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New initiative monitoring the UT campus

Green Campus wants to raise awareness

If you walk around the UT campus and stumble over a temperature sensor in the bushes or notice a new camera on the Horst, you have spotted parts of the new ‘Green Campus’ initiative. Led by ITC researchers, it monitors green areas of the campus and looks into the benefits of this green capital.
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Philip Brey discusses political ads on social media

‘Twitter is setting a dangerous trend’

As of tomorrow, Twitter will ban all political advertising. On the other end of the spectrum, Facebook will continue to allow all political ads, even the ones containing false information. Philip Brey, UT professor of philosophy of technology, considers both of these decisions ‘completely wrong’ and ‘dangerous for democracy’.
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New therapy to treat depression

The story to live by

Ten years ago, UT professor Gerben Westerhof started developing ‘life review therapy’, a new method to treat depressive symptoms. Now, after trials and extensive reviews, he can positively say: ‘It is effective. It has shown significant results and it is very relevant for clinical work.’
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PhD research on why people help the police

‘If they participate once, they are likely to do it again’

If regular citizens collaborate with the police, they can help to fight crime. However, it is unclear what motivates people to do so. PhD candidate Wendy Schreurs aimed to uncover these reasons in her research. She even used her grandmother in one of her experiments. Schreurs is presenting her findings during her PhD defense today.
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Off-grid houses that power themselves

Off-grid houses that run on ‘their own’ electricity could be the answer to many of the world’s problems. PhD candidate Diego F. Quintero Pulido has researched how to power such houses through renewable energy. While he is defending his doctoral thesis today, his findings are already being applied in an off-grid project in the Netherlands.
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Heat wave caused forests to emit CO2

You might still remember the extremely hot week in July. Recent measurements by UT scientists show that, during that heat wave, forests in the Netherlands emitted CO2. ‘This is very rare. We have not seen this situation since we started measuring in 2006. But we have to be careful not to overinterpret these measurements,’ says ITC researcher Christiaan van der Tol.
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Geert Heijenk, hoogleraar Wireless Networks & Mobility

‘Elke auto moet dezelfde taal spreken’

Dé oplossing voor fileproblemen, onveilige verkeerssituaties en hoge CO2-uitstoot? Volgens hoogleraar Geert Heijenk, die morgen zijn oratie uitspreekt in de Waaier, zijn dat draadloze communicatienetwerken. Hij is sinds 2017 hoogleraar Wireless Networks & Mobility bij de faculteit EEMCS.
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Mathieu Odijk and his personal motivation

Uncovering the brain’s migraine secret

What happens inside the brain of a person suffering from a migraine? That is the puzzle that UT researcher Mathieu Odijk is trying to solve together with researchers from the LUMC in Leiden. Besides his scientific interest, he has a personal stake in this research: Odijk’s sister had severe migraines at least twice a month and he experiences it around twice per year as well.
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Everyday science: Why a teapot drips

Do you ever take the time in your busy life to wonder about everyday phenomena? Things that are obvious to us or perhaps just make for a handy trick? There is always a scientific explanation for such phenomena. In Everyday Science, a UT researcher sheds light on an everyday topic.
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Helmer van den Hoorn researched rollercoasters

‘A few Gs are fun, but too many can be dangerous’

Who hasn’t spent part of their childhood building rollercoasters in RollerCoaster Tycoon? For master’s student of Mechanical Engineering Helmer van den Hoorn, it did not end there. He did his final thesis project at Intamin Holland in Apeldoorn, a company that specialises in calculating rollercoasters and other theme park rides.
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Cover story U-Today Science & Technology Magazine

A minute to midnight

Scorching heat drying out our lakes and ponds. Heavy storms flooding our streets, gardens and houses. The changing climate is coming closer and closer to home. It is no longer ‘only’ about melting ice caps thousands of kilometers away. And the disasters that climate change is fueling are beginning to hit us all. What can we do to prevent these (un)natural disasters? Is it even possible to at least reduce the risks? Or are we all utterly and completely screwed?
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Prestigious grant for UT researcher Burcu Gümüscü

UT researcher Burcu Gümüscü has been awarded a prestigious grant worth €25.000 from the Pieter Langerhuizen Lambertuszoon Fonds. She will use it to develop a new sensing platform that tests if patients take their medicine as prescribed.
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