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MekelprijsThe prestigious Mekelprijs (Mekel Award) will this year once again be awarded to the best essay by a student on the subject of ethics and technology.

TU Rector Jacob Fokkema: “I believe this award is important because it encourages students to think about ethical questions that they may be confronted with in their future professional careers.” Last year the award was won by TU PhD candidate Ramesh Chidambaram, from India, for his essay: ‘Ethics in Engineering: A custom more honored in the breach than in observance’. For those wishing to compete in this year’s contest, the deadline for submitting essays is 1 July 2005. Send your essays to Henneke Piekhaar at platformet@tbm.tudelft.nl. A word of advice from Fokkema: “Students don’t need to provide a definitive solution for an ethical dilemma. The point is to show that you’ve thought seriously about ethical dilemmas that you may be confronted with in your future jobs. Students must write the essay themselves; however, groups of up to five students may also submit a joint-essay.”

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Big gift

The president of Hong Kong University (HKU), Hong Kong’s oldest and most prestigious institution of higher education, announced that the Li Ka Shing Foundation will donate HK $1 billion (US $128 million) to help fund the university’s emerging role as a key player in China’s economic growth. In remarks to HKU alumni and business leaders at the Yale Club in New York, HKU President Lap-Chee Tsui said he was “delighted, really overjoyed” by the news and thanked Li Ka Shing, founder of global conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Asia’s most prominent philanthropist, for his commitment to research and education. “In our business, money supports only excellence”, Tsui said. “This unprecedented gift not only represents a strong endorsement of our excellence but also sets a milestone for philanthropy in Hong Kong. This donation will propel the university to new heights, to push forward the boundaries of learning.” Hong Kong University, whose early graduates included Dr. Sun Yet-San, founder of modern China, is Hong Kong’s leading institution of higher learning.
Visit Parliament

Posters in Spanish, Dutch, English and even Chinese have been hung around campus, inviting foreign students to join a VSSD organized trip to the Dutch Parliament and International Court of Justice. The visit, scheduled for May 26, will offer students insights into how this country is being governed. The visit to the Parliament in Den Haag will be guided by parliamentarian Diederik Samsom. The trip will conclude with guided tours of the Peace Palace and International Court of Justice.

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Gypsy feeling

In the mecca of gypsy music, Budapest, Hungary, the TU Delft student musical group Pipacs has won a gypsy music contest. The group beat two other Dutch student gypsy music groups. “Remarkable” to hear Dutch students play Hungarian folk music, wrote The Budapest Sun newspaper. “Although the enthusiasm of the Dutch musicians was obvious, it was clear that the gypsy feeling was learned rather than from birth.” The newspaper praised the Dutch ‘gypsies’ for their enthusiasm and musicianship.
Ten points

Researchers from TU Delft who last year published articles in Nature or Science magazines, will once again receive a maximum of ten allocation points (allocatiepunts) for their articles. In accordance with the system of output funding, which has been in place at the university since the mid-1990s, faculties receive more funding for the number of research publications they produce. Because one publication is more important than another, the various publications are given a certain number of points, the so-called allocation points. World-renowned publications Nature and Science have for a number of years no longer been considered to belong to the most prestigious group of publications. Therefore, articles published in these two magazines have received only seven allocation points, rather than the full ten. Now however Nature and Science have been restored to their former place of glory. A commission from the CWTS Institute in Leiden has decided that the magazines indeed still have great reputations and exposure and therefore deserve the full ten points.

Mekelprijs

The prestigious Mekelprijs (Mekel Award) will this year once again be awarded to the best essay by a student on the subject of ethics and technology. TU Rector Jacob Fokkema: “I believe this award is important because it encourages students to think about ethical questions that they may be confronted with in their future professional careers.” Last year the award was won by TU PhD candidate Ramesh Chidambaram, from India, for his essay: ‘Ethics in Engineering: A custom more honored in the breach than in observance’. For those wishing to compete in this year’s contest, the deadline for submitting essays is 1 July 2005. Send your essays to Henneke Piekhaar at platformet@tbm.tudelft.nl. A word of advice from Fokkema: “Students don’t need to provide a definitive solution for an ethical dilemma. The point is to show that you’ve thought seriously about ethical dilemmas that you may be confronted with in your future jobs. Students must write the essay themselves; however, groups of up to five students may also submit a joint-essay.”

www.platform.tudelft.nl/activiteiten
Big gift

The president of Hong Kong University (HKU), Hong Kong’s oldest and most prestigious institution of higher education, announced that the Li Ka Shing Foundation will donate HK $1 billion (US $128 million) to help fund the university’s emerging role as a key player in China’s economic growth. In remarks to HKU alumni and business leaders at the Yale Club in New York, HKU President Lap-Chee Tsui said he was “delighted, really overjoyed” by the news and thanked Li Ka Shing, founder of global conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Asia’s most prominent philanthropist, for his commitment to research and education. “In our business, money supports only excellence”, Tsui said. “This unprecedented gift not only represents a strong endorsement of our excellence but also sets a milestone for philanthropy in Hong Kong. This donation will propel the university to new heights, to push forward the boundaries of learning.” Hong Kong University, whose early graduates included Dr. Sun Yet-San, founder of modern China, is Hong Kong’s leading institution of higher learning.
Visit Parliament

Posters in Spanish, Dutch, English and even Chinese have been hung around campus, inviting foreign students to join a VSSD organized trip to the Dutch Parliament and International Court of Justice. The visit, scheduled for May 26, will offer students insights into how this country is being governed. The visit to the Parliament in Den Haag will be guided by parliamentarian Diederik Samsom. The trip will conclude with guided tours of the Peace Palace and International Court of Justice.

www.vssd.nl
Gypsy feeling

In the mecca of gypsy music, Budapest, Hungary, the TU Delft student musical group Pipacs has won a gypsy music contest. The group beat two other Dutch student gypsy music groups. “Remarkable” to hear Dutch students play Hungarian folk music, wrote The Budapest Sun newspaper. “Although the enthusiasm of the Dutch musicians was obvious, it was clear that the gypsy feeling was learned rather than from birth.” The newspaper praised the Dutch ‘gypsies’ for their enthusiasm and musicianship.
Ten points

Researchers from TU Delft who last year published articles in Nature or Science magazines, will once again receive a maximum of ten allocation points (allocatiepunts) for their articles. In accordance with the system of output funding, which has been in place at the university since the mid-1990s, faculties receive more funding for the number of research publications they produce. Because one publication is more important than another, the various publications are given a certain number of points, the so-called allocation points. World-renowned publications Nature and Science have for a number of years no longer been considered to belong to the most prestigious group of publications. Therefore, articles published in these two magazines have received only seven allocation points, rather than the full ten. Now however Nature and Science have been restored to their former place of glory. A commission from the CWTS Institute in Leiden has decided that the magazines indeed still have great reputations and exposure and therefore deserve the full ten points.

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