You have most likely seen internationally renowned companies' claims stating their products are "carbon neutral" or have heard that you can fly, buy new clothes or eat certain foods without exacerbating the climate crisis. But what are these claims built on?
Launched in the summer of 2012 as a rather modest doctoral project at the Department of Macro, International and Labour Economics at Maastricht University, the study series "Fachkraft 2030" has since developed into an extremely wide-ranging student survey in Germany. And possibly, a prime example of how research can be initiated and sustained with comparatively little funding.
Have you ever had one of those days when you don’t feel like doing an assignment or are just not in the mood to go to a tutorial? Well, you’re not alone.
Is the hype around ChatGPT due to ingenious marketing or the disruptive power of AI on all our lives? What will it mean for the future of work and how will we have to adapt? SBE’s Jermain Kaminski and ROA’s Mark Levels look around and ahead.
It all started with an unexpected discovery. Bart van Grinsven, associate professor of Sensor Engineering, figured out how to detect microparticles—bacteria, toxins and proteins—in a liquid using a rapid testing method based on heat transfer. Through the startup Sensip-dx, Jaap Drenth is now turning ‘Bart’s technology’ into a commercially viable product.
They go places, our UM top athletes. When I approached Hidde Mollee (19) at the beginning of this year for an interview, he very kindly asked if that was possible after February. He was in Namibia that whole month for an altitude internship. How do you do that alongside your bachelor's degree in International Business, going abroad for a whole month? And why an altitude internship for a triathlete?
On 28 March 2023, the Globalisation and Law Network had the pleasure to have Prof. Ramses Wessel, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, at Maastricht University. During the seminar, which was organized in collaboration with the Maastricht Center for European Law (MCEL), Prof. Wessel talked about his research, commissioned by the European Parliament, on the legal options to make the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy more effective. Prof. Andrea Ott acted as a discussant.
Giant dormouse not just big because of diet
About a year ago, I lost a bet. As a wager, I had to watch the “The Last Dance”, the Netflix documentary about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. To me, who never watches sports on TV, sitting through a 10-part (!) series about basketball seemed to be quite dreadful. So, I thought. However, after a while I became quite interested in Michael Jordan (“MJ” for the basketball-savvy) as a leader.
