News Open menu 26 September 2018 Sand Motor as continuous field laboratory for teaching and research The Sand Motor, a large-scale peninsula comprising 21 million cubic metres of sand created on the coast at Kijkduin-Ter Heijde, has become a leading example worldwide of sustainable coastal protection. How is nature developing here, how are the dunes being replenished, and what is happening to the coastline? To answer these questions we need high-quality measuring equipment to continually monitor the coastline here. Thanks to financial support from Stichting Zabawas, the Sand Motor has now become a field laboratory for teaching and research in hydraulic engineering. Read more 03 September 2018 25th edition Best Professor Award received by Cees Dekker On Monday 3 September, Cees Dekker, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (AS) received the Best Professor Award 2018. Read more 02 July 2018 Cees Dekker surprised with Best Professor Award 2018 On Monday 2 July, Cees Dekker, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (AS), was surprised... Read more 30 May 2018 Ionica Smeets Alumnus of the year 2018 of the TU Delft Mathematician and Professor of Science communication Ionica Smeets has been named Alumnus of the Year 2018. She was chosen by a jury, consisting of Tim van der Hagen (president of the Executive Board of the TU Delft) and Michael Wisbrun (president of the Delft University Fund), on recommendation of the EEMCS faculty, where Ionica received her degree in Applied Mathematics in 2005. Read more 16 May 2018 Martha Deen - winner of the Marina van Damme Scholarship 2018 On Wednesday, May 16, the award ceremony of the Marina van Damme Scholarship 2018 took place. The jury nominated no less than four candidates for the 9.000 euro Scholarship. Martha Deen, alumna faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), is the winner of this prestigious scholarship. With her ambitious plan to map the energy potential of the ocean, she convinced the jury. Read more 26 April 2018 Safe drinking water for all with smart, new drinking water technologies Access to safe drinking water is a global challenge, particularly affecting the rural poor in developing countries. This urgent problem requires new, smart solutions for the removal of a wide range of contaminants of global concern, such as arsenic, fluoride, pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes. Read more 06 April 2018 How Master student Alberto contributes to impact Master student Alberto Gancedo from Spain got the opportunity, via Delft University Fund, to start his Master’s programme Microelectronics at TU Delft in September 2017. Besides studying, he is also working on his own project ‘Amplitude-integrated EEG measurement system (aEEG)’. Alberto’s goal: to develop a small, portable and cheap monitoring device to detect babies unusual brain activity directly after birth. Read more 27 March 2018 Catching up with... Jetty van Ginkel This year's Marina van Damme Scholarship will be awarded on 16 May 2018. Dr. Marina van Damme will again be attending in person to welcome all the nominees. Last year's presentation of the grant, in June 2017, had a highly unexpected result. Because of the exceptionally high level of the nominees, Marina van Damme decided to reward not one but two of them with the full grant of €9,000. Read more 20 March 2018 Save the date: 7 June Alumni & Relations Event Read more 20 February 2018 Extra funding opportunity for TU Delft bachelor students Delft University Fund has made €25.000 extra available for TU Delft bachelor students. All bachelor students who plan to do something special or extraordinary but lack the financial means to do so, can now submit an application. Read more ... Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 You are on page 7 Page 8 Search Open menu Search 46437 results Sign up for the digital newsletter of the University Fund! Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page