In the attic of the Department of Biotechnology lies an archive of papers and many of the tools of the first three bioscience professors at TU Delft: Martinus Willem Beijerinck, Gerrit van Iterson and Albert Jan Kluyver.
International offices in universities around the world have never been busier. As the world gets smaller, they reach out to countries everywhere to attract the best students. Of course, there’s that small matter of making sure that they offer all students the best services possible.
We moeten goed op het tuintje van de wetenschap passen, zegt José van Dijck, de nieuwe president van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. “Soms moet je eens iets wieden.”
Poëtische impressie door Bauke Steenhuisen van de scriptie ‘Stability of underactuated mechanical systems controlled with IDA-PBC in the presence of physical damping’ van Camiel van der Burg. Met dank aan Motiv en de film ‘My Mission’ over zijn afstudeerproces.
900 Dutch citizens took the government to court on April 14, 2015. The crime: failing to do enough against climate change. The Urgenda Foundation, together with 900 petitioners, filed a case against the Dutch government for “not taking sufficient measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause dangerous climate change”.
When a university offers a Studium Generale podium to a guest for the evening, you can expect a lecture followed by lively discourse and debate; and more so when that guest holds controversial views.
University Rector Karel Luyben is to meet Coen Vermeeren, Head of the Studium Generale, in May to discuss the bureau’s programming policy. The meeting has been prompted by tonight’s controversial lecture about the 9/11 attacks in New York.
She has worked in Pasadena and in Singapore and has published articles in every major scientific journal. Late last year, she returned to the Netherlands to QuTech, to help build a quantum computer: she is Dr Stephanie Wehner.
Maastricht and Groningen have already made the transition and the debate is underway in Twente: whether to introduce English as the language of instruction at the university, including in the Bachelor’s programmes.
