TU Delft student team Forze’s hydrogen racing car has driven its first metres on the Zandvoort circuit.
GroenLinks/PvdA is the big winner in Delft, according to the final results of the national elections (in Dutch). 25.9 percent of Delft residents voted for the party. That is a growth of 11 percent compared to the previous elections. D66, the largest party in Delft in the previous elections, lost 11 percent. The PVV is,
Education Council: ‘Do not cut back on education’ It will probably be some time before a new cabinet is in place, but the Education Council is already writing a letter (in Dutch). ‘Education is too important to shift the focus in education policy or choose a new course with each new cabinet’, it…
Two million for graphene microphone Impression of waves in a graphene membrane caused by bacteria. (Illustration: Santiago Mendoza Silva and Pierpaolo Belardinelli) Farbod Alijani, associate professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering & Technical Materials Science, has received an ERC Consolidator Grant to improve his ultra-sensitive microphone made with…
PVV scout out over fraud suspicion PVV senator Gom van Strien has resigned from his job as a scout for a new Dutch cabinet. He has been charged with fraud at his former employer, a subsidiary of Utrecht University. Until mid-2009, Van Strien was director of Utrecht Holdings, the knowledge transfer office…
Wat leeft er onder Delftse jongeren? In de documentaire ‘De 15 van Delft’ maak je kennis met vijftien jongeren uit de stad, onder wie drie TU-studenten.
Activists occupy Leiden University building On the morning after the elections, climate activists occupied two classrooms at Leiden University. Some 50 students from the action group End Fossil Leiden Delft put up banners and demanded that the university cut ties with the fossil industry, reports university magazine Mare (in Dutch). Rector Hester Bijl…
NWO grants increased Due to increased salaries and prices, science funding body NWO has increased the Veni and Vidi grants for top researchers. The change takes effect immediately and therefore already applies to application rounds currently running. Science had been asking for higher research grants for some time. These were less…
AI hackathon on campus Over 100 students participated in Dream Team Epoch’s AI hackathon on the TU Delft campus on Saturday 18 November. They developed an artificial intelligence model that can predict how much biomass is stored in a tree. Team Epoch is an interdisciplinary and international student Dream team that competes in…
Invite a student over for Christmas Do you have room to spare at the table at Christmas? Then sign up for the Christmas Lunch. On Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 December, students who otherwise do not celebrate Christmas can visit the homes of their fellow students or Delft families. This way, they will…
