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Friday May 24 saw the first nocturne of Namur's cultural venues: the Nuit Blanche. The event brought together fifteen museum, cultural, heritage and scientific institutions, which opened their doors to the public from 6pm to midnight.

Douglas Kennedy, born in New York, found literature and film a way to escape family tensions. At the age of 20, he moved to Ireland, founded a theater company and began writing every night. A nomad, he feels at home in London, Paris, Berlin and New York. Author of breathless novels since Piège nuptial, he is best known for L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie and the trilogy La symphonie du hasard. His works explore couples in crisis, the family, and social change. An observer of the United States, his recent novels tackle religious drift and hatred of the other. At the end of April, the celebrated writer was the guest at the Grandes Conférences Namuroises organized by UNamur.

On August 3, 2024, bdelloid rotifers will board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a new space adventure. Led by the University of Namur (UNamur) in collaboration with the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the European Space Agency (ESA), the experiment aims to study the behavior of these tiny organisms in microgravity.

Floriane Goosse, a PhD student at the University of Namur, within the NaDI-CeRCLe research center, has received the prestigious "Best Research Paper Award" for her thesis paper conducted in collaboration with Wafa Hammedi, professor in the Department of Management at UNamur, and Dominik Mahr, from Maastricht University.

In 2021, the European Union has embarked on a titanic project to safeguard the genomes of all eukaryotic species in Europe. In other words, all living organisms, with the exception of bacteria and archaea (micro-organisms). Called ERGA, for European Reference Genome Atlas, and in which UNamur is participating thanks to Professor Alice Dennis, this project hopes to help safeguard biodiversity, at a time when a fifth of European species are in danger of extinction..

Caroline Hunt-Matthes is a whistleblower and expert on the subject. She was the guest of the Faculty of Law, as part of their Fil Rouge on the theme of harassment. Today, she takes stock of the role of whistleblowers. Interview.

The University of Namur posts encouraging results in the prestigious Positive Impact Rating (PIR), holding its own in the "Progressing" category for the second year running. With an improved score of 7.0/10, UNamur once again demonstrates its commitment to societal challenges and its pioneering role in responsible education.

This Friday, June 21, was the opening of KIKK's new exhibition at the Pavillon: Stellar Scape, which will run until January 2025. It plunges us into the heart of astronomy and new space explorations, through the eyes of some twenty artists, engineers and researchers..

This summer, Emilien will take up his post as president of the General Assembly of UNamur students. At the age of 23, he is a master's student in didactic mathematics. For the past five years, he has been heavily involved on the Namur campus and has taken on a number of roles: cercle Math, Student Council, kot-à-projet, Revue de la Faculté des sciences, student ambassador and AGE. Interview.

On June 5, UNamur hosted the launch of BatFactory, a portfolio of projects aimed at producing batteries and materials for stationary energy storage. Funded to the tune of 11.4 million euros by the Walloon Recovery Plan, BatFactory mobilizes the skills of the five universities in FWB and three accredited research centers.