University Study Awards

University Study Awards are awarded each year to graduates who have written graduation theses of exceptional quality.

2022

Leah Ritterfeld (Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies)
Conspiracy Theories: Unwarranted Absurdities, Propaganda, or a Specific Way of Holding a Belief?
Larissa Lemos (Faculty of Arts)
Preclinical evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum transmission blocking antibodies and vaccine candidate antigens
Ezra Bekkering (Faculty of Medical Sciences)
Preclinical evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum transmission blocking antibodies and vaccine candidate antigens
Luc van der Krabben (Faculty of Science)
Lattice-Mismatched GaP for Light Trapping in Ultra-Thin GaAs Solar Cells
Maarten Remmink (Faculty of Law)
‘De behandeling van faillissementsverzoeken in tijden van buitengewone omstandigheden’
Ilja Geelen (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Forest Feeling. Exploring the more-than-human sociality between mountain bikers and the forest through kinaesthetic and sonic ethnography
Cherelle de Leeuw (Nijmegen School of Management)
The Hold Digital Platforms Have On Us. On freedom of expression & the libertarian case for state intervention

2021

Ted van Aanholt (Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies)
"Non est possibile quod Deus se solo causet": A Thesis onthe Two Redactions of Blasius of Parma's Quaestiones Physicorum
Afra de Mars (Faculty of Arts)
“Een thuijn geleegen buijten de Z. O. zeijde dezer steede”. Land use and land ownership in the eighteenth-century Four Gravets of Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Simge Yücel (Faculty of Medical Sciences)
Clonal heterogeneity in cyclin E1 overexpressing high-grade serous ovarian murine models dictate differential responses to combination immunotherapy
Laurens Kuiper (Faculty of Science)
Exploring Query Re-Optimization In a Modern Database System
Ruben te Molder (Faculty of Law)
Crawling als opsporingsmethode. Een onderzoek naar het gebruik van crawling in het licht van het recht op privacy
Teije Boeijen (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Exploring the Complex World of Student-level and Teacher-level Teacher Expectation Effects
Roel Takken (Nijmegen School of Management)
CRISPR: A Political View of Human Genetic Modification

2020

Rineke Bossenbroek (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Trajectories of Symptom Change in Cognitive-Behavorial Interventions for Adolescent Girls with Subclinical Depression
Iris Denis (Faculty of Arts)
Reading Horace from the Margins. Explorations in the Marginal Commentary of Leiden, Ms. VLO 6
Rowin Jansen (Faculty of Law)
Parlementaire controle op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten in Nederland
Jasper van de Kamp (Nijmegen School of Management)
Power to the Prosperous People! A Multilevel Regression Analysis of Unconventional Political Participation in 14 European Post-Industrial Democracies over the period of 2002 to 2016
Niels Krämer(Faculty of Science)
Using pancreatic islet paracrine regulation as a template for regulation of glucose homeostasis in the hypothalamus reveals a putative Ucn3-Crhr2α-Sst network in the ARC and VMN
Julie Verhoef (Faculty of Medical Sciences)
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing of pantothenamide resistance genes in P. falciparum
Bas van Woerkum (Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies)
Distributed Nervous System, Disunified Consciousness? A sensorimotor integrationist account of octopus consciousness

2019

Femke Bangma (Faculty of Science)
Exotic phases due to strongly correlated electrons
Cas Coopmans (Faculty of Social Sciences)
An electrophysiological perspective on the resolution of anaphoric dependencies: evidence from event-related potentials and neural oscilations
Mark van Goor (Faculty of Medical Sciences)
High-resolution structure of the renal calcium channel TRPV5 revealed with cryo-EM
Michelle van Haren (Faculty of Law)
Bestuurdersaansprakelijkheid in het strafrecht en het ondernemingsrecht
Lisa Jacobs (Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies)
The Paradox of Fiction / The Paradox of Life
Lidewij Nissen (Faculty of Arts)
A Matter of Life and Death. Seventeenth-Century Funerary Culture and the Construction of a Nassau-Dietz Identity
Raymond van Teeffelen (Nijmegen School of Management)
Towards an African Spring? Exploring the Relationship between Social Media and Political Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa

2018

Carlijn Bussemakers (Social Sciences)
The role of youth adversities for the intergenerational transmission of educational inequality. A study of the relationships between parental resources, youth adversities and children’s educational outcomes
Bram Geurkink (Nijmegen School of Management)
Re-member Social Democracy. A multilevel regression analysis of the change in ideological positions of social democratic parties in 24 OECD countries between 1945 and 2015
Sara Issaoun (Natural Science, Mathematics and Computer Science)
VLBA imaging of the 3mm SiO maser emission in the disk-wind from the massive protostellar system Orion Source I
Elco Nab (Law)
Vrijwillige terugtred buiten poging. Een strafrechtelijk dogmatisch en rechtsvergelijkend onderzoek naar de toepassing van vrijwillige terugtred bij voorbereiding, samenspanning en zelfstandige voorbereidingsdelicten
Judith Peters (Arts)
Existentiële verhalen: de kracht van (symbolische) onsterfelijkheid bij verlies bekeken vanuit de terror management theorie
Marat Shardimgaliev (Philosophy, Theology, and Religion)
Disguided Legislation?
Felix Tönisen (Medical Sciences)
Molecular characterization of invading spheroid cultures reveals potential targets for invasion-associated radioresistance of melanoma

2017

Evert-Jan Breukink (Faculty of Law):
Het agenderingsrecht bij de beursgenoteerde NV. Is een (her)invoering van een weigerings-grond in art. 2:114a BW mogelijk en gewenst?
Saskia Glas (Faculty of Social Sciences):
America: Infiltrator or Scapegoat? Explaining political land cultural anti-Americanism in the MENA between 2005 and 2013.
Sam Heijnen (Faculty of Arts):
The Glory of your Ancestors. Identity-formation in Early Roman Athens and Corinth.
Serge Horbach (Faculty of Science):
Integrity in Science. A study on the use and genealogy of the term 'integrity' within the scientific arena.
Stijn Krooshof (Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies):
Foucault, Christianity and the Care of the Self. A Framework for a New Foucauldian Under-standing of Christianity
Laura Maas (Nijmegen School of Management):
The importance of ‘a vibrant clash of democratic political positions’. Why populism belongs in the political arena.
Lisa van der Vorm (Radboud University Medical Centre):
Functional studies of heme metabolism. The roles of the mitochondrial unfoldase CLPX and the protoporphyrin IX transporter TMEM14c.

2016

Marilen Benner (Radboud University Medical Centre):
Differential effects of microbes on endometrial lymphocytes: analysis of endometrial and placental lymphocytes and the possible role of the local microbiome.
Wouter Bulten (Faculty of Social Sciences):
Human SLAM Simultaneous Localisation and Configuration (SLAC) of indoor Wireless Sensor Networks and their users.
Roy Dings (Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies):
Varieties of Self-deception: Disentangling an Elusive Concept.
Rens de Hond (Faculty of Arts):
A Pyramidal Structure along the Via Appia – Documentation and reconstruction.
Loes van Hove (Faculty of Science):
Mathieu-Zhao Subspaces.
Katharina Kampmann (Nijmegen School of Management):
Back to the roots: the virtues of the farmer in the 21st century; a virtue ethical approach of the role of the contemporary farmer.
Koen van Vught (Faculty of Law):
Verkiezingsgeschillen: parlementair privilege of rechterlijk recht?

2015

Maxim Baranov (Radboud University Medical Centre)
Hij deed onderzoek naar op podosomen: mechanischgevoelige lijmstructuren van een dendritische cel.
Kirsten Smeets (Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies) belichtte de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de koran vanuit de 'Cultural Memory' theorie van Jan Assmann.
Paula Thijs (Faculty of Social Sciences)
onderzocht de trend in negatieve inter-etnische attitudes in Nederland, tussen 1985 en 2011.
Raïssa van der Essen (Faculty of Law) onderzocht de complexe vraagstukken rondom cyber warfare en cyber crime.
Wout Waanders (Faculty of Arts) deed onderzoek naar kleine, niet-erkende literaire uitgeverijen.
Ruben Stienstra (Faculty of Science)
Zijn scriptie gaat over de vraag hoe complete kwantumdynamica aanleiding kan geven tot incomplete klassieke dynamica.
Ninad Jagdish (Nijmegen School of Management), bouwde een prototype van een leeromgeving in de vorm van een mobiele app.

2014

Umut Güclu (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Annemiek Nass (Faculty of Law)
Sanne van Raaij (Medische Wetenschappen)
Jaco Ruizendaal (Nijmegen School of Management)
Yentl Schattevoet (Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies)
Wessel Stoop (Faculty of Arts)
Marije ter Wal (Faculty of Science)