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Caroline Larisch alumna (graduated in 2018) and Danny Jonker are both among the three winners of the FACE-UP Air Cargo Competition 2018, a competition for recent graduates to present their thesis at the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Dallas, United States.

Onno van Schayck has given a lecture on the health impact of air pollution for the Universiteit van Nederland.

On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018, the Centre for Gender and Diversity and the new UM Diversity Officer organized the first Diversity Day for the whole UM community.

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Bescherming van de liberale constitutie in een populistisch tijdperk: onderzoeksproject aan de Universiteit Maastricht, sectie staatsrecht /  Montesquieu Instituut, mogelijk gemaakt door een subsidie van het Fonds Staatsman Thorbecke van de KNAW.

Should the turnout of students in this month’s municipal elections be anywhere near as high as at last night’s event, then the organisers of the MaasX debate will be doubly pleased.

Theresa Schuhmann and her colleagues are researching a wide range of brain phenomena in Maastricht, including the inhibition of aggressive behaviour, with the help of non-invasive brain stimulation.

UM has hosted the first Global Citizenship Education Symposium on 1 March 2018, with more than a hundred students, lecturers and community stakeholders in attendance.

How did Vermeer paint his iconic masterpiece? Which materials did he use? With this project, titled 'The Girl in the Spotlight', the Mauritshuis hopes to find answers to these long-standing questions.

The Netherlands’ annual Week van het Geld (Week of Money) is inspired by the very worthy (and very Dutch) conviction that it’s never too soon to teach children about money.  But what new financial lessons do the rest of us – undergraduates, academics, citizens, politicians - need to learn? Long before today’s school kids become adults, could the innovations of fintech and distributed-ledger blockchain transform our world for the better?