In 'Ik twijfel, dus ik ben' nodigt het GUM wetenschappers uit om in hun hoofd te laten kijken. Ze laten zich hierbij leiden door het 'Rad van de Twijfel'.
In deze aflevering is Philippe Smet aan het woord. Hij is professor Fysica en onderzoeker aan het Lumilab van de Universiteit Gent. Zijn grote passie: 'glow in the dark'-materialen. Hij heeft het onder andere over het evenwicht tussen zijn rol als manager, als onderzoeker en als vader, de nood aan stijlbreuken bij onderzoek en zijn droom om ooit nog lichtgevende fietspaden te realiseren.
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Borders are everywhere. In its new exhibition BORDERS, the Ghent University Museum (GUM) & Botanical Garden dissects the concept in all its forms: from biological membranes to bureaucratic walls and mental scars. By matching objects from its rich academic collections with contemporary art, the exhibition reveals borders not as fixed facts, but as ongoing negotiations experienced differently by each of us.
Students take over GUM during Museum Night
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Aurèle supports fund for Botanical Garden: a tribute to his mother
After his mother passed away, Aurèle De Vos decided to commemorate his mother by establishing a fund and donating to the Botanical Garden. Its purpose is to help the Botanical Garden protect rare and endangered plants.
Ghent now the coldest place in Belgium
Physicists at Ghent University have succeeded in cooling several ten thousand atoms to just above absolute zero (about -273°C). In doing so, they created a so-called Bose–Einstein condensate: a state in which all atoms behave exactly the same, as was once predicted by physicists Einstein and Bose.
