Influenza vaccination <Message from the Student Medical Practice> Every winter about one in every ten persons gets the flu (infection with an influenza virus). Usually this is an uncomplicated disease. For some people the risk of complications is slightly raised. In the Netherlands these people are advised to get an influenza vaccination. This yearly vaccination protects…
De rol van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) bij het modelleren van de verspreiding van het coronavirus is vooral ondersteunend. Dat vertelde prof.dr.ir. Robert Kooij (EWI) op een zoombijeenkomst van het Bataafsch Genootschap. Wiskundige modellen die de verspreiding van het virus beschrijven, zijn vanaf het eerste begin gebruikt als ondersteuning van beleid. De overheid, geadviseerd door de rekenaars…
TU flags half mast for safe education (Photo: Marjolein van der Veldt) On Monday 2 November, the French educational system will commemorate the attack on the teacher Samuel Paty that was also an attack on free and safe education. Last Friday, the Dutch Ministers of Education Van Engelshoven and Slob called…
The other elections The world watches like chickens looking at the storm as the Americans express their preference for the Republican President Donald Trump or his democratic challenger Joe Biden today. The average campus dweller has little to say about that. But what TU-Delft staff can vote on today are the…
Survey on Research Integrity Time pressure, strange outcomes, hierarchy, requests for funding – there are many factors that can put pressure on scientific integrity. What are your experiences as a researcher? The NSRI (National Survey on Research Integrity) survey has posed that question to 40,000 researchers in the Netherlands. The survey started…
Met de verkiezingen in aantocht brokkelt het draagvlak voor het leenstelsel steeds verder af. Deze week wakkeren studenten het vuurtje aan met nieuwe ludieke protestacties. Ze bouwen wankele torens en dwalen als ‘schuldenspoken’ door de stad. De protesten zijn bedacht door jongerenorganisaties en studentenbonden, waaronder FNV Young & United en de Landelijke Studentenvakbond. Onder de noemer…
Three million registrations for MOOCs TU Delft has welcomed the three millionth registration for online courses (MOOCs). Registrations for the worldwide available Massive Open Online Courses peaked in mid-March, when the first lockdown started in many countries. The number of registrations then tripled from around six thousand to around twenty thousand per week. This peak…
Robotic building at Dutch Design Week The Delft Robotic Building Lab has two entries for the Dutch Design Week (17-25 October) in Eindhoven. The first project, Componential Hybridity, concerns a plant-like stairwell for a former Philips factory hall in the Brabant capital of Eindhoven. Henriette Bier (Architecture and the Built Environment)…
The German offshore windpark Riffgat. (Photo: Impériale) If it were up to energy economist dr.ir. Laurens de Vries (TBM), offshore wind will become even cheaper in the future. De Vries took part in the European research consortium PROMOTioN. A recent study looked at a potential network of large offshore wind farms (100-200 GW) in…
The German offshore windpark Riffgat. (Photo: Impériale) To encourage offshore wind farm operators to minimise costs. That is the goal that Energy Economist Dr Laurens de Vries (TPM) set himself as part of the PROMOTioN European research consortium. A recent study looked at a potential network of large offshore wind farms (100-200 GW)…
