In this year’s university elections, Peter Kuhn and Peter Zarnitz were elected as the new student re­pre­sen­ta­tives in the TUM’s Senate. They took office in October. In an in­ter­view with TUMstudinews reporter Sabrina Czechofsky, the new "Senators" talk about their tasks and goals for the coming year and about why they are now learning how to write letters to Edmund Stoiber.

Julia Lüthen runs up the stairs to the editorial office. Her steps indicate de­ter­mi­nation. A young woman enters. She is wearing purple shorts, has a tattoo on her right upper arm and carries a long­board. This en­gi­neer leads a double life: she is doing a master course of Electrical En­gi­neering and Information Technology at TUM and works as a development engineer for ARRI Cinetechnik.

A critical engineer: Yuanchen Zhang (24) wins the video-contest of the Munich Science Days ("Münchner Wissenschaftstage") with his film "Das Netz". He is from Jinhua in China and a master’s student of Electrical En­gi­neer­ing and In­for­mation Tech­nol­ogy at TUM. TUMstudinews reporter Verena Pongratz met up with him.

Giving back to society – with TUMsocial. The Internet platform aims to connect students and TUM-staff with charitable or­ga­ni­zations. The or­ga­ni­zations will also be able to publish offers and to receive ap­pli­ca­tions. TUMsocial is currently being de­vel­oped by a project group at the Junge Akademie.

Many people talk about social equity but do little for it themselves. Would you like to change that and make a difference? If so, the mentoring pro­gram SHS2 ("Stu­denten hel­fen Schülern & Schüler hel­fen Schülern) offers you the op­por­tu­ni­ty to sup­port young people who are pre­par­ing for their school-leaving exams. The focus is on Ma­the­ma­tics and the natural sciences.

At the turn of the year, we will expand the personal storage space on the NAS from 20 GB to 40 GB.

Every opinion is important – and every 50th answer will be rewarded with two tickets for a TU Film movie of your choice (except Double Feature). Please take part in the surveys. It only takes five minutes.

The University Library will be open for you between Christmas and Epiphany too. For the branch libraries, the following opening hours apply:

The TUM’s main campus will again be closed on New Year’s Eve and on New Year.