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Meet Melanie Feeney: an advocate of interdisciplinary research
Friday, May 17, 2019Read moreOriginally from Australia, Melanie Feeney's career path includes the completion of a master's degree in sustainability in Sydney, research on sustainable business in remote and rural Australia and Southeast Asia as well as a role as Education Development Officer at UM. Building on her extensive experience, Feeney has decided to now focus her research on how organisations transition towards sustainability, under the umbrella of the SBE research theme Sustainable Development.
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Smart devices tailor their teaching to your emotions
Thursday, May 16, 2019Read moreFor the European Horizon 2020 innovation project MaTHiSiS, researchers taught machines how to teach you by learning from watching you learn.
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Alie de Boer in the top 5 of 'Science Talent of the Year'
Wednesday, May 15, 2019Read moreFood scientist Alie de Boer from the UM campus in Venlo is among the final five talented researchers who have a chance of winning the New Scientist title ‘Science Talent of the Year’.
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Precious Plastic Maastricht – the potential of waste
Thursday, May 9, 2019Precious Plastic Maastricht is currently setting up a local recycling workspace that turns plastic waste into entirely new goods, such as bins, beams, 3D printer filaments, and much more.
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11 DKE students listed in Dutch ‘Top 500 tech talents under 26’
Wednesday, May 8, 2019Technology conference TNW catalogues 500 of the Dutch tech world’s most talented people under the age of 26. This year’s list – the T500 – features three alumni and eight current students of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). Among them is Dirk Bongers, DKE master's student.
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Candy vs chocolate: which is healthier?
Monday, May 6, 2019A quarter of the candy stores have disappeared from the street view in the last 14 years. In the meantime sales of chocolate has grown. According to research, this is because consumers think that chocolate is healthier than candy. But is that correct?...Alie de Boer explains in this Dutch article.
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Ilja Arts appointed board member NWO Science Domain
Thursday, April 25, 2019Prof. dr. Ilja Arts, scientific director of the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology was appointed as board member of NWO's Science Domain.
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Big data in healthcare
Thursday, April 25, 2019How can you further improve healthcare with the use of ‘big data’? That question is central to many scientific studies worldwide. Last month, two PhD candidates at Maastricht University defended their theses based on this same key question.
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Impact over Image
Wednesday, April 24, 2019Green Impact Challenge
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Maastricht Science Programme involved in particle physics break-through
Wednesday, April 24, 2019Maastricht Science Programme is involved in the LHCb collaboration at CERN which has seen, for the first time, the matter–antimatter asymmetry, known as CP violation. This finding is sure to make it into the textbooks of particle physics.
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AMIBM PhD candidate Carlos Andrés García Velásquez selected to attend the 2019 YSSP
Thursday, March 28, 2019PhD candidate Carlos Andrés García Velásquez, researcher at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) is selected to attend the 2019 YSSP.
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“I’m a coffee fundamentalist”
Wednesday, March 27, 2019Soul kitchen: a peek inside the kitchens of UM employees
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Bakir Bulić, director of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, still remembers being smuggled across the border from Germany to a refugee centre in Zeewolde when he was eight years old. He and his father, mother and sister Sabina were fleeing the Bosnian War. “The only thing I could think about at that moment was my mum’s veal schnitzel and mash. The thought comforted me, gave me something to hold on to.” -
Using game theory to treat cancer
Monday, March 25, 2019Dr. Kateřina Staňková discusses using game theory for cancer treatment on Australia’s ABC Radio National (interview in English).
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Game theory increases the chances of surviving metastatic cancer
Monday, March 25, 2019Czech university magazine Universitas interviews Dr. Kateřina Staňková about mathematics in cancer treatment (article in English).
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Biobased socks from Sustainable Polymer
Monday, March 18, 2019Aim in their study was to develop biobased compostable socks from Polylactic acid (PLA), acknowledged as sustainable and eco-friendly is a biodegradable and compostable polymer obtained from annually renewable resources.
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Maastricht als hoofdstad van vlaai en van Pi
Friday, March 15, 2019Regional newspaper De Limburger reports on our alternative city guide, Math/Maastricht (article in Dutch).
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Math/Maastricht, an alternative guide to the city
Wednesday, March 13, 2019What do the Basilica of Saint Servatius, the bear pit at Aldenhofpark and the gate to the university library have in common? One: they’re special places to visit, and two: they all somehow remind Maastricht University’s math-oriented researchers of their work.
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UM number one in ‘Keuzegids Masters 2019’
Wednesday, March 6, 2019According to the Keuzegids Masters 2019, Maastricht University is the best university in the Netherlands, a shared position with the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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Thomas Cleij appointed as new Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering
Thursday, February 28, 2019The Executive Board of Maastricht University (UM) has appointed Prof. dr. Thomas Cleij as the new dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering.
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A knowledge agenda for a healthy urban environment
Wednesday, February 27, 2019In the soon-to-be completed first phase of ZonMw project "Making space for health in the city: towards a South Limburg knowledge agenda", knowledge gaps were identified about how our urban living environment influences health. A whole range of methods was employed. Let's highlight two methods that were a bit more out-of-the box.
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