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'Sustainability and commerce can reinforce each other'
Marjolein de Jong
12 January 2022
With MOYU, his reusable notebook start-up, Paul Sintnicolaas (28) is contributing to creating a better world.
‘I expect the return of Christ within now and 14 years’
Marjolein de Jong
14 December 2021
Orlando Bottenbley about his vocation, how his brother’s murder forced him to forgive and why he sees the coronavirus as a sign of the end of days.
The magical world of fungi
Marjolein de Jong
13 December 2021
Professor of evolutionary biology, Toby Kiers, has discovered a mycelial network beneath our feet that is both suspiciously like the market economy.
Suffering under the yoke of technology
Marjolein de Jong
13 December 2021
Philosopher Hans Schnitzler examines why we all have such a complex relationship with technology, but find it so hard to free ourselves from it.
New Young Theologian of the Netherlands is business administration alumna
Marjolein de Jong
6 December 2021
Tabitha van Krimpen (23) is using her business administration programme to reform the church.
‘I used to think I had to be like the men’
Marjolein de Jong
31 October 2021
VU alumna and trailer manufacturer Marinka Nooteboom is Business Woman of the Year for 2022. „It’s actually good for women to stand out."
How this VU start-up is conquering the online fashion world
Marjolein de Jong
27 September 2021
VU alumni Ugnius Rimsa and Michael Musandu offer virtual models that customers can adjust to match their own likeness.
Role of women in art severely underestimated
Marjolein de Jong
31 August 2021
Were women once only good at appearing nude on a canvas? According to Jitske Jasperse, this is a much too limited view.
From waste to cooking oil
Marjolein de Jong
27 June 2021
VU alumnus Sander Breedveld saves avocados from rotting in the rubbish bin.
‘There is value in resistance’
Hannah Stoffels
17 May 2021
VU alumnus Dineke de Groot is the first woman president of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands: „It's no big deal, yet special at the same time."
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