Van LeeuwenhoekTU Delft has appointed Theo Dingemans and Harm Jonker as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professors. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chairs were created to promote outstanding young scientists to the position of professor early in their academic careers.
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Jonker’s specialist subject is the role clouds play in climate research, while Dingemans’ focus is on new high-performance polymers. Since 2004, Jonker has served as associate professor of multi-scale physics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, where he created an entirely new research field that studies key weather and climate issues – specifically the role of clouds in enhancing the greenhouse effect. Dingemans, a polymer chemist, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He created a new line of research in the field of new high-performance polymers for applications in the aerospace industry and beyond.
,Ephicas wins
TU Delft techno-starter company, Ephicas, has won 100,000 euro in the final of the Dutch Postcode Lottery’s ‘Green Challenge’. Some 313 detailed plans from researchers around the world were submitted for the competition, which offered a first prize of 500,000 euro and two runners-up prizes each worth 100,000 euro. Ephicas developed an aerodynamic side-wing for trucks – called the Ephicas Sidewing – that substantially improves a truck’s fuel-efficiency.
,Student associations
Many new students have become members of Dutch university student associations this year. The number of new first-year student members is 13 percent higher than last year, according to the National Chamber of Associations. Student associations at the universities of Groningen, Leiden, Tilburg and Wageningen were especially popular, with new member numbers 25 to 30 percent higher, while new memberships in student associations at TU Delft remained unchanged compared to last year.
,Sex ban
Tufts University (US) is trying to curtail unregulated student sex. According to the university’s student newspaper, ‘The Tufts Daily’, the university’s Office of Residential Life and Learning has banned “any sex act in a dorm room while one’s roommate is present”, while further stipulating that “any sexual activity in the room should not interfere with a roommate’s privacy.” The office said the new policy stemmed from numerous complaints by students “uncomfortable with what their roommates were doing in the room”.
,Saving the stairs
The members of the Delftsch Studenten Corps are going to have to get used to the rickety wooden staircase that now serves as the entranceway to their monumental building on the Phoenixstraat. The building’s original grand, stone staircase, which dates from the construction of the building in 1877, has been removed, owing to construction of new train tracks along the Phoenixstraat. It will be at least three to four years until the original staircase can be reinstalled.
,Student art
Talented students will play a key role in the city of Delft’s plans to transform the city into a leading center of creativity and innovation. Over the next four years, Delft and TU Delft will jointly allocate 100,000 euro for the cultural projects of talented students. Examples of some of these project areas are: ‘the design of artist studios in unused buildings in the city center; the design of street furniture; and the design of vehicles and other modes of city transport’.
,Stuck ashore
On Tuesday a trip to the offshore Prinses Amalia windpark was cancelled at the last moment. Forty members of the ‘Sterkstroomdispuut’, a student association for students of the department of electrical sustainable energy (EEMCS), had travelled to IJmuiden, but the study trip to the windpark was cancelled, as the waves on the North Sea reached a height of 1.7 meters, forcing the captain of the boat that was supposed to take the students to the windpark to cancel the voyage.
,Feedback
If you’d like to comment on anything appearing on the English Page or on a university-related matter, or if you have a question or suggestion for us, send your emails to d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl. We welcome all feedback from our readers. Letters intended for publication should include your name and be no longer than 350 words. This edition of Delta is also available online at www.delta.tudelft.nl, where you can also access the English Page archive.
Sinds 2003 was Solid een werkgroep van de LSVb. De studenten reisden bijvoorbeeld naar Moldavië en gaven daar training in het organiseren van een studentenbeweging. Ook hielden ze een bijeenkomst over de ‘ideale universiteit’, zodat de Moldavische collega’s hun ideaal scherper voor ogen zouden krijgen.
“We willen op den duur over de hele wereld actief worden”, zegt voorzitter David Bijl, vijfdejaars bachelorstudent ontwikkelingsstudies te Nijmegen. De stichting heeft een bestuur van drie personen. In totaal zijn er vijftien studenten betrokken.
De Solid Foundation, zoals de stichting voluit heet, is momenteel bezig in de Oekraïne. Er zijn plannen voor trainingen van studenten uit Zimbabwe, Suriname en Wit-Rusland. De stichting krijgt onder andere geld van het ministerie van buitenlandse zaken, FNV Mondiaal en Oxfam Novib
Van Leeuwenhoek
TU Delft has appointed Theo Dingemans and Harm Jonker as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professors. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chairs were created to promote outstanding young scientists to the position of professor early in their academic careers. Jonker’s specialist subject is the role clouds play in climate research, while Dingemans’ focus is on new high-performance polymers. Since 2004, Jonker has served as associate professor of multi-scale physics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, where he created an entirely new research field that studies key weather and climate issues – specifically the role of clouds in enhancing the greenhouse effect. Dingemans, a polymer chemist, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He created a new line of research in the field of new high-performance polymers for applications in the aerospace industry and beyond.
Ephicas wins
TU Delft techno-starter company, Ephicas, has won 100,000 euro in the final of the Dutch Postcode Lottery’s ‘Green Challenge’. Some 313 detailed plans from researchers around the world were submitted for the competition, which offered a first prize of 500,000 euro and two runners-up prizes each worth 100,000 euro. Ephicas developed an aerodynamic side-wing for trucks – called the Ephicas Sidewing – that substantially improves a truck’s fuel-efficiency.
Student associations
Many new students have become members of Dutch university student associations this year. The number of new first-year student members is 13 percent higher than last year, according to the National Chamber of Associations. Student associations at the universities of Groningen, Leiden, Tilburg and Wageningen were especially popular, with new member numbers 25 to 30 percent higher, while new memberships in student associations at TU Delft remained unchanged compared to last year.
Sex ban
Tufts University (US) is trying to curtail unregulated student sex. According to the university’s student newspaper, ‘The Tufts Daily’, the university’s Office of Residential Life and Learning has banned “any sex act in a dorm room while one’s roommate is present”, while further stipulating that “any sexual activity in the room should not interfere with a roommate’s privacy.” The office said the new policy stemmed from numerous complaints by students “uncomfortable with what their roommates were doing in the room”.
Saving the stairs
The members of the Delftsch Studenten Corps are going to have to get used to the rickety wooden staircase that now serves as the entranceway to their monumental building on the Phoenixstraat. The building’s original grand, stone staircase, which dates from the construction of the building in 1877, has been removed, owing to construction of new train tracks along the Phoenixstraat. It will be at least three to four years until the original staircase can be reinstalled.
Student art
Talented students will play a key role in the city of Delft’s plans to transform the city into a leading center of creativity and innovation. Over the next four years, Delft and TU Delft will jointly allocate 100,000 euro for the cultural projects of talented students. Examples of some of these project areas are: ‘the design of artist studios in unused buildings in the city center; the design of street furniture; and the design of vehicles and other modes of city transport’.
Stuck ashore
On Tuesday a trip to the offshore Prinses Amalia windpark was cancelled at the last moment. Forty members of the ‘Sterkstroomdispuut’, a student association for students of the department of electrical sustainable energy (EEMCS), had travelled to IJmuiden, but the study trip to the windpark was cancelled, as the waves on the North Sea reached a height of 1.7 meters, forcing the captain of the boat that was supposed to take the students to the windpark to cancel the voyage.
Feedback
If you’d like to comment on anything appearing on the English Page or on a university-related matter, or if you have a question or suggestion for us, send your emails to d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl. We welcome all feedback from our readers. Letters intended for publication should include your name and be no longer than 350 words. This edition of Delta is also available online at www.delta.tudelft.nl, where you can also access the English Page archive.
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