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Maastricht University (UM) has come in at 15th in QS’s Top 50 Under 50, a ranking of the world’s top universities under 50 years old.

In a report published today, the Dutch Safety Board concludes that current safety and risk management at the complex comply with the applicable regulations and rules.

Prof. Pieter Glasbergen received the Life Time Achievement Award (LTA) for his research on Partnerships for Sustainable Development at the CSSI conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dr Bram Van Hofstraeten was appointed on 15 June as endowed chair of Legal History of the Limburg Territories (0,2 fte). He succeeds Professor Louis Berkvens, who will retire in July 2018.

Celebration of the 25 th anniversary of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE).

Congratulations to Kei Long Cheung, now postdoc at CAPHRI, who defended his thesis titled 'The Use of an Economic Decision Support Tool in the Context of Tobacco Control - Prerequisites for the development of a support tool for economic decision-making'.

Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 vond de allereerste Maastricht UMC+ Wetenschapsdag plaats. Onder de noemer Beter door meer kennis werd er gediscussierd overonderwerpen uit de praktijk en over de vraag hoe de verbinding tussen wetenschappelijk onderzoek en gezondheidszorg nog sterker kan worden gemaakt.

Today, in the District Court of Utrecht, summary proceedings took place against the University of Twente, the Education Inspectorate and Maastricht University (UM). On 6 July, the court makes a decision.

Sustainability has become firmly ensconced in the world of economists. These days, no calculation is made without accounting for environmental effects, corporate responsibility and the long term.