Calendar Wageningen University & Research
Highlighted activities
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Lunch concert Aniek Maren
21 January 2025 - Concert - Arnhem-based singer/songwriter Aniek Maren writes about all the good things in life and the sharp edges it brings. -
DocuScience: Eeuwige Bossen
21 January 2025 - Event - In times of climate change and emerging diseases and pests, genetic diversity is crucial for keeping forests healthy. Native trees and shrubs are wild... -
SG - The Role of Higher Education in the Face of Crises
21 January 2025 - Event - Tonight, we start with a provocative question: Is the way our higher education is organised suitable for learning to deal with contemporary... -
CineScience: Ex Machina
23 January 2025 - Dialogue - Ex Machina invites us into a world where artificial intelligence blurs the line between machine and human. It confronts us with the ethical and... -
SG - Designing Education for Empowering Minds, Hearts and Bodies
28 January 2025 - Event - How can education play a role in empowering us to cope with a world in crisis? Let's explore how we could shape our learning processes in such a way... -
Transition to sustainable, ecological agriculture
02 February 2025 - Course - Are you looking for an exciting course to broaden your horizons in the transition to sustainable agriculture? Sign up for the postgraduate course... -
DocuScience: ‘Land van onderdanen’, about colonial oppression in Indonesia
04 February 2025 - Event - The history of the WUR is closely tied to Dutch colonialism, especially in the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. But how much does the average... -
SG – Bye Bye Tiberias
04 February 2025 - Event - Storytelling as an antidote for erasure and oblivion as four generations of women revisit vanished places, scattered memories. -
SG - The Politics and Ethics of Provocative Humour
11 February 2025 - Event - Mocking the powers that be seems joyful, or at least satisfying. Until you meet some of the caveats. Can subversive humour free us from oppressive... -
Linux basic course
13 February 2025
15 May 2025
17 October 2025 - Course - Are you interested in using the High Performance Computing Cluster (HPC) but lack the basic Linux knowledge? Join the free 5 hours course on the... -
SG - Creating Subversive Humour
18 February 2025 - Event - How is subversive humour created? Are there boundaries, when addressing sensitive topics in comedy? Stand-up comedian Djoni de Vos will lift a tip of... -
Container Fundamentals
20 February 2025 - Course - Do you want to run your applications in a scalable, easy to maintain and portable way? Are you already using containers, but want to learn more about... -
SG - Subversive Humour in Film
25 February 2025 - Event - Movies challenging dictatorships, (bourgeois) hypocrisy and/or good taste are plentiful. Join film critic Kevin Toma in this exploration of the... -
Dies Natalis 2025 | Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures
07 March 2025 - Dies Natalis - We are pleased to announce that next year’s Dies Natalis’ theme is ‘Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures’. We hope... -
Validation of Chemical Methods for Residue Analysis
10 March 2025 - Course - Analytical laboratories that perform chemical analysis on residues of veterinary drugs, mycotoxins and pesticides need to demonstrate that their... -
HPC Basic course
13 March 2025
05 June 2025
12 November 2025 - Course - Did you recently start using the High Performance Computing Cluster (HPC Anunna)? Do you have some basic Linux knowledge but want to know more about... -
HPC Advanced course
20 March 2025
12 June 2025
21 November 2025 - Course - Did you recently start using the High Performance Computing Cluster (HPC Anunna)? Do you have some basic Linux knowledge but want to know more about... -
CineScience: I, Daniel Blake
17 April 2025 - Dialogue - The film I, Daniel Blake shows how the social security system cannot always protect people from poverty. The film shows how human error can have major... -
International Rhodobacter Symposium 2025
12 May 2025 - Symposium - The second international Rhodobacter Symposium follows after a successful first edition. We would like to again bring together the scientific... -
Refrigerated Transport Technology | on-campus edition
16 June 2025 - Course - Common questions amongst refrigerated transport professionals: How does a transport refrigeration unit work? How to make refrigerated transport more...
Promotions and inaugurations
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The Changing Face of Smallholder Farming: Insights from an Amazonian Landscape in Transition
EG (Elisabeth) Lagneaux
24 January 2025 - PhD defence -
Root dynamics and nitrogen interactions in wheat/faba bean mixtures: The effect of nutrient availability, light signaling and relative emergence time
J (Jin) Wang
24 January 2025 - PhD defence -
NMR-based mapping of lipid oxidation routes in foods
24 January 2025 - PhD defence -
Membrane separation of fish protein hydrolysate
N (Nattawan) Chorhirankul
30 January 2025 - PhD defence -
Awakening buds: Navigating tomato axillary bud dormancy from the BRC1 hub
G (Gül) Hatinoğlu MSc
31 January 2025 - PhD defence -
Animal welfare and production in conventional and cow-calf contact dairy systems in Ireland
31 January 2025 - PhD defence -
Engineering Oleaginous Yeasts for a Bio-Based Future
ZE (Efsun) Duman MSc
06 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Modellers as influencers? Analysing practices and standards in hydrodynamic decision-support modelling
JOE (Janneke) Remmers
13 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Design of an implantable biosensor for real-time in vivo measurements in aquatic organisms (EngD)
13 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Inauguration Prof. dr R.P. Bartholomeus
14 February 2025 - Inauguration -
Exploring Ammonium Conversion at Bioanodes of Microbial Electrolysis Cells
X (Xiaofang) Yan
20 February 2025 - PhD defence -
ALiCE’s adventures in Vaccinialand: Applying a tobacco-based cell-free protein synthesis system for vaccine development
J (Jorge) Armero Gimenez MSc
21 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Selling Extinction: The Politics of Cheetah Conservation in Namibia – “Cheetah Capital of the World”
21 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Untangling the interplay between food microstructure, mechanical properties, macrostructural breakdown and in vitro gastric protein digestion
27 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Spilling the beans on food waste
27 February 2025 - PhD defence -
From mist to matter – Steering particle structure development during pilot-scale spray drying
27 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Habits for a Healthy Heart - Epidemiological studies on diet and lifestyle factors across diverse subgroups of patients with cardiovascular disease
28 February 2025 - PhD defence -
Bridging Balances: Water and Energy in the Urban Climate
04 March 2025 - PhD defence -
Intermittent energy storage mechanisms of sulphide oxidising bacteria
06 March 2025 - PhD defence -
Bifidobacterium breve & Streptococcus thermophilus: Novel aspects of these beneficial bacteria
20 March 2025 - PhD defence
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