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Rudolf Müller has been appointed scientific director of the Business Intelligence and Smart Services Institute (BISS).

Annemie Schols, professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases at Maastricht University and director of the School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), is the first recipient of the prestigious ERS COPD GOLD Medal from the European Respiratory Society (ERS).

There have been various media reports over the last few days about the reprimand of Corine de Ruiter, professor of Forensic Psychology at Maastricht University, by the Dutch Association of Psychologists (NIP).

On the 10th of September 2015, the Academic Council of UCM's study association Universalis was hosting its first Guest Lecture of the academic year.

Tiiu Albin received an honourable mention for the Mitchell B. Carroll Prize for her dissertation “International Aspects of the CCCTB in Europe” during the 2015 IFA Congress in Basel.

Together with the departments of Quantitative Economics and Knowledge Engineering, we will host the 5th World Congress of the Game Theory Society (GAMES 2016) and the 17th ACM Economics and Computing Conference (EC'16).

The QS World University Rankings adjusted its assessment methodology for ranking the scientific output of universities. Partly for this reason, Maastricht University dropped from 118th place to 169th place this year, following a three spot increase the year before.

Dutch smokers, after years of tobacco control policies, are generally unconcerned about the dangers of smoking and second hand smoke, according to an international comparative study.

Professor Bart van den Borne received a royal distinction today during a celebration in honour of his twenty years of service.