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Last week, the first graduation ceremony ever for the master’s programme Systems Biology took place. After two years of hard work, the first batch of students received their well-deserved master diplomas.

After two years of hard work, the first graduates received their well-deserved diplomas for the master’s programme Biobased Materials.

Students attended a series of free workshops in the region where they could acquire additional skills that are helpful when starting their career or could get to know possible future employers.

People with a job tend to learn more when carrying out their daily tasks and collaborating with experienced colleagues.

How many spells are cast by the characters in the seven Harry Potter books? That’s what master’s students of Data Science for Decision Making Moritz Haine and Markus Dienstknecht wanted to find out in celebration of Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary. To answer their question, they used text mining, an information retrieval technique common in computer science.

A new journal has been established to allow the publication of research that does not produce results or has been executed poorly.

On 12 July 2017 the defence of PhD Thesis of Dr Hannelore Niesten (joint doctorate UHasselt/UM) took place. The joint doctorate of Dr Hannelore Niesten was carried out under supervisors Prof. Dr. Elly Van de Velde (UHasselt) and Dr. Marjon Weerepas (Maastricht University). The University of Hasselt pubslished an article about the PhD thesis regarding the tax barriers of free movement of persons in the EU.

INKOM 2017 will be held this year from Monday 21 August to Friday 25 August.