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A year ago, the Writing Centre opened its doors as part of the University of Groningen Language Centre. With over 300 free coaching sessions for Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students, as well as well-attended Writing Days, the team looks back on a successful first year full of valuable encounters and, above all, significant progress in writing skills!

Sophia Salziger about her doctoral research on the possibility of claiming non-material damages when your personal data is leaked, as happened recently after the Odido hack.

Using state-of-the-art experiments and simulations, TU/e and University of Groningen researchers have unveiled some of the secrets for organ asymmetry in the human body. The work has just been published in Science Advances.

Remote, close-knit communities in ecologically unique environments are some of the defining characteristics of many islands. This makes them particularly well-suited for research. The Islands & Sustainability Lab at the University of Groningen is an interdisciplinary knowledge network that conducts research and shares knowledge about islands across faculty and national borders.

The XR Hub on 21 May 2026 will focus on the use of VR in aphasia: how VR can help people with aphasia to participate in everyday life again, the use of VR to ensure safe handling of radioactivity in laboratories, and a VR game that enables dental students to practise dealing with acute medical situations.

In the spring issue of RUG magazine Broerstraat 5, you’ll find: Allette Smeulers on war criminals and perpetrators of genocide | Birds in early spring | The fruit fly’s spring fever | Groningen: Hip-Hop Capital | The self-sufficient plant | The GenAI bubble, and much more.

In this VR game, you control an owl with head movements: just tilt your head forward and the owl makes a nosedive. Meanwhile, you’re actually doing neck exercises. Elisabeth Wilhelm and her PhD-student Luís Felipe García Arias developed this game together with Marina de Koning-Tijssen, a neurologist at the University Medical Center Groningen. The game was developed for patients who experience abnormal movements and postures of the neck due to a neurological disorder called cervical dystonia.

Francesco Picchioni is the new guest in our In Science Podcast and talks about the development of new technologies for recycling rubber and plastics.

Vaccination, bicycle helmets, tobacco, alcohol, healthy eating, abortion, preconception care and an open-door policy in care homes: all hot issues in the Netherlands where the balance between health and freedom comes into play. Professor of Health Law Brigit Toebes has written a book on the subject: 'Dat bepaal ik zelf wel - reflecties op gezondheid, vrijheid en recht', that will be published by Boom on 1 April.