The mission of Marleen Janssen
Marleen Janssen is the world's first professor of deafblindness. Thanks to her academic endeavours, it is becoming ever clearer how to improve the lives of people who can hardly hear and see.
The weekly online video magazine Unifocus highlights topics related to the University of Groningen in the fields of research and society, student life, teaching, policy and internationalization.
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