Delft professor Boud Vogelesang regrets patenting “Glare”, the renowned airplane construction material.Professor Boud Vogelesang has “nothing but regrets” for patenting the light-weight aerospace construction material, Glare.
The Romanian Oana Badescu recently received her Phd from Delft and is now working in Norway, where she helps her company find offshore oil. Life is good for her, but she does feel that she’s betrayed the NetherlandsShe considers herself a citizen of the world.
Students catch burglarsLast Friday two Architecture students caught two burglars trying to enter a hotel on the Oude Delft. The burglars (aged 14 and 21 years old and from Zoetemeer) escaped, but the students pursued them.
Are the buildings that were built after WWII to replace those destroyed by bombs anything but ugly and deserving of the wrecking ball? German Phd graduate Bettina Heine-Hippler believes that post-World War II architecture is aesthetically valuable and needs to be conserved.
Nature onlineIf you want to read the prestigious scientific magazine Nature, you no longer have to go to the library to do so. A new digital subscription has been available since the beginning of the month.
They are small, modest, friendly, happy, don’t complain, work hard, and don’t demand a lot of attention. Who are they? They are the Chinese, and Delft China Day paid tribute to their contribution to the university.
Foundation declares war on TU EnglishThere’s just too much English at the Delft University, according to the ‘Foundation Natural Dutch’ (Stichting Natuurlijk Nederlands).
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan is arguably TU Delft%s most famous (or infamous) alumnus. Khan received a MSc degree in metallurgy from Delft in 1967 and later stole nuclear secrets from his Dutch employer, helping Pakistan develop its first nuclear bomb.
Instead of writing, Industrial Designer Dwinita Larasati diary is in the form of a comic strip. Her cartoons are currently on display at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden.
Better not tell Mom. Not only do the Dutch smoke pot openly in the streets, but now they’re even sailing around in boats made out of weed.TU students Niels Haarbosch and Thomas Mol are proud of their first hemp vessel, a light-weight catamaran called `Flaxcat’, featuring a hull made of natural hemp fibers.
