NSM Focus articles

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Twee mensen bekijken een testament

Dilemma for civil-law notaries: how can you be sure what someone’s ‘last will’ is?

It seems straightforward enough: during your life you visit a civil-law notary to set out in a will what you want to happen after your death. Increasingly, however, there are all kinds of complex factors associated with a ‘last will’.

Drone vliegt bij zonsondergang

This AI-model is more certain about uncertainty

Thom Badings developed a new method to include this uncertainty in predictive algorithms, so that a safer AI-solution can be achieved. His PhD defence takes place on 27 March at Radboud University.

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Research about the role of Nijmegen city council in colonial slavery

Nijmegen administrators enabled, maintained and profited from colonial slavery, Radboud historians state.

Portret Tine Molendijk

Tine Molendijk co-leads research project on “Armed Forces and Society”

Tine Molendijk studies how citizens in the Netherlands, Germany, and Lithuania view the transformation of the armed forces from an instrument of interventionism to one of self-defence and deterrence.

Katerina Pesini

Catch Solar Bursts in New Citizen Science Project

LIRA, Paris Observatory and Radboud University start a citizen science project to identify solar bursts from the data. Join in!

Stadstaalkundige Luis Miguel Rojas Berscia

Meet Nijmegen’s ‘City Linguist’

Nijmegen has various city specialists: a city poet, a city archivist, a city archaeologist, a city illustrator… and now, a city linguist. Linguist Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia is the lucky one to hold this new title.

Companies in Japan

Avoiding risks increases success of acquisitions, but limits upside

In a new study, published today in the Harvard Business Review, strategy researchers from Radboud University and the Tokyo University of Science analyse why some Japanese firms are more successful at mergers than others.

Radboudumc-onderzoeksteam wint Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs

Radboudumc research on smart toilet seat wins Klokhuis Science Prize

Radboudumc-research ‘A smart toilet seat that measures poop and farts’ is the winner of the 9th Klokhuis Science Prize. The winning project is from gastroenterologist Marjolijn Duijvestein and technical physician Lotte Hazeleger.

Masterstudenten met een interesse in machine learning kunnen ELLIS Excellence Fellowships volgen. Deze drie studenten hebben dit succesvol afgerond.

Interested in machine learning? Follow the ELLIS Excellence Fellowships for master's students

The ELLIS Excellence Fellowships are aimed at excellent MSc students that are interested in machine learning and are you curious about an academic career. Radboud University is the only university in The Netherlands where you can follow this.

Handen in de lucht

Typing in mid-air or pretending to drink: how using your hands to communicate can help you understand others

Certain hand gestures, such as pretending to hold a cup with your hand and bringing it to your mouth to pretend to drink, help people respond more quickly in conversations.

Floris Rutjes

How do you develop medicines against future epidemics?

How do we protect ourselves from viruses that do not yet make people seriously ill, but have the potential to do so? Chemists from Radboud University are investigating this together with colleagues from eight different countries.

Persoon plukt bessen in het bos

How forest gardens can encourage us to think in new ways

Forest gardens, also known as food forests, have been springing up like mushrooms in recent years. These forests expose numerous ideas about how people see themselves and their environment. ‘Why is that wine berry bush so far away in the back?’