Ruhr University Bochum

The Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB ) in Bochum, with 41 456 students one of the ten largest universities in Germany.

  • 4.1 Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 4.2 Engineering Sciences
  • 4.3 Natural Sciences
  • 4.4 Medicine
  • 4.5 Cross-curricular facilities

Overview

The RUB was 1962 ( Commencement of teaching operation 1965), the first foundation university in the Federal Republic. The university was created outside of the city as a campus university in Bochum- Querenburg: Up to a few branches all faculties are housed on the campus. The University, the residential town Hustadt and both serving shopping center Uni-Center dominate since the district.

The medical students complete their practical training is not centrally located in a private hospital, but are distributed to different hospitals in Bochum and the surrounding area. By 2012 this unique in Germany decentralized training was also referred to as the Bochum model. However, since 2012, the clinics involved in presenting a uniform appearance as the University Hospital of the Ruhr University ( RUB UK ).

The RUB is the beginning of a reform university. In the introduction of graded courses as specified by the Bologna Declaration, it takes a leading role in Germany.

Nationwide, they took second place in the list of the DFG Collaborative Research Centres. In the current DFG ranking among the 40 German universities with the highest volume of approvals for research projects from 2002 to 2004, it reached third place in the life sciences, the ninth place in engineering and # 12 in the natural sciences. In comparison, the total RUB achieved the 15th Place. The Ruhr University was located in 2007 and 2011 in the final round of the Excellence Initiative undertaken by the federal government and sat down in each case by two of the three funding lines.

History

Prehistory

The History of the University in Bochum begins in 1948 in the first term of the Parliament with the cross-party call for a second technical university in Westphalia. Favorite for the location, however, was the city of Dortmund. Funds for the purchase of an equivalent area in Westphalia approved - the Culture Committee were on 20 December 1960 - and thus only almost twelve years later. After another, some acrimonious discussions, the Bochum - Querenburg sat with 102 to 87 votes against Dortmund by the Diet.

Planning

For rapid implementation after further planning of the scientific priorities in 1962, a competition was awarded to the well-known architects such as Gropius and Mies van der Rohe were invited directly, but in which also all the others were registered in the Federal Republic established architects. From the designs submitted 85 the design of the office Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partner prevailed from Dusseldorf.

Construction

The construction of the university was officially started on January 2, 1964, the earthworks for building IA, IB and IC of the engineering sciences. By using a uniform grid size for the structure of the building precast concrete could be produced directly on the site in industrial casting process, which meant that the engineering could begin operation on June 30, 1965 during the construction of the building of the natural sciences, humanities, medicine still ongoing until August 1969. The central forum area with a library, administration, auditorium and cafeteria was begun in 1971 and completed on 1 August 1974.

University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr

In March 2007, was founded by the three universities of Bochum, Dortmund and Duisburg -Essen University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr ( UAMR ). This is intended to strengthen the cooperation between the teaching and research activities of the universities involved and give the universities a better position than an excellent location in the national and international science and study landscape. One of the first projects of the UAMR RuhrCampusOnline promotes university -wide teaching between the three Ruhr universities using blended learning.

Architecture

The campus is located on the edge of a hill overlooking the Kemnade. 13 main buildings are grouped into four symmetrical complexes from three to four high-rise buildings around the cafeteria, the auditorium, the University Library and the Forum of the University.

The architectural concept is by Helmut Hentrich ( architects Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partner ). He sees the university as a port in the sea of knowledge. The building itself symbolize ships that have " created " at their points, the roof of the auditorium reminiscent of a seashell. Also in the early 1990s, the station "Ruhr -Universität " subway line U35 Matching was designed, whose roof is supposed to represent waves.

Originally, the plan was still significantly greater RUB. Several buildings were not built, including the planned University Medical Center. Two of the three provided for the medical faculty building (MB and MC) were indeed completed, but never related. They stood empty for years until they were finally leased to private companies. The revenue generated from were used for the construction of the dormitory " House of Europe ".

In the lecture hall, which also serves as a venue for the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, is one of the most modern and largest organs in the organ factory Klais. The organ from the year 1998 and has 6146 pipes, summarized in register 82.

The architecture of the Ruhr- University is a controversial issue today. The almost sole Material concrete generates a drab overall impression in bad weather. In good weather, however, the bright concrete with the blue sky contrasts, so that an open sun-drenched overall impression. In the early 1990s the hard concrete architecture was cushioned by contrasting exterior paints, rearrangements of the main building and the green spaces. Even within the Excellence Initiative, the University will be renovated in early 2007.

