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The School of Management of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has earned its third internationally renowned certification in the form of the AACSB accreditation. This completes the so-called "Triple Crown", including the AMBA and EQUIS accreditations. To date this has been achieved by only approximately 70 business schools around the world with outstanding teaching and research performance. Although the TUM School of Management is only 15 years old, it is one of only three institutions in Germany to earn this seal as yet. The TUM School of Management has an internationally unique profile in "Management and Technology".

On July 19, the Bavarian State Parliament unanimously approved the law to establish the “Technical University of Munich – Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability” teaching and research center. As a result, Straubing will become a university town and home to a TUM campus from October 1 onwards.

Materials that assemble themselves and then simply disappear at the end of their lifetime are quite common in nature. Researchers at the Technical University Munich (TUM) have now successfully developed supramolecular materials that disintegrate at a predetermined time – a feature that could be used in numerous applications.

Now it's lighter, stronger, faster: The students on the WARR Hyperloop team of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) unveiled their new capsule on Tuesday, July 18. The group will enter the new pod in the second SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in Hawthorne (CA) at the end of August. The students intend to once again set a new speed record there.

It is a forerunner of bread wheat which man has been cultivating for a hundred years: For the first time, an international team succeeded in deciphering the genome sequence of the Wild Emmer. The results have been published in "Science". They could contribute to the cultivation of more resistant wheat varieties - and support global food production.

Summertime is barbecue time. However, when fat reacts with glowing coal, a substance chemists call benzopyrene is created. It is a widespread environmental toxin that can cause cancer in humans. Since buildings were heated with coal and wood for decades, dispersed by chimney smoke, it is now also found in soil and groundwater. A team led by Prof. Arne Skerra from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has deciphered the binding mechanism of an antibody to benzopyrene — a discovery that could pave the way for an easier method to identify and, hence, remove the toxin.

The Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Jürgen Manchot Foundation have granted the chemist Prof. Phil S. Baran the 2017 Wilhelm Manchot Research Professorship. With this distinction, the TUM honors his pioneering work on organic reactions creating new and efficient routes to natural products for the development of new medicaments.

The aim of the DIFUTURE (Data Integration for Future Medicine) project is to collate and analyze digital patient data with a view to improving our understanding of diseases and allowing doctors to reach the individual right decisions faster. Under the leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and in cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Augsburg the major project can start with millions of euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative.

What impact will automation have on the job market? How will collaborative robots – so called “cobots”, that work hand in hand with humans – change our work lives? The new issue of “Technologist” investigates current trends in robotics and artificial intelligence – and points out their social implications.

In its "Munich Talks" series, the Bavarian School of Public Policy (HfP) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) establishes a public forum for the discussion of current political developments with guests from politics and science.  On Thursday, July 13, José Manuel D. Barroso, former President of the European Commission, will talk about European politics and governance in challenging times.