Dossier - March 30, 2020
Corona on the Campus
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Teachers prefer classrooms
- Does online teaching work? Can teachers get their material across to students properly? And above all: do they like teaching like this? Spoiler 1: yes, it’s doable on the whole. Spoiler 2: but it’s not nearly as nice. -
Corona spuds
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AID 2020: Social distancing Introduction Days
- The General Introduction Days (AID) will be split in two. This, and additional measures, are to ensure adherence to the one-and-a-half-metre-rule among AID attendants. -
Thirteen questions about the corona-university
- A first for Resource last Monday: for the very first time there was a live Q&A for employees and students with WUR-board member Arthur Mol and director of education Arnold Bregt. -
You (still) on campus - 'Springtime in the Netherlands is actually really beautiful'
- BSc student of Urban Forestry Charlotte Mathisen (21), from Vancouver, arrived in Wageningen in January. Her plan was to take some courses in period 4 and 5 and then travel to Italy, Greece and Croatia with friends. Needless to say, COVID-19... -
The one-and-a-half-metre student clubhouse
- Student societies had to close their doors because of Covid-19. Now the door is ajar again. Two chairs and a vice-chair of the Wageningen societies look ahead. -
Key people: Corina Hobé
- They are indispensable for keeping the campus going and keeping it pleasant, yet they are not always the first people you think of when you think about the campus: the cleaners, caretakers, caterers, gardeners, receptionists – the list is long.... -
Corona from mink to human
- An employee of a mink farm has probably been infected with the coronavirus by a mink, minister Schouten announced yesterday. -
‘Quarantine baking is catching’
- It’s like the great Dutch bake-off. Suppliers are struggling to keep up with the demand for flour and yeast. ‘Quarantine baking is catching,’ says WUR consumption sociologist Hilje van der Horst. -
Good news in times of crisis
- Following the news has never been a laugh a minute but since the coronavirus came along, it has all been extremely depressing, thought student Emma de Brabander. And yet some lovely things have been happening too. So Emma and a few others started a...