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This summer, the HeArt Ma’at racing crew ran Maastrichts Mooiste, the city’s largest annual running event. Their goal was to raise money for research into an art therapy for heart patients. Dozens of crowdfunding initiatives and hundreds of donations later, they managed to raise more than €55,000 for...

Sharon Anyango moved from Kenya to Maastricht six years ago for the Master in Globalisation and Development. At first, things were tough: the education was completely different from what she was used to. So, too, was the food culture—especially lunch. “I still can’t get used to the sandwiches.”

That Stephan Smeekes became a professor of econometrics at the age of 41 is not to say this path is open to anyone with a disability. “Everybody’s different, and so is every disability,” he says. He doesn’t see himself as an ambassador for disabled academics. “But if my story inspires others, that’s a...

Pablo del Hierro’s work on transnational fascism in his native Madrid has led to a book, a documentary, the FASoS Valorisation Prize and a political campaign to remove a fascist monument.

Even more than his undisputed ingenuity and technical savvy, it is his imagination that has lifted Rainer Goebel to the highest echelons of cognitive neuroscience. In no less than a world-class achievement, he recently landed his second ERC grant worth €2.5 million, this time for his research project ‘...

Anyone who thinks all students do is study and party hasn’t met Emma Daalmans and Cristian Rusu. The former and current presidents of study association JFV Ouranos are currently raising money for charity. Why do they place so much value on societal engagement? And what have they learnt during their...

Voor het UMagazine gingen we in gesprek met Peter De Weerd, hoogleraar en programmaleider van de nieuwe bachelor Brain Science.

Caroline Bouvier likes to look beyond the image. Or more accurately, beneath it. A postdoctoral researcher from Paris, she is less interested in what a painting depicts—the iconography—than in the chemical processes behind the composition.

Society is stuck on a one-way superhighway of value destruction, if you ask Nancy Bocken. Here, the professor of Sustainable Business & Circular Economy proposes how we might exit the highway of linear consumption—and why what we do matters.

Technology has the potential to improve the quality of medicine and healthcare while also making it more personal and sustainable. But to reach this potential, healthcare professionals and researchers need multidisciplinary training. New programmes like the Bachelor in Regenerative Medicine and...