On the steep slope down to the Ruhr is the Botanical Garden of the University.

The campus is a major overhaul in the coming decades. The main canteen was already gutted between 2003 and 2006 and reshaped and for the renovation of the office building, the new building ID was completed in August 2010 in the I-series. It serves as an alternative surface to core redevelop the other buildings in succession can. The total cost is estimated at almost € 1.2 billion.

Obtained in the course of the renovation and the campus is significantly redesigned. Among other things, almost all of the remaining green areas between and adjacent to the buildings be built gradually. These buildings are z.T. used commercially. In a balance to this, however, one begins to green the flat roofs.

View of the " I- Building " (Engineering Science )

View of the "N - building " ( Natural Sciences)

Complex, " M" ( Medical )

Lecture Center - East ( HZO )

Forum at the main auditorium ( Südforum )

Faculties

Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Faculty of Protestant Theology
  • Faculty of Catholic Theology
  • Faculty of Philosophy and Education
  • Faculty of History
  • Faculty of Philology
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Social Science
  • Department of East Asian Studies
  • Faculty of Sports Science
  • Faculty of Psychology

Engineering

  • Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Engineering faculty
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Natural sciences

Medicine

  • Medical school Campus Facilities
  • University Hospital of the Ruhr- University Bochum, Bochum see also model consisting of the following hospitals and their departments: BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil
  • Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum- Langendreer
  • St. Josef-Hospital Bochum
  • Marien Hospital Herne
  • LWL University Hospital Bochum - Psychiatry - Psychotherapy - Psychosomatic Medicine - Preventive Medicine (formerly Westphalian Center Bochum - Psychiatry and Psychotherapy )
  • Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psyochotherapie the LWL University Hospital, Ruhr- University Bochum (formerly Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, University Clinic at the LWL -Klinik Dortmund)
  • LWL University Hospital Hamm - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Psychotherapy - Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine -Westphalia ( in Bad Oeynhausen, owned by the province )
  • Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the DGUV ​​( in Bochum)
  • Department of Oto- Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, St. Elisabeth- Hospital Bochum
  • Institute of Pathology, Ruhr- University Bochum in the BG clinics Bergmannsheil, there is also the German Mesotheliomregister

Cross-curricular facilities

  • Student Advice Centre
  • Centre for Foreign Language Education
  • Center for Teacher Education
  • Horst Görtz Institute for Security in Information Technology
  • LSI, National Language Institute of North Rhine -Westphalia
  • ZEFIR, Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Research
  • European Inter University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
  • Interdisciplinary Centre For Advanced Materials Simulation ( ICAMS )
  • Institute for Development Research and Development Policy
  • Academy of the Ruhr - University

Groups, cultural

Nationally known are various student initiatives at the Ruhr- University:

  • The " study circle movie," the Uni- cinema of the RUB, was founded in 1966 by students. As a non-profit eV by its members, the confrontation with the medium have dedicated film. The SKF enriched with film screenings, lectures and publications cultural life on campus in Bochum.
  • Once a year the International Bochum Video Festival takes place.
  • Since 1967, the General Student Committee the " bsz ", the Bochum city & student newspaper publishes. This is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Germany students.
  • The student theater festival MegaFon place annually since 2002 in the artistic center of the Ruhr- University instead and invites from all over Europe since 2006, student theater groups.
  • 1997 started with CT das radio the first campus radio Rhine-Westphalia, which broadcasts around the clock and on its own frequency.
  • Since 2009, there is a teaching and learning editors for audiovisual journalism, among other things, a student magazine program is produced.
  • Since 1996, the working group " red ruhr uni", which in the tradition of Karl Marx and Critical Theory with social criticism, especially with the critique of political economy and with anti-Semitism is concerned.

Botanical garden

The university maintains the Botanical Garden of the Ruhr - University Bochum, which is known as a destination far beyond the borders of the region. Part of the Botanical Garden is the approximately 1,000 -square-foot Chinese garden, which was donated by the Tongji University in Shanghai and the name " Qian Yuan" (Chinese潜 园, pinyin Qian Yuán ) bears.

Student Representatives

The interests of the students are ( student union ) represented by a General Student Committee, which is elected by the student parliament. The composition of the Parliament with 35 seats is determined in annual elections, the voter turnout in 2008 was 17.66 %. The student council awards, among other funds to the student representatives.

In December 2007, got the run of the Young Socialists, Liberals and RCDS student union of the University of Bochum in the spotlight of the press, because he with prominent bands generated huge losses because of a failed planned music event.

Tuition

On 18 September 2006, the Senate of the Ruhr- University passed a statute in which the collection is regulated by tuition fees. Under this fee schedule, the students of the Ruhr University had 2007 tuition fees in the amount of 500, from summer semester - to pay EUR per semester. These were lowered for the winter semester 2008/2009 and the summer semester of 2009 and amounted to 480, - Euro per semester. The schedule of fees, for example, saw a few exceptions for student parents, athletes or low-income students before. In the winter semester 2011/12 the tuition fees are eliminated in NRW, so that only the social contribution is payable.

Animal experiments

The animal experiments at the Ruhr- University Bochum are disputed in the written student body and various university groups. 1998 there was a joint action of both sides on the Gerhard- Petschelt Bridge.

According to the organization Doctors Against Animal Experiments alone 12,962 vertebrates for research and teaching were procured in 2009 at the Ruhr- University Bochum:

  • Mice: 7299
  • Rats: 5157
  • Gerbils: 29
  • Cats: 19
  • Macaques: 1
  • Pigeons: 259
  • Frogs: 81
  • Fish: 117

The experiments with macaque monkeys at the Institute of Neurobiology have been approved by the district government of Arnsberg until 31 August 2012. Was cloned from animal experiments opponents that the whereabouts of the animals then is unclear.

The animal welfare officer at the Ruhr University, Matthias Schmidt, points out that students should expect in professional conduct animal testing. Object and purpose of the experiment would have to be reasonably justified.

Personalities

Rectors

Chancellor

Professors

See: Category: High school teacher (Ruhr - University Bochum)

Known Students / Graduates

  • Martin- Sebastian Abel ( born 1985 ), Member of Parliament in NRW ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
  • Frank Baranowski ( b. 1962 ), mayor of Gelsenkirchen (SPD )
  • Hennes Bender ( born 1968 ), comedian from Bochum
  • Rainer Bovermann ( b. 1957 ), political scientist and deputy (SPD )
  • Manfred Breuckmann ( born 1951 ), radio host and sports reporter
  • Albert Dölken O.Praem. (* 1960), abbot of Hamborn
  • Klaus Engel ( born 1956 ), a chemist and manager
  • January hinge plates ( b. 1977 ), long-distance runner
  • Kai Gehring (* 1977), MP ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
  • Frank Goosen ( b. 1966 ), writer and comedian
  • Herbert Grönemeyer ( born 1956 ), singer and actor
  • Ulrich Haltern (1967 ), legal scientist and professor at the University of Freiburg
  • Friedhelm Hengsbach (* 1937), Jesuit and social ethicist
  • Michael Henke ( born 1957 ), football player and coach
  • Jörder Ludwig (* 1946), corporate lawyer
  • Hartmut Kasper (* 1959), writer
  • Margot Käßmann (born 1958 ), Bishop
  • Urs buyer ( born 1984 ), rower
  • Gerhard Klimeck (* 1966), scientists, university teachers and non-fiction author
  • Annike Krahn ( born 1985 ), football player
  • Martin Krebs ( born 1956 ), Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio
  • Peter Kruck (* 1965), media studies, market researcher and author
  • Norbert Lammert ( b. 1948 ), President of the German Bundestag
  • Sylvia Löhrmann ( b. 1957 ), Minister for Education and Deputy Prime Minister in NRW ( 90/The Greens )
  • Kai Meyer (born 1969 ), writer
  • Holger Osieck ( b. 1948 ), football coach
  • Peuckmann Heinrich (* 1949), writer and secondary school teacher
  • Rolf Pohlig ( born 1952 ), economist and manager
  • Holm Putzke (* 1973), legal scholar and professor at the University of Passau
  • Rauball ( born 1946 ), former Minister of Justice in NRW (SPD ), President of Borussia Dortmund and in the League Association
  • Ludger Schepers (* 1953), auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Essen
  • Georg Schramm ( born 1949 ), comedian
  • Wolfgang Spicker (b. 1959), historian
  • Mario Theissen ( born 1952 ), Director of BMW Motorsport
  • Oliver Uschmann (* 1977), writer
  • Hans -Peter Villis (born 1958 ), economist and manager
  • Bernd Wilