Kidnapper caughtAt Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, police overpowered a 62-year-old former student who was holding 93 people hostage.

My last weekly column… During four months as Delta columnist, I received three letters from readers: two fan letters and one hate letter..

FireOn Saturday morning a fire started by a TV forced the evacuation of 140 students from the Balthasar van der Polweg student residence.

What do your teeth and a ship’s hull have in common? Answer: They’re both eaten by biofilms. Dr. Cristian Picioreanu studies biofilms behavior to catch them in a overall model.

Russian physics professor Yuli Nazarov made an autobiographic fairytale of his inauguration speech. The plot includes military parades and discouraging publication curves.

When the sun’s shining, thermometer climbing… 18C+… & you’re on your bike in the polder, dunes… Holland rules! No finer place to be… and so it was last weekend, spring in the air as this beige teddy bear of a nation fully awoke from its winter slumber, greasing its bike chains en masse, the gray giving way to blue skies & green grass..

,,Back in China, we just had to listen to what the teacher told us,” recalls Chemical Engineering student Jiang Shangfeng (26). ,,It’s the way we’ve been brought up.’

Engineers like to do things, use technology to change the world. Teachers like Saul Lemkowitz(Chemical Engineering) and Hans Bonnet (Biotechnology) want students to think critically about the role of technology in society – without losing that spark of optimism.

New nameEWI may sound like an animal from the new Harry Potter movie, but it is in fact the new name of the Faculty of Information Technology and Systems (ITS).

Lucky numberLast week, the one-thousandth student applied for one of TUD’s Master of Science degree programmes. The TUD awarded lucky number 1,000, Zhangh Yu from Wuhan (China), with 5,900 euros, which is the equivalent of one year of tuition.