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Since 1 November Hilde Verbeek joins the Council for Medical Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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On Tuesday 20 October, Bartel Van de Walle, new director of UNU-MERIT met with Limburg governor Theo Bovens, ahead of UN Day on 24 October 2020. The two leaders discussed the state of the province and the planet, how to ensure young people are listened to and empowered, and how UNU-MERIT's staff and fellows are ambassadors for the UN.
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On Monday 26 October, Prof. Dr. Rianne Letschert, Rector Magnificus of UM, received the first copy of the book 'Queen of Hearts, the power of vulnerability'. Rianne Letschert wrote the foreword to the book and underlines how important it is for employers to be aware of the problem of pregnancy complications.
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Maastricht University starts a mental health research project ‘Transition-Journeys’ in close cooperation with other partners in November 2020.
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MPP alumnus Rodolpho Zannin Feijó joined the first online edition of the Maastricht University Alumni Week last month as a guest speaker from his home city of Curitiba in Brazil. Here are six highlights from the conversation.
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"That's what I'm doing it for" is a new campaign by the national government in which young people / students are challenged to adhere to the COVID-19 measures so that they and we can soon resume "normal life".
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PhD thesis written by Vanessa Tünsmeyer.
The thesis focusses on sacred cultural heritage that was taken from indigenous communities during colonialism and remains in museum collections both in Europe and abroad. -
PhD thesis written by Paul Dermine.
The main ambition of this research has been to determine if, and to what extent, the new economic governance of the Eurozone adheres to the founding constitutional guarantees of the EU legal order, namely those drawn from the rule of law principle. -
On 21 October Floor van den Brand obtained her PhD with the Cum Laude predicate. She studied the effects of financial incentives for smoking cessation