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Beyond the bang: how Maastricht scientists helped win the Breakthrough Prize
This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the 17,500 scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider, including researchers from Maastricht University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering. They contribute to major experiments exploring the universe’s deepest mysteries...
The possibilities and future of online education
A conversation with Dr. Boris Blumberg, captain of MaastrichtMBA
Improving care for people with 22q11 deletion syndrome
Psychologist and assistant professor Claudia Vingerhoets (MHeNs) studies people with the rare genetic disorder 22q11.
ELSA Lab uses artificial intelligence to combat poverty and debt
More and more Dutch people are struggling with debt and poverty. And just as you don’t put a band-aid on a broken leg, you can’t solve the problems of debt and poverty by helping one individual at a time. Genuine change calls for a systematic approach, which is where the ELSA Lab for Poverty and...
Online meeting Public Health Journal Club
The Public Health Journal Club consists of an interested group of academics which aims to promote interdisciplinary academic exchange by discussing interesting papers.
10 DecThe Crisis Case Challenge 2020: an SBE student initiative to help local companies during COVID-19
Many local businesses in Maastricht were hit hard by the consequences of the corona pandemic. This didn’t go unnoticed by SBE students who were quick to jump into action. In a matter of weeks, a group of students put together the Crisis Case Challenge 2020! The end result: 100 SBE students (and even...
Mathematics to help achieve bite-sized evolutionary trees
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a KLEIN-1 grant to Dr. Steven Kelk. He will explore the mathematics behind shrinking the sometimes impossibly huge evolutionary trees.
“Older people like to be in control of their own environment”
The 37-year-old Hilde Verbeek was appointed on 9 July as professor of Long-Term Care Environments at the Living Lab for Ageing and Long-Term Care Limburg. She may be relatively young, but her research, academic record and vision of care for older people all bear witness to her maturity, erudition...