Does dialect mean the same for everyone in Limburg? And does dialect hinder the acquisition of the Dutch language?

Politics turns a deaf ear to science
- UM news
'The tension between the scientific and political communities is generating fascinating insights,' says Gerjo Kok, who delivered his vale

NACADA appoints Oscar van den Wijngaard as chair of Global Initiatives Committee
- UM news
- UM in the press
NACADA, a global community for academic advising, has appointed Oscar van den Wijngaard as the new chair of the Global Initiatives Commit

Maastricht University ranked as world's fourth best young university
Maastricht University (UM) has climbed to the fourth place in the Times Higher Education (THE) 150 Under 50 ranking for best young univer

Clemens van Blitterswijk appointed member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
- UM news
- UM in the press
The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed Maastricht University's Clemens van Blitterswijk as one of its

First Valorisation Award for Alana Krix
- UM news
Maastricht University is conferring its first Valorisation Award for the dissertation that had the greatest social impact during the 2014

Worldwide Universities Network Conference brings five continents to Maastricht University
- UM news
- UM in the press
Next week almost 400 academics from five different continents will descend on Maastricht for the annual conference of the Worldwide Unive

Prof. Jaap Dronkers deceased
- UM news
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,

ITEM comments on proposal Posted Workers Directive
- UM news
Posting of workers has become a common phenomenon in the EU.

