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On 10 November, de Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs 2021 will be awarded. From 64 entries from universities, university colleges and university hospitals in the Netherlands, ten studies have been nominated, including two by UM researchers! Watch the promo videos of Henry Otgaar (FPN) and Luc van Loon (NUTRIM) and make sure they both make it to the top 3!
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The balance after a year and a half of the COVID-19 crisis in education: the corona delay has partly been made up, but learning growth is still lower, especially in mathematics. Vulnerable students remain the hardest hit.
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This summer, none other than German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented the award lauditio for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Ambassador of the year 2021 (MINT Botschafter des Jahres 2021) to dr. Anna Schueth, post-doc at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. Merkel pointed out that now more than ever the work of the STEM ambassadors is crucial for STEM education and future developments in science.
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Students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University, digitised in 3D personal items that spoke to their experience of the pandemic. These models were woven into digital stories that explore their experience from personal, cultural, and social perspectives.
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On Friday 15 October 2021 Prof Herke Kranenborg held his inaugural lecture on “The state of data protection in the European Union – 20 years after the Lindqvist case".
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Emilie Sitzia has been awarded a prestigious Comenius Leadership Fellowship for a three-year project focused on teaching sensory skills beyond the visual – from hearing to feeling and smelling. Lick this article to increase your likelihood of remembering it.
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On Friday, October 15, the Maastricht Center for Robots organized its first inspiration session. During the session, industry experts, SBE researchers and students co-created key insights on how to implement service robots successfully in contexts such as hospitality and healthcare. Industry partners gave live demonstrations of their robots and students presented the main implications emanating from their thesis and course projects.
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On 11 October, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with one half to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics” and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.”
News of this years' prize was received with a lot of excitement at the School of Business and Economics. Many of our experts across multiple departments have stated that the work of this years' laureates has been incredibly influential in teaching and economics in general. In this article, SBE's academic experts share their thoughts on the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.