Where do the Corona millions go to? The millions of euros to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus measures on students are going mainly towards intensive tutoring and measures to foster student wellbeing. This emerges from an initial report commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. For the senior secondary…
Een 19-jarige hogeschoolstudent is afgelopen weekend in België overleden tijdens een ontgroening. De toedracht wordt onderzocht, maar er lijkt vooralsnog geen sprake van geweld. Er waren zo’n driehonderd jongeren bij de ontgroening. De studenten moesten dierenvoer eten en in een bad met bloed liggen, vertelt de procureur (openbaar aanklager) aan Het Nieuwsblad. Er zou…
Delft Outlook is out Delft scientists regularly draw inspiration from nature. In the October issue of Delft Outlook, you can read about drones inspired by insects, a scarf made from algae, a medical instrument modelled on the octopus, a building panel resembling a sponge and an aircraft wing that moves like a bird. “Inspiration…
Bij de aanvraag van een hypotheek blijven studieschulden komend jaar even zwaar meewegen als nu. Het demissionaire kabinet is niet van plan de normen te versoepelen. Dat schrijft demissionair minister Ollongren van Binnenlandse Zaken aan de Tweede Kamer. Versoepeling van de rekenregels is volgens haar “onverantwoord omdat oud-studenten daarmee een groter risico lopen op financiële problemen”. …
TU Delft lecturer receives Open Science grant Twenty-six scientists have received amounts up to 50 thousand euros from research financier NWO to make research data freely accessible and easily searchable. One of them is TU professor Artur Schweidtmann (Applied Sciences). More and more scientific articles can be read free of charge by…
Delft solar car in third position halfway through the race The Delft students of the Vattenfall Solar Team are in third place halfway through the race on Wednesday 27 October (on the third day of the race). Normally the World Solar Racing Championships would be held in Australia this autumn. But corona threw a spanner…
Delft researchers helped map the cortex Hundreds of neuroscientists and data experts, amongst whom researchers from TU Delft, built a ‘parts list’ of the motor cortex that controls movement, laying groundwork to map the whole brain and better understand brain diseases. The researchers were brought together by the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research Through…
What if the sea level rises by two metres? If we fail to reduce greenhouse gas emission, the Netherlands will see the sea rise by 1.2 to 2 metres by the end of the century. That’s what the NOS website (in Dutch) wrote about the KNMI Klimaatsignaal ’21 report (in Dutch), which was…
Face masks mandatory again at Flemish universities Face masks are again mandatory at the universities of Antwerp and Ghent. They decided to do so last week because the number of corona infections is increasing. They want to emphasize to politicians and society that the virus must be fought. In Flanders it is…
Marieke Enter / Nieuwsredacteur
