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Radboud University due to receive three international top researchers as part of the Visiting Professors Programme

The Visiting Professors Programme is an initiative of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to invite international top academic researchers to come to our country in order to promote science and literature in the Netherlands. KNAW has selected eleven Visiting Professors. amongst whom are three professors who will come to Radboud University Nijmegen.

Inaugural Speech by Prof. Hospers: a brief geography of happiness

‘All Alphen’, ‘Vlissingen: pounding like the sea’, ‘In the mood for Zevenaar...’ Many municipalities invest in campaign and slogans to attract residents, companies, visitors, and clever clogs, hoping for their permanent settlement. Is city marketing as easy as it seems to be?

Twenty-five years of biomedical sciences in Nijmegen

This year the curriculum of Biomedical Sciences, one of the three curricula offered by UMC St Radboud, will celebrate its silver jubilee. The celebration of this milestone will become a grand event inclusive of a scientific symposium, a scholarship awarded to a very talented student, a party, a reunion and a jubilee book. Sir Alec Jeffreys (University of Leicester), geneticist and the inventor of genetic fingerprinting, will be the principal speaker on the jubilee symposium due to be held on 2 October 2009.

Radboud University Nijmegen builds pilgrim database of Medieval pilgrim signs

The Kunera website – containing the Nijmegen University research project of the same name – gives access to a database including more than 15,000 badges and ampullae of both religious and profane nature. The places of pilgrimage and the locations of the objects found have been mapped making visible the objects' distribution and the people's travelling behaviour at a single glance.

Nijmegen environmental models allow risk assessment substances

One model to predict the toxicity of metals and another to record in advance the environmental hazards of oil exploitation. Two findings by two Nijmegen environmental experts that have been put in practice even before the dates of their promotions.

Prevention of abuse personal browsing history is possible

Anyone active on the internet leaves traces of browsing history. Search engines exploit such personal information profiles as do criminals and meddlesome authorities. Prof. Wessel Kraaij, expert on information browsing at Radboud UniversityNijmegen, researches ways to combine the advantages of creating a personal information profile with security and anonymity. On 25 June the new professor will deliver his inaugural lecture.

Radboud’s Exercise Research also on Mount Everest

The research into the effects of exercise with the ‘chip pill’ carried out by Maria Hopman, Professor of Physiology at Radboud University on walkers (Nijmegen Four-Day Walking Event) and on runners (Seven Hills Run) has literally risen to a greater height: the top of the Mount Everest.

Radio telescope on the moon: not far away

Heino Falcke, professor of astroparticle physics and radio astronomy at Radboud University Nijmegen, is quite convinced that the lunar telescope he so wished for will be reality. This month, NASA set up a lunar institute to prepare research to be conducted on the moon. And the only European involved in Heino Falcke.

Archaeological Project Office Auxilia

Archaeological Project Office Auxilia is a division of the Radboud University Nijmegen. The Office does not carry out excavations but mainly studies the excavated material of archaeological finds. A team of five examine the nature of the find, how old it is and how it ended up in the place where it was found. The Office is specialised in Roman legionary archaeology, especially its pottery.

Mediaeval Book Made Public in the 'Wiki Way'

Der Dieren Palleys, a Dutch adaptation of the Latin Hortus Sanitatis from 1491, came out in 1520. This ‘Literary Zoo’ of the late medieval period is not widely known, not even by litterateurs. But this will change now, as students of Dutch literature of Radboud University Nijmegen were set to work on a non-specialist anthology. And they did this in the ‘Wiki Way’.

Radboud University in Erasmus Success Stories Brochure 2009

The European Commission selected Radboud University Nijmegen for being included in the Erasmus Success Stories Brochure 2009. The Directorate-General for Education and Culture held that Radboud University 'has an impressive diversity of activities for outgoing and incoming students, and the consciousness for monitoring quality.'

Master’s Degree Programme for Journalism in Nijmegen

Radboud University will start a Master’s Degree Programme for Journalism when the new academic year starts. The new programme will be arranged by Professor Jo Bardoel, expert in communication science.

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