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Pregnant women who eat fish more than three times a week give birth to babies who grow more quickly in the first years of life, and have a higher risk of being overweight as pre-schoolers.
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In 2013-2014, about 250 child marriages occurred per year in the Netherlands. Religious marriages without civil marriage also took place during that period.
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The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced today that 32 researchers have each received a €1.5 million Vici grant.
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The University of Aruba and Maastricht University signed an agreement today, Thursday 11 February 2016, to offer a Double Degree Master Programme in International and European Tax Law as of September 2016. The programme will be offered entirely in English.
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On the 28th until 31st of January Maastricht University hosted one of the regional finals of the European Law Moot Court competition.
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John receives the award for research on the Impact of travel to resource-limited destinations on the gastrointestinal microbiome.
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Each extra hour of daily sedentary time (for example spent sitting at a computer) is associated with 22% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, concludes new research published in Diabetologia.
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The term “schizophrenia,” with its connotation of hopeless chronic brain disease, should be dropped and replaced with something like “psychosis spectrum syndrome,” argues a professor of psychiatry in The BMJ today.
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Luc Soete’s term as Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University will come to an end on 1 September 2016. The Supervisory Board has appointed a committee to advise them on selecting a successor.
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MCEL associate scholar Florin Coman-Kund has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Europen Union Agencies as Global Actors - A Legal Study of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Frontex and Europol”. His dissertation was supervised by MCEL members Ellen Vos and Andrea Ott.