News Wageningen University & Research
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Vici grant: two sums of 1.5 million for Wageningen scientists - Leading scientists Thijs Ettema and Christa Testerink will each receive 1.5 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (known by its Dutch acronym... -
WUR, CERN and CORMEC join forces to protect commodity and financial markets - Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and The Commodity Risk Management Expertise Center... -
Researchers put spotlight on molecular dance - The molecular world is a miniature version of society. Because although it is difficult to predict the behaviour of individual molecules, it is easier... -
Heating Soil Successful in Combatting Japanese Knotweed - Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is an invasive exotic plant, whose strong roots and stems cause significant damage. Hitherto, there were no... -
WUR reduces carbon footprint - Wageningen University & Research’s sustainability policy is centred on various principles, among which the desire to reduce its carbon... -
Compostable plastics disintegrate fast enough in the current Dutch Biowaste disposal system - Wageningen Food & Biobased Research has studied how compostable plastics behave in the current Dutch system for the treatment of GFT (i.e. source... -
Shared Research Facilities has a new manager - Petra Roubos has accepted the position of manager of the Shared Research Facilities (SRF) as of 1 January. She succeeds Petra Caessens, who has been... -
Markus Stieger appointed as Personal Professor in Food Oral Processing - The executive board of Wageningen University & Research has appointed Markus Stieger as Personal Professor in Food Oral Processing as of 1... -
Consumers may be wasting more than twice as much food as commonly believed - Consumers are likely wasting much more food than commonly believed, according to a study by Monika van den Bos Verma and colleagues from Wageningen... -
Tulips grow in winter, thanks to the summer sun - Tulip flower growers use their greenhouses mainly in winter and spring. In these periods the greenhouses have to be heated. In the summer the...