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Lavinia Kortese's master thesis entitled "Assessing the Coherence of Mechanisms for the Recognition of Qualifications: Discerning Dimensions to a Multilevel Challenge"has been published as a MCEL Masters Working Paper, making it the first of this year.

The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed Maastricht University's Clemens van Blitterswijk as one of its newest members.

NACADA, a global community for academic advising, has appointed Oscar van den Wijngaard as the new chair of the Global Initiatives Committee.

The artificial vestibular system implanted for the first time in humans in 2012 at Maastricht UMC+ appears to work well.

On Thursday 31 March, at iCourts - University of Copenhagen, Dr. Vigjilenca Abazi presented her co-authored with Eljalill Tauschinsky on the role that the Court of Justice of the European Union ascribes to trust.

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our great colleague and good friend professor Jaap Dronkers has died on March 30, 2016.

Next week almost 400 academics from five different continents will descend on Maastricht for the annual conference of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), hosted by Maastricht University from 2 to 7 April. 

Maastricht University is conferring its first Valorisation Award for the dissertation that had the greatest social impact during the 2014/15 academic year to Alana Krix. 

NWO has announced that in the context of the ‘Fonds Nieuwe Chemische Innovaties’ (NCI), they have granted a subsidy for the collaboration between Maastricht University and SABIC for the research on polymer membranes on the basis of renewable copolymers.

Since the Biobased Materials Research group started on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in 2013 the expansion of the group has been astounding.