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29 November 2019
TU Delft 53th in THE University Employability Ranking
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TU Delft ranks 53th in the Times Higher Education Global University Employability Ranking 2019, two places higher than last year.
28 November 2019
TU Delft tops new global MOOC rankings
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TU Delft has topped the latest World University Rankings Based On MOOC Performance (WURMP).
25 November 2019
Mark van Loosdrecht elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
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The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CEA) has announced that it has elected Mark van Loosdrecht, Professor of Environmental Biotechnology, as a member.
21 November 2019
‘Ruler-less measuring’ at crime scenes
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Researchers at TU Delft and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) have developed a new ‘ruler-less prototype’ that may make the use of a physical ruler at the crime scene redundant.
21 November 2019
Crowdsourced ‘supercomputer’ enables more localised and accurate rainfall forecasts
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Accurate forecasts of rainfall are crucial in Africa, where 95% of agriculture depends on highly localised rainfall. Currently, forecasts are based on satellite data and are not sufficiently accurate for small geographical areas.
19 November 2019
Building a Mars base with bacteria
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How do you make a base on Mars? Simple: you send some bacteria to the red planet and you let them mine iron.
18 November 2019
Predicting people’s driving personality
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A team of researchers from MIT and TU Delft has developed a new system that sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless.
15 November 2019
How to Expand and Contract Curved Surfaces of all Shapes
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Researchers at TU Delft have designed a dilation method that can be applied to any curved surface. The range of applications include medical braces for children, expandable furniture, or aortic stents.
15 November 2019
Researchers see rapidly hunting CRISPR system in action
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12 November 2019
Djonno Bresser is TU Delft Best Graduate 2019
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Today, at the TU Delft Best Graduate Award Ceremony 2019, eight recently graduated engineers presented their research and results of their excellent master thesis. Djonno Bresser, graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), received the prestigious title TU Delft Best Graduate 2019.