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Presale Waddenvereniging Merch

The Presale for the charity merch is finally here!

Board Interest Lunch

Join the Board interest Lunch on 22-11 in HG00.068! Get free lunch, participate in a BeeVee themed kahoot and learn more about the board functions and what a board year in BeeVee is like 🩵💙

Beertasting

Join VACUOLES for a delightful evening of beer exploration at De Blauwe Druif on 28 November at 19:30. Our beertasting event promises a rich variety of flavors, where craft brews take center stage. Gather with fellow beer lovers in the cozy ambiance of In De Blauwe Druif and indulge in a carefully curated selection of beers. The knowledgeable hosts will guide you through a sensory journey, offering insights into each brew’s unique character. The ticket sale will take place on 14-17 November in wing 5 during the break (first come first serve!), so make sure you grab a ticket so that you can savor, learn, and appreciate the art of brewing. Cheers!

Open Mic

Kultuur's annual Open Mic is a talent show for members and friends of BeeVee, where people can showcase their talents to their fellow biologists, while others can enjoy the vibes.

Test, pls ignore

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If you spend money, here you will not get it refunded.

ATP High school gymclass

Join the ATP High school gymclass! Run back the time and come play Apenkooien, dodgeball and many other fun games from your high school gym/PE class! Let's see if you can beat your friends in the games that you were so good at as a kid! Come and join for only €2! ATP is ready to organize the most fun gymclass ever!

Winter Wonderland Barbeque

Winter is knocking on your door. How does having a cup of hot delicious gluhwein and a grilled sausage in good company sound?
Beevee’s Ac would like to bring alumni and students together for a warming winter BBQ on the first of December. We will offer lots of delicious foods and a cozy place to chat with each other!

2nd information meeting

Update on the study trip to Budapest!

During the 2nd information meeting BOS will give you more details about the study trip, but also about the sign up process to join the study trip.

Karaoke Party

🎤✨ Get ready to hit the high notes and bring down the house at our Karaoke Party on December 5th, hosted at the legendary Roxy's! 🌟🎉 For just 2.5 euros (PIN only), immerse yourself in a night of musical fun from 22:00 to 3:00, where the stage is yours to shine. Dust off those vocal cords, pick your favorite tunes, and let the spotlight find you.

Poolcompetition

Are you competitive and do you think you can beat everyone at pool? Come join VACUOLES in our annual pool competition! Pair up with a friend and sign up as a team (don’t forget to come up with an amazing team name ofc) on the 27th of November until the 1st of December during the break in wing 5! The tickets will be 6 euros per person. It will take place in House of Billiards on the 6th of December. The competition consists of multiple rounds played over the course of 3 hours: from 19:00 to 22:00. We would be happy to see you there!

Study trip (sign up)

The sign-up for the BOS study trip to Budapest starts this Monday the 11th of December at 12:30! If you'd like to join the study trip make sure to be there with the contract & a copy of your ID or passport:

- Print out & fill in the contract twice & bring both to the sign-up
- Make sure the ID or passport you use for a copy is valid until after the study trip: the 5th of May 2024 (Do you get a new ID or passport soon? notify BOS!)

If you'd like more information about the study trip itself, check out the presentations from the (first and second) information meetings or email any questions to beevee_bos@science.ru.nl

We hope to see you there!
BOS 🌳

Christmas movie night

✨🎄Get ready for another kultuur movie night! Join us for a heartwarming movie night featuring "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Immerse yourself in the magical world of Whoville with a FREE treat of warm mulled wine (Gülwhein) and hot chocolate. BRING YOUR OWN CUP and blankets/ pillows for extra coziness. Let's gather, laugh, and embrace the holiday spirit together. The perfect way to kick off the festive season. See you there. 🍷🎅

Sea of Bioluminescence Lunch Lecture

Ever been to an underwater light show? Us neither, but we can get you pretty close! Learn all about the marvelous tricks of dinoflagellates to turn the sea into a spectacular sight of sparkles and let dr. Mandy Velthuis take you on a magical journey underneath the water’s surface!

Sparkling seas: marine bioluminescent phytoplankton
The sea holds many ecological surprises. Perhaps, if you have been lucky, you were able to spot one of them at night: waves that light up when they reach the shore or tiny sparkles in the water when you walk or swim through it. These phenomena are caused by a cosmopolitan dinoflagellate species: Noctila scintillans. During this lecture, we will discover the bioluminescence of these dinoflagellates. What are the underlying physiological mechanisms and what do we know about its ecological functions? Furthermore, these sparkling creatures are also present in our Dutch coastal waters. Some tips and tricks for spotting them will be shared during the lecture as well.

Join us on Wednesday the 13th of December in HG 00.303 during the break! Get your (vegetarian) lunch for only 2€ or simply enjoy some free tea/coffee and cookies with us. Don’t forget to bring your own mug!

