More than just cuddling donkeys

Mindfulness with donkeys for people suffering with burn-out issues

‘Limburg Living Lab’ gains ground outside of the Netherlands

New labs are expected to be opened abroad

Global co-operation preferable to rivalry

Everyone benefits from co-operation

“Monsters don’t exist”

Maastricht research into the rights of children on the West Bank, of Palestinian children and Israeli settlers’ children

“A relief for patients, appointment coordinators and doctors”

The societal impact of UM research

Two UM researchers receive KNAW Early Career Award

In total twelve prize winners

“I quite like activist science”

On the societal impact of UM research

Why medical interns are chronically dissatisfied

Professor Richard Koopmans’ farewell speech

How UM economists nudged a pension fund into making more sustainable investment decisions

On the societal impact of UM research

What do you do all day long on TikTok?

The influence of social media on mental health

Nobel economics prize for research on women’s employment

US economist Claudia Goldin

Global collaboration must be revived

Three-million-euro EU subsidy for Maastricht political scientists

New primary care approach gaining traction

Societal impact of research

Assessing the consequences of new legislation on border regions

Societal impact of UM research

“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

‘Education sector should demand compensation from AI companies’

Interview with internet pioneer Marleen Stikker

“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

The Netherlands wins 44 European starting grants

UM-researcher receives one and a half million euros for brain research

No more discrimination at the blood bank

Societal impact of research

“The preconception about liberal arts has now at any rate been negated”

Research into the employability of UCM students

Fewer researchers get highest awards in science

Spinoza prize for two Amsterdam researchers

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?

Entire editorial staff at Elsevier quits and starts new Open Access journal

Unanimous decision of the more than 40 editors

"Many a cyclist’s career has ended prematurely"

New test to diagnose vascular problems in cyclists

Predicting reading problems before children can even read

Vici winner does not want to add another label to children

One Vici grant for Maastricht

UM research on reading problems of children

“Some students just enjoy having no social life”

Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth

What a Dutch passport means for your school grades

Dissertation Prize for engineer and sociologist Marie Labussière

“Science communication should be thought about (even) more seriously within the academic world”

Faculty of Science and Engineering starts training on ‘science communication’

"The most important thing is to have a conversation about organ donation with your family"

Catharina Pijls Encouragement Award for thesis on organ donation

A medley of complaints and treatments

Catharina Pijls lecture on burnout

“A summary? We do research here from mouth to arse”

What is happening at Campus Venlo?

Is the future for ‘strong' men like Putin and Xi Jinping?

Well-known political scientist from Great Britain to give Tans lecture

“Prediabetes is much more dangerous than we think”

Plea to screen people for diabetes sooner

Collaborators worked in the coal mines for a good salary

PhD on political prisoners being put to work after WW II

“You conform, for fear of being excluded from the group”

Interview with social psychologist Karlijn Massar about hazing

EU study into psychological malaise in youths

A thousand youths in nine countries will participate

Many smokers quit after ban on menthol cigarettes

Tobacco industry has put new alternatives on the market

A hazardous discovery in the forest

Research into deathbed final words 

From animation movie to particle accelerator

Opening Academic Year 2022: Hustinx Prize for computer scientist Daniel Cámpora

Are neighbouring countries jeopardising the Einstein Telescope?

Where the Netherlands is making pace, German and Belgium commitments are lagging behind

Held hostage by COVID-19 for years

UM leads research into Long Covid

2.6 billion people do not cook cleanly or sustainably

Energy transition in developing countries

New challenge: HIV infections among Ukraine refugees

UM researchers help GPs offering HIV care

For sale: Netflix login code for 2.25 dollar

Maastricht researchers on the dark web

"You can discard the idea of a single illness with a single solution"

Farewell interview with Alzheimer’s expert Frans Verhey

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"

“We want to find out why some people seem protected against Alzheimer’s”

