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At its 43rd Dies Natalis, Maastricht University awarded honorary doctorates to CEU rector and president Michael Ignatieff and acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh. 

True to tradition, the Wynand Wijnen Education Prize, the Dissertation Prize and the Student Awards for the best bachelor's and master's theses were awarded on Friday, during UM's Dies Natalis celebration.

An article of Mayke van Dort PhD at Maastricht University, in 2018 in the series orthopedic magazines in Springer has the most number of downloads, namely more than 43.000.

On Tuesday 29 January 2019, Irena Boskovic (Clinical Psychological Science, Forensic Psychology section) will be defending her thesis “A Multi-Method Approach to the Detection of Fabricated Symptoms” in the Auditorium at Minderbroedersberg 4-6.

They support women with legal problems on a voluntary basis, collect money to recycle waste to make light sources, set up social enterprises, or work for global health. There are many ways in which students at Maastricht University go the extra mile. Not just for their CVs, but to put their ideals...

Research by Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato and Bilisuma Dito has been used in an important Supreme Court case in the US: President Trump vs Hawaii.

The Faculty of Science and Engineering welcomes Sir Roger Penrose, emeritus Professor of Mathematics of the University of Oxford, for a two-day visit to Maastricht.

Making the university more sustainable requires more than energy saving and reducing waste. Everyone should get involved. That is why two key themes of Sustainable UM2030 are education and research. Hence the Sustainable UM2030 team organized an afternoon of brainstorming with staff and students...

Three UM researchers have been awarded a Research Mobility Award (RMA), provided by YERUN, the Young European Research Universities network. YERUN, next to the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is one of the UM’s two strategic networks. 

Little structural cross-border cooperation takes place between organisations in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR) that offer services for newcomers. Existing cooperation seems to be limited to sporadic exchanges of information, expertise centre ITEM (Maastricht University) concludes in the report ‘Inven...