Architect George Taran, 30, from Sofia, Bulgaria, is a 1999 graduate of TU Delft.I left Bulgaria when I was 17-years-old and enrolled at TU Delft as an undergraduate after two years of Dutch high school.

UnveiledDutch universities have agreed to prohibit students from wearing veils. According to the VSNU, the national association of Dutch universities, students’ faces must be clearly visible.

Not dumberThis week Dutch Premier Balkenende opened the academic year with a speech at Leiden University in which he stated that the Netherlands isn’t a dumber country than other countries, but the nation must learn better ”how to use its head”.

What causes you the most anxiety? Each month the English Page meets a member of TU Delft’s foreign community. Tuur van Beelen (22), from Leuven, Belgium, is a 5th year Industrial Design student.

‘Of course you haven’t enrolled in TU Delft simply to study technological subjects. You want to know more. You want to know for example how the human brain works, how to think creatively, what Plato’s ideas were, what Time actually is, where your emotions come from..

Defending champsLast Thursday at the Zandvoort racetrack, TU Delft’s Nuon Solar Team unveiled it’s new solar-powered car, Nuna II. The 12-person team of students from TU Delft and Rotterdam’s Erasmus University is preparing to defend its title at Australia’s World Solar Challenge race, which it won in 2001 with its Nuna car.

Mild-mannered TU student by day, ruthless Internet poker shark by night, Remco Schrijvers is making big money beating American poker players at their own game.

Design professor appointedBruno Ninber van Eyben, the man who designed the national or ‘Dutch’ side of Holland’s Euro coins, has been appointed a part-time professor of design at the TU’s Faculty of Industrial Design.

Reviewed by: Ana María Fernández-Maldonado, an architect from Lima, Peru, who has lived in the Netherlands for 11 years and says, “I still like it.”

.chap H.M. van den Brink % On the waterReviewed by: Henry Ismail, from Jakarta, Indonesia, home to 15 million people and a river that is, he says, “so dirty that you’d have to be crazy to go rowing on it.”