Three top athletes from Delft have a chance of participating in the Olympic Games in Italy this coming February. Speed skater and master’s student in technical medicine Naomi Verkerk can earn a spot during the Olympic qualification tournament in December.
Three top athletes from Delft have a chance of participating in the Olympic Games in Italy this coming February. Speed skater and master’s student BioMechanical Design Tijmen Snel can earn a spot during the Olympic qualification tournament in December.
Purple nail polish, free cupcakes, and drag queen bingo. On Purple Friday (12 December), Delft study associations are organising various activities to increase the visibility and acceptance of the queer community on campus. Jinny Wu, chair of the Delft queer youth association Outsite: “Recently, resistance to queer people has been increasing.”
Students who work full time on Dream Team projects now pay tuition fees while they do not follow any courses. The Dream Teams and Student Council party ORAS believe that this makes participation too elitist. It also leads to fake registrations which seriously distort the inflow and dropout rates of some degree programmes. The students thus argue for a tuition fee waiver.
A survey shows that expanding TU Delft to Rotterdam is garnering mixed reactions. Maaike Kleinsmann and Han Derkx of the Rotterdam Campus programme team, talk about the plans for the new Health and Techology bachelor, cooperation with the Municipality of Rotterdam, and financing.
Being admitted to the prestigious Harvard University was a dream come true for TU Delft student Coen Visser (Aerospace Engineering). But the Trump administration’s new rules are making studying at the American university almost impossible for international students.