Team:Groningen/Template/MODULE/PP/mediacoverage

From 2014.igem.org

Policy & Practice > Media Coverage
 
 
 
June 12, 2014
 
The university newpaper placed an article on this year's iGEM team on their website: iGEM team wil superverband maken.
 
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Figure 1: Shortly before our first appearance in the univerisity newspaper we visited the night of art and science.
 
 
 
 
 
September 17, 2014
 
Our team member Andries won the national preliminaries of Falling Walls Lab: RUG-student Andries de Vries wint Nederlandse voorronde Falling Walls.
 
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Figure 2: Andries (second from the right) wins the national preliminaries of falling walls lab.
 
 
 
 
 
September 24, 2014
 
Unifocus reported on our project through a short video clip: Unifocus website.
 
ANP (Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau or General Dutch Press) picked up our story as well. It was presented on sites like nu.nl: Studenten willen brandwonden genezen met yoghurtbacterieën. Other sites like
 
placed the report, as well as local news like RTV Noord.
 
 
 
 
September 25, 2014
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Figure 3: Many newsreaders misinterpreted the news blurb. They thought the bandage contained actual yoghurt, and images like this are to blame.
 
 
NOM.nl followed the news wave on the 25th.
September 26, 2014
 
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Figure 4: The deadline is approaching for the iGEM team from Groningen.
 
 
The university paper reported on our project again: Deadline approaches for iGEM team.
 
A burn wound site, Brandveilig.com, catches wind of the torrent of news snippets.
 
The Dutch biological society reports on all the Dutch iGEM teams in their newsletter: iGEM: Teams full of confidence at work.
 
 
 
 
September 30, 2014
Our 15 minutes of fame ended with a repetition of the previous news snippets on Waarmaarraar.nl.