Category: University

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    University Releases Beta of COVID-19 Exit Strategy Simulator

    A team at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), led by SnT Vice-Director Yves Le Traon, has developed an online tool to simulate COVID-19 exit strategy planning for close to 100 countries. The project is unique because it delivers a method to model the impact of different measures on…

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    University eases COVID-19 restrictions from 25 May: What will change?

    The University continues to ease COVID-19 related restrictions to facilitate a gradual and controlled return to campus.

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    Student survey notes high satisfaction level at University

    A survey conducted in the fall of 2019 notes a generally high satisfaction level among students with the University of Luxembourg. The overall satisfaction index stands at 3.79 on a scale ranging from one (“not satisfied”) to five (“very satisfied”). 29% of the student population participated in the survey, a response rate within the standard…

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    Survival prediction in patients with severe COVID-19 infection

    Taking advantage of a long-standing collaboration with the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg conducted a study based on blood samples from Chinese COVID-19 patients. They developed machine learning tools to identify crucial biomarkers of disease severity. Their results, recently published…

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    [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg’s COVID-19 fight

    Prof. Christos Koulovatianos is a Full Professor in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg

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    Survey reveals high satisfaction among University employees

    The University’s first satisfaction survey has revealed a generally high level of satisfaction among employees. The overall satisfaction index is 3.94, on a scale from 1-5 where 4 stands for ‘satisfied’.

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    [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg’s COVID-19 fight

    Élise Poillot is a Full Professor of Droit Civil at the University of Luxembourg’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance.

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    Study on how COVID-19 affects children and adolescents

    Schools in Luxembourg are soon to reopen; some students have already been back now. Yet many questions remain. A central argument for reopening schools is that home schooling may increase educational inequalities and that children and teens can no longer cope with social isolation. These issues are now being explored in a study launched by…

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    First results of the CON-VINCE study

    CON-VINCE, a national research project aiming to evaluate the prevalence and dynamics of the spread of the COVID-19 disease within the Luxembourgish population, was launched at the beginning of April under the umbrella of the Research Luxembourg COVID-19 Task Force. Following the successful recruitment and first testing effort of more than 1800 participants over the…

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    COVID-19 Disease Map: LCSB researchers coordinate international effort

    In the fight against the current pandemic, researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg are coordinating an international collaboration to build a COVID-19 Disease Map: a comprehensive repository incorporating all current knowledge on the virus-host interaction mechanisms. This online tool will support research and improve our understanding of…

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