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CSM, Royal DSM and Delft University of Technology are participating in a joint venture for bioprocess research. The new company Bioprocess Pilot Facility BV (BPF) is based in Delft and aims at scale-up research and education for next generation bioprocesses The official opening of the facility is today May 15, 2012.
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ZOMERfestival 2012 is coming; it all starts on Friday June 1. Time for the seventh ZOMERfestival on the Sport & Culture site. Tickets are still available for what will be a massive jubilee edition. Experience the Delft ZOMERfestival.
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The Delft Urban Water Centre has been active behind the scenes for some time now and the network of Delft urban water scientists is steadily expanding. The time has now come for the Delft Urban Water Centre to go public, with its official kick-off event on Tuesday, 29 May 2012. At the event, the three major research themes for the upcoming period will be featured in detail: ‘Urban water and...
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In 2012 TU Delft is celebrating its 170th anniversary. One of the activities being organised to mark the occasion is the Urban Water Movie Contest. For this TU Delft is asking participants to send in their solutions to urban water problems in the form of a short film lasting up to three minutes. Three winning entries, selected by a panel of experts, will be premiered on 31 May during the special...
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Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology have discovered a key element in the mechanism of DNA repair. When the DNA double helix breaks, the broken end goes searching for the similar sequence and uses that as a template for repair. Using a smart new dual-molecule technique, the Delft group has now found out how the DNA molecule is able to perform this...
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On 1 May two European public-private consortia in the area of the biobased economy – the Dutch BE-Basic and the German CLIB2021 – have signed a memorandum of understanding to confirm their plans to collaborate. The parties signed the contract during the Bio World Congress on the bio economy in Orlando, Florida.
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The European Patent Office (EPO) has nominated TU Delft’s Dr. Merle de Kreuk, Prof.Dr. Sef Heijnen and Prof.Dr. Mark van Loosdrecht for the 2012 European Inventor Award (EIA) for the development of the water purification technology Nereda® in cooperation with the engineering consultancy firm DHV and the Dutch water boards. The invention enables the purification of industrial and household waste...
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On Wednesday 18 April, Prof. Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology) received the ISNSCE Nanoscience Price 2012. The yearly price is awarded by the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Computation. Dekker receives the award ‘in recognition of outstanding discoveries and contributions to the field of (biomolecular) nanoscale science and nanotechnology’.
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Over the last 40 years, productivity in the Nursing, Residential Care and Homecare (NRH) sector has decreased. The decrease was especially substantial in the period since 1997. This doesn’t mean that care workers no longer work as hard as they used to, but it could be related to the rising care burden. However, while productivity has decreased, the quality of the care provided has increased. This...
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Thirty top students from a variety of disciplines at every university in the Netherlands have been selected for the Netherlands – Asia Honours Summer School 2012. This is the first group of students to attend two four-week summer school courses at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This summer school was funded and organised by a unique public-private partnership between Dutch universities,...
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Using the odd-shaped bacteria that they recently discovered, scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology have discovered that DNA acts as a major scaffold which accurately coordinates the location of proteins that mediate the cell division. The researchers publish their results today in the scientific journal PNAS.
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