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‘NVAO committee visibly impressed by UT’

22 / 01 / 2020

The NVAO committee, which audited the UT at the end of 2019, has verbally announced that the UT education meets the standards of the Institutional Quality Assurance Audit. According to the project leader and UT secretary Susanne Wichman, ‘the committee is very positive across the board.’

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News22 / 01 / 2020

Lisa Waldera (24) is a master’s student Communication Studies from Bremen, Germany. For three years now, she’s been living on campus. Next to her study, she regularly visits the cinema and enjoys concerts of all music genres. Every other week she writes about her life at the University of Twente.

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20 / 01 / 2020

‘It’s like it was meant to be’

They met in class in 2007, when they were both students at the UT. They fell in love, stayed together and graduated in the same week. Now married, Anne Steins (32) and Lex van Loon (31) are about to move to the Australian National University, where they will do research on space medicine and help to implement the field they both studied - Technical Medicine.

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17 / 01 / 2020

‘De UT-cultuur is er één om te bewaken’

Nienke Boersma begon in oktober als lid van de Raad van Toezicht. De directeur Reporting bij Achmea is geen onbekende op de campus. Ze studeerde technische natuurkunde en is lid van het Ambassadeursnetwerk. ‘Ik hoop waarde toe te voegen aan de UT.’

De Tussenstand

15 / 01 / 2020

‘Ik begrijp mezelf beter dan ooit tevoren’

Hinke Mulder (53) is strategisch PR-manager en werkt aan de profilering van onderwijs, onderzoek en ondernemerschap. Ze is alleenstaand moeder en woonde in Suriname. Onafhankelijkheid is haar grootste goed, maar dat moet wel ingegeven zijn door het hart.

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Nutreco launches global prize to ‘Feeding the Future’

Test your tech at the Pub Quiz

Dare to innovate

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India: a country to keep an eye on

Studium Generale

In the second Studium Generale of the new year, former Dutch ambassador Fons Stoelinga talked about India: its relationship with the West, how it sees itself and why India is overlooked by the West in comparison with China. Stoelinga had some interesting views on the ‘emergent superpower’.

Campus life 21 / 01 / 2020
Arabisch koken en Hamlet in nieuw cultuurseizoen
De wedstrijd van de week 20 / 01 / 2020
DIOK wint eenvoudig in studentenonderonsje
De wedstrijd van de week 13 / 01 / 2020
‘We zijn er volle bak ingevlogen’
Campus life 13 / 01 / 2020
Gala mores: an introduction to student lifestyle

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14 / 01 / 2020

Attractive hosts charge more on Airbnb

Would you like to charge more for your Airbnb listing? Make sure you look pretty in your profile photo. A study by UT researcher Mariëlle Stel and colleagues shows that consumers pay more for accommodation offered by attractive hosts.

Science

09 / 01 / 2020

Morphing helps criminals across the border

Digitally altering your face is all the rage. Think of those popular ageing apps that you can use to find out what you will look like when you are old. Did you know that criminals use so-called face morph apps to illegally travel across the border? Luuk Spreeuwers, associate professsor in the Data Science department, is researching this computer technology.

Science

06 / 01 / 2020

Using AI to improve education at the UT

Sometimes, the work of Hightech Business & Entrepreneurship researchers strays beyond the boundaries of what you would expect from the department. Sometimes it could even prove to be more beneficial and even applicable for the university itself. That is the case with the work of Efthymios Constantinides, Rudy Oude Vrielink and Adina Aldea.

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What U think

22 / 01 / 2020

English everywhere, please

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15 / 01 / 2020

Het weer: Bewolkt met kans op stressbuien

Roy van Zijl (21) is masterstudent werktuigbouwkunde én een talentvol atleet. Hij schrijft om de week een column voor U-Today, over wat hem opvalt op de campus.

Van de redactie

09 / 01 / 2020

Lingua non grata

Het commentaar van U-Today. De UT fungeert als kop van jut als het gaat om taalbeleid. Het gevoel dat in Enschede overheerst: de UT is niet perfect, maar het is ónze imperfecte universiteit. En we blijven gewoon Nederlands of Twents praten.