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‘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…

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…

Do plants improve study results?     Does it help to have a lot of plants in the house when there are heavy exams coming up? The University and College of Ghent are doing research on this. They kicked off the project this week.   The researchers want to know whether plants have a positive…