Alumni pass’Ask not what TU Delft can do for you, but what you can do for the TU’. This spin on John F. Kennedy’s famous proclamation is being used as part of a promotional campaign to push the new TU Delft ‘Alumni Pass’.

Sustainability in Rio % can it offer practical solutions to some of its worst problems, or is it like a course in vegetarian cooking for cannibals? Ten students would like to find out.

After 218 days without a formal government, a CDA-VVD-D66 center-right coalition government is set to rule Holland. But for how long, skeptical pundits ask? Dutch Premier JP Balkenende isn’t among the top 5 most popular Dutch politicians, according to recent polls, and D66 leader Boris Dittrich warned that ”if they try to trick us, we’ll break, and it’ll never be glued back together.’

This week, students from TUD’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IO) meet mechanical engineering students from Slovenia and micro-engineering students from Switzerland.

PermitsHilbrand Nawijn, Minister of Immigration, says he doesn’t have the money to reduce the high price of resident permits. All foreign students and teachers must therefore continue paying 430 euros for their resident permits.

Do you want to see how cumulus clouds gather, what happens if Holland’s dikes break, how medicine interacts with proteins in your body? Michal Koutek and his colleagues developed a Virtual Reality (VR) environment to visualize data from scientific simulations.

Kidnapper caughtAt Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, police overpowered a 62-year-old former student who was holding 93 people hostage.

My last weekly column… During four months as Delta columnist, I received three letters from readers: two fan letters and one hate letter..

FireOn Saturday morning a fire started by a TV forced the evacuation of 140 students from the Balthasar van der Polweg student residence.

What do your teeth and a ship’s hull have in common? Answer: They’re both eaten by biofilms. Dr. Cristian Picioreanu studies biofilms behavior to catch them in a overall model.