The new unizet is out
- News
The new issue of unizet focuses on the successes of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), among other things. TU Dortmund University, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen have combined their strengths to reach the second round of the Excellence Strategy. They have thus taken an important step towards being able to compete as an Excellence Alliance next year. The unizet also focuses on other UA Ruhr projects, including the Research Alliance Ruhr and a joint research training group.
From Nobel Prize winners to honorary doctorates
unizet presents the various measures TU Dortmund University is taking to combat abuse of power and discrimination: among other things, the Central Advice Centre for Protection against Discrimination and Sexualised Violence (SchuDS) began its work in autumn 2023. A highlight on campus was the lecture by Nobel Prize winner in physics Prof Reinhard Genzel on galaxies and black holes, which he gave as part of the "Initialzündung" event series. In the "Studies and Teaching" section, unizet reports on Dr Vanessa Henke and Dr Lena Tacke, who were awarded the State Teaching Prize.
On page six of unizet, readers can find out what topics the new interdisciplinary research centre DAEDALUS, which brings together the departments of physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, bioengineering, chemical engineering and computer science at TU Dortmund University, is working on. The campus newspaper also provides information on the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Prof Ed Folsom from the University of Iowa, the NRW Innovation Prize, which the TU spin-off MotionMiners received, and the Dr Michael Brenscheidt Transfer Prize, which TU Dortmund University awarded for the first time in January for special achievements in research transfer.
Special page on internationalization
On a special page on internationalization, Prof. Tessa Flatten, Vice-Rector for International Affairs, reports on the international orientation of TU Dortmund University. Various guest and funding programmes are also presented.
On page 10, readers are given an insight into the science show "Physikanten & Co.", which presented entertaining physics experiments at the Dortmunder U to mark the 20th anniversary of the event series "Zwischen Brötchen und Borussia". An interdisciplinary exhibition between physics and art was subsequently opened there at the TU Dortmund University Days.