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Recent figures from the Vereniging Nederlandse Universiteiten (VSNU) show that Maastricht University has the highest study tempo in the Netherlands.

Prof. dr. Martin Paul, president of Maastricht University, has been appointed by the Austrian Minister as member of the National Science Council of Austria and as member of the medical Commission of this council.

Dr. Carlos Cadena Gaitán, PhD alumnus and affiliated researcher at Maastricht University is one of seven emerging leaders worldwide shortlisted for the ‘Inspired Leadership Award 2016’.

PhD candidate's discovery may be a step in the struggle against overweight and obesity (MUMC+ News).

As of 12 June 2016 employees are required to register all work for third parties in accordance with the UM regulation Work for third parties in ESS.

Penalty shootouts in football could be made fairer by switching the order in which the penalties are taken, according to UM researcher Mehmet Ismail and New York University’s Professor Steven Brams.

The Cabinet has agreed to submit the nomination of J.E. (Jacobine) van den Brink as a member of the Electoral Council to King Willem-Alexander for approval. She has been appointed professor of European and National Administrative Law at Maastricht University as of 1 July 2016.

A team of researchers at the Maastricht School of Business and Economics (SBE) won the Wetenschapsprijs 2016 (Science Award 2016) by MOA, the Center for Information Based Decision Making & Marketing Research.

Marcus Meyer recently published an article on the position of Dutch works councils in multinational corporations in the Dutch 'Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid'

Two Maastricht researchers recently won prestigious awards at the world's biggest heart failure conference, Heart Failure 2016, organised by the European Society of Cardiology.