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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains one of the most under‑diagnosed respiratory diseases globally, especially in low‑resource settings where access to routine lung‑function testing is limited.

This morning, a group of about 15 activists occupied a Maastricht University building at Oxfordlaan 55. We are deeply concerned about the safety of the occupiers and are attempting to engage with them to persuade them to leave the premises voluntarily.

“ Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioral sciences ,” a paper published today in Nature reports testing the reproducibility of a large sample of findings from the social and behavioural sciences and found room for improvement.

Researchers and teachers in Heerlen are jointly developing language-focused teaching across all subjects. Through co-creation, they test new methods that help pupils better understand complex tasks, and the approach can later be implemented in other schools as well.

Lilian Tsourdi was appointed as Professor of "European Migration Law and Governance" at the Faculty of Law and she gave her inaugural lecture titled " Rethinking European Migration Law and Policy: Constitutional Foundations, Administrative Governance, and Soft Enforcement".

You need a lot of protein! Or so you’d assume. Jorn Trommelen, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University’s School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) on who needs how much protein, and why.

By looking at just a few letters in your genome, researchers can roughly tell your age, and if you are a smoker or stopped smoking. Athina Vidaki uses these genetic techniques to help solve sexual assault cases.

A drug often prescribed for chronic stomach complaints is no more effective than a placebo. What does matter, however, is whether patients believe they are receiving the medicine, according to research by Daniel Keszthelyi.

University rankings play a significant role in the global higher education landscape. Each year, organizations such as the Financial Times and Times Higher Education assess universities and their programmes using indicators like career outcomes, international mobility, diversity, and sustainability.

Sustainable food production cannot happen without innovation. To train the agricultural professionals of the future, who are both biologically and technically skilled, UM and Radboud University will start the Master's programme in Crop Biotechnology and Engineering in September.