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Recipe book for bioplastic from sugar beet
19-12-2018How do you cook a sugar beet to obtain bioplastics? Ola Wróblewska answered this question in her dissertation, with with she earned the first ever doctorate at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials.
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3D printing with PLA can become more precise and stronger
19-12-2018By using the compostable biobased plastic PLA, the process of 3D printing is becoming more and more sustainable.
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Kateřina Staňková and team win $50.000 to outsmart thyroid cancer
13-12-2018Kateřina Staňková, assistant professor at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), co-led her team through a great challenge, resulting in a seed grant to advance their strategy to combat thyroid cancer.
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Pension research: more choice does not lead to greater pension engagement
11-12-2018Very few people worry much about their retirement planning. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly important for everybody to be as informed as possible about their own situation.
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Two silver Reimagine Education Awards for KE@Work
04-12-2018KE@Work won a silver award in the category Best Employer-University Partnership during the gala ceremony in San Francisco.
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Young European high potentials visit AMIBM for Young European Talent 2018
27-11-2018The second edition of the Young European talent project was held in Limburg in which 50 top talents from 5 European countries participated.
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Investment in the tobacco industry is risky
26-11-2018Research at Maastricht University (UM) shows that investing in tobacco stocks can carry substantial financial risks. Professor Rob Bauer worked with a team of six students from the Honours Programme at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics to contribute a scenario analysis to the report Tobacco: Reviewing the Growing Financial Risks.
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KE@Work shortlisted for 2018 Reimagine Education awards
15-11-2018The honours path for bachelor students of the Data Science and Knowledge Engineering programme, KnowledgeEngineering@Work or KE@Work, is shortlisted for the 2018 Reimagine Education awards. The reputable Reimagine awards seek to reward education innovators from around the globe.
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Physics booming at UM
14-11-2018Maastricht University is gearing up to conduct more research in the area of fundamental physics. “The aim is to put UM on the map as a physics institute, in the eyes of other researchers as well as the general public,” says Gideon Koekoek, who joined UM’s research group on gravitational waves in 2017.
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