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Statement Executive Board after reports and graffiti on buildings with allegations about approach of addressing sexual violence in student life.
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Today, the Dutch Cabinet appointed Professor Trudie Schils as a member of the Dutch Education Council; the council that advises the government on education in the Netherlands. Trudie Schils is professor economics of education at Maastricht University.
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Yesterday saw the opening in Aachen of AMICARE, an institute at which researchers from Maastricht UMC+, Maastricht University and RWTH Aachen University will work together to unravel the relationship between cardiovascular problems and kidney disease.
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The new dean of SBE, Marielle Heijltjes, is a product of Maastricht University. In 1985 she was among only the second cohort of business-economics students. “When I take office as SBE dean, I’ll be the first alum and the first woman in that role. I’ve always thought fondly of the school."
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Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) has received a renewal of the AACSB accreditation as part of AACSB's Continuous Improvement Review. This achievement continues SBE’s membership of a select global group of business schools that hold this accreditation.
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Maastricht researchers develop testing device for fruit and vegetables
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Conference on the use of English in higher education
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Professor Hilde Verbeek shares her opinion on healty ageing
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Remember the last time you were wrong? And I don’t mean slightly off-target but very, very wrong. Everything looked crisp, clear. It just made sense. There was no doubt, so you went all in.
Then the shock. Reality sank in. Slowly at first. Gradually there was more nuance. Gray shades were all over the place. Finally what had been so obviously true, was not there after all.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan must have felt this way in 2008 as he sat across Congress describing the mistake in belief that led to the unfolding of the financial crisis: “The whole intellectual edifice […] collapsed in the summer of last year.” At least, this is one notable example. You can find other conspicuous mistakes all over the web.
So if you were ever wrong before, you are in good company. And yet. Maybe you want to know how to be less wrong, less of your time. Interdisciplinary studies around the world, and within MORSE @UM can help. Following are three science driven tips to achieve resiliency to uncertainty.
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Teaching toddlers and pre-schoolers a healthy diet is not easy. But children are not preordained to dislike vegetables, say PhD candidates Anouk van den Brand and Britt van Belkom. The key to success: persist and reward.