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NSM Focus | Economists shed new light on the mutability of ethnicity

For a long time, economists considered ethnicity an immutable fact. But PhD candidate Robbert Rademakers’ research shows that people can and do change their ethnicity. The paper he wrote with André van Hoorn has been accepted by the leading Journal of Development Economics.

23 June 2021

NSM Focus | ESV-chair Adinda van Doorn: “A year of a great deal of interaction, even among first-year students”

At the start of her committee year, Adinda van Doorn had planned on taking a few courses too. But it soon became apparent that she had no time for such things. Full of enthusiasm, the 22-year-old chair of the ESV study association and her board have gone all out to make it a great year for all members.

23 June 2021

Koen Smeets: an interdisciplinary jack-of-all-trades during the pandemic

Where some students have become less enterprising during the Covid-19 pandemic, Koen Smeets has only started doing more.

18 June 2021

Pilot for rapid coronavirus self-tests in Nijmegen and Arnhem

As of Thursday 8 April, HAN University of Applied Sciences and Radboud University will commence usage of rapid self-tests.

9 April 2021

2020 University Education Awards for Simon Tans, Jojanneke Huck, and Robbert Rademakers

Simon Tans, lecturer of International and European Law, has been awarded the Radboud University 2020 University Education Award. Jojanneke Huck, lecturer of Physiology, and Robbert Rademakers, lecturer of Economic Theory and Policy, have been awarded the University Teaching Prize for Talent.

15 March 2021

Twin Peaks: more twinning in humans than ever before

More human twins are being born than ever before, according to a study by researchers at Radboud University, University of Oxford and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). One in every 42 children born is now a twin, an increase by a third compared to the 1980s. The researchers’ findings are published today in Human Reproduction, one of the world’s leading reproductive medicine journals.

12 March 2021