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Science
More than just cuddling donkeys
Mindfulness with donkeys for people suffering with burn-out issues
Interview
‘Limburg Living Lab’ gains ground outside of the Netherlands
New labs are expected to be opened abroad
Background
Global co-operation preferable to rivalry
Everyone benefits from co-operation
Science
“Monsters don’t exist”
Maastricht research into the rights of children on the West Bank, of Palestinian children and Israeli settlers’ children
Interview
“A relief for patients, appointment coordinators and doctors”
The societal impact of UM research
News
Two UM researchers receive KNAW Early Career Award
In total twelve prize winners
Interview
“I quite like activist science”
On the societal impact of UM research
Interview
Why medical interns are chronically dissatisfied
Professor Richard Koopmans’ farewell speech
Interview
How UM economists nudged a pension fund into making more sustainable investment decisions
On the societal impact of UM research
Interview
What do you do all day long on TikTok?
The influence of social media on mental health
News
Nobel economics prize for research on women’s employment
US economist Claudia Goldin
Science
Global collaboration must be revived
Three-million-euro EU subsidy for Maastricht political scientists
Interview
New primary care approach gaining traction
Societal impact of research
Interview
Assessing the consequences of new legislation on border regions
Societal impact of UM research
Interview
“Activists on the A12 motorway have to be careful not to alienate the people”
Lecture by philosopher Lieven de Cauter on the importance of rigorous actions
Interview
‘Education sector should demand compensation from AI companies’
Interview with internet pioneer Marleen Stikker
Science
“Let’s try to prevent a recurrence of what happened with psychedelics in the sixties”
Winner Hustinx prize Natasha Mason studies psychedelic drugs and cannabis
News
The Netherlands wins 44 European starting grants
UM-researcher receives one and a half million euros for brain research
Interview
No more discrimination at the blood bank
Societal impact of research
Research
“The preconception about liberal arts has now at any rate been negated”
Research into the employability of UCM students
News
Fewer researchers get highest awards in science
Spinoza prize for two Amsterdam researchers
Background
Ground research for Einstein Telescope enters into new phase: “This is a very complex puzzle”
How suitable is the Limburg soil for the construction of a gigantic detector?
News
Entire editorial staff at Elsevier quits and starts new Open Access journal
Unanimous decision of the more than 40 editors
Research
"Many a cyclist’s career has ended prematurely"
New test to diagnose vascular problems in cyclists
Interview
Predicting reading problems before children can even read
Vici winner does not want to add another label to children
News
One Vici grant for Maastricht
UM research on reading problems of children
Background
“Some students just enjoy having no social life”
Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth
Background
What a Dutch passport means for your school grades
Dissertation Prize for engineer and sociologist Marie Labussière
News
“Science communication should be thought about (even) more seriously within the academic world”
Faculty of Science and Engineering starts training on ‘science communication’
Interview
"The most important thing is to have a conversation about organ donation with your family"
Catharina Pijls Encouragement Award for thesis on organ donation
Background
A medley of complaints and treatments
Catharina Pijls lecture on burnout
Reportage
“A summary? We do research here from mouth to arse”
What is happening at Campus Venlo?
News
Is the future for ‘strong' men like Putin and Xi Jinping?
Well-known political scientist from Great Britain to give Tans lecture
Background
“Prediabetes is much more dangerous than we think”
Plea to screen people for diabetes sooner
Background
Collaborators worked in the coal mines for a good salary
PhD on political prisoners being put to work after WW II
Background
“You conform, for fear of being excluded from the group”
Interview with social psychologist Karlijn Massar about hazing
News
EU study into psychological malaise in youths
A thousand youths in nine countries will participate
News
Many smokers quit after ban on menthol cigarettes
Tobacco industry has put new alternatives on the market
Background
A hazardous discovery in the forest
Research into deathbed final words
Interview
From animation movie to particle accelerator
Opening Academic Year 2022: Hustinx Prize for computer scientist Daniel Cámpora
News
Are neighbouring countries jeopardising the Einstein Telescope?
