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Obtaining your PhD Cum Laude is not something that happens very often. FPN’s Lilian Kloft has managed to do it, while expecting twins. Last month, Lilian defended her PhD thesis at the Minderbroedersberg and was granted the Cum Laude distinction.

We talked to Lilian over Zoom, she’s at home on...

Devi van der Kolk is, next to a student at Maastricht University, a mental coach at the Roda JC (a Football team from Kerkrade) youth academy. We talk about how a first-year student has found such a unique job next to her studies.

Recently, Bettina Sorger received an NWO VIDI grant for her proposal entitled ‘Out of the brain, into control’ – Towards brain-based means of social and environmental interaction for children with severe cerebral palsy.

Honest talks with UM sexologist Marieke Dewitte and student guests.

Today we’re talking about new technologies, social media and toys, and how they affect our sex lives. Bea and Berkant join Marieke once again to look at this topic from a student’s, as well as an academic, perspective.

Honest talks with UM sexologist Marieke Dewitte and student guests.

Today we’re talking about new technologies, social media and toys, and how they affect our sex lives. Bea and Berkant join Marieke once again to look at this topic from a student’s, as well as an academic, perspective.

Prof. Chantal (Sjaan) Nederkoorn of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) obtained the coveted NWO Vici grant. The upcoming 5 years, she will use this grant to research why kids (between 3-5 years old) sometimes refuse food. Children even refuse food that they have never tried before...

Two researchers from Maastricht University (UM) have each received a Vici grant of € 1.5 million from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Professor Chantal Nederkoorn (Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Professor Lorenzo Moroni (MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine)...

Local youth workers go into the neighborhood together with the @ease foundation to help the most vulnerable groups of young people and to gather more knowledge about their situation, problems, wishes and needs.