News

  • Prof. dr. Ilja Arts, scientific director of the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology was appointed as board member of NWO's Science Domain.

  • How can you further improve healthcare with the use of ‘big data’? That question is central to many scientific studies worldwide. Last month, two PhD candidates at Maastricht University defended their theses based on this same key question.

  • In vergelijking met hbo- en wo-studenten hebben mbo-studenten vaker te maken met problemen in verschillende leefgebieden.

  • Green Impact Challenge

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    The finishing line of Green Impact, UM’s sustainability competition, is fast approaching. The Faculty of Science and Engineering’s team is doing very well - even if their numbers-based approach at times fretted against the general focus on awareness over solutions…

  • The Maastricht team did a very good job in the semifinal of the René Cassin moot court competition and reached a 16th place (out of 52 competing teams).

  • Maastricht Science Programme is involved in the LHCb collaboration at CERN which has seen, for the first time, the matter–antimatter asymmetry, known as CP violation. This finding is sure to make it into the textbooks of particle physics.

  • Researchers at Maastricht UMC+ have shown that the medicine lacosamide has a positive effect on patients with small fibre neuropathy, a disorder in which people experience continuous pain.

  • The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 19 new members, including two UM professors: Valentina Mazzucato and Kiran Klaus Patel.

  • The Econometric Game is a yearly event in Amsterdam, often dubbed as the World Championships of Econometrics, and took place this year from April 10th to April 12th. Maastricht University has been a consistent participant in the game for the last ten years, battling it out with the likes of Harvard...

  • D. Prévost, I. Alexovičová, J. Hillebrand Pohl, Restoring Trust in Trade: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Peter Van den Bossche (Hart, 2018)