Stories

Maud Vesseur, an orthopaedic surgeon in training, encountered a striking issue at Zuyderland Hospital: increasingly, patients with hip prostheses were being admitted after a fall, having fractured their hip. Often this happens precisely around the stem of their prosthesis. Vesseur recently defended...

How can artificial intelligence help unravel biological processes? At the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Aurélie Carlier and her team are searching for answers.

A portrait of Nicole Kornet: educator, prize-winner, and believer in the grounded jurist

A conversation with Jan Smits and Ronald Janse

Interview with alumna Ria Wolleswinkel

Interview with alumna and employee Katrien Vantilt

Job Cohen on the early years of the faculty

Human memory is one of biology’s most intriguing puzzles. Pinning down its precise genetic foundations remains like searching for a needle in a haystack. Researcher Daan van Beek delved into the data of healthy American volunteers, stretched the boundaries of statistical analysis, and pointed...

Translation software, like the kind on your phone, struggles with Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect. The gap between Darija and Standard Arabic is as wide as that between Limburgish and Standard Dutch. Abder Issam and colleagues have taken on the challenge of machine translation for Darija, while...

Valesca Venhof examined the impact of climate change on the mental health of young people. How do they cope with the relentless stream of grim news about the future of their climate? Indifference, born from not knowing where to begin, defines their stance.