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.

After two years of homesickness in Delft, Xia Ping (29) and Helen Guo (31), returned to Shanghai last August. And they were in for a shock, because despite having degrees from TU Delft, there were no jobs waiting for the two engineers in Shanghai.

TU Delft wants to reach out to students who are worried about the fate of their relatives in Iraq or its bordering countries. But offering financial and psychological support isn’t as easy as it seems.

StrugglingThey come here, study, and then return to China with their new TU diplomas and hopes for a brighter professional future. Chinese students are the fastest growing group of foreign TU students and that trend seems certain to continue.

Nothing quite like death to stop you in your tracks…mid-step…grab you by the scruff of the neck, stuff your face in life’s mountainous dung heap of inanities..