faculties could nominate researchers and students for the award until the end of last year.

The finalists

Category: Researchers

• George Azzopardi and Guro Swaroop Bennabhaktula, Forensics against child sexual abuse: 4NSEEK, Faculty of Science & Engineering
• Laura Peters, Plea bargaining in criminal cases, Faculty of Law

Category: Students (award sponsored by the Ubbo Emmius Fund)

• Ryan Bolt, Charlotte Hoogers, Candelas Gross Valle, Nina Valentini, Yuna van den Brom, Anne Lebediva, Streetfront: Stories about Perseverance, Resilience and Running in the Downtown Eastside, Honours College
• Nine van den Wijngaard, Complaining about lawyers as occupational therapy: a study into the legal options available to the 'deken' in disciplinary law to act against frequent complainants, Faculty of Law
• Marie Fournier, Elena Delea, Birgit Eggink, Sexual Wellness Education Initiative (SWEI), University College Groningen

Programme

The afternoon programme will be chaired by Marie-José van Tol, Professor of Mood & Cognition at the UG. President of the Board of the University Jouke de Vries will welcome the invitees, after which Anne-Wil Lucas, the Chair of the jury, will present the jury report, and Ben Feringa will present the awards to the winners. Heino Falcke, astronomer and founder of the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium, which was the first to capture a photograph of ‘the black hole’, will provide an intermezzo. The afternoon will be rounded off with a drinks party.

Registration

There are still a few places available. You are warmly invited to attend the awards ceremony on Thursday 25 May. The doors will open at 2.45 p.m., the programme will start at 3.15 p.m., and drinks will be served from 4.45 p.m.