Russian physics professor Yuli Nazarov made an autobiographic fairytale of his inauguration speech. The plot includes military parades and discouraging publication curves.

When the sun’s shining, thermometer climbing… 18C+… & you’re on your bike in the polder, dunes… Holland rules! No finer place to be… and so it was last weekend, spring in the air as this beige teddy bear of a nation fully awoke from its winter slumber, greasing its bike chains en masse, the gray giving way to blue skies & green grass..

,,Back in China, we just had to listen to what the teacher told us,” recalls Chemical Engineering student Jiang Shangfeng (26). ,,It’s the way we’ve been brought up.’

Engineers like to do things, use technology to change the world. Teachers like Saul Lemkowitz(Chemical Engineering) and Hans Bonnet (Biotechnology) want students to think critically about the role of technology in society – without losing that spark of optimism.

New nameEWI may sound like an animal from the new Harry Potter movie, but it is in fact the new name of the Faculty of Information Technology and Systems (ITS).

Lucky numberLast week, the one-thousandth student applied for one of TUD’s Master of Science degree programmes. The TUD awarded lucky number 1,000, Zhangh Yu from Wuhan (China), with 5,900 euros, which is the equivalent of one year of tuition.

Following a recent World Health Organisation report about the deadly Sars virus, students should not visit Hongkong or the Chinese province of Guangdong.

Dr. Jakob Wallinga shoots light at 100,000-year-old grains of sand. The result: more insight into the course of the river Rhine and a glimpse into the geographic future.

We’re all potential future prisoners… takes just one momentarily stupid insane criminally passionate act, right… and that’s another great reason for loving Life in Holland!..

These days, Iraqi students regularly meet to discuss the war. Two of them were willing to talk to Delta % anonymously.Khalil can talk passionately about the prospect of real freedom and autonomy for Iraq’s Kurdish people, who have suffered through so much bloodshed and tragedy % including bitter fighting between rival Kurdish fractions.