More than 160 concerned scientists are urging political party leaders to place the fight against the global climate crisis at the heart of their election campaigns. Among them are eighteen researchers from Delft. They are calling for an end to new gas drilling and fossil fuel subsidies. So far, the ecological crisis has played a
University lecturer Harry Pettit of Radboud University Nijmegen is filing a complaint against Education Minister Gouke Moes. Moes believes that Pettit should be prosecuted. A week ago, outgoing Minister Moes put pressure on Radboud University Nijmegen during the talk show Café Kockelmann. He said the university should file a complaint against the fiercely pro-Palestinian university
The interest rate on student loans will fall from 2.57 to 2.33 percent next year, after three years of increases. This has been announced by DUO (in Dutch). Every year, a new interest rate is set for student loans. For years, this rate was zero percent: students could, in principle, borrow “for free”. But this
Planetary scientist Daphne Stam, former associate professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, has been nominated as unconventional thinker of the year 2025. According to the Stichting Dwarsdenkers, she resigned ‘to raise awareness of the structurally unsafe culture for women in the sciences’ and ‘consciously chooses transparency and restoration, even if that comes at a
It could cost the Netherlands several billion euros if universities in the Randstad are allowed to admit far fewer foreign students. That is the view of five universities in the run-up to the elections. What would happen if three-quarters of international bachelor's students stayed away from the universities of Rotterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, and Amsterdam? And
A fire broke out at the Sint Jansbrug student association on Sunday morning. According to the fire department, the fire started in a toilet in the building, but it is not known exactly how this happened. Fire at student association Sint Jansbrug. (Photo: District8) At around 6:50 a.m., the fire department was alerted by the
Would you like to vote for politicians who studied in Delft? Or are you curious to know which candidates have a technical background, even if they don't often mention it themselves? You can find an overview on the website vinddebetaopdelijst.nl (in Dutch). The creators of the website have listed the candidate MPs who have studied
Radboud University Nijmegen should report a fiercely pro-Palestinian lecturer to the police, according to outgoing minister Gouke Moes (BBB). He is threatening to intervene. “I pointed out an agreement that was made with the universities,” Moes said Friday evening on the TV program Café Kockelmann. In the event of suspected criminal offenses, the universities will
At a pro-Palestinian occupation of the magnet laboratory at Radboud University Nijmegen on Tuesday, activists were in danger, according to the university. The police arrested 23 protesters. On Tuesday morning, a group of pro-Palestinian activists occupied the Goudsmit Pavilion at Radboud University Nijmegen. They were protesting against three new research projects that the university will
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the inventors of a type of sponge for molecules. With their metal-organic materials, you can even extract water from the desert air. Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi were the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks with cavities in which you can capture exactly one molecule. Spheres with holes
