Nederland scoort opnieuw goed bij de Europese onderzoeksraad ERC. Maar liefst 32 van de 372 wetenschapsbeurzen voor ervaren onderzoekers worden bij Nederlandse universiteiten besteed. Onder de 32 zijn vier Delftenaren.
Any atrocity is possible as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
Several years ago I visited Auchwitz-Birkenau, the notorious Nazi concentration camp where over one million people were killed during WWII.
Verdichting door Jan Beuving van de dissertatie ‘Wenken voor een veranderbare stad: Een studie naar veranderingspatronen van Amsterdamse buurten en bouwblokken.’ (Flora Nycolaas), te verdedigen op 20 maart 2015.
Nothing phases me anymore the way it used to. On the backdrop of a war in my country, happening to people that I know, things that happen on a daily basis that used to stress me out, now seem so small.
Poetic impression by Bauke Steenhuisen of the dissertation ‘Electrodynamics of strongly disordered superconductors’ by P.C.J.J. Coumou, defended on February the 6th 2015 in Delft.
This Strong Story is a translated excerpt from a blog post by Alexandra Magurova, an activist and volunteer helping refugees from the East of Ukraine, about refugees that fled the city of Vuglegirsk on February 4th from the bombings of the advancing Russian army and rebels.
Verdichting van Jan Beuving van de dissertatie ‘Seat design in the context of knowledge work’ (Liesbeth Groenesteijn), verdedigd op 23 januari 2015.
I was not ready for war in my home country. I was not prepared to hear about death every day… Europe had not seen war in nearly 70 years, already three generations had been born without seeing war; it was a thing of the past, an abstract situation that was horrible yet would not repeat itself in our lifetimes, or, at the very least, something from a different world, a different country far, far away, something I personally would never be touched by.
“Happy girls are the prettiest!” captions a photo of two young ladies in my newsfeed, their two bright smiles indicating that they are, in fact, happy, overriding the cognitive dissonance with the appearance of severely scarred skin, and leaving the impression in my mind that they are, indeed, pretty girls.
