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  • Honorary doctorate for German president Joachim Gauck

    On Tuesday 7 February 2017, exactly 25 years after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, UM will celebrate its 41st Dies Natalis. During the anniversary celebrations the German president Joachim Gauck will be presented with an honorary doctorate. Here, two generations of Germans reflect on his life...

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  • Anniversary book: The Maastricht Experiment

    At the end of December, the book The Maastricht Experiment - On the challenges faced by a young university 1976 – 2016 will be published on the occasion of Maastricht University’s 40th anniversary.

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  • ITEM’s Alexander Hoogenboom wins Ius Commune Prize

    Alexander Hoogenboom, scientific coordinator at ITEM, is the winner of the Ius Commune Prize of 2016. Alexander Hoogenboom won the 2016 Ius Commune Prize for his paper ‘In Search of a Rationale for the EU Citizenship Jurisprudence’. The prize was awarded at the 15th Ius Commune Conference on 24...

  • ICT4Life in Computer Vision News

    Computer Vision News discussed ICT4Life - life improvement for the elderly - with the Affective & Visual Computing Lab crew.  

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  • Preventing diabetes

    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.

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  • “Severe punishment is not the same as smart punishment”

    Assistent professor Jacques Claessen (Faculty of Law) is a proponent of ‘restorative justice’, someone who believes in the power of mediation in criminal cases. 16 November marks the International Day of Tolerance – an opportune time to highlight the difference between ‘severe’ and ‘smart’...

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