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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has appointed Dr. Jennifer Barnes as member of the Supervisory Board of Maastricht University from 1 July 2017 until 30 June 2021.

Nobel Prize winner prof. Ben Feringa was the guest of honour yesterday at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus during the Collegetour. During this event it became very apparent that Ben Feringa is a man with a passion for science, who loves his students but still has his feet firmly planted on the ground...

Madelon Peters, professor of Experimental Health Psychology about her new (Dutch) book on happiness and optimism.

Professor Harro van Lente has been appointed as member of the Health Council of the Netherlands, an independent scientific advisory body for the government and parliament.

While there are no indications that the number of serious violations of integrity in law enforcement has increased over the past five years, the violations are getting more serious.

A short update of Maastricht University's position in two recently released rankings.

Maisons Tropicales/Maisons Coloniales: contesting technologies of authenticity and value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice - Article publication by Christoph Rausch in the International Journal of Heritage Studies

Alaa Murabit (27) one of the United Nations’ 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals Advocates and the UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth, defines herself as a leader. On 4 September she gave the keynote speech at the opening of the academic year 2017/18 in...

The thesis ‘Balancing Student Mobility Rights and National Higher Education Autonomy in the European Union’ by Dr. Alexander Hoogenboom, connected to the ITEM Expertise centre and the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, will be issued by publishing house Brill in the series ‘Nijhoff Studies in...