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To end (or start) the year right, we have listed all our magazine articles from August to December 2024. So you can read them again at your leisure during the Christmas break. In each article, a UG researcher talks about his or her field.

Professor Gerard van den Berg had been appointed as member of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy for Sciences, Humanities and Letters.

In the media and politics, there is rising attention to femicide — the murder of women, often by a partner or a former partner. Martina Althoff, associate professor of Criminology, welcomes this but is critical at the same time.

The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Groningen and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) are pleased to announce the launch of the annual “Klaas Knot Lecture Series” on international economic policy.

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give?

On 24 October, Prof. Jouke de Vries, President of the Board of the University of Groningen (UG), was officially appointed as the Honorary Consul General of South Korea in the Northern Netherlands. This appointment, which took place during a ceremony attended by Ms. Hyejeong Ahn, Minister and Consul General of the Embassy of South-Korea, and two other representatives of the Embassy of South Korea, marks an important step in strengthening the ties between the University of Groningen and South Korea.

The University of Groningen as we know it now is more than the Academy Building alone. In this series, we will put the spotlight on various buildings—and a work of art—of the UG and their history. In this episode: the University Library.

Educating regular students is a core task of the University. At the same time, so-called executive education is becoming increasingly important. With that type of education, the UG contributes to the continuous development of working people. Thijs Broekhuizen, Scientific Director of  the University of Groningen Business School (UGBS) aims to advance staff members of companies, governments, and societal organizations by linking academic teaching to practice.

On 12 November 2024, the Center for Information Technology celebrates a milestone: on that date the former Computing Center of the University of Groningen was officially opened sixty years ago.