Canal surfer surprised by all the attention

Student
Student life
‘Farm wakeboarding’ involves standing on a kiteboard and surfing along a canal as you are pulled by a car going 30 kilometres an hour. Teun…

Can we survive without the Aula?

Organisation
Opinion
The university wants academic ceremonies to move to the planned Dialogue Centre…

Workplace: Toddler nutrition

Organisation
Employees
With its wooden shelves full of foodstuffs, the room where Annemieke Pustjens…

‘My supervisor advised me to be myself’

Organisation
For foreign researchers, doing a PhD at WUR is not only a…

Bacterium makes plastic production more sustainable

Science
An adapted E. coli bacterium can convert petroleum directly into the building…

Tiny parasitic wasp keeps its brain small

Science
Nature
Tiny parasitic wasps have smaller brains than larger members of their species,…

Only root crops benefit from more organic material

Science
Agriculture
More organic material in the soil does not automatically lead to more…

PhD graduations move from Aula to campus

Organisation
Buildings
The university wants to move a number of academic ceremonies such as…

Nostalgia

Student
Column
Stijn van Gils
Ting! I jump to attention. The committee is processing solemnly into the…

A peek into the future

Organisation
News
Preparations have been going on for months. But on Friday 3 November,…