Meet our Student Assistant(s) at the Centre for Gender and Diversity
Starting on 1 February, the Centre for Gender and Diversity (CGD) is happy to welcome a new student assistant.
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SBE academics react to 2020 Nobel Prize in economics
This week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson 'for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats'. The news of the prize was received with great...
Dean Jan Smits: legal nerd who doesn't shy away from obstacles
It is 1986. The time of Grandmaster Flash and Run-D.M.C., but also of Billy Oceans' When the going gets tough, the tough get going and a harsh Elfstedentocht’. In Leiden, Jan Smits starts studying law at a sizeable faculty with 1200 first-year students. It’s a big contrast to the small-scale law...
Tobacco discouragement is only effective from €12 per cigarette pack
The only way to get enough people to quit smoking to achieve the goals of the National Prevention Agreement is to substantially increase the excise duty on tobacco products. This is the conclusion of research by Maastricht University (UM) on the price sensitivity of people who smoke cigarettes or...
Well-being, Women and Work in Ethiopia
The UM-initiated 3WE project (‘Well-being, Women and Work in Ethiopia’) studies how employment generated by foreign direct investment (FDI) is affecting the well-being of workers, and women in particular. Especially in Africa, where FDI is becoming one of the main sources of new employment...
Sensor Engineering department
Sensor Engineering department richt zich op de ontwikkeling van innovatieve detectietoepassingen. De onderzoeksfaciliteiten van de afdeling bevinden zich op de Brightlands Chemelot Campus. [pagina in het Engels]
Dr Henry Otgaar (H.P.)
Sectie Forensische Psychologie van Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
Assessing the consequences of new legislation on border regions
Thanks to research by the Law Faculty, assessing the cross-border effects of new legislation became standard procedure.
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