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Maastricht University conferred honorary doctorates to professors Detlev Ganten, Susan Rose-Ackerman and Paul de Grauwe during the fortieth Dies Natalis celebrations on 11 January. 

Katie Kuschminder, a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University's UNU-MERIT research institute, was awarded a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

From 5  February  2016 the annual statement 2015 will be available on ESS. 

Having in-depth conversations with young people can help prevent problems associated with cannabis use.

On November 28, 2015 Ron Heeren presented glimpses of the ‘operating room of the future’ during a lunch lecture in Amsterdam. 

With retroactive force, as per 1 September 2015, the Department of Knowledge Engineering is renamed to “Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering.” The abbreviation DKE will remain the same.

Incorporating standing desks in offices and schools can lower the health risks of sitting.

Deep brain stimulation or DBS has been shown to be effective in treating memory loss, at least this appears to be the case in rats. 

Thanks to relatively new MRI techniques, patients with rectal cancer may benefit from an improved selection process for organ-sparing treatment. These techniques were also used to determine whether this treatment offers a safe alternative to standard surgical procedures for patients with rectal cancer.