Tijo Collot d’Escury stepped down as Chair of TU Delft’s Supervisory Board on 1 March. He did this to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Did it work? It is difficult to say for sure.
What do you do if you are accused of transgressive behaviour but are not told what you are supposed to have done wrong? Simon, a former supervisor of young researchers at TU Delft, was accused and resigned. Could the case have been handled differently?
TU Delft has decided to stop posting on X. An announcement by the Communications Department on the intranet states that from 24 March, TU Delft’s X account will be inactive for at least three months.
On Thursday 24 April, TU Delft students and staff will strike as part of the national relay of strikes against the cutbacks in higher education. The decision was taken on Thursday afternoon at a busy action meeting in Pulse held by the FNV and AOb trade unions and the VSSD students union.
The glass-walled CoCreation Centre at The Green Village was the setting for the finals of the Best Climate Action & Energy Research Awards on 18 March. Nine candidates presented their work, and two emerged as winners: Jorrit Bleeker and Lifei Yan.
Studying or working at TU Delft with a brain that works a bit differently or a body that sets limits needs even more determination, creativity and resilience than otherwise. The Seen – Unseen photo exhibition in the Aula aims to create greater awareness about this.
A fire occurred in the Leeghwaterstraat housing complex for international students on Thursday evening, 13 March. This fire was located inside the cavity wall. How it started, the fire brigade cannot yet say.
Instrument physicist Chris Duif works with neutrons at the Reactor Institute Delft. But during his train commutes, he wrote a thriller about the Brussels lab where he used to work: Cracks in the Future.
Holland PTC continues to struggle financially. The proton therapy clinic on TU Delft’s campus is therefore economising and is receiving new loans from its shareholders: TU Delft and Rotterdam’s and Leiden’s medical centres. The burning question is what will happen now.
