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Internationale studenten worden VS toch niet uitgezet

15 / 07 / 2020

Internationale studenten hoeven de Verenigde Staten toch niet te verlaten als ze na de zomer alleen online onderwijs volgen. Nu universiteiten een rechtszaak hebben aangespannen, heeft Trump zijn omstreden nieuwe visumregels weer geschrapt.

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International students allowed to stay in US after all

15 / 07 / 2020

International students will not be required to leave the United States if they are only enrolled in online courses after the summer. Now that universities have instituted legal proceedings, President Trump has scrapped his controversial visa rules.

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Thanksgiving turkey for UT students in Boston

28 / 11 / 2019

For the second year in a row, UT alumnus Jaap van Reijendam has invited UT students to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family in Boston. Today he is expecting fifteen people over for dinner, four of them University of Twente students who are currently in the US.

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05 / 11 / 2018

‘I see a lot of opportunities in the US’

The UT’s Alumni Relationship Manager Joe Laufer just returned from ‘a tour of the US’, where he attended a series of alumni events organized by the UT, TU Delft, TU/e and Wageningen. The main purpose: to reconnect with local ‘Dutch Engineers Alumni Network’ communities.

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18 / 04 / 2017

Trump: alleen beste wetenschappers nog welkom

President Trump wil morgen een decreet ondertekenen dat het buitenlanders moeilijk maakt om in de Verenigde Staten te komen werken. Ook afgestudeerden kunnen straks minder makkelijk blijven ‘hangen’.

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12 / 04 / 2017

Researching urban resilience in Hoboken

Two teams of UT students, two projects focused on urban resilience and two months in the U.S.: that is Project Hoboken. Its second edition has recently started and participating students are now forming their research topics – one team will focus on green infrastructure in Hoboken, while the other team plans to investigate the impact of social media on social resilience.

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16 / 02 / 2017

Project Hoboken: UT students at Stevens Institute

The second edition of Project Hoboken is starting today. As a part of this transatlantic cooperation program, six UT students will spend two months at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, where they will work on research projects related to urban resilience.

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02 / 02 / 2017

UT supports call against travel ban

The UT backs the European Universities Association’s call to repeal the travel ban, which was ordered by Donald Trump and impacts citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. ‘Our community must a be a hospitable one,’ says UT rector Thom Palstra.

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01 / 02 / 2017

UT scientist can’t go to MIT?

It was hard to miss last weekend’s news: Donald Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States for the next ninety days. This ban impacts many people, including scientists such as Iranian PhD candidate Davood Baratian who might not be able to conduct his planned research at MIT.

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09 / 11 / 2016

‘Trump and Clinton’ at the UT

What makes Donald Trump’s rhetoric so powerful? How did he win over millions of voters and become the 45th president of the United States? Yesterday’s Studium Generale event shone a light on these topics.