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Online Career Café connects student with alumni

The first UT Online Career Café will be held on the 17th of June. The virtual event allows students in the final phase of their studies to connect with UT alumni all over the world.
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Interview with alumnus and Chief Soap Officer Marcel Belt

‘Doing something good for the world’

Marcel Belt (56) calls himself Chief Soap Officer at his business The Green Soap Company. The Business Administration alumnus has been paving the road to success with his sustainable and environmentally friendly soap since 2015. These days, the company earns four million euros in revenue. Being a true family man, he was inspired by his three daughters to make his part of the world a bit better.
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Interview met alumnus en Chief Soap Officer Marcel Belt

‘Iets goeds doen voor de wereld’

Marcel Belt (56) noemt zich Chief Soap Officer bij zijn bedrijf The Green Soap Company. De alumnus bedrijfskunde timmert sinds 2015 aan de weg met zijn duurzame en groene zeep. Inmiddels heeft het bedrijf een omzet van vier miljoen euro. Als echte familieman inspireerden zijn drie dochters hem om zijn stukje van de wereld een beetje beter te maken.
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UT alumnus Daan Dohmen launched Corona Check app

Daan Dohmen, UT alumnus and an entrepreneur in healthcare, has launched the ‘Corona Check’ app through one of his companies Luscii. This app allows you to check yourself for COVID-19 symptoms and directly connects you to medical professionals. Open Access data from the app will also be analyzed by a UT team.
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Online lunch lecture by LEGO Design Manager Jonathan Bennink

‘The world does not wait for you’

Jonathan Bennink, Design Manager for LEGO and UT alumnus Industrial Design Engineering, talked about how he paved his path to get a job at LEGO and what lessons he learned on the way. The online lecture was hosted by the DesignLab and the UT Alumni Office yesterday afternoon.
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‘You can’t beat Mother Nature’

Exactly 127 days of total darkness, extreme temperatures of -56°C and a complete isolation from the rest of the world. ‘And then we heard about this disease that was killing a lot of people.’ UT alumnus Vishnu Nandan just returned from the Arctic. He describes his experience during the largest polar expedition in history.
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‘It’s like it was meant to be’

They met in class in 2007, when they were both students at the UT. They fell in love, stayed together and graduated in the same week. Now married, Anne Steins (32) and Lex van Loon (31) are about to move to the Australian National University, where they will do research on space medicine and help to implement the field they both studied - Technical Medicine.
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VR goggles allow sick children to play outside

‘I see a slide, I want to go there!’

Two UT alumni and a student of Creative Technology developed a virtual playground for sick children. The virtual-reality goggles are used for the first time at the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital in Utrecht. ‘The children believe they are in a completely different world.’
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UT alumna Connie Nshemereirwe

‘As scientists, we are too divorced from our societies’

‘I hope this will be interesting enough for you, because I have a rather unusual story.’ She does indeed. Connie Nshemereirwe (45) is a scientist through and through, but this UT alumna is not following the traditional path of a researcher. She has stepped out of academia in order to have more impact on society. Now, self-employed and independent, the Ugandan actively creates a bridge between science and policy - as a trainer, writer, speaker and as the co-chair of the Global Young Academy.
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‘It is no man’s land and a constant threat of polar bears’

ITC alumnus joins largest polar expedition in history

Four months of complete darkness and a high risk of being attacked by a polar bear. Those are just some of the dangers ITC alumnus Vishnu Nandan will be facing soon. This Friday, the researcher is embarking on the largest polar expedition in history.
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ITC alumnus leads a mission to measure Mount Everest

Is Mount Everest shrinking or growing? We will soon have the answer. ITC alumnus Susheel Dangol is leading a team of 80 people, all dedicated to perform ‘the most accurate measurement’ of the highest mountain on the planet. ‘It is a matter of national pride.’
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Institute of Brilliant Failures

‘It is my mission to create a place for failures’

Paul Iske (1961) obtained his cum laude doctoral degree in Applied Physics from the UT, but these days his business card reads ‘Chief Failure Officer’. His Institute of Brilliant Failures advocates for room to experiment and fail, as long as you do it right and learn from it.
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Alumni Talks over politiek, chips en voetbal

Wat hebben Tony Agotha, Giels Brouwer, Loes Segerink en Sander Lotze met elkaar gemeen? Ze studeerden alle vier aan de UT en spreken op 4 oktober in de Vrijhof over hun vakgebied tijdens de derde editie van Alumni Talks, een jaarlijks evenement voor UT-alumni.
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