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Maastricht University is awarding an honorary doctorate to Jaap van Dissel, professor of internal medicine at Leiden University and director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Control at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).

The Dutch Mining Museum, in collaboration with students from Maastricht University, digitized collection items and converted them into 3D models.

BASF’s vegetable seeds business and Maastricht University signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the Brightlands Future of Farming Institute (BFFI). As of mid-2021 it will start its activities in a new facility at the premises of the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, The Netherlands.

Cannabis users should not drive for at least four hours after inhaling the drug. Research at Maastricht University shows that within this time frame the driver is very likely to drift from side to side on the road.

On November 26, the magazine New Scientist organized the eighth edition of the Gala of Science with the theme: artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.