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  • “I’m a coffee fundamentalist”

    Soul kitchen: a peek inside the kitchens of UM employees
    Bakir Bulić, director of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, still remembers being smuggled across the border from Germany to a refugee centre in Zeewolde when he was eight years old. He and his father, mother and sister Sabina were...

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  • Classical music: a treasure trove

    On 29 and 30 March, the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM) is organising a special symposium in Maastricht at the St. Janskerk and the Conservatorium, respectively. The occasion for the international symposium is the inaugural lecture of Prof. Peter Peters, Endowed...

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  • Outcome funding round Comenius Teaching Fellows 2019

    Gijs van Dijck and Marcel Schaper, together with colleagues from IDS and two of our students, applied last year for funding of education innovation within a course at the NRO. They just received news that their application is granted and that they can start with the project. 

    2. Institutional transformation - research pillar
  • Using game theory to treat cancer

    Dr. Kateřina Staňková discusses using game theory for cancer treatment on Australia’s ABC Radio National (interview in English).

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  • Evaluating the Warm Sweater Week 11-15 February 2019

    February 15th was the National Warm Sweater Day. All over The Netherlands more than 200.000 people participated by turning down the heat by 1 degree.

    At Maastricht University a majority of its buildings participated during the whole week. We want to thank all of you for bearing with us! We got lots...

    UM Warm Sweater week 2019
  • Pulling the plug on a technology

    Zahar Koretsky studies what happens when technologies are abandoned. How and why do they die? How deep do we have to bury them (metaphorically and literally) if we want to rid ourselves of them?

    Obsolete technologies