Meet new fellow students Corona has made it a lot harder to meet fellow students. That’s why student union VSSD is arranging walking buddies for students who want to meet new people. The project is called Walk and Talk. The idea is simple: you register, take a coffee-to-go at the expense of…
Rathenau: involve citizens Citizens are happy to lend a hand in scientific research. Equally, scientists would do well to involve them more often in the substance of the research, argues the Rathenau Institute in a new report. As successful examples, the Rathenau Institute cites the National Science Agenda, which emerged in 2015 from some…
Motion sickness in self-driving cars Is there an increase in the occurrence and severity of motion sickness in self-driving cars? And what can be done to better model passenger comfort when automated cars become a reality? Master student Adarsh Pattanayak (Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) researches how…
Chamber: reopen education on campus quicker The Cabinet must ensure that students receive more frequent physical classes. Two parliamentary motions urging this were adopted without dissenting votes on Thursday evening, 25 February. While the election recess has officially begun, the Lower House still made all kinds of decisions last night. The resumption…
Chamber: reopen education on campus quicker The Cabinet must ensure that students receive more frequent physical classes. Two parliamentary motions urging this were adopted without dissenting votes on Thursday evening, 25 February. While the election recess has officially begun, the Lower House still made all kinds of decisions last night. The resumption…
Chamber: reopen education on campus quicker The Cabinet must ensure that students receive more frequent physical classes. Two parliamentary motions urging this were adopted without dissenting votes on Thursday evening, 25 February. While the election recess has officially begun, the Lower House still made all kinds of decisions last night. The resumption…
Hundred extra study places in Library Starting from Monday 1 March TU Delft is expanding the number of study places available for students. In the Library the number of places goes up from 50 to 150. Pulse will get an additional 150 places and the Science Center will get 40 new places. Faculties are…
Parliament wants to fast-track on-campus education The Dutch parliament must ensure that students are given more physical lessons again more quickly. Two motions urging this were adopted this Thursday without dissenting votes. The compensation for graduated bachelor students did not make it. D66 and ChristenUnie called on the government to start talks with higher…
Survey self-driving vehicles TU Delft transport professor Bert van Wee (faculty TPM), on behalf of his European colleagues, is calling on Delft students and staff to fill out a survey on self-driving vehicles. The options the researchers are looking at go pretty far. Take this one: ‘A self-driving vehicle completely controls the speed and steering…
NWO: no ransom to hackers The NWO turns out to have been hacked by DoppelPaymer, an internationally operating ransomware group. NWO refuses to pay ransom, even now that NWO documents are appearing on the dark web. According to a statement, the NWO deeply regrets that “data of its own staff are made…
