Design professor appointedBruno Ninber van Eyben, the man who designed the national or ‘Dutch’ side of Holland’s Euro coins, has been appointed a part-time professor of design at the TU’s Faculty of Industrial Design.

Reviewed by: Ana María Fernández-Maldonado, an architect from Lima, Peru, who has lived in the Netherlands for 11 years and says, “I still like it.”

.chap H.M. van den Brink % On the waterReviewed by: Henry Ismail, from Jakarta, Indonesia, home to 15 million people and a river that is, he says, “so dirty that you’d have to be crazy to go rowing on it.”

Hugo Brandt Corstius is a former writer-in-residence at TU Delft. A mathematician who loves words, a prolific writer who likes to write under pseudonyms, Corstius is a faculty member of the Sorbonne UniversityIf you want to know about Dutch literature, there are only 500 booksyou should read.

Delft OpenHad enough of watching Wimbledon on TV? Want to see some live action close to home? Then head to the TU Sports Centre’s courts this weekend, where 120 tennis players representing 20 student societies will be in action as part of Tenniphil, an annual tournament organized by Virgiel.

Ramanan Pitchumani, from India, recently received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from TU Delft. In the appendix to his thesis, ‘Breakage Characteristics of Particles and Granules’, he wrote the following brief discourse on God and science.

Science is not a religion, argues Vinay Venugopal, responding to an article that appeared on this page two weeks ago (Delta 19).For Venugopal (27), a Hindu from India and third-year PhD student at the Materials Science & Engineering faculty, there’s a fundamental difference between quantitative scientific experimentation and subjective interpretations of holy books.

Dirty FingersIf mouse-arm wasn’t bad enough, a study published in ‘The New England Journal of Medicine’ warns against the transmission of germs and diseases via multiple-user keyboards in public and university computer rooms.

June 21st was the longest day of the year, the first official day of summer, and the unofficial start of what the Dutch jokingly call, “Komkommertijd” (Cucumber season), when society slows to a languid, summer holiday-like pace and national news is generally as interesting and dynamic as a cucumber.

Housing ContainersStichting Duwo, the housing company, will build new student housing in Amsterdam this summer. If all goes according to plan, prior to the start of the new academic year Duwo will have built 330 new student housing units on the IJ-oevers.