Prof. Dr. Anique de Bruin will be the project leader of the NRO funded, national consortium "SELFLEX: Towards Evidence-informed Support for Self-regulation of Flexible Learning," which will start in the autumn of 2023, with a subsidy amount of €900.000.
Elderly individuals who live alone are particularly vulnerable to prolonged feelings of loneliness. That is why the researchers of the euPrevent PROFILE project addressed loneliness in older people.
Prof. dr. ir. Gerard van Rooij will deliver his inaugural lecture titled "Out of Balance" on 02 June. With this lecture, he officially begins his tenure as professor of plasma chemistry at Maastricht University.
After several rocky years, Maastricht University alum Lea Vink has found her feet in Vienna. Professionally, she is taking new steps at the crossroads of aviation and organisational psychology. And on a personal level, luck has smiled on her since her transition from man to woman.
On 25 May 2023, the fourth Fair and Smart Data (FSD) hybrid event took place with presentations from Ahold Delhaize and Rabobank's Acorn, followed by in-person break-out sessions using the World Café approach.
On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the latest of our Globalization and Law Network Seminars took place at the Law Faculty. Joining us online, Dr. Signe Rehling Larsen, from University of Oxford, talked about her recent publication and current research on Empire and Public law and more specifically, the foundations of Constitutional tolerance, while Dr. Aravind Ganesh acted as discussant.
In September Cengiz Akbulut was made head of the laboratory of the new Stem Cell Research University Maastricht (SCRUM). Here he discusses multiculturalism, the origin of life and his love of swing dancing.
Recently, UM’s president Rianne Letschert wrote an opinion piece for TH&MA. The journal informs managers, directors and executives at universities and colleges of higher education in both Flanders and the Netherlands about the latest trends in higher education. You can read the opinion piece here. (in Dutch)
The Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. The campus now houses more than 115 companies and institutes where over 11,000 professionals and also over 11,000 students work together on valuable innovations within healthcare, medicine and life sciences.