Where the Netherlands is making pace, German and Belgium commitments are lagging behind
Background
Held hostage by COVID-19 for years
UM leads research into Long Covid
Background
2.6 billion people do not cook cleanly or sustainably
Energy transition in developing countries
Background
New challenge: HIV infections among Ukraine refugees
UM researchers help GPs offering HIV care
Background
For sale: Netflix login code for 2.25 dollar
Maastricht researchers on the dark web
Interview
"You can discard the idea of a single illness with a single solution"
Farewell interview with Alzheimer’s expert Frans Verhey
News
Acquittal thanks to UM forensic psychologist’s report
"This was the first time that such a report served as a new fact, this may open doors for the future"
Interview
“We want to find out why some people seem protected against Alzheimer’s”
100,000 euro Talent Prize goes to Maastricht researcher Willemijn Jansen
Interview
Extreme-right loners and the sense of COVID-19 measures
Student Prizes for the best bachelor’s and master’s theses in 2021
Interview
Worldwide medical guidelines adapted after Maastricht research
2021 Dissertation Prize for Estelle Nijssen
Interview
NWO boss Marcel Levi: “Universities don’t like me saying this, but…”
"Say that you suddenly gave the universities an extra 80 million. I don’t think they could spend it straight away"
Background
No more European member states
German professor to give Schuman lecture
News
Netherlands wins 27 European advanced grants
Only two other countries managed to secure more grants
News
Even more millions from Growth Fund to the UM
Extra money for cultured meat and education
News
Rubicon grant for 22 researchers
UM’s Clara Snijders is leaving for Harvard Medical School, with a subsidy
News
More than 900 million euros for Einstein Telescope
42 million for the preparations and 870 million for when the installation is actually built in Limburg
News
Another 78 researchers awarded Veni grants
One UM researcher was awarded
Background
No time, no data: how the COVID-19 pandemic turned medical research upside down
Maastricht research physicians on the influence of the pandemic on their studies
Background
Not all obese patients are alike
Zooming in on the individual
News
Two million for climate study
Focus on three 'rural labs'
Background
“The West has to make an impossible choice”
"Nobody expected Putin to invade Ukraine"
News
Vici subsidy for researcher Anne Roefs
In total 22 scientists were successful in obtaining a grant
Background
“Some colleagues have come out in support of Putin”
UM researchers quit academic additional functions in Russia
News
Corine de Ruiter to accede to ‘learned society’
"An honour and a change to expand my network"
Background
MERLN to start a stem cell growth plant
Two European grants for regenerative medicine
Background
Going to work after taking magic mushrooms
UM research on psychedelics
News
Dutch Research Council gauges opinions on talent grants
The grants have become so important for researchers’ careers that there is a rush to get hold of them
Science
Medicines mainly effective for the ideal test subject
What if international criteria are so strict that 80 per cent of all patients are excluded right from the start?
News
Italian cancer expert to become the new TEFAF professor
Alberto Bardelli specialises in cancer genetics
Science
“Before long, the winner will be the best salesman, not the best researcher”
"We are in a difficult period in which we are trying to get a different system off the ground"
Science
‘Digital heart’ to help doctors make a diagnosis
Better care thanks to computer models and artificial intelligence
News
Two starting grants for UM researchers
Laureates are Catalina Goanta (Law) and Hannes Rusch (School of Business and Economics)
Science
‘Flame that doesn’t burn’ to produce fuel and plastics without CO2 emissions
New lab on Brightlands Campus for research into plasma technology
Background
"DiCaprio has achieved more than climate scientists"
Symposium on activism in science
Interview
About the fear in your throat and the knot in your stomach
Study on trauma
Science
Growing stigmatisation of people with hiv in health care
"We know that the greater the stigma, the more depressed and fearful a person feels"
Background
Venlo students publish scientific article on fishing
"We had been warned for the peer review"
Science
Breastfeeding and working at a university turns out to be a rough combination
Research about breastfeeding academics
Background
Praised and abused because of ‘everyday racism’
Racism expert Philomena Essed to give Tans lecture
Interview
Nine completely different articles and a publication in The Lancet
Catharina Pijls Thesis Prize for Floor van den Brand
News
"The clean room was the greatest challenge”
Opening ETpathfinder
News
British Lord and economist to give the Joan Muysken Lecture
Headstrong, erudite and contrary
Background
“A researcher who is not on Twitter, is losing out”
Maastricht cardiologist creates manual for professional use of social media
Background
The bang that changes everything
Doctors and victims of brain damage argue for the wearing of bicycle helmets
Background
The wolf in the Netherlands: refugee or actor
Lecture by biologist Tijs Goldschmidt
Science
“Collective narcissism nourishes conspiracy beliefs”
Conspiracy thinking happens by degrees
Science
Dutch and British students benefit the least from international classroom
Ideal: four nationalities in the tutorial group
News
Hot off the press: Nobel Prize for unravelling touch and temperature senses
Chili peppers and hot tea
News
One Rubicon grant for Maastricht
NWO received 76 applications
Background
Female smokers enter into the menopause sooner
Seminar on passive smoking, fathers and the menopause
News
No more periods after COVID vaccination
UM study on menstruation
Science
Ig Nobel Prize for avoiding other pedestrians: left - right - or is it left after all?
Research that make you laugh first, and then think through the implications
Science
Studies using the DNA of persecuted Uighurs withdrawn
Unable to prove that DNA was donated voluntarily by Uighur subjects
Interview
“My trap is that I find too many things interesting”
Opening Academic Year 2021: Hustinx Prize for computer ethicist Katleen Gabriels
News
Six Spinoza and Stevin prize winners announced
The Dutch version of the Nobel Prizes
News
Three Vidi grants for Maastricht
Interview
About life-long learning, fear of failing and a reading club
Professor Andries de Grip: “Retirement is also the beginning of something new”
Interview
“I think it is awful that teaching at universities is so underrated"
Best practices Recognition and Rewards: having a look in Utrecht
Interview
"The idea that the teaching career track would be an easy one to become Professor, no, it doesn't work that way"
Best practices Recognition and Rewards: teaching careers at FHML
News
National PhD survey being prepared
Pilot with eight universities