Pauline van der Meer Mohr

TEDx Rotterdam is about to kick off – we are counting down to 13 October, when 15 students are going to replace 15 CEOs in Rotterdam for one day. Hans Buller (CEO Erasmus MC) and I are both participating in this initiative and we are looking forward to a full day of doodling, idling and [...]

The University of Chicago may consider itself lucky. An article in the New York Times regaled a story of Carolyn Bucksbaum, wife of a wealthy entrepreneur, who met with the arrogance of a physician who brusquely dismissed her intuition about her ailment decades ago. It turned out she was right. The physician was wrong. “We [...]

Last Sunday, I enjoyed the final concert in the Gergiev Festival series at the Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam. It was good to see that the hall was almost full to its capacity of 1,500 guests, which I understand is not that common on Sunday evenings. The Rotterdam Philharmonic played majestically as always, under the [...]

It’s that time of the year again – tomorrow all lovers of Orange will watch tv or stroll down the houses of Parliament in The Hague in an attempt to catch a glimpse of her Majesty as she travels in her golden carriage to read out the government’s state of the union speech. What will [...]

Is it the silence before the storm, or are we just getting used to working in a construction pit? After a few weeks of wearing ear protection because of the drilling activities on site, we have a temporary lull in noise production. Starting Novermber, we can look forward to some 8-10 weeks of hammering construction [...]

The new academic year has started with lots of press attention for our collaboration plans with Delft and Leiden. Actually, we are not talking about plans, because the train has already left the station. There are numerous examples of collaboration between the three. Think not only Medical Delta. In the eighties, the interfaculteit bedrijfskunde started [...]

…to sleep, perchance to dream? All right, away with these obvious quotes. If there is any drama in what Leiden, Delft and Erasmus have announced yesterday, it is to be found on the opinion pages of the papers. The fact that these 3 universities are intensifying their collaboration, is nothing new. We announced it already [...]