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Maastricht University is one of the best young universities in the world and was ranked eighth in the QS Top 50 under 50.

Kasia Czabanowska was selected as the most important Pole in the Science category during the 2015 Pole of the Year Gala on Saturday 21 November. 

Women who nurse negative thoughts about their appearance think that people look at them just as disapprovingly. 

The Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies celebrated its very first lustrum on the 20th of November 2015. This lustrum conference was organized in cooperation with DVDW Advocaten, one of ICGI’s partner law firms and supported by the Universiteitsfonds Limburg/SWOL.

The EUREKA! festival will be held on Sunday 29 November at the Westergafabriek in Amsterdam. The entire country is invited to get a closer look at science and to experience how relevant, interesting and versatile science can be.

Anna Beckers, who defended her thesis at Maastricht University in October 2014 with cum laude, receives the second prize in the humanities category of the German Thesis Award in Berlin on 26 November.

At Maastricht UMC+, research is being carried out to determine whether or not axillary lymph nodes should always be removed in breast cancer patients.

Closed borders and other restrictions on the free movement of people do not reduce migration in the long term, nor do open borders necessarily lead to mass migration.

The research presented in the thesis concerns the use of nutritional science in the implementation of the European Nutrition and Health Claim Regulation as well as either the positive or negative effects resulting from combining the use of foods and pharmaceuticals. 

On Wednesday 4 November 2015 Mien Segers and Katalien Bollen from the ERD department participated in an expert meeting on the theme “Continuously Learning”, organised by Bureau Smart Industry (Dutch Industry Fit for the Future).