Dewis veroordeelt ‘de gewelddadige aanvallen op burgers en studenten tijdens de protesten die volgden op de dood in gevangenschap van Mahsa Amini’ en is solidair ‘met alle vrouwenrechten en de vrijheid van meningsuiting’. Dat staat in een solidariteitsverklaring (English only) van dit netwerk van vrouwelijke wetenschappers aan de TU Delft met vrouwen ‘en…
TU Delft student to advise United Nations Delft physics bachelor student Fenna Timsi (21) has been elected youth human rights and security representative. Over the next two years, she will gather young people’s ideas and opinions and offer them to policymakers, such as those of the United Nations General Assembly. Fenna Timsi.…
Unconventional coastal protection proposal TU Delft, HKV lijn in water and RoyalHaskoning DHV have presented a new plan to protect the southwest of the Netherlands against sea level rise. Impression of the Holland barrier at Hoek van Holland. (Illustration: Ties Rijcken and Koen Meijman) The conventional approach would mean significant dike…
Meeting: empathising with Iran What is it like to live under an oppressive regime like the one in Iran? What happens when, as now, part of the population turns against such a regime and takes to the streets to demand change? During a meeting on Thursday 13 October, some Iranian PhD students at…
‘How to support Iranian students and scientists?’ As Iranian students and staff at TU Delft organise remembrances and call on the Executive Board to support colleagues in Iran as well as the Netherlands, the GroenLinks party in the Dutch House of Representatives has posed parliamentary questions (in Dutch). They want to know from…
Student PhDs in Groningen insufficiently compensated for inflation The scholarships of Groningen student PhDs will increase by 4% this year, even though inflation is much higher. The university is not abiding by the agreements, argues interest group PNN. Generally, PhD students are employed as employees, but in recent years universities were allowed…
New rules may mean that more Delft students receive an energy allowance. For those that miss out, there will be a special welfare benefit with more flexible conditions.
Minister understands about housing shortage warning Students are sometimes told that they had better look for another university if they have not found accommodation by the start of the academic year. Education Minister Dijkgraaf understands this. ‘The shortage of student housing affects all students, including Dutch students’, he replied to written questions from D66. The…
Nobel Prize for Neanderthal genome For unravelling the DNA of Neanderthals and other humanoids, Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Pääbo is considered the father of ‘palaeogenetics’. He researches the genetic material of extinct species and he mapped the genome of Neanderthal man, a human species…
TU Delft inclusion week kicks off Lectures, workshops and an actual ‘autism experience circuit’: the week of 3 October is Diversity and Inclusion Week at TU Delft. Current topics such as social safety, unconscious bias and inclusive design will pass by. For the opening, TU Delft enlisted journalist Joris Luyendijk, among others. In…
