Highlights
Sustainability at the University of Twente
- Climate change is heading for a global humanitarian crisis, scientists conclude in the latest IPCC report
- How can we collect more solar energy on a cloudy day? Rebecca Saive in Universiteit van Nederland.
- Nature is declining fast. Time for a reappraisal? UT researcher Esther Turnhout wrote about it.
Technology in healthcare at the University of Twente
- Professor Marcel Karperien and his colleagues are testing a hydrogel for cartilage repair on humans for the first time.
- Together with patient organisations and companies, UT scientists are working to improve home tests.
- Is needle-free injection the future? Thanks to UT scientists, the technology is becoming increasingly precise.
Digitalisation at the University of Twente
- Together with Meta AI, UT researchers develop 'digital humans' that learn complex movements.
- Marianne Junger investigated online fraud. No less than one in six people have to deal with it.
- The computer of the future is inspired by the human brain. The HYBRAIN project is working on this ultra-fast and highly efficient computer.
More news from our scientific themes
Overview of all news items
UT team looks forward to Tour for Life experience: we’re not doing it because it’s easy, but because it’s hard
UT designed nanoparticles train immune cells to fight cancer
Scientists of the department of Advanced Organ Bioengineering and Therapeutics (Faculty of S&T, TechMed Centre) recently published a novel cancer immune therapy in the scientific journal Nature Communications. In their research, Prof Dr Jai Prakash and his team developed newly designed nanoparticles which can target the body’s immune cells to turn them against cancer.
Scientists offer blueprint for sustainable redesign of food systems
The global food system is Exhibit A in the crisis of growth-addicted development. In a new perspective paper published in Nature Sustainability, a team of 32 food system scholars provide the blueprint for something very different: sustainable post-growth food systems. “If we want a useful discussion around food system sustainability, we have to start looking past the current ‘economic growth paradigm’ and into post-growth food systems”, says UT co-author Dr Steven McGreevy.
One step ahead in the intuitive control of bionic legs
The University of Twente in cooperation with prosthetic world-leading company Ottobock demonstrated a new prosthetic technology at the international congress Rehab Week held in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) between July 25 – 29. This new technology enables leg amputees to control robotic prostheses as a natural extension of the own body. The technology is based on the concept of musculoskeletal modelling and represents an alternative to widely used machine learning methods.
Summer of inspiration on campus
This summer the University of Twente hosts two internationally oriented summer schools in a festival-like atmosphere on campus. During CuriousU and InspireU many international university students, professionals and high school students come to the campus for a summer full of inspiration.
Events
14Aug
CuriousU summer school
05Sep
Join us in opening the Academic Year 2022/2023
20Sep
Russia through the eyes of journalist Tom Vennink
27Sep
Vegan food
04Oct
Why do we cry?
07Oct
Come to the Alumni Talks on 7 October!
11Oct
James Webb Space Telescope
12Oct
Art & Mathematics: folding structures
14Oct
Bachelor Open Day
15Oct
Bachelor Open Day
Corporate announcements
UT in the media
University of Twente in the international media
- New Approaches Needed To Support Digitization Of HealthcareForbes - 14 July 2022
- The state of higher education internationalisation after COVIDUniversity World News - 21 May 2022
- Its Hard To Believe That A Bunch Of Dutch Students Put Together A 200 HP All-Electric Race BikeTopSpeed - 3 May 2022
- Netherlands Invests in Photonic Tech Firms to Create New National Chip ChampionNews18 - 15 April 2022
- Mangroves vs. seawalls? Mix may be ‘best of both worlds’MSN.com - 16 April 2022
- A totally-paralyzed man was able to speak again thanks to a brain implant, a controversial study claims. It says he asked for beer and told his son he loved himYahoo! News - 25 March 2022
- The New Breed Of Entrepreneurs: When Business Isn’t Enough To Get Your Message AcrossForbes - 2 March 2022
- Designing for Autonomy, Part 1: A Conversation with Jelger KroeseMedium.com - 25 January 2022