Salzburg Maastricht University Seminar Public Health Strategy III - October 2025
From Sunday October 26 until Saturday November 1st, 2025 the seminar 'Public Health Strategy III' will take place.
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Breath by breath - running the IRONMAN® to raise awareness of tuberculosis
When two passionate minds meet, great things can happen. A few months ago during a Maastricht Social Run, Human Movement Sciences student Lucas ran across Juan, an alumnus of Governance and Leadership in European Public Health. A conversation about training for the IRONMAN® European Championship and...
Kim Smits: urinary biomarkers improve kidney cancer diagnosis
Can urine be used to detect renal cell carcinoma? The current approach in the case of small renal masses is in most cases a precautionary partial or complete removal of the kidney, without knowing whether the mass is benign or malignant. Molecular epidemiologist Kim Smits is working at MUMC+ on a...
Care robots for a normal life
Claire Huijnen’s PhD research into social robots in healthcare features in a documentary on Dutch TV tonight. Thanks to her help, social robot KASPAR can help autistic children. In 'Scenarios for a normal life' (part of Autism Week on NPO2) you can see how eight-year-old Jonathan from Limburg...
‘Internationalisation is in our DNA’
As a university in a border region in the heart of Europe, we experience every day that the future also lies in Europe. A broad, pragmatic view of reality is needed in the debate on internationalisation that has intensified recently, with strong words and fearful images such as a 'tsunami of foreign...
Encouraging children to be more physically active does not always lead to better school performance
Ten primary schools introduced the Active Living Programme for children between the ages of 8 and 12. The programme aimed at increasing physical activity during and outside of recess, as well as walking or cycling to school.
Dutch smokers more aware of risks since launch of photo health warnings
Since the introduction of photos on the packaging of tobacco products in 2016, Dutch smokers have become more aware of the harmful effects of their addiction. This is the conclusion of PhD research by health scientist Dirk Jan van Mourik, who will be defending his thesis at Maastricht University on...
Engineer of the future brings green chemistry a step closer
The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) at Maastricht University (UM) will begin offering a new bachelor's programme in ‘Circular Engineering’ in September 2021. This course will provide in a new kind of engineer, trained not just in one field, but in a wide variety of disciplines.
