News
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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).
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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.
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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.
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The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 19 new members, including two UM professors: Valentina Mazzucato and Kiran Klaus Patel.
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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 University, Universidad Carlos III, and the University of Monash for eternal glory.
We are proud to announce that team SBE came in 2nd place during this final case, and therefore also placed 2nd of all 30 teams! -
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…
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D. Prévost, I. Alexovičová, J. Hillebrand Pohl, Restoring Trust in Trade: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Peter Van den Bossche (Hart, 2018)
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A. Kamperman Sanders, A. Moerland, C. Heath, Intellectual Property Rights as Obstacles to Legitimate Trade? (Kluwer International, 2018)
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Dilek Kurban has been awarded one of the five Research Prizes from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for her PhD dissertation titled ‘The Limits of Transnational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights, Turkey and the Kurdish Conflict’. Dilek earned his doctorate from the Faculty of Law on 23 February 2018. The prize comes with a €3,000 grant and a certificate.
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N. Blokhuis, C.A.M. Mulder, Smart in C : A simple and efficient methodology for paper C of the European qualifying examination (Helze BV Publisher, 2018)