Gas smell in student dormitory turns out to be nail polish remover A student dormitory in Groningen was evacuated on Friday when one of the students smelled gas. But after the measurements of the fire brigade did not reveal anything, it turned out that the ‘smell of gas’ came from a bag…
Start-ups get to work in Kabeldistrict The KD Lab, a business workplace for start-ups and scale-ups, has officially opened. The lab is located in a factory hall in the Cable District and offers ten to fifteen young companies space to develop and produce their ideas. In early 2021, the KD Campus,…
GGD allowed to vaccinate at Fontys after all Fontys University of Applied Sciences is reversing its previous decision not to allow mobile vaccination locations on its campuses. The board thinks the decision was ‘taken too hastily’. The decision not to allow this on the campus was taken “on the basis of incomplete information”, says college…
Campus catering reopened after one and a half years Almost one and a half years after the shutdown of the campus catering, all locations are open again according to normal hours. However, there are corona measures in place at the various locations. Wearing a face mask is mandatory and the restaurant in…
Mobile vaccination location not welcome on campus Venlo A mobile vaccination location of the GGD is not welcome on the Fontys campus in Venlo. The vaccination campaign “has nothing to do with school”, says director of the Fontys International Business School Bram ten Kate, according to the college’s media outlet Bron. A pop-up location makes…
Defence tests Kitepower on Aruba In early September, a cargo ship will sail from Eemshaven to Aruba carrying a 100 kW generator from Delft-based start-up Kitepower. Later this month, the set-up will be installed in the shadow of the 30 MW Vader Piet wind farm on the island. The Ministry of Defence is planning to…
Polluted water by Chinese corona approach Wastewater treatment plants only partially succeed in removing coronaviruses from sewage water. This is probably not very problematic. The chance of transmitting Covid-19 via the water is small. But in China they prefer to play it safe, knows Jan Peter van der Hoek (Civil Engineering and Geosciences). He was…
Pop-up vaccination location on campus TU Delft students and employees can be vaccinated against Covid-19 on campus without an appointment. GGD Haaglanden will be present at sports and culture centre X from Tuesday 31 August with a temporary vaccination location. An injection with Janssen or BioNTech/Pfizer can be taken without an appointment, without…
With a shared third place, TU Delft is in the Dutch top 3 of the World University Ranking of studeersnel.nl. More than 100,000 students worldwide, of whom 3,500 in the Netherlands, have assessed their university or college in 15 categories. TU Delft received a score of 8.6. The top 3 of the almost 60…
CRISPR-Cas but different CRISPR-Cas is known as the scissors that enable molecular biologists to make precise changes in the DNA of living organisms. Plant, microbe, human or animal – CRISPR-Cas always works. Last week, PhD student Sam van Beljouw at the Stan Brouns Lab of Bionano Science (AS Faculty), published an article in…
