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  • In his inaugural address, Marko Jelicic stated that most of the perpetrators who claim they do not remember the crimes they committed are not telling the truth. He bases this finding on recent neuropsychological research on the role of the hippocampus, the area of the brain involved in storing...

  • Special collaboration to unravel genetic backgrounds of cardiovascular disease (News Maastricht UMC+).


     

  • On 30 May the new Student portal went online. This one-stop location for accessing and managing their personal university information was developed in close collaboration with students.

  • This year, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility/ ITEM will start investigating the effects of certain national and European laws and regulations for border regions.

  • Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons, the Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node. Evelo joins Helen Parkinson (EMBL-EBI) and Carole Goble (ELIXIR UK) in leading the Interoperability Platform.

  • Five UM students from the Dutch Law master’s programme were crowned the winners of the 2016 moot court competition on 18 May, organised by VAR (Vereniging voor bestuursrecht).

  • Interfaculty institute for systems biology research will focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.

  • Prof. dr. mr. Kid Schwarz in Magna Charta - Leading men in ondernemingsrecht

  • Martha Ingola, who is in her final year of her Bachelor biology and medical laboratory research and an intern at the M4I division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, was awarded a poster prize.

  • On the 28th until 31st of January Maastricht University hosted one of the regional finals of the European Law Moot Court competition.