During Green Building Week, a team of TU lecturers has launched a brand new book on eco-cities. The book is to help future designers and engineers to green up the urban environment.
The Dutch scientific world is staggered. The renowned psychologist Diederik Stapel, who recently told the world that he and some colleagues had found that meat-eaters were more egotistical than vegetarians, admitted to having made up the research data.
The Anemo III team from Hogeschool InHolland finished fourth out of 14 teams at the Racing the Wind contest held on a dyke near Den Helder.
Various regions see more people leave than arrive. “Until now we always had to manage growth in spatial planning,” says Professor Hugo Priemus (OTB). “Managing shrink is a totally different ballgame.”
Biomass
Energy company Essent, part of RWE, announced this week that it will join the BE-Basic research programme into bio-based commodities and fuels.
In the idealistic world of Rameez Rahman, people all share information with one another and no big organization pre-cooks what we read, see and listen to.
Two friends and Industrial Design Engineering alumni, Jan Jouke Harms and Laura Smits, made the artwork. Dr Christiaan Klijn (EEMCS) told them he wanted something in the Sherlock Holmes style for his thesis on pattern recognition in genetics.
Name: Hester Anderiesen (28)
Nationality: Dutch
Promoters: Professor Richard Goossens (IDE faculty), Professor Erik Scherder (faculty of neuropsychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Dr Marieke Sonneveld (IDE faculty)
Subject: Game elements in user-product interactions to motivate physical activity
Thesis defence: In three years
“When older persons move to a nursing home facility, they often become very passive.
The first nuclear power plant on the moon will be ready for demonstration in 2012. It is supposed to provide long-term power for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets, Science Daily reported last week.
