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In February the NVRD (The largest national waste management association of the Netherlands), the City of Maastricht and Maastricht University EDLAB launched an innovation challenge for solutions for the problem of dumped waste.

A look back at the PhD training in 1981 of Marja van Dieijen, president of MUMC+, with Coen Hemker, professor emeritus of Biochemistry

M-EPLI associate director and Associate Professor of European Private Law Bram Akkermans has been appointed to the TPR Visiting Chair for the academic year 2017-2018 at the Catholic University of Leuven. During the upcoming academic year Bram will hold several lectures and plan other activities at KU Leuven.

Four researchers from MERLN, the institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, together created the spin-off company 4 Blue Cells. Inspired by the stunningly beautiful images they often see through the electron microscope in their day-to-day work, they came up with the idea of helping people tell their personal story at this microscopic cellular level.

The destruction of cultural property by the Islamic State in Mosul and Palmyra: is International Law the answer?’, is the title of Alessandra Silva’s bachelor’s thesis. During the Dies celebration last February, the 23-year-old Italian received the thesis prize, as one of seventeen winners, for the best bachelor's thesis in 2016.

The Irish Supreme Court has quoted MCEL member Professor Lisa Waddington in a recent judgment.

Dr Amrapali Zaveri, along with the co-authors, won the Best In-Use Paper at the 14th European Semantic Web Conference for the paper entitled 'smartAPI: Towards a more intelligent network of Web APIs'.

The german international broadcaster Die Welle reported on the vonlunteer work of Globalization and Development Studies student Jana Echterhoff in Mexico.

This year Pinkpop features a Brghtlands tent for the first time; the first outing of the Brightlands brand awareness campaign.