Today, a group of MBLS students organized the STEM Steps Forward symposium. The speakers were a group of PhD’ers, professors and researchers; Reyanne Heijerman, Vadim Bogatyr, PhD, Artem Pankin, Yo-Yi Pat, Danielle Counotte, Nadine J. van der Heijden and dr. Eva S. Deutekom. They shared some of their experiences in choosing their careers, including dealbreakers,…

IDP Symposium Last monday, students that participated in the fall Interdisciplinary Project presented their final posters! The aim of the IDP is for students from different scientific disciplines to collaborate and integrate their viewpoints in order to tackle a real-world problem. The final products varied from research proposals to innovative designs and renewing technological tools….

Last week, Rezo Meshveliani Asatiani from UtrechtInc talked about the incubator company, which turns innovative ideas into scalable business with a real-world impact.🌐 Students could enjoy the lecture while eating a delicious lunch. Thank you Rezo and Amino for the collaboration!🤝

Over the course of two evenings, PhD’er Isabella Saccardi talked about how to start a research project and what is involved in this process. She showed examples of how she managed it during her bachelor, master and PhD. Moreover, she gave an assignment to the students which had them look at a presentation and really…

Last Friday, some of our students had the pleasure of visiting NIKHEF in Amsterdam! There, they got an inside-look into their labs, they learned about particle detectors and data analysis, gaining insight into how their projects contribute to global collaborations in high-energy physics. Raimond Snellings gave a very interesting talk about this current cutting-edge physics…

In order to reconnect and get together after the holidays, the reception committee organized a New Year’s reception. It was the first event that took place in the SHA room, after a semester-long renovation period.

Today, we held a pubquiz in Christmas theme, playing games like guess the song and trivia. Students got together, battled against each other and had a lot of fun!

Today, a symposium was held on Forensic Science, a topic that was very intriguing to many of our students! We had the pleasure of having Ate Kloosterman and Klaas Slooten giving lectures.

Over the course of two evenings, Annelies Verhelst from ‘Digitaal toegankelijk’ gave our students a masterclass on data accessibility. They learned about what data accessibility is, why it matters, what needs to be accessible and how to provide it.

Last Wednesday, some of our students attended the yearly QBio symposium, organised by a group of master students for their honours programme. In total, six speakers from various disciplines shared their unique insights regarding the overarching theme “The air we breathe.” Topics such as modeling, disease spreading and climate change were discussed. More information on…