DIAFRAGMA Popquiz

DIAFRAGMA's Popquiz is back!

Frostbite Fest Bio Evening

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, lalala, there a theme bio evening coming, lalala! Freeze your fingers on a cold drink at the Frostbite Fest theme biologists evening!❄️🩵🌨️

Free Hot Chocolate

Indulge in the holiday spitrit! Join us for a cozy break on Tuesday, December 19th, in Wing 5. Keep yourself warm with hot chocolate and cookies. See you there! 🍪☕

All I want at the Christmas borrel is YOU

All I want at the Christmas borrel is YOU!!!! The borrel where we celebrate Christmas with everyone and have the education awards organised by ABO. ABO also provides delicious free snacks and glühwein! Don't forget to vote for your favourite teacher.

PRAC also will be raising money for the fundraising campaign serious request. This is organised by the Dutch radio station 3FM in collaboration with Red cross. Radio hosts lock themselves in a glass house, playing music and raising money for a charity. Every year the location of the glass house is somewhere else. This year it stands in Nijmegen. 

The charity they are raising money for this year, is stichting ALS, a Dutch organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease. This foundation is committed to supporting research into the causes and potential treatments for ALS, as well as providing assistance and care for individuals and families affected by the disease.
During the borrel you can donate money for this cause!

See you there!

Education Awards

The Biology Education Awards are just around the corner!
Do you want to show your appreciation to your favourite professor or other (background) staff employee within Biology? Or were there any courses that surprised you with how well organized and inviting their Brightspace page was? You can suggest and nominate those people that helped you receive some great education in the following survey (open 20/11 – 28/11): https://forms.gle/TUxeEd76UuaC62K5A
Once we process your suggestions, the voting will open in the following link: https://forms.gle/SerDBM2BAj5rkCAY9

Don’t forget to attend this year’s Education Awards, on Tuesday, December 19, at 17:45, at HG00.307! Also, don’t miss PRAC’s Christmas Borrel to celebrate the occasion (you can also get a free drink if you attend the award ceremony ;) ) See you there!

 

Pre-sale BeeVee mugs

Would you like a BeeVee mug? Enroll for the pre-sale and get your fantastic new mug!

ATP Iceskating

Join the FREE* iceskating of ATP and Lacustris! Join now with your friends for one last cozy winteractivity before the end of the year! At Triavium Lacustris will give you an introduction into Iceskating, or just go for some free skating! Sign up from the 12th until the 15th of December in wing 5!

See you there!

*If you bring your studentcard. Iceskate-rental price is not included, so bring your own!

the SOUND of BeeVee

This exam week the Sound of BeeVee competition will be held! If all your friends don't think you are a great listener, prove them wrong in this contest.

Study Together Session

Come study together at this edition of ABO's amazing winter-themed study together session!

GOTCHA!

Dear fellow biologists,

Save the Date: Parents Day

Hello biologist!

In the next academic year ABO will again organize a parentsday to show your family what it is like to study biology at the Radboud university.
The day will be completely free including coffee and lunch.

To allow international students to inform their families early (and possibly book tickets early) we already announced the date of the parentsday. Saturday the 24th of February 2024.
However, keep in mind that the actual programme is still being worked on and is thus subject to change. To give you an overview of what to expect we will explain what the day was like in previous years.

In the morning (not 8:30, we value your sleep) we will get together for a cup of coffee and afterwards follow three (short) lectures of different topics in biology. These will have a break in between. After the lectures we will have lunch with everyone and we will start our afternoon programme.
We will make groups for in the afternoon that will alternate between a tour around the huygens building, including the greenhouse, and several practicals. Last year we had a microbiology practical, an animal practical (with optional rat dissection!) and a plant practical.
At the very end of the day we will close with a short borrel where we can chat about the day, socialize and have a drink.

Dependent on how many sign ups we get there will be a limit on the amount of people you can bring. You can always bring at least two people. These can be your parents but everyone's situation is different and especially for internationals it can sometimes be hard to bring certain family members. So feel free to bring your aunt, uncle, sister, brother, best friend etc instead.

QnA:

FYCantus

FYC presents: a St. Patrick's Cantus!🍻

Neurological disorders in the Petri dish: A lunch lecture

We will provide sandwiches for lunch for €2,-. If you want to join lunch please sign up on the website.

If you only want to join the lecture without lunch you are also welcome to bring your own!

As always, we will provide you with free coffee, tea, and cookies. Don't forget to bring your own mug.

The sign-up deadline is the 27th of February.

The human brain is arguably our most fascinating organ. Millions and millions of little cells form the multiple complex structures that regulate everything from our conscious and instinctive behaviours to our hormones and memory. However, a defect in these delicate systems can have dire consequences. In our upcoming Symci lunch lecture, Professor Dirk Schubert will tell you how neuroscientists produce human induced pluripotent stem cells (hIPSCs), let them differentiate into human neuronal-glial networks in a petri dish, and investigate the basic mechanisms leading to neurological disorders, such as autism spectrum disorders or schizophrenia, and finally translate all this into clinical knowledge.

