Stories
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Bridge issues
12-05-2023When you cross a bridge, what crosses your mind? Do you think about the weather, about your shopping list, or do you wonder whether you will catch the train?
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A unique Dutch windmill
28-03-2023As it turns out, Dutch windmills are not just national icons. They also hold a unique position in the mathematical landscape.
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Why you should come to the INKOM!
13-07-2023From 21 to 25 August, nearly 3000 first-year students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in their new lives during the INKOM, the introduction week for new students Maastricht University and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.
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Councillor Jack Gerats awarded the first certificates to 18 new youth neighbourhood mediators. Maastricht is the first city in the Netherlands where students go into neighbourhoods as youth neighbourhood mediators to bring students and local residents closer together.
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Students demystify computers for seniors
28-03-2023FaceTime, WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook: for many older people, it’s like a secret language. In the Conn@ct.us initiative by Enactus Maastricht, students help seniors find their way around the multimedia world.
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To get a residence permit in the Netherlands, or elsewhere in Europe, asylum seekers need to tell a credible story about their identity, their country of origin and the reason they fled. Yet the way in which asylum officials ask questions does not always make for a good test of reality.
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What can you do with basic research?
28-03-2023Valorisation, also known as knowledge utilisation, is becoming ever more important. What many researchers don’t yet realise is that it is also lucrative.
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The musical, athletic psychologist
28-03-2023One thing is clear after our in-depth interview: if it wasn’t academia, she could easily have had a successful career in music or sport. Fun and substance are the two words she uses most – the guiding principles behind all her choices. She’s never been into career planning.
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Missionary of the open-access message
28-03-2023She is blunt when it comes to her colleagues’ awareness of the issue of open access: what awareness? According to Lisa Brüggen, professor of Financial Services at the School of Business and Economics (SBE), there is much work to do.
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May the best (wo)man win
28-03-2023Should the people who run the fastest at work be the ones to get promoted first? Or should it be those with the most potential? How can organisations persuade talented women to stick around, instead of watching one after the other walk out the door?