100,000 euro Talent Prize goes to Maastricht researcher Willemijn Jansen

Extreme-right loners and the sense of COVID-19 measures

Student Prizes for the best bachelor’s and master’s theses in 2021

Worldwide medical guidelines adapted after Maastricht research

2021 Dissertation Prize for Estelle Nijssen

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"

No more European member states

German professor to give Schuman lecture

Netherlands wins 27 European advanced grants

Only two other countries managed to secure more grants

Even more millions from Growth Fund to the UM

Extra money for cultured meat and education

Rubicon grant for 22 researchers

UM’s Clara Snijders is leaving for Harvard Medical School, with a subsidy

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

Another 78 researchers awarded Veni grants

One UM researcher was awarded

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

Not all obese patients are alike

Zooming in on the individual

Two million for climate study

Focus on three 'rural labs'

“The West has to make an impossible choice”

"Nobody expected Putin to invade Ukraine"

Vici subsidy for researcher Anne Roefs 

In total 22 scientists were successful in obtaining a grant

“Some colleagues have come out in support of Putin”

UM researchers quit academic additional functions in Russia

Corine de Ruiter to accede to ‘learned society’

"An honour and a change to expand my network"

MERLN to start a stem cell growth plant

Two European grants for regenerative medicine

Going to work after taking magic mushrooms

UM research on psychedelics

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

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?

Italian cancer expert to become the new TEFAF professor

Alberto Bardelli specialises in cancer genetics

“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"

‘Digital heart’ to help doctors make a diagnosis

Better care thanks to computer models and artificial intelligence

Two starting grants for UM researchers

Laureates are Catalina Goanta (Law) and Hannes Rusch (School of Business and Economics)

‘Flame that doesn’t burn’ to produce fuel and plastics without CO2 emissions

New lab on Brightlands Campus for research into plasma technology

"DiCaprio has achieved more than climate scientists"

Symposium on activism in science

About the fear in your throat and the knot in your stomach

Study on trauma

Growing stigmatisation of people with hiv in health care

"We know that the greater the stigma, the more depressed and fearful a person feels"

Venlo students publish scientific article on fishing

"We had been warned for the peer review"

Breastfeeding and working at a university turns out to be a rough combination

Research about breastfeeding academics

Praised and abused because of ‘everyday racism’

Racism expert Philomena Essed to give Tans lecture

Nine completely different articles and a publication in The Lancet

Catharina Pijls Thesis Prize for Floor van den Brand

"The clean room was the greatest challenge”

Opening ETpathfinder 

British Lord and economist to give the Joan Muysken Lecture

Headstrong, erudite and contrary 

“A researcher who is not on Twitter, is losing out”

Maastricht cardiologist creates manual for professional use of social media

The bang that changes everything

Doctors and victims of brain damage argue for the wearing of bicycle helmets

The wolf in the Netherlands: refugee or actor

Lecture by biologist Tijs Goldschmidt

“Collective narcissism nourishes conspiracy beliefs”

Conspiracy thinking happens by degrees

Dutch and British students benefit the least from international classroom

Ideal: four nationalities in the tutorial group

Hot off the press: Nobel Prize for unravelling touch and temperature senses

Chili peppers and hot tea

One Rubicon grant for Maastricht

NWO received 76 applications

Female smokers enter into the menopause sooner

Seminar on passive smoking, fathers and the menopause

No more periods after COVID vaccination

UM study on menstruation

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

Studies using the DNA of persecuted Uighurs withdrawn

Unable to prove that DNA was donated voluntarily by Uighur subjects

“My trap is that I find too many things interesting”

Opening Academic Year 2021: Hustinx Prize for computer ethicist Katleen Gabriels

Six Spinoza and Stevin prize winners announced

The Dutch version of the Nobel Prizes

Three Vidi grants for Maastricht

About life-long learning, fear of failing and a reading club

Professor Andries de Grip: “Retirement is also the beginning of something new”

“I think it is awful that teaching at universities is so underrated"

Best practices Recognition and Rewards: having a look in Utrecht

"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

National PhD survey being prepared

Pilot with eight universities