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

On Thursday 31 March, at iCourts - University of Copenhagen, Dr. Vigjilenca Abazi presented her co-authored with Eljalill Tauschinsky on the role that the Court of Justice of the European Union ascribes to trust.

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.

Since the Biobased Materials Research group started on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in 2013 the expansion of the group has been astounding.

NWO has announced that in the context of the ‘Fonds Nieuwe Chemische Innovaties’ (NCI), they have granted a subsidy for the collaboration between Maastricht University and SABIC for the research on polymer membranes on the basis of renewable copolymers.

Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease showed no deficits in their ability to recognise emotions, while this ability was expected to be compromised. 

Obese people run a higher risk of developing pneumonia, according to a PhD study conducted by Niki Ubags of Maastricht UMC+.