It was a busy night on campus on the night of 7 to 8 April. Whilst tram 19 was making its very first test run, researcher Marco Langbroek was operating the new MISO research telescope on the roof of his Faculty of Aerospace Engineering to film the Artemis II spacecraft.
Following a trial period of several years, the cabinet is set to enshrine the EngD – the title awarded upon completion of a two-year technical PhD at a university – in law. The same applies to the professional doctorate awarded by universities of applied sciences.
For the first time in years, people are once again on their way to the Moon. The next steps are to land and to actually start building there. However, construction is not so straightforward. Moonquakes may prove to be more disruptive than previously thought. This is evident from the research on which Anne van der Pauw graduated this week at Civil Engineering & Geosciences.
If everything goes according to plan, four astronauts will travel into space for a trip around the moon tonight at 0:24 a.m. (Netherlands time). Is this Artemis II mission the beginning of a new era in space travel? Students at Space Oasis Delft are already preparing for the next step: “I might even go to Mars myself one day.”
On Wednesday, Mayor Alexander Pechtold ceremonially opened a new educational cleanroom at The Hague University of Applied Sciences on the Delft campus. The aim is to train more technical staff for the semiconductor industry.
Queuing for Coffee Star, the food truck, or – like last week – at the polling station is, of course, never fun. Or is it? Can standing in line be fun? What does it depend on? Delta takes a closer look at standing in line.
Over the past decade, academic freedom has declined in many countries. This includes the Netherlands, where perceived safety on campuses is a particularly prominent issue.
Bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment: large numbers of female PhD candidates encounter unwanted behaviour during their doctorate, according to new figures from Statistic Netherlands (CBS). “This is genuinely very worrying,” says the PhD Network Netherlands (Promovendi Netwerk Nederland).
The National Contact Point for Knowledge Security currently warns people not to report suspicious individuals by name, to protect their privacy. A new bill aims to remove this obstacle.
Sea levels are not always calculated accurately, according to a major comparative study by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Deltares in Nature. In some places, sea levels are up to a metre higher than previously thought. This means that millions more people are coming into the danger zone. What went wrong? Elevation modeler Maarten Pronk explains.
