12.01.2012 – The EU initial training network PEPMIP or »Robust Affinity Materials for Applications in Proteomics and Diagnostics« will focus on the development of robust “antibodies” made of plastic and other tailor-made materials, for applications in bioanalysis. It is supported with roughly three million Euro and will be coordinated by PD Dr. Börje Sellergren from the Faculty of Chemistry at Technische Universität Dortmund.
01.12.2011 – Prof. Sonja Herres-Pawlis obtains the NRW-Innovation Prize in the category young scientist which includes prize money of 50,000 Euro. With this prize the head of a junior research group at the Faculty of Chemistry of Technische Universität Dortmund and professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich was awarded for her outstanding research. She succeeded in finding a chemical key for the development of compostable plastic – her vision is a world without plastic waste. The prize was awarded in Düsseldorf in the presence of the Minister-President Hannelore Kraft on November, 14th.
24.10.2011 – Prof. Dr. Sebastian Engell, Process Dynamics and Operations Group of the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering of TU Dortmund (Principal Investigator), and Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Bock, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Universität Heidelberg (Co-Investigator), have been selected for an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant by the expert panel of the European Research Council. The overall funding of 3.5 million € is recommended for the joint project »Model-based Optimizing Control – from a vision to industrial reality«.
23.08.2011 – Here it is: the new »International Alumni Newsletter«! It features reports and news from TU Dortmund and tells stories about the Ruhr Area. International alumni also have the possibility to share their own stories from their home countries and memories about their time in Germany with others.
16.08.2011 – The guide for international students is meant to give new students a successful start at TU Dortmund. The staff of the international office has collected a lot of information – in English and German.
30.07.2011 – On July 6th the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Phillip Rösler, honored the winners of the national competition »EXIST-Culture of Entrepreneurship: Start-Up Universities«. TU Dortmund is one of the ten winners of the competition. The concept »tu-startup«, presented by TU, City and TechnologieZentrumDortmund, won out over 23 fellow candidates in the final round.
28.07.2011 – TU Dortmund has further improved equality in science. After evaluating the interim reports concerning the realization of research-oriented equality standards, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) included the university in the top group at the end of June. From stage 3 in 2009, TU Dortmund got to stage 4. Among others, the convincing strategy, the innovative approaches and the implementation of the topic in first-line-management were spoken of in high terms.
31.05.2011 – About 550 scholars of the German Academic Exchange Service met at Technische Universität Dortmund on the 27th and 28th of May. The young academics are from 96 different countries, especially from Africa, Latin America, Middle and East Europe and the CIS countries. Many of them already graduated in their home countries and are now complementing their studies at German universities. In Dortmund they got the chance to meet each other and to exchange experiences.
12.05.2011 – The University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR) – Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Technische Universität Dortmund and Universität Duisburg-Essen - now shows its colors in Latin America. Following New York and Moscow it opened a joint lobbying office in Rio de Janeiro together with numerous well-known guests on Monday, May 9th. In September the relations between UAMR and South America are to be expanded with another office in the German Center for Science and Innovation (DIWH -Deutsches Wissenschafts- und Innovationshaus) in Sao Paulo. The topping out ceremony for this center already took place in the presence of the Federal President Christian Wulf and a delegation of UAMR on May 6th.
11.05.2011 – Magneto-optical effects, which exploit the interaction between light and magnetic materials, have only been relevant for fundamental research and up to now rarely used for applications. Plasmons – electronic excitations in metals with dimensions at the nanoscale – recently opened a new way to concentrate light at nanoscale. This allows plasmonic circuits to be built with electrical as well as optical control at this dimension scale. It would be ideal to apply such optical control for processing data on hard drives. This way writing and scanning frequencies of up to one billion operations per second, impossible so far, can be achieved. For this purpose it should be possible to optically switch the magnetic storage elements of a nanometer size on such hard drives. Optical excitation of plasmons could also be used here. Physicists at TU Dortmund around Dr. Ilya Akimov and colleagues from Russia and India now succeeded in developing a procedure to merge magneto-optics and plasmonics.
12.04.2011 – The Senate of Technische Universität Dortmund overwhelmingly accepted the solid vote of the Supervisory Board concerning the new constitution of the Rectorate. The art historian Prof. Barbara Welzel and the chemical engineer Prof. Andrzej Górak now complete the team of the Rectorate. Prof. Welzel takes over the newly established Prorectorate Diversity Management. Prof. Górak is responsible for Research and Prof. Metin Tolan, former Prorector for Research, for Academic Affairs. The former Prorector for Academic Affairs, Prof. Walter Grünzweig, receded from his office after two and a half years.
