Flemish influencer Acid has been given a suspended prison sentence and an 800 euro fine for his revealing videos of the hazing ('ontgroening') of Sanda Dia. He must also pay damages amounting to 20 thousand euros. Following a gruesome hazing (called ‘baptism’ in Flemish), 20-year-old student Sanda Dia died in 2018. He was made to
A former student was fined 225 euros for not stopping his student travel product on time. He went to court and was partially vindicated. The judge reduced the fine to 75 euros because DUO did not warn the student on time. That is according to a May 2022 ruling (in Dutch) that recently came online.
During the recess week, the NAE (Netherlands Academy of Engineers) is publishing six recommendations for the Cabinet in formation. The NAE echoes the concerns of the Dutch people in numerous areas, as inventoried by the Social and Cultural Planning Bureau. These include the energy transition, climate, agriculture and horticulture, accessibility to care and housing, and
A sodium-carbon battery that fully charges in nine minutes (1 Ah) and keeps that up for 3,000 cycles. That is what Professor Marnix Wagemakers and colleagues describe in a recent article in Nature. Wagemakers is attached to the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Electric transport and preventing an overloaded power grid require more and better batteries
The operation of tram 19 has been delayed with another year and a half. The operator Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag (MRDH) now reckons that tram 19 can be put into operation in the second half of 2025. Last spring, the Mekelweg tram rails were removed to make way for ‘Europe's most robust tram line’. But
A recruitment drive has raised enough financial support to keep the website ScienceGuide on air, the editors write on their own website (in Dutch). The national website for news and opinion on higher education is in dire straits and threatened to close or disappear behind a paywall as of 17 February. On its website, the
TU Delft has been ranked 40th in the annual Times World Reputation Ranking. This makes it the highest ranked Dutch university, and the shared ninth in Europe. Times Higher Education establishes the list order based on a survey of established scientists. It is therefore about the image that scholars at universities worldwide have of other
In September, the basic grant for those living away from home will go down again, the Lower House decided on 15 February. Students will then receive 302 euros per month. That is 164 euro less than now. This academic year, the basic grant returned after eight years. And for students living in a student room,
ScienceGuide, a Dutch-language website for news and opinion on higher education and research, is in dire straits. The platform will have to shut down this week or disappear behind a pay wall. ScienceGuide can only continue if enough individual subscribers sign up or if higher education institutions take out a collective subscription. Universities will not
In biology, proteins are the hands and feet of a cell, and they play a crucial role in numerous diseases. Up to now, proteins have been identified by cutting them up into small pieces and figuring out the original protein from there. Researchers at the Chirlmin Joo Lab (Faculty of Applied Sciences) presented a new
