Flooding in 21 buildings The heavy rainfall from Mondaynight, August 15 caused water flooding in 21 buildings of the 57 buildings managed by TU Delft on campus. These include the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, the Dreamhall, the Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment and the Faculty of Applied Sciences. …
After two corona years, the OWee, the introductory week for freshmen, is back as usual. The OWee board is looking forward to it. “Students are going to make friends for life.”
TU Delft students Max and Mathijs died in Scheveningen over two years ago. Max’s mother, Marjolein Hartman, wrote the book ‘Rauw’ about the period that followed their deaths.
Stichting Herontwikkeling tot Studentenhuisvesting Delft and the Municipality of Rijswijk will convert three unused office blocks into 312 homes.
‘Smart’ bra wins contest The annual TU Delft Impact Contest was won by the teams Smart Bra and CryoCOP. In doing so, they left nearly 60 other teams behind. The Smart Bra is an idea of master student Rajae Atahiri. She wants to develop a smart bra that can detect breast cancer…
‘Unsuitable medical students to be expelled more quickly’ Examination boards of the eight Dutch medical colleges are coming up with a plan to make it easier to expel dysfunctional students. This concerns students who show unprofessional behavior and thus endanger the safety of patients. Research shows that “such students are more likely to…
Since Monday, May 30, students and teachers are able to make use of Echo. “It is good to see that working groups are already meeting here.”
New initiatives against student nuisance On Monday evening 23 May Delft residents and students from the Wippolder met for the second time to work on solutions to counteract nuisance caused by students. In small groups they worked on a short educational movie, a talk show, a flyer campaign and other ideas. “I found…
On Monday evening Delft residents and students from the Wippolder met for the second time to work on solutions to counteract nuisance caused by students. In small groups they worked on a short educational movie, a talk show a flyer campaign and other ideas. “I found it an enormously constructive evening,” says Marie-José Hijnekamp,…
No mandatory disclosure for universities The Cabinet does not want to institute mandatory disclosure for universities and companies working with Chinese entities in risk areas. This emerged from answers to Parliamentary Questions (in Dutch) posed by House of Representatives members Sjoerd Sjoerdsma and Alexander Hammelburg (both of the D66 party) after an article appeared…