03.03.2011 – A practically orientated contribution to Indonesia’s democratic consolidation on the basis of the development of political science transformation theories is the object of a new research project at Technische Universität Dortmund. The Federal Foreign Office sponsors the project »Consolidating Indonesia’s Fragile Democratic Transition: Strengthening Civic-Political Education and Empowering Civil Society« with more than 500.000 €.
15.02.2011 – In case of the Bose-Einstein-Condensation gases consisting of ultra-cold atoms change into a collective quantum state where they all have the same features. This state and the associated features are very interesting, for example, for the production of new circuits where the condensed particles flow nearly unimpeded. The problem is that the condensation with atoms only takes place in case of extremely low temperatures, rendering practical use completely impossible. Now physicists from TU Dortmund around Dr. Marc Aßmann and Prof. Manfred Bayer and in close cooperation with colleagues from Würzburg succeeded in creating the lightest condensate from substantial particles which can in fact be used at some kelvin.
09.12.2010 – Gabriele Sadowski, Professor for Thermodynamics at TU Dortmund’s Faculty Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, obtains the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, probably the most respected German research prize. For the scientist this award does not only mean the highest international kudos, it also comes with prize money in the amount of 2.5 million EUR. The chemical engineer can use this money over a period of up to seven years according to her own concept of scientific work and projects. TU-Rector Prof. Ursula Gather congratulated the new Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Laureate: “This award honors the extraordinary scientific performance of Gabriele Sardowski in the field of thermodynamics, as evidenced by the high-flying third-party fund raising in the last years”.
25.11.2010 – One new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) and three already existing ones, which will be funded for an additional four-year period – that’s TU Dortmund’s extremely successful outcome of the current grants procedure of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). “TU Dortmund will thus get additional research funds totaling to 20 million Euros for the next four years”, states TU-Rector Prof. Ursula Gather. “That is a huge success which strongly strengthens our profile areas”. The new CRC “Availability of Information through Analysis under Resource Constraints” (CRC 876) is coordinated by the Faculty Computer Science.
12.11.2010 – By tradition, the Rector of Technische Universität Dortmund, Prof. Ursula Gather, welcomed the international freshers during the International Reception. On Thursday (11th November) the Dortmund mayor Ullrich Sierau took the opportunity to welcome the freshers from more than 100 different countries on behalf of the city of Dortmund for the first time. Besides awarding the DAAD Prize and the DAAD Erasmus Prize, the award for the best student council was also part of the program in the International Center. In addition, the laureates of the film competition of the International Office were also honored. The program was rounded off by the lecture »So Many Places…So Little Time!« by Alex Tagaroulias, Marketing Manager at the Australian University of Newcastle.
08.11.2010 – Grasslands as far as the eye can see; on the horizon, snow-covered mountains shining in the light of the setting sun. In the foreground, a cowboy leans casually against his pick-up-truck while proudly watching his horses on the prairie. This is not a scene taken from a Western, but a typical American car advertisement from the 1980s. At that time, car advertising in Germany looked different; there, the engineer played the main role. Functionality, progress and economy counted most. But where do these differences in advertising come from; why do American car companies appeal to their customers’ emotions while German ones address their brains?
04.11.2010 – Scholarships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are very special for scientists: only a few are selected and allowed to work at a science institution of their choice abroad. With the purpose to strengthen the network, to improve the exchange, to integrate foreign students and to reintegrate returnees, members of the German Humboldt Club have established a regional group in cooperation with the three Ruhr universities. 33 Humboldtians and guests from the region now met for the opening ceremony in the International Lounge of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
06.10.2010 – On October 6th the new North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Science, Svenja Schulze, visited the TU Dortmund for the first time. After talks with members of the rectorate, the university council and the senate of the university the minister also held a discussion with students of the TU.
18.08.2010 – New at TU Dortmund, new surroundings, new perspectives: All these new experiences can be documented by camera, made into a short film and handed in for a student-competition held by the Office of International Relations. The topic of the film is freely selectable; only one general condition has to be given: the film is only allowed to be one minute long. The winners of the competition can look forward to a total of 500 Euros as prize money.