ORGANISATIE

Dreijen pond stays, rose garden to go

8:14u 9 December 2009 - The big pond in the Small Botanical Garden will be retained. Wageningen UR and the municipality have reached this compromise in the face of strong demands from inhabitants to spare the park from housing development.

ORGANISATIE

Tilburg’s magazine comes top

9:17u 19 November 2009 - Tilburg University's weekly Univers has won the 'Golden Gadfly' award. Resource was one of five nominees.

ORGANISATIE

A renewed Resource

8:18u 26 August 2009 - Resource was Wageningen UR’s weekly paper. From now on, it’s a biweekly magazine and an up-to-date site. And it’s bilingual.

WETENSCHAP

SELL A KIDNEY AND STUDY IN WAGENINGEN

17:00u 25 June 2009 - A video appeared on youtube this month entitled Kidney donor for study funding. It is about Saut Immanual Budiarto from Indonesia, who is prepared to sell a kidney to fund his MsC course on Aquaculture and Fisheries at Wageningen university. Incredible, but true.

WETENSCHAP

IRANIAN STUDENTS BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR

17:00u 25 June 2009 - As the post-election protests in Iran continue, Iranian students in Wageningen are trying to keep in touch with their family and friends back home. Their opinions may vary, but they all try to keep up with the latest developments through CNN, BBC World and Facebook.

WETENSCHAP

CHEAP ANTIBIOTICS COVER UP FOR POOR FEED

16:36u 18 June 2009 - The growing use of antibiotics in intensive livestock farming is causing increasing resistance to antibiotics - a serious threat to public health. One of the underlying reasons for this is poor quality animal feed. Cheap antibiotics are widely used to counteract the effects of cheap feed. A public health plan is being drawn up to tackle the problem, and if it doesn’t work Minister Verburg of Agriculture and Food (LNV) has stronger measures up his sleeve.

WETENSCHAP

‘HE MAKES YOU FEEL SCIENCE IS FUN’

16:36u 18 June 2009 - You have to be an inspiring leader to win the Spinoza Prize, the most prestigious science prize in the Netherlands. Last week Professor Marten Scheffer of Aquatic ecology and water quality management was named as one of this year’s winners. But do his PhD students share the jury’s assessment? What makes Scheffer a great supervisor in the eyes of Vasilis Dakos from Greece, Rosalie Léonard from Canada, Ingrid van de Leemput from the Netherlands and Maria Betânia Gonçalves Souza from Brazil?

WETENSCHAP

GREEN WITH A TOUCH OF GREY

16:31u 11 June 2009 - Biodegradable plastics based on renewable resources are environmentally friendly because they can be produced with less energy and lower CO2 emissions. Yet the cultivation of crops for bioplastics can compete with food production and lead to deforestation. So how green are bioplastics really?

WETENSCHAP

THREE SPINOZA PRIZES: HOW DOES WAGENINGEN DO IT?

16:31u 11 June 2009 - Entomologist Marcel Dicke in 2007; microbiologist Willem de Vos in 2008; and it’s a bullseye again this year. Ecologist Marten Scheffer has won the Spinoza prize. The third time in a row that a Wageningen scientist scoops the ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’. How does Wageningen do it?

WETENSCHAP

DINING AT DE BONGERD

16:16u 4 June 2009 - A delicious dish of noodles or macaroni with all the trimmings for just 3.75 euros. This has been on offer at Wageningen’s De Bongerd sports centre for a month now. It was an idea of John Schouten’s – an enthusiastic and creative man who tends the bar at De Bongerd day in day out.