1 juli 2010 - What does ‘home’ mean for you and what feelings does it evoke? Studium Generale is asking staff members and students to think about these questions and to give shape to their feelings in a work of art or a film. Cursor asked four international staff members and students about their ‘home feelings’.
Evert Cornelissen feels at home in Belgium as well as in the Netherlands. Here you see him in De Bierprofessor.
Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
International community: intercultural awareness at TU/e could be better
1 juli 2010 - TU/e has a big, fast-growing international community. Over one fifth of master students are not Dutch. For employees it’s one in three, and for faculty staff it’s even close to one in two. Collaborating with the Dutch at work and university is no problem. Still, socializing proves to be much harder, as the International Student Barometer study shows.
Start Campus 2020 postponed several months due to asbestos
1 juli 2010 -
Expectations are that the conversion of the W-hall will be postponed several months, due to the recent discovery of carcinogenic asbestos fibers on the floor of the crawl space of the W-hall. Approximately seventeen to eighteen employees of construction companies and two or three TU/e employees have been inside the crawl space. They have been notified. It is being examined what health risks they have incurred.
1 juli 2010 -
On the banks of the river Dommel, between Nederwetten and the High Tech Campus, the biennial Doe de Dommeldag will be held again on Sunday 4th July. Along the sixteen-kilometer-long route the municipality and various other organizations will do their best to attract cyclists, skaters and pedestrians from the tracks. TU/e will also join in again and has therefore organized activities and performances.
1 juli 2010 -
The Brabant Center of Entrepreneurship (BCE) offers university classes, workshops and lectures with one purpose: teach students entrepreneurial skills. The program is intended for anyone interested in learning more about entrepreneurship.