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A stop to migration? Setting aside the nitrogen regulations? Radically countering internationalisation in higher education? Politicians regularly make great pronouncements. To what extent are these promises realistic? Dr Karin van Leeuwen, lecturer of European Political History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is adamant: “European laws and agreements would not permit all those changes.” At the same time, Van Leeuwen has noticed an important development: politicians appear to be more reliable in their statements. How so? And with all the European legislation, could a new Dutch Cabinet really bring about completely new policy?
Marielle Wijermars en Christian Herff ontvangen dit jaar de KNAW Early Career Award. De Award is bedoeld voor onderzoekers in Nederland die aan het begin van hun carrière staan en die vernieuwende, originele ideeën hebben.
Living brains in a laboratory and research on internet freedom –two of the ten nominees for the Klokhuis Science Prize this year are UM scientists. And you can also vote!
Philosopher Maud Oostindie of Maastricht University is one of the new 'Faces of Science' presented today by the KNAW. Through blogs and vlogs, she is going to show what her life as a young scientist looks like.
Klimaat, oorlog en oplevend nationalisme: mondiale samenwerking rammelt aan alle kanten. Toch pleit hoogleraar Mathieu Segers nog voor Europees leiderschap: ‘Als dood en verderf om zich heen grijpen, en er eigenlijk geen licht meer lijkt te zijn, ontstaan vaak de meest briljante plannen.’
Is an elephant in Artis Zoo just as “wild” as an elephant on the African savannah? What place do animals have in a world that is increasingly shaped by humans? Why does the presence of a few wolves in the Netherlands trigger so many negative emotions, while Dutch people donate money en masse to protect tigers in India? It is questions like this that occupy Prof. Raf de Bont, chair of History of Science and the Environment. He investigates human-animal relationships and zoos from a historical perspective. Which developments has he identified?
Global software giant Microsoft is set to introduce a Limburg language model with a keyboard and spellcheck function, which will make the Limburgish language easier to use on digital media platforms.
Het hooglerarenfonds, waarin hoogleraren vanuit hun private inkomsten donaties doen ten behoeve van de ondersteuning van excellente onderzoekers binnen de UM, heeft weer enkele subsidies kunnen verlenen.
Professor Leonie Cornips launches a Dialect Web App for the Limburg dialects ‘Eèsjdes’ (the Eijsden dialect) and ‘Mestreechs’ (the Maastricht dialect).