Science portTU Delft has launched Science Port Holland, a project that will see the development of two high-level science parks for knowledge-intensive companies, both national and international.
Science Port Holland will be built on what is now just marshy fields to the south of the TU Delft campus, between Delft and Rotterdam, which is an ideal location according to the project’s developers. Owing to the proximity to Rotterdam harbor, Rotterdam airport and the high-speed rail link, Science Port Holland will be in an excellent position to compete as an exceptional location for high-tech businesses in the Netherlands and Europe. Attending the project’s launch ceremony were the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Frank Heemskerk, the mayors of the cities behind the new venture, Ivo Opstelten of Rotterdam and Bas Verkerk of Delft, and Dirk Jan van den Berg, chairman of the TU Delft Executive Board.
,Ephicas wins
YES!Delft techno-starter company Ephicas has won the Fast Start Award from the Academic Enterprise Awards Europe, a European prize for entrepreneurial researchers. Ephicas, run by brothers Gandert and Hjalmar van Raemdonck, a TU Delft PhD candidate and TU Delft alumnus, respectively, develops aerodynamic side wings for juggernaut trailers that reduce air resistance and hence fuel consumption.
,Leeuwenhoek
Andrei Metrikine has been appointed an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at TU Delft. Metrikine was nominated by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, with the appointment committee confirming that Metrikine is regarded as a prominent scientist in the fields of wave mechanics and nonlinear vibrations of solids and structures. “Dr Metrikine is guided by the principle that science must be applicable, but also always fundamental, and he is also an enthusiastic lecturer whose passion for his field is almost infectious.”
,December events
Renovation work on the TU Delft Library’s main building will start in mid December and is expected to cause inconvenience to visitors until the end of March 2009. The university will close early, at 15:30, on 24 December, for the start of the Christmas holiday period. And for lovers of Christmas music, a special ‘Christmas Carols and Psalms’ concert by the Plurale Tantum Youth Orchestra will be held on Friday, 19 December, at 20:15 in Delft’s Old Church. Tickets are 8 euro for students.
,Twenty-five million
Dutch Minister of Education Ronald Plasterk has earmarked 25 million euro for the construction of a new TU Delft Faculty of Architecture building. Plastkerk, who made the funding announcement on the TU campus, where he symbolically climbed atop the burnt out rubble of the old faculty building and waved a TU architecture flag, said this sum of 25 million euro should prove to be the difference between “a good building and an icon in Dutch architectural history.”
,Wool sweaters
Many students, especially from Suriname, Indonesia and various African countries, have complained about the rain, wind and low temperatures, according to 2007 annual report of TU Delft’s ombudsman Wil Knippenberg. The students also complained about the low temperatures in the student apartments. The students prefer to set the heating to 30 degrees, but the renters are not happy about such high room temperatures, because the heating costs are often calculated into the rental price. The ombudsman advised the freezing students to buy some warm wool sweaters.
,Feedback
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Science port
TU Delft has launched Science Port Holland, a project that will see the development of two high-level science parks for knowledge-intensive companies, both national and international. Science Port Holland will be built on what is now just marshy fields to the south of the TU Delft campus, between Delft and Rotterdam, which is an ideal location according to the project’s developers. Owing to the proximity to Rotterdam harbor, Rotterdam airport and the high-speed rail link, Science Port Holland will be in an excellent position to compete as an exceptional location for high-tech businesses in the Netherlands and Europe. Attending the project’s launch ceremony were the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Frank Heemskerk, the mayors of the cities behind the new venture, Ivo Opstelten of Rotterdam and Bas Verkerk of Delft, and Dirk Jan van den Berg, chairman of the TU Delft Executive Board.
Ephicas wins
YES!Delft techno-starter company Ephicas has won the Fast Start Award from the Academic Enterprise Awards Europe, a European prize for entrepreneurial researchers. Ephicas, run by brothers Gandert and Hjalmar van Raemdonck, a TU Delft PhD candidate and TU Delft alumnus, respectively, develops aerodynamic side wings for juggernaut trailers that reduce air resistance and hence fuel consumption.
Leeuwenhoek
Andrei Metrikine has been appointed an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at TU Delft. Metrikine was nominated by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, with the appointment committee confirming that Metrikine is regarded as a prominent scientist in the fields of wave mechanics and nonlinear vibrations of solids and structures. “Dr Metrikine is guided by the principle that science must be applicable, but also always fundamental, and he is also an enthusiastic lecturer whose passion for his field is almost infectious.”
December events
Renovation work on the TU Delft Library’s main building will start in mid December and is expected to cause inconvenience to visitors until the end of March 2009. The university will close early, at 15:30, on 24 December, for the start of the Christmas holiday period. And for lovers of Christmas music, a special ‘Christmas Carols and Psalms’ concert by the Plurale Tantum Youth Orchestra will be held on Friday, 19 December, at 20:15 in Delft’s Old Church. Tickets are 8 euro for students.
Twenty-five million
Dutch Minister of Education Ronald Plasterk has earmarked 25 million euro for the construction of a new TU Delft Faculty of Architecture building. Plastkerk, who made the funding announcement on the TU campus, where he symbolically climbed atop the burnt out rubble of the old faculty building and waved a TU architecture flag, said this sum of 25 million euro should prove to be the difference between “a good building and an icon in Dutch architectural history.”
Wool sweaters
Many students, especially from Suriname, Indonesia and various African countries, have complained about the rain, wind and low temperatures, according to 2007 annual report of TU Delft’s ombudsman Wil Knippenberg. The students also complained about the low temperatures in the student apartments. The students prefer to set the heating to 30 degrees, but the renters are not happy about such high room temperatures, because the heating costs are often calculated into the rental price. The ombudsman advised the freezing students to buy some warm wool sweaters.
Feedback
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