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Learning to eat healthy, you can't start early enough

On Monday 30 of January, MORSE hosted the MORSE Research Impact Day, in its premises of SBE. During the event, MORSE presented its plans for 2023, welcomed René Kemp and Erwin de Bruin to present about Problem Based Research, hosted its 2023 Thesis Award Ceremony, and finished with a New Year reception and networking.

The Faculty of Science and Engineering has appointed Gerco Onderwater as Department Head and Programme Director of MSP and professor of experimental particle physics.

They study at UM, do their utmost to get their degree, but also have another big ambition: they want to reach the top in their sport. Young people who set everything aside to train hard alongside their studies and participate in high-level competitions. Real go-getters, in other words. What does it mean to play top-level sport alongside your university education? We ask some top UM athletes in this series of stories. International showjumper Babs Kerkhoffs is the first.

Special Chair of Text-Mining Jan Scholtes on how ChatGPT actually works, why it’s an amazing achievement and where we should probably exercise a bit of caution.

A large-scale research consortium for Timely, Accurate and Personalized diagnosis of dementia (TAP-dementia) launches today. Researchers throughout the Netherlands collaborate to improve the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

Dr. Brenda Erens recently obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. We talked about her work and upcoming challenges.

Maastricht University is proud to announce that two UM projects were awarded the YERUN Open Science Award 2022.

Maastricht-developed technique serious option for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Study: Even chess experts perform worse when air quality is lower, suggesting a negative effect on cognition.