In this lunch talk, professor Schubert will briefly discuss the general challenges involved in first identifying high-risk genes for neurodevelopmental disorders and how to subsequently learn more about how such genes impact the function of human neuronal networks, and how to identify potential therapeutical targets.

See you on the 28th!

Pretty in Pastel Themed Bioevening

Ooijpolder Bird Excursion

Hello, all nature-lovers!

On the 3rd of March 2024, VACUOLES is organising a bird excursion in the Ooijpolder. This excursion is done by none other than Constant Swinkels, one of the organisers and lecturers of the 1st year course Biodiversity! Together we'll go on a nice walk through the Ooijpolder and spot the pretty birds that are found here.

The excursion starts at 11:00 at the Hollandsch-Duitsch Gemaal (Dijkgraaf van Wijckweg 4, 6522 KS Nijmegen) and should take a few hours. Also feel free to bring parents, friends, and other non-BeeVee people to this lovely excursion!

We will provide lunch (2 euros for members, 3 euros for non-members). If you would like to join the lunch you can indicate so in the sign-up form above. Please also fill it in if you don't want lunch but are still coming. This way we know how many people to expect and you'll receive a reminder in your mail. Unfortunately, there are no more spots left.

Bring binoculars (if you have them), good shoes and of course a lot of bird-enthusiasm! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact VACUOLES.

See you there!

SPIngo Alumni edition (ft. AC)

Does your life feel like the life of your grandparents nowadays? Sitting inside all day and talking about the good old days, when we all could go to the Malle Babbe every day?
Then let this activity be the final nail in the coffin of your personal dignity, put your scootmobiel in top gear, and race to the North canteen in Wing 5. SPIn and AC will make sure that we provide the most amazing Bingo experience of the decade. You will be able to join us for dinner at 18:00 and then the SPIngo will start at 19:00. Fill in the form and don't forget to take your medication.
See you on the 4th of march!
Please note that only professional bingo players are allowed, we wouldn't want amateurs ruining the evening for us pro players.

Hit me SpeBie one more time!

Get ready to rewind the clock to the 2000s with our 'Hit me SpeBie one more time!' borrel the 7th of March! Dive into nostalgia with extra craft beers, that make you say ''Gimme more'' and vibes straight from the era of flip phones and frosted tips. It's a blast from the past you won't want to miss. Not to forget the borrel relay. Swing by and let's borrel like it's 2000 all over again!

ATP Discobowling

Are you ready to gooooo booowwling with ATP's discobowling?!

Study Together Session

Come study together at ABO’s third study together session of the year!

Easter egg hunt

To extend this year's Easter season, VACUOLES is organising the EASTER EGG HUNT on the 8th of April during the break. Our personal easter bunnies will have hid chocolate eggs all over the backside of the Huygens building. These eggs are yours to keep after the activity! However, you might be challenged by other searchers in a 1v1 minigame to win or lose your eggs to the other person.

Knock knock it's cocktail o'clock borrel

A PRAC borrel, the best time to relieve some stress from the exams and hang out with your friends again. This time we have a special edition borrel for our BeeVee'ers: the knock knock it's cocktail o'clock borrel'. Enjoy some amazing cocktails and mocktails in the professor on the 9th of April!
Food ordering is possible from 16:00-18:00!!

Save the Date: Symposium!

Save the date for Symci's annual Symposium on the 17th of April! The theme will be "Let it Grow" and the speakers will be announced soon! Stay tuned!

Batavierenrace

On the 24th of May the annual Batavierenrace will once again take place. The Bata is the largest relay race in the world, with nearly 10 000 yearly participants, all of which are students. The race starts in Nijmegen and from there each team will run 175 kilometers, divided over 25 courses, all the way to Enschede.

Together with our fellow biologists, we will once again participate as our own team: Bellis Perennis. Each participant will run a course, most of which are around 5 to 8 km. When signing up, you also choose a preferred distance based on how much you would like to run. 

Because we will be using a small van to get everyone to their right starting point, we will also be needing 3 drivers. So, if you don’t like running but still want to participate, you can sign up as a driver. 

When we arrive in Eschede the Batavieren Festival will be waiting for us. This is the largest student party in the Netherlands. Together with our team we will be staying on the University Campus, and go to the festival together to celebrate making it all the way to Enschede.

The most important aspect of the Bata is to have fun. You don’t need to be an olympic athlete to compete, and the running itself is only a small part of the Bata. Cheering each other on, the team spirit, and going to the festival together is what makes the Bata such a unique experience. So if you want to participate, you can sign up via the google form.

If you want to get more of an idea of what the Bata is like, you can also check the 2023 aftermovie.