After 35 years, the Ig Nobel Prizes for funny research are leaving the United States. This year, they will be awarded in Switzerland so that all winners can attend, the organisation has announced. The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded for research that first makes you smile and then makes you think. Dutch researchers often win
For the second day in a row, vandals have caused damage on campus, this time at the Echo educational building. During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, twenty-five windows were smashed and sprayed with anti-Zionist slogans. Tonight, Echo is scheduled to host a lecture by “Zionist thinker” Gil Troy. Texts on the shattered windows include
[Update March 17, 2026: On the final day of the Winter Games, Kampschreur won his third gold medal in the slalom] At the Winter Paralympics in Cortina, Italy, Dutch sit-skiers Jeroen Kampschreur and Niels de Langen have won multiple medals in recent days, partly thanks to an invention developed in collaboration with researchers from Delft:
Unknown individuals have vandalised the main entrance of the Aula. Several panes of glass have been cracked and defaced with the words “Fok Fokker”. Part of the entrance has been closed off until further notice. Visitors can still access the Aula via the right-hand door of the main entrance or the entrance on the Library
On Tuesday 3 March, the Dutch House of Representatives passed a motion to make it possible to give higher professional education (HBO) students a basic grant when they pursue a university master's degree. HBO students will only receive such a basic grant if they choose to pursue a master's degree at a university of applied
The Dutch company Hardt Hyperloop has gone bankrupt. The company was founded in 2016 by former members of the Delft Hyperloop student team. What are the consequences for the current dream team? “It’s especially sad to see a player in the hyperloop sector go bankrupt,” says team captain Elise Terwogt. “But it doesn’t have much…
On Wednesday 18 March, students and staff of TU Delft will be able to plant trees between teaching building 35 and Freezone D, a green strip near the Executive Board office. On that day, the university is organising the “TU Delft Tree Festival” as part of National Tree Day. TU Delft members who want to…
A number of employees at DUO will go on strike on Tuesday, 3 March, joining other civil servants across the country. The National Student Union (LSVb) supports the strike, it said in a press release. Because of the strike, DUO may be less reachable by phone. “There will be people answering calls, as always. It
Take care of each other. That message is central to an intranet message from the Executive Board about the flare-up of violence in the Middle East: 'the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran' and 'Iran's missile strikes in the region'. "The images of violence, destruction and casualties are deeply affecting," writes the Executive
A member of the far-right Groot-Nederlandse Studentenvereniging (Great Netherlands Student Association) in Nijmegen was sentenced last week to two years in prison, one of which is probational, for illegal possession of weapons. The student was arrested last summer on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. Weapons and ammunition were found in a building near his
