NWO systems still down after hack Hackers have infiltrated the servers of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The network is down since Sunday 14 February and no one knows yet how long the disruption will last. All of the applications on the NWO network are blocked at the moment, the NWO announced on its website,…
Symposium about student wellbeing Olympic skater Mark Tuitert will speak at a digital symposium on student wellbeing this Friday. The symposium is being held by several student associations in Delft. The mayor of Delft, Marja van Bijsterveldt, will open the event. After the opening not only Mark Tuitert, but also student psychologists from We Care for…
Livestream about friendship Studium Generale TU Delft has a livestream tonight about friendship in digital times. In the Philosophical Café, philosopher Lammert Kamphuis and professor of Communication and Technology Marjolijn Antheunis (Tilburg University) will discuss the state of friendship in the year 2021. Now that life is largely taking place online as…
Nafluiten, intimiderende opmerkingen, betastingen: student Myrthe van der Houwen van de Universiteit Twente was het vorige zomer spuugzat om te worden lastiggevallen op straat. Ze startte een petitie om de gemeente Enschede aan te sporen seksuele intimidatie aan te pakken. Dat heeft geholpen, meldt nieuwssite UToday. De petitie werd sinds juni vorig jaar meer dan…
De sociëteit van Virgiel is dit jaar voor het eerst een stembuslocatie tijdens de verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer. De studentenvereniging twittert trots dat vele leden zich hebben aangemeld als stembureaulid. De gemeente Delft bevestigt dat, maar laat nog in het midden of het stembureau volledig door Virgilianen zal worden bemenst. Op de TU-campus zal…
Falling snow causes problems at Stieltjesweg At the residential tower on Stieltjesweg, falling ice has been causing problems since Wednesday afternoon. The culprit is the thawing of a thick snow layer that accumulates in the windowsills, causing pieces of frozen snow to fall down with some regularity. After consultation with TU Delft…
Innovations for intubated patients have advanced another step. Dr Kunal Masania – an associate professor at the Aerospace Engineering (AE) Faculty – participated in a research study from ETH Zurich to develop customised, biodegradable airway stents, bringing aerospace science into the medical field. Patients suffering from a narrowing windpipe require an airway stent, a tube-shaped…
Fire in student flat Duwo A fire broke out in a student flat in Amstelveen on Saturday evening. Five residents were injured and several dozen had to leave their homes. Most students were able to return home later that night, but the smoke and water damage to some rooms was too great. A crowdfunding…
Give students an extra year of study as a gift Studying in times of Covid is not what it should be: so can’t the Dutch Government give young people an extra year of study as a gift? That is what the chairmen of the boards of the Christian University of Applied Sciences Ede and…
TU students build circular observation tower in New Delft A exceptional object is emerging on the Westlandseweg in Delft: a temporary, circular observation tower. The tower, made almost entirely of wood, has been designed by TU Delft students Edmund Thomas Green and Ludvig Sundberg (Architecture and the Built Environment). They won a design…
