News
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Sally Wyatt, professor of Digital Cultures in Development, has been appointed to NWO’s new Permanent National Committee for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure.
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Minister Bussemaker has appointed Professor Marc Groenhuijsen as a member of the Maastricht University Supervisory Board for a period of four years, starting on 1 September 2015.
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Brown adipose tissue, which is thought to have a positive effect on weight loss, among other things, can be activated in both test animals and humans with the administration of bile acids in pill form.
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UM researchers Tamar Sharon and Yasin Temel have been nominated for the 2015 New Scientist Research Talent.
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Increased awareness for the consumption of essential fatty acids during pregnancy may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in children.
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By taking into account the actual metabolic rate of women, a crucial step can be made in creating more energy-efficient buildings and a more comfortable working area for women. This according to Dr Boris Kingma and Professor Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt in a letter published in Nature Climate Change.
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Millionaires are more generous than previous research has suggested, according to a study of more than six hundred Dutch millionaires.
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Johan Vlaeyen, professor of Behavioural Medicine at KU Leuven and Maastricht University has been granted the prestigious Methusalem grant.
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A consortium of universities from Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, led by Maastricht University, received a funding of 865.000 Euro for an ERASMUS+ project entitled Bridging Innovations, Health and Societies: Educational capacity building in the Eastern European Neighbouring Areas (BIHSENA).