RUb Alumni Newsletter
january 2013
Dear Alumni,
the RUB Alumni team would like to wish you a good and successful 2013 and will also continue to provide you with news about the RUB and the RUB Alumni!
In this newsletter, you can find information and links on the following topics:
1) RUB50 - The Search for historical objects connected to the Ruhr-Universität
2) 20 + 40 = "Silver" and "Golden" graduation anniversaries for Alumni
3) RUBIN - now available in English too!
4) New Alumni Interview
5) RUB Scholarship Fund - our Alumni scholarship recipients in 2012/13
6) "Wege in die Praxis" - looking for engineers amoung young RUB Alumni
7) Lecture Series at the RUB - Alumni warmly invited
8) Ancient Persian art in the Campus Museum
9) RUB Alumni 2012
10) Dates, parties, events
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1) RUB50 - The Search for historical objects connected to the Ruhr-Universität
The Ruhr-Universität will be 50 in 2015 – a reason to look back and celebrate! Preparations for the festivities have, of course, long since begun. Among other things, there will be an exhibition on the topic of “The History of the Ruhr-Universität”; we are still looking for exhibits connected to the RUB dated from 1965 until today.
Do you still have interesting objects or documents from your time at the university that tell a special RUB story of their own? Would you be prepared to donate or loan the article to the Ruhr-Universität Archives?
These are the kinds of things we are looking for:
- Collections of student publications such as flyers/brochures/ magazines from AStA, student boards and political groups
- Records of your own AStA or student board work
- Records of committee work in the faculties
- Publications by faculties, lecture lists with commentaries (“Event Guides”)
- Student passes, course record books, event and fee slips
- Other documents, posters, photographs, audio recordings and films
- Any other memorabilia connected with the RUB
Contact us: a brief description of the document or object and an outline of your personal connection to it will suffice to start with. Send your email to alumni@rub.de or call +49 (0)234 32-27512.
Together with Jörg Lorenz, head of the Ruhr-Universität Archives, we – and you – will decide whether your documents or objects can be used in the exhibition and/or kept in the University Archives on account of their historical significance and taking principles of preservation into account. This would make them available for future research.
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2) 20 + 40 = “Silver” and “Golden” graduation anniversaries for Alumni
Are you one of the Alumni who finished studying at the Ruhr-Universität 20, or even 40, years ago? We would like to honour you at our next Academic Anniversary this coming autumn with a “silver” or “golden” degree certificate and use this auspicious occasion together with you to look back at your time at the Ruhr-Universität and your career afterwards.
So if you finished at the RUB in 1993 or 1973, log on to the RUB Alumni Network, click on “My Profile” and enter your details – only this way can we find out about you and invite you to this party!
To the RUB Alumni Network
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3) RUBIN – now available in English too!
The biannual academic magazine RUBIN 
reports on current research from all fields at the Ruhr-Universität in layman’s terms. There is also an additional annual edition on a specialist theme.
RUBIN is now also appearing in English (once a year)! You can subscribe to the magazine free of charge as a RUB Alumni member. Write an email with your postal address to alumni@rub.de and tell us if you want to receive RUBIN in German or English.
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Dr Eleonore Soei-Winkels came to the Ruhr-Universität in 2005 in order to do her PhD at the International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN) and the RUB Research School with an aim to becoming a professor. And because life sometimes takes unexpected turns, just like the rollercoasters she loves so much, she took a sideways turn into the IT industry after completing her PhD …
To the interview with Dr Soei-Winkels
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5) RUB Scholarship Fund - our Alumni scholarship recipients in 2012/13
In addition to the NRW scholarships, the Ruhr-Universität has once again been able to award “Deutschlandstipendium” scholarships to RUB students this year. All in all more than 240 scholarships were awarded. We would like to extend our warmest thanks to our Alumni; many of them took on a scholarship in pairs or even individually. The scholarship recipients and their sponsors were also able to meet their sponsors at the scholarship party in November:
photos from the party
The Alumni Scholarship from the RUB Scholarship Fund is made up of many small donations from former RUB members. This year’s winners were Jasmin Schabel and Raffael Beier.
Find out more about the two Alumni Scholarship recipients here
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6) “Wege in die Praxis” – looking for engineers among young RUB Alumni
The joint research project ELLI (Exzellentes Lehren und Lernen in den Ingenieurwissenschaften, “Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering”) pursues the goal of reducing the number of those who drop out of university by means of stronger identification with engineering studies and careers. Students and Alumni who studied engineering are invited to join the debate in order to illustrate the challenges of the course and possible career entries from different points of view.
On the afternoon of 26 March ELLI is hosting “Wege in die Praxis” [“Paths to Practice”]. For this event, ELLI are looking for engineering alumni who have only been in employment for a year or so and therefore still have a strong connection to student life. Would you like to pass on your experiences of working life? You can introduce yourself to the students in a brief talk, which will be followed by discussions.
For further information and contact
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7) Lecture series at the RUB – Alumni warmly invited
In lecture series, different speakers open up a multitude of points of view on a given subject; in this way, even those new to the topic in question can gain an overview of the various themes. The Ruhr-Universität organises a lot of lecture series, many of which take place at alumni-friendly times:
“#WishYouWereHere” is a series of lectures from the RUB Institute of Media Sciences. It deals with the phenomenon of social media and the digital society; it takes place in C60/Rotunda, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 3 in Bochum on Tuesdays from 6 pm.
