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Overall study progress within UM in these COVID times remains at a similar level as before. However, according to Rector Rianne Letschert, there is no cause for complacency.
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It is 1986. The time of Grandmaster Flash and Run-D.M.C., but also of Billy Oceans' When the going gets tough, the tough get going and a harsh Elfstedentocht’. In Leiden, Jan Smits starts studying law at a sizeable faculty with 1200 first-year students. It’s a big contrast to the small-scale law faculty in Maastricht where he became dean in 2017.
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In collaboration with the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights is organising a workshop entitled 'Critique is a gift: A workshop on challenges to genocide research.' The organisers invite abstracts to be submitted by July 15th 2021.
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In Volume 6(1) of Urban Planning, Christian Scholl and Joop de Kraker brought together nine contributions by leading international scholars of urban living labs and urban experimentation. The special issue provides a state-of-the art account of practices, outcomes and impacts of the growing practice of urban experimentation. Consult the issue.
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Recently, psychiatrist Anne Koopmans (MHeNs) successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 genotyping in psychiatry: Bridging the gap between practice and lab’. She chose an all-female opposition to draw attention to the importance of women in higher academic positions.
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For the research at Maastricht UMC+ and Erasmus MC to the steering of the bladder from the brains a grant of circa 1 million euro has been awarded from the programme Humane Meetmodellen 2.0. Within this project more effective research methods with human beings are developed and used, which reduces animal testing.
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An interesting online event will take place on Wednesday 16 June about the future and safeguarding of digital heritage in our region.