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The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience is happy to welcome Dr. Laurentius Huber, who will be joining our faculty in January to work on his VENI project “Understanding how the connections between our brain’s cortical layers make us who we are”. But, we’ll let Laurentius introduce himself and his work:

Evolutionary game theory can be utilized to improve outcomes in patients with metastatic cancer, according to a new study in the August 9^th issue of JAMA Oncology.

From 20 August, Maastricht will again be taken over for five days by the INKOM—Maastricht’s general introduction week for all new students. Chairs of the organising work group, Mauk van Bergen, about the biggest student event in the city.

The student team from Maastricht University, Faculty of Law has won the Nuremberg Moot Court 2018 that took place in Nuremberg from 25 to 28 July. The team consisting of Anna Lena Neidmann, Marie Vesayt, Victoria Marie Häberle and Kimberley Mills competed against 45 other teams in this competition in the field of international criminal law.

Can the referral of patients with chest pain from the general practitioner to the cardiologist be more efficient? Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Maastricht University will answer this question in the near future.

How is it possible that international organisations at a certain point lose some of their competences or even are abolished by member states? Dr Hylke Dijkstra, director of the European Studies master’s programme at Maastricht University, plans to research this issue.

We congratulate all UM students who have received their degree this summer!

Maïs Sweid is from Syria. She lives in Limburg with her husband and five-year-old son and works for the Education Office at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN). Her advice to other refugees: “Meet Dutch people and learn the language as soon as possible.” This is a story about the success of work experience at UM.