For information on the #WishYouWereHere lectures
“Hörsaal City” [“City Auditorium”] is the central lecture series at the RUB organised by the Rectorate. This semester’s main topic is “How we remember – from memory to the culture of commemoration“; lectures take place on Wednesdays at the House of Ruhr History, Clemensstraße 17-19 in Bochum, at 6 pm.
For information on the “Hörsaal City” lectures
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy will be focussing on the topic of “Experiments” in its “Saturday Morning Physics”: flashes, plasmas, nebular rings; Saturdays in the HNA Auditorium on the RUB campus at 11 am.
For information on “Es scheppert und kracht – es wird Physik gemacht! [“Clanks and bangs – this is physics!]”
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8) Ancient Persian art in the Campus Museum
Last year the Ruhr-Universität received an important donation of ancient Persian art: Berthold Beitz and Paul-Georg Gutermuth transferred their private collections of Persian ceramic and bronze objects to the Ancient World department of the Campus Museum. The unique artefacts come from the period between the 5th century BC and the Islamic Middle Ages.
For more information on the donation to the Campus Museum
The two collections are now on display to the public: The exhibition, “Bronze and Ceramics from Ancient Persia”, can be seen at the RUB Campus Museum.
To the website for the collection
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Alumni in the wind tunnel, the 10,000th member, the "Leadership Competence” workshop ..., take a look at our archives and find out what the RUB Alumni were up to last year:
To the RUB Alumni archives
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24/1 (Thursday) Graduates’ party of the Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Alumni association SOPRA would like to invite you to their graduates’ party. The ceremonial act will take place at the RUB Event Centre (below the Mensa) on 24 January at 6 pm. Former faculty members are also welcome. Please register with Susanne Stachowitz if you wish to attend, Tel: 0234/32-25160 (Thu 2-4 pm), email susanne.stachowitz@rub.de.
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25/1 (Friday) Graduates’ party of the Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law party will take place in the RUB Audimax on 25 January. Graduates can visit the Career Centre in the Audimax foyer from 1-4 pm; the official ceremonial act will commence at 4 pm. Alumna Dr Ricarda Brandts will be holding the official speech, “From Bochum law student to Social Court Chief President”. The faculty will then be holding a champagne reception with a buffet. Tickets, priced 6 euros, can be obtained from the faculty dean’s office: Tel. 0234/32-25972, email dekanat-jurist-fak@rub.de.
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25/1 (Friday) Graduates’ party of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Information Technology
The ET/IT Faculty will be honouring its graduates and doctors in the HID auditorium and the thoroughfare of Building ID on 25 January at 4 pm. The faculty will be putting on a champagne reception, finger food and live music.
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31/1 (Thursday) Semester concert with university prize-giving ceremony
The RUB Musical Centre warmly invites you to its semester concert. The Ruhr-Universität choir and orchestra will be performing works by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy. As part of the concert, the university prizes will also be awarded. The concert will take place in the RUB Audimax on 31 January from 8 pm.
For further information
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4-8/2 (Monday to Friday) Compact Course in Arabic at the LSI
The State Language Institute (Landesspracheninstitut in der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, LSI) is offering a compact Arabic language course (“Arabisch kompakt”). This crash course will give you a solid introduction to the Arabic language and culture in just one week. Participants will learn how to master everyday conversation situations in Arabic-speaking countries with ease. The course will take place at the LSI in Bochum from 4-8 February. Please register by 1 February.
For more information on content and costs
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8/2-7/4 Photo exhibition: “Dejan Vekic - Urban Life in Sarajevo“
The annual general meeting of the South-Eastern Europe Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft) will take place at the beginning of February at the RUB. It will be hosted by the seat of the History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey (Prof. Dr. Markus Koller).
For the first time, the opening event for this annual meeting of the members and specialist experts will be a presentation of visual arts, this time with the photographer Dejan Vekic, who lives in Sarajevo: The exhibition, “Dejan Vekic. Open view – the photographic traces of urban life” is on show on the central staircase of the University Library from 8 February until 7 April.
For further information on the exhibition
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25-28/3 (Monday-Thursday, Easter Holidays) Project week for 8th and 9th grade pupils: “Experiencing Physics”
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy is inviting 8th and 9th grade pupils to their project week, “Experiencing Physics – looking at unknown worlds”. They will be able to experiment in different projects for a week, for instance with the subjects of physics in medicine or astronomy. Sign your child up by 8 March 2013.
For more information on the programme and to sign up
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Advance announcement: Alumni workshop on 28/29 May 2013 (Tuesday/Wednesday)
Our annual career workshop for RUB Alumni continues in 2013, this time on 28 and 29 May on the subject of “Conducting Talks” (performance reviews, evaluations, conflict resolutions). And please note the following in your diary: on the afternoon and evening of 29 May the RUB University Summer Party will be taking place on the campus; come and celebrate with us! 30 May is a holiday (Corpus Christi); 31 May (Friday) is ideal for a “bridge day”.
You will receive your official invitation with detailed information on the workshop with the next RUB Alumni newsletter!
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