Belle Vulto and Max Theunisse win Prof Tijn Kortmann Prize 2023
On Thursday 19 October 2023, the Professor Tijn Kortmann Prize for publications was awarded during the Van der Grinten Lecture. Civil law lecturer Belle Vulto and administrative law lecturer Max Theunisse were honoured to receive the prizes.
Improved ICT infrastructure leads to better math skills
Students who are more digitally skilled also perform better in math. New research from Renae Loh and others at Radboud University shows that in countries with better availability of ICT in schools, math performance benefits greatly.
Discussing democracy on a carousel: 'You’ll never catch each other up'
On Sunday 5 November political scientists and public administration experts from Radboud University will be taking their place on a carousel in Deventer. There, the researchers will enter into discussion with the public on the subject of populism.
Radboud researchers lift the taboo surrounding death with a film festival
We all prefer not to think about death. According to Radboud researcher Enny Das, films can help us deal better with our fear of death. Therefore she is organising a film festival on 10 and 11 November, in LUX Nijmegen.
Mark de Kreij interviewed about Herculaneum papyri
The contents of charred papyrus scrolls from 79 AD were long thought lost. Thanks to AI, researchers have now managed to decipher a first word. Papyrologist Mark de Kreij was interviewed by NPO Radio 1 about this exciting breakthrough.
Stereotypical Dutch images of Poland from the seventeenth century defined Eastern and Western Europe
Dutch prejudices against Poles have a long history, according to literary scholar and historian Paul Hulsenboom, who will be defending his PhD thesis at Radboud University on 24 October.
Publication: Identification of binding site metal-decorated C60 fullerenes
Researchers investigated the binding position of a single V+ on the buckyball surface by combining Ar tagging infrared spectroscopy, quantum chemical calculations, and molecular dynamics simulations.
Highlighted Publications
The members of the Department of Economics and Business Economics regularly publish in top and top field journals and other outlets. A selection of impactful journal publications (since 2017) is listed below, in chronological order.
HyTROS initiative into large-scale hydrogen transport and storage technologies
Researchers from AC&C-TDLab have teamed up with 32 parties from research and industry to work together on developing safe and cost-effective solutions for HyTROS - “Hydrogen Transport, Offshore and Storage” within the WP2 of the GroenvermogenNL.
Touch typing for better results at school
Children who can type better get better results on digital language and mathematics tests. Development of digital skills in primary school is necessary.
Erwin van der Krabben explores the willingness to pay for climate adaptation
Erwin van der Krabben, together with Alex Lord and James H. Spencer, explored the willingness of private real estate developers to contribute to urban climate adaptation in vulnerable coastal areas: Charleston, Liverpool and Rotterdam.
Gemini South Captures Cosmic ‘Finch’
Using data from Gemini South and other observatories, astronomers have found a new Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), a powerful but poorly understood type of cosmic explosion.
Artificial intelligence: friend or foe?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is ‘hot’. What is AI and how will it affect us? We asked Vera Blazevic, associate professor in Marketing, and Roel Schouteten, associate professor in Strategic Human Resource Management.
Same data and research question: different outcome
Sascha Füllbrunn, Utz Weitzel, Sven Nolte and Stefan Zeisberger from Nijmegen School of Management (Economics and Business Economics) worked on a large innovative research project that was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance.
Seven projects involving IMM researchers awarded an IRP voucher
Seven IRP projects with IMM research groups involved, have received a voucher of €50,000 each to work on an interdisciplinary research project in the field of Green Information Technology.
Sound localization with accuracy of a few millimetres: Hybrid Vocalization Localizer
Social interaction is commonplace in a vast number of species, forming the basis for mating and selection. Vocal communication is often an important part in social interaction. In rodents, the most common laboratory animal in neuroscience.
The figure and role of the emperor: six hundred years of stability(?)
Prof. Olivier Hekster's book, published late last year, is in the scholarly spotlight. Read more about it here.
An easy way of making aquaculture more sustainable
Changing the way that carp are fed can substantially reduce the amount of ammonia they excrete compared to when they eat the same amount of food all at once. This finding is one of the outcomes of Wouter Mes’s PhD research at Radboud University.
Privacy choices smart meters will have consequences for decades
Smart meters have become commonplace in the Netherlands: the vast majority of households now have one in their fuse box. And yet, some 10 years after their introduction, there are still many questions around the security and privacy of smart meters.
The unintended consequences of development cooperation
Development cooperation often results in unintended effects, besides the intended ones. Evaluation reports must also pay attention to these sorts of “side effects”, argues researcher Dirk-Jan Koch.
