Following a nomination proposal by President Prof. Wolfgang A. Herrmann, the Board of Trustees of the Technische Universität München (TUM) elected three new Senior Vice Presidents to take office on October 1: Civil engineer Prof. Gerhard Müller (54) for the area of Academic and Student Affairs, economist Hana Milanov (34) for the area of International Alliances and Alumni – as well as computer scientist Hans Pongratz (36) for the area of Information Technologies (position: TUM Chief Information Officer).

TUM is growing: The Bavarian Landtag decided to transform the long-standing Munich School of Political Science (Hochschule für Politik/HfP) into a public corporation of the TUM, based on a cross-party consensus between the CSU, SPD, the green party and the "Freie Wähler".

Here are the results of the TUM university elections of 2014. Newly elected, among others: the student representatives in the Senate, the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as well as all the student council representatives.

Nora Pohle will be sitting next to her fellow student Peter Zarnitz, the student representative, in the Senate from October 1, 2014, onwards. In the university elections, she received more than 3500 votes. For her, it is an important issue that three credit points are granted for project work within the student union. Her goal: the regulation should be accepted by as many faculties as possible.

Any ideas on how to improve the teaching and learning conditions at TUM? If so, take part in the Academicus ideas competition and submit your suggestions until July 31, 2014.

Who said beer must always be golden or amber-coloured? Five students in Weihenstephan are in the process of creating a beer mixed beverage in blue. It tastes of berries and is based on the "kölsch" style of brewing. Blue and Cologne – in Weihenstephan? Robin Stein, member of the BABO blue Team provides more information.

Since March 2014, Dr. Claudia Häfner is the new protestant university pastor at the TU München. The theologian belongs to the team of the Protestant Student Community (Evangelische Hochschulgemeinde, EHG). Sabrina Czechofsky of TUMstudinews met Claudia Häfner for her first "job interview" about the challenges and visions concerning her new position.

Our reporter Sabrina Czechofsky travelled through Southeast Asia for five weeks. The disaster happened right at the beginning of her trip: she lost her phone. In the end, this turned out to be a stroke of luck:

A warning issued by the German Research Network: unprotected user data due to the default WiFi-configuration for Android devices with versions 4.X. The TUM’s eduroam wireless network is affected by the configuration problem too.

As of now, TUMonline lists all free or reduced software and hardware offers for TUM students. The index-point "software" (see illustration) allows you to view and access the various offers.