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What do we say at the start of our lives—and at the end? In his book Bye Bye I Love You , linguist Michael Erard from the Faculty of Law explores the story behind our first and last words.

At the School of Business and Economics (SBE), academics actively contribute to public debates on issues that shape national and European policy. Prof. Dr. Mark Sanders, an expert in international economics, recently shared his insights on the implications of Dutch and European defence spending.

How do lobbyists use disinformation to sway policymakers? Who gets to shape the historical narrative of occupation and violence? Does growing inequality change the way citizens think about politics? And how have politicians defended “truth” across a century of media revolutions?

The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, together with the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), obtained a € 100.000 a Comenius Senior Teaching Fellow grant.

Children at schools with green playgrounds are better able to concentrate and display more social behaviour. This is the conclusion of a follow-up study within the long-running project The Healthy Primary School of the Future .

The Maastricht University Brussels Hub plays a key role in positioning UM as the European University of the Netherlands. A recent example is the conference ITEM organised at the Brussels Hub.

Can you control a robotic arm with your thoughts? Paul Weger (MHeNs) studies this to give back independence to patients with neurological conditions.

On 8 December, the Meet the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights event took place.

Professor Ron Heeren, distinguished university professor at Maastricht University (UM) and director of the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4i), was appointed as a fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Thursday 11 December.

Mariam Aroian will visit IGIR for three months, between December 2025 and February 2026. Her current research focuses on copyright and artificial intelligence.