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The Huibregtsen prize 2016 has been won by Prof. Ronald Hanson for his research into 'Safe surfing on the quantum internet'. State Secretary Sander Dekker announced the winner during the annual Avond van Wetenschap en Maatschappij [Science and Society evening]. The prize, consisting of €25,000 and a sculpture of 'The Thinker', is awarded each year for a research project that is scientifically innovative and could lead to a social application.

Perovskites are promising materials that can be used in solar cells. TU Delft researchers have shed more light on what apparently makes these perovskites so suitable as solar cell material. They published their findings on this in Nature Materials on Monday 3 October.

A new building is coming that will provide room for the growing student population, where modern, motivational teaching can be given. Its name is Pulse and it will be situated centrally on the campus between the faculties of 3mE and Industrial Design Engineering. On Monday, 3 October, at 12:30, Anka Mulder, vice-chair of TU Delft, will officially launch the start of construction of the new teaching building Pulse. It will take a year, starting with the installation of screw piles.

Despite having experienced several setbacks, the Nuon Solar Team won the SASOL Solar Challenge in South Africa this weekend. The students from TU Delft covered a distance of 4717 km with their solar car Nuna8s, a new world record for the longest distance driven in a solar race.

During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully learned by itself to see distances using only one eye. Researchers presented the preliminary results of this experiment at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Three TU Delft disciplines are in the THE subject rankings, the Times Higher Education rankings which list the 100 best universities for certain disciplines.

The SASOL Solar Challenge, the longest solar race in the world, began this Saturday 24 September in South Africa: an eight-day race from Pretoria to Cape Town. The Nuon Solar Team defends the title with an improved version of solar car Nuna8 that won the team the World Championship last year in Australia: Nuna8s.

If we are to tame fungi and optimize their extremely important role in our ecosystem, we must gain a more complete view of their functional abilities. Researchers from TU Delft and Utrecht University have exposed a previously hidden layer of functional complexity in fungi. They publish their findings on Friday September 23th in Nature Scientific Reports.

Lake Victoria in East Africa will become a hotspot for hazardous thunderstorms due to climate change. This is shown by an international study published in Nature Communications on the 23rd of September. Stef Lhermitte (TU Delft) analysed the differences between storms during the day (which occur mainly over land) and during the night (occur mainly over the lake).

This year TU Delft has risen to the 59th place in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. Last year TU Delft was ranked 65th and in 2014 71st. University rankings are often consulted by international students and scientists who want to study or work abroad.

On Thursday 22 september public health Professor Oladimeji Oladepo , University of Ibadan (Nigeria), gives a Global Talk on the burden of malaria. He brings his knowledge and experiences into the Delft Global Fellowship on the Optical Smart Malaria Diagnost of Prof. Michel Verhaegen, Prof. Gleb Vdovin and Temitope Agbana

From Germany to Spain, The Netherlands, Greece and The United Kingdom. Ten promising early stage startups in Life Sciences & Health Technology from all over Europe participated in the EIT Health LaunchLab pressure cooker programme in the past two months.

Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new hybrid drone that takes off like a helicopter before tilting 90 degrees and then continuing to fly like an aircraft. The drone does this using mainly a single large propeller, which means that it has hardly any unnecessary control actuators on board when in flight. This makes the unmanned aircraft, known as the ‘delftAcopter’, suitable for providing medical aid in difficult to reach areas, for example. From 27 to 29 September, the drone will be competing in Australia's UAV Medical Express Challenge.

AMS Institute launches Roboat: the world’s first major research program on autonomous floating vessels in metropolitan areas. Roboat will be conducted by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Delft University of Technology (TUD) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR). The five-year program has a budget of €25 million and is set in Amsterdam.

Earlier today, students attending TU Delft and VU Amsterdam became the third fastest student team at a bicycle speed race in the USA. Former Olympic ice skater Jan Bos raced on behalf of the student team in the World Human Powered Speed Challenge. Bos recorded a top speed of 124.73 km/h on the lightning-fast Velox 6: a high-tech, aerodynamic recumbent bike designed and built by TU Delft and VU Amsterdam students. The world record was also broken at last night’s event, with Canadian Todd Reichert achieving a speed of 144.15 km/h.

Three students of the MSc. TIL, Srikumaar R. Ganesan, Bon Bakermans and Anirudh K. Bhoopalam, participated in the Dutch Hyperloop Challenge, organized by Connekt, in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Topsector Logistics, Rijkswaterstaat, the City of Amsterdam, KPN, Capgemini and NXP. This challenge was organized to pick the overall best team to represent the Netherlands in the finals of "Hyperloop One Global Challenge".