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  • Reimagining financial wellbeing

    “Do you make lists too?” This was one of the first questions that professor of Financial Services Lisa Brüggen asked PhD candidate Jenna Barrett. Her affirmative reply sealed the deal. An inspiring and fruitful partnership ensued, resulting in Barrett’s dissertation ‘Money matters: Understanding and...

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  • Tools for experimentation - Helping businesses become sustainable

    Businesses are trying to become more sustainable in a world with sustainability challenges like climate change, biodiversity decline and pollution. Project Circular X at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute helps companies that want to experiment with circular and sustainable business models. The...

    Laura Niessen blog
  • Jacob Ward wins 2024 Turriano Prize

    The 2024 Turriano Prize from ICOHTEC (the International Committee for the History of Technology) was awarded to Jacob Ward’s book Visions of a Digital Nation (MIT Press, 2024). The Turriano Prize recognises the best first book by an historian of technology. 

    Jacob Ward
  • High-tech greenhouse for scientific research and development

    Maastricht University has built a new research greenhouse at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. Starting on September 1, research will be conducted in this high-tech greenhouse on the agriculture and horticulture of the future: from new cultivation techniques and the development of plants to the...

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  • NWO awards four Veni grants to promising UM researchers

    Four young UM researchers have received a Veni grant worth up to €320,000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.

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  • The international poverty line and the sausage factory

    Anecdotal evidence imply that what ones sees in a sausage factory cannot be unseen, and such an experience somehow takes away something from the joy that stems out of the carefree consumption of such delicacies. In this blog entry about the international poverty line’s maladies I don’t want to ask...

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  • New obesity framework: looking beyond BMI

    A study conducted by the Easo led by Prof. Gijs Goossens of Maastricht UMC+ and Dr. Luca Busetto published today in Nature Medicine.

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  • Working at UM: “a life-changing experience”

    "I am proud that our new Circular Plastics group published its first completely in-house research," Kim Ragaert says. She founded the research group three years ago, when she moved to Maastricht. Her work has laid the foundations for many innovations in the field of plastic recycling, and she is...

    Portrait photo of Kim Ragaert