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Team training in obstetrics teams in hospitals helps reduce harm to new-born babies in the event of acute complications during birth. This is the finding of the PhD study undertaken by gynaecologist Joost van de Ven in collaboration with the Máxima Medical Center (MMC). Van de Ven also showed that this training method was cost-effective. On Tuesday he defends his thesis.

First things that came into mind thinking about New Zealand were beautiful rough nature and rugby, they have the best team of the world! That are actually the two things I enjoyed most so far besides studying for my master Innovation Sciences, it is still STUDYING abroad.

Student associations could make themselves quite a bit more accessible to the many foreign students in the Netherlands, believes the National Chamber of Associations (LKvV). But not by switching the language they converse in to English.

The Auditorium is set to gain some 200 additional study seats. Thanks to a redesign and new furniture, there will soon be room for 630 people to be seated at any one time, whether eating lunch or studying. All over the campus more study seats are being created. The idea is to give over the first two floors of every building primarily to Bachelor's students.

The Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh has conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Science to Onno Boxma, full professor of Stochastic Operations Research in the TU/e department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Sergey Foss, full professor of Applied Probability, and current Editor-in-Chief of the Queuing Systems journal, is Boxma’s honorary tutor.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane: remember when you started here at university and you could finally pick up your new laptop? All new and shiny and you even got to take it home in a ‘fashionable’ bag. To top it all off, you were provided with a clicker. You’re told it’ll be used for quizzes in class all the time. All the time turned out to be a bit of an exaggeration: I used the clicker exactly three times in my entire Bachelor’s. Once I started my Master’s it disappeared into the back of a drawer - the Graduate School doesn’t use clickers…

Stella Vie, that is the name of the latest TU/e solar family vehicle unveiled Wednesday by Solar Team Eindhoven. The car, with space for five rather than four occupants, is rounder and more streamlined than its predecessors, making it quite a bit more aerodynamic.

Startup Hugsy, the spin-off from a student project at TU/e's Department of Industrial Design, has secured over 200,000 euros through crowdfunding. Before the end of the year, the small company hopes this funding will enable it to market a smart baby blanket carrying the mother's scent and a simulation of her heartbeat.