About fifteen activists have occupied the roof of the @tue.nl Matrix building. They are protesting the presence of companies like Avular and Smart Photonics at the Career Expo, currently happening on campus.

What if lecturers use AI to assess portfolios that students have compiled using AI? Cursor columnist and @tue.nl professor Boudewijn van Dongen finds himself in a disorienting thought experiment.

Emergency services were called into action yesterday after a highly dangerous substance was accidentally produced in a laboratory on the @tue.nl campus. The chemical has been identified as paraoxon, an extremely toxic organophosphate compound. No one was injured.

In a concrete bunker on the @tue.nl campus, a machine is running that few people ever see, yet hospitals depend on it: a cyclotron. TU/e spin-off AccTec uses it to accelerate proton beams for medical purposes. Soon, a second particle accelerator will be put into operation.

Eindhoven student soccer club Pusphaira played the match of the season against Woenselse Boys on Sunday. Curious about the final score?

TU/e and the municipality of Eindhoven will build 750 new student housing units which are expected to be completed in 2028. To make room for the new development, Sportpark De Hondsheuvels will be reorganized: the golf course will disappear and Hajraa will also have to find a new location.

The Labor Inspectorate will visit @tue.nl on April 21 and May 19 to investigate workload and inappropriate behavior. All fourteen public universities will be visited by the inspectorate for an evaluation of their approach in this area.

For three years, @tue.nl researchers from the group of professor Federico Toschi studied how train passengers move along the platform, and how they board and exit trains. Using sensor technology and physics-based models, they now show that we unconsciously follow the person in front of us.

It’s set to be an exciting weekend as Eindhoven-based student soccer association Pusphaira Men’s 1 (P1) takes on the first team of Woenselse Boys. The two teams are almost equal in the rankings, it's a derby, and P1 is desperate for revenge.

@tue.nl academic Loe Schlicher is one of four nominees for the 2026 Teacher of the Year title. There is more at stake this time, as the prize money has increased: the winner will receive a grant of 50,000 euros for educational innovation.

Their passports don't reveal it, but Kurds are the largest people in the world without their own country. They feel displaced, but they find common ground, among other things through the student association Rojava. There they speak a "forbidden language" and feel at home.

No fewer than twelve Eindhoven city council candidates took part in the election debate organized by students from @tue.nl, Fontys, and Summa.

Research funder NWO has awarded Vici grants to 39 leading researchers, including two scientists from @tue.nl, Danqing Liu and Richard Lopata.

Roy op het Veld, a TU/e alumnus and freelance journalist, will start on March 17 as interim editor-in-chief of Cursor. Op het Veld, who previously held this position at @tue.nl, will temporarily succeed Marieke Verbiesen.

Electrical Engineering is short of more than two hundred workstations in Flux. “And with the expected growth, that shortage is expected to rise to 330 by 2029,” says deputy managing director Corine Spoor. To partially address the problem, part of the department is now moving to the Fenix building.

From catering to air travel: how much CO₂ does TU/e emit – directly or indirectly – when you take everything into account? For the first time, the Sustainability Office has mapped the university’s complete carbon footprint. Last Tuesday afternoon, they presented the results during a walk-in lunch.

You work well with your colleagues, but when it comes down to it, do you also dare to give criticism or share a dissenting opinion? Postdoc Jennifer van den Berg from TU/e studies psychological safety in organizations. “In academia, it often doesn’t pay off to be critical or to show vulnerability.”

What role will AI institute EAISI play when the university rolls out AI even more broadly across the organization? That is the question Carlo van de Weijer will be working to answer over the next six months with a specially appointed taskforce.

Our electricity grid is under pressure, which is increasingly leading to congestion. With new insights from TU/e energy technologists Bart van der Holst and Gijs Verhoeven, grid operators can now use existing capacity more efficiently and effectively.

Some students don’t fit the standard template of the information systems @tue.nl uses. Think of international names or an outdated gender identity. To make IT support around Osiris and Canvas more inclusive, software engineering professor Alexander Serebrenik gave a lunch lecture.

“Backbreaking work” was the first thing Cursor columnist and climate policy researcher Pieter Pauw thought when he saw @tue.nl’s CO2 Footprint. His second reaction: these are spectacular and useful insights.

European seas are full of cables and pipelines, which are vulnerable to sabotage. @tue.nl researcher Egor Bondarev's AIMS lab is contributing to the development of autonomous surveillance boats that use AI to monitor the seabed.

The University Council is a different ballgame than a “regular” participation role, says Thijmen Worm, who recently took his seat. For the first time, January 1 felt more like the beginning of something new for this @tue.nl student than September 1, the start of the academic year.

Björn Baumeier has been elected chair of the Mathematics domain in @tue.nl’s Department of Mathematics & Computer Science through a special procedure: approval voting, which allows voters to vote for more candidates. “A bottom-up way to a broadly supported nomination,” says initiator Frits Spieksma.

Rianne Letschert, the incoming Minister of Education, Culture and Science, rose rapidly through the academic ranks to become a university administrator. She receives widespread praise for her style.

Scientific research is not always reproducible. “Seeing just how poorly it went was a real eye-opener for me,” says Michiel de Boer, founder of the Dutch Reproducibility Network.

Raphaela Gelbach is a third-year Biomedical Engineering student, but she watches more lectures than her curriculum requires. Her side job is livestreaming lectures for students who are not on campus.

The Court of Appeal in 's-Hertogenbosch ruled that a @tue.nl associate professor in the Applied Physics department is entitled to keep his job. The university wanted to dismiss him due to poor performance. Initially, the employment contract was also terminated, but this was overturned on appeal.

The Day of the Engineer 2026 will take place at @tue.nl. On March 11, TU/e will host the KIVI congress and the presentation of the Prince Friso Ingenieursprijs, which Princesses Beatrix and Mabel will attend.

“Sjans en Grietje” is the name of the carnival duo that @tue.nl student Carmen forms with her school friend Lisa. Under that name, she has now released her first carnival track: “Lekker Rije”.

The number of top earners in higher education has declined sharply in recent years. In 2016, 112 professors, deans, and directors received a top-level income; by 2024, only 39 remained.

To escape the noise at her home workspace, Annemarie van Malsen decided to come to the office after all. On Wednesday mornings, it’s so quiet there that she secretly longs for a bit more commotion. She gets her wish.

The intake of first-year university bachelor’s students has declined again. Both international and Dutch students are staying away. Only in Leiden and Delft have numbers increased. Enrollments at @tue.nl decreased by 2.1 procent.

Green hydrogen is often seen as a key technology in the global energy transition. At @tue.nl, Clara Caiafa explores if it can it truly live up to the high expectations.

Marieke Verbiesen will leave her position as editor-in-chief of Cursor. For personal reasons, she has decided to step down from her role at @tue.nl’s independent news medium.

Students stayed living with their parents longer when the basic student grant was abolished. After five years of study, previously 33 percent were still living at home; with the introduction of the student loan system, this rose to 42 percent.

According to sources in The Hague, Rianne Letschert will be the new D66 Minister of Education, Culture and Science. The Maastricht University President of the Executive Board led the coalition negotiations in recent weeks.

An internal audit at @tue.nl has revealed that part of the staff at student sports center SSCE were underpaid for years. The university will compensate the employees for the lost income and interest, which involves an amount of 750,000 euros.

Sky-high rents, poor maintenance, and intimidation by landlords: the complaints coming in at the Meldpunt Kamernood are sometimes “outright shocking,” say the Eindhoven factions of GroenLinks, PvdA, and D66.

From technicians to schedulers, and from IT specialists to catering staff—it takes many hands to keep @tue.nl running smoothly. But who are the people behind the scenes? Cursor introduces you to: Evan Broeren, production assistant at Studium Generale.

Rejected by his family because of his sexual orientation, an Iranian master’s student at TU/e is now facing severe financial hardship and the risk of not completing his studies. His story highlights how vulnerable international students can be when they have to face challenges on their own.

Bullying, exclusion, being held to account: many Jewish students no longer feel welcome within the academic community, writes the Taskforce for Combating Antisemitism. “We recognize the concerns, take them very seriously, and are acting accordingly,” the @tue.nl Executive Board responds.

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Boudewijn van Dongen uses several paid streaming services at home. The sly revenue model of these companies gives him an idea: why don’t we do this at @tue.nl?

Education media are losing readers to AI, just like other news websites. Strict legislation could be a solution, but Media Minister Gouke Moes has not committed to it yet.

Cursor gives all 38 @tue.nl student sports clubs a chance to introduce themselves. This time in the spotlight: Nayade, the swimming and water polo club. Find out all about ‘vlaballen’ and a mascot named Saskia.

Bert Cocu, head coach of the student rowing association Thêta, has been named Eindhoven Sports Coach of the Year.

The minority cabinet of D66, CDA, and VVD wants to reverse the planned cuts to education and is allocating 1.5 billion euros to do so. Major investments in science are not on the table, except possibly through Defense.

It still needs to be formalized, but the City of Eindhoven intends to grant three @tue.nl buildings municipal monument status: the Auditorium, Ceres, and Gemini-Zuid.

The Eindhoven-based student teams Totem Game Dev and Zephyr could not resist when they heard about an academic gaming competition in Sydney. The @tue.nl students joined forces and finished second with a game inspired by Aboriginal culture.