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From 30 October to 19 November a team of forensic experts of Maastricht University trained 20 Rwandan police officers at the National Police College in Musanze, Rwanda.

If you write a dissertation on the history of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), you cannot avoid discussing Maastricht University. You also cannot avoid the work of Professor of Psychology Henk Schmidt, who, from 1974, contributed to the development of PBL at the country's eighth medical faculty in...

VitaK Innovation develops new medical diagnostics device TransCare (Brightlands news).

The procedure for making an appointment for a pension consultation will change in 2017. In recent years, employees have expressed a growing interest in attending the pension consultations. As a result, these sessions have been booked up very quickly. Furthermore, it appeared that a pension...

Before the discovery of penicillin in 1943, people died from infections caused by everyday household accidents – there were simply no drugs available to fight off these infections. This may happen again in the future, warn scientists from all over the world.

Long-term improvement for the majority of participating children with overweight or obesity (MUMC+ News).

In the latest edition of the Dutch study information guide Keuzegids Universiteiten, five out of the seventeen UM bachelor's programmes that were evaluated were ranked first. The university itself was listed fourth in the 'other universities' category.

UM is developing an innovative learning environment in the field of biobased materials on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen.

On this day exactly 125 years ago, physician Sir Fredrick Grant Banting was born. Together with Charles Best and John Macleod, Banting discovered that insulin could be used to treat diabetes.

Possible alternative for endoscopy to control Crohn's disease (MUMC+ news)