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Does dialect mean the same for everyone in Limburg? And does dialect hinder the acquisition of the Dutch language? As part of the anniversary celebrations of Maastricht University (40 years) and the University Fund Limburg (50 years), Professor Leonie Cornips will raise the above questions during her...

'The tension between the scientific and political communities is generating fascinating insights,' says Gerjo Kok, who delivered his valedictory speech as professor of Applied Psychology at Maastricht University on 8 April. '

Posting of workers has become a common phenomenon in the EU. Since the mid-1990’s it is regulated by the Directive on posting of workers (96/71/EC). The directive aims at striking a balance between the freedom to provide services on the one hand and the protection of workers, the persons who actually...

NACADA, a global community for academic advising, has appointed Oscar van den Wijngaard as the new chair of the Global Initiatives Committee.

The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed Maastricht University's Clemens van Blitterswijk as one of its newest members.

The artificial vestibular system implanted for the first time in humans in 2012 at Maastricht UMC+ appears to work well.

Maastricht University is conferring its first Valorisation Award for the dissertation that had the greatest social impact during the 2014/15 academic year to Alana Krix.

Next week almost 400 academics from five different continents will descend on Maastricht for the annual conference of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), hosted by Maastricht University from 2 to 7 April.

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our great colleague and good friend professor Jaap Dronkers has died on March 30, 2016.

Maastricht University is launching a study on quitting smoking in the workplace.