Beginning in September 2003, all courses in the TU’s applied physics Master’s program will be given in English. Although there are advantages to this%students learn to work in an international environment and the TU becomes more accessible to foreign students%many students and professors have their doubts about this switch to English-only.

FuneralLast Tuesday the aula of the TU Delft was for a short moment a meeting place for the people who attended the funeral of Prince Claus.

Why this proposition? In Guus Hiddink land: A Korean PhD student talks about life in the Lowlands, being, and multi-split gratings.,,Western science tries to analyze all the details, while Oriental philosophy tries to regard the whole without decomposition.

Prince Claus died and the TU was shut down. Foreign students and employees were generally sympathetic, but with lectures and assignments being pushed back to next week, which was originally scheduled as a free study week prior to exams, many students were grumbling.

In his glory days, Jan Hendrik Schön published one scientific paper a week. Last week, he was found guilty of fraud.Nanotechnology’s coming man, they called him.

This Tuesday, during the funeral of Prince Claus – the husband of Dutch Queen Beatrix – TU Delft is closed. Claus’s funereal will be held at the (Nieuwe Kerk) New Church in Delft.

A hammer is something to hit nails with, and a car is something to transport yourself around in. Both statements are true, but for Industrial Design Engineers (IO) only the first statements is correct.

Delft professor Boud Vogelesang regrets patenting “Glare”, the renowned airplane construction material.Professor Boud Vogelesang has “nothing but regrets” for patenting the light-weight aerospace construction material, Glare.

The Romanian Oana Badescu recently received her Phd from Delft and is now working in Norway, where she helps her company find offshore oil. Life is good for her, but she does feel that she’s betrayed the NetherlandsShe considers herself a citizen of the world.

Students catch burglarsLast Friday two Architecture students caught two burglars trying to enter a hotel on the Oude Delft. The burglars (aged 14 and 21 years old and from Zoetemeer) escaped, but the students pursued them.