Dirty FingersIf mouse-arm wasn’t bad enough, a study published in ‘The New England Journal of Medicine’ warns against the transmission of germs and diseases via multiple-user keyboards in public and university computer rooms.

June 21st was the longest day of the year, the first official day of summer, and the unofficial start of what the Dutch jokingly call, “Komkommertijd” (Cucumber season), when society slows to a languid, summer holiday-like pace and national news is generally as interesting and dynamic as a cucumber.

Housing ContainersStichting Duwo, the housing company, will build new student housing in Amsterdam this summer. If all goes according to plan, prior to the start of the new academic year Duwo will have built 330 new student housing units on the IJ-oevers.

For most engineering students, MIT is ‘IT’, the university they’ve always dreamed of attending. TU Delft student Wouter Monkhorst is living that dream right now, completing his graduation project at MIT’s Mechanical Engineering faculty.

Ramanan Pitchumani, from India, recently received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from TU Delft. In the appendix to his thesis, ‘Breakage Characteristics of Particles and Granules’, he wrote the following brief discourse on God and science.

Dutch university and college students borrowed half a billion euros last year, nearly double the amount students borrowed five years ago. Minister-President Balkenende’s plan to slash health welfare benefits (WAO) was met with an anonymous death threat, or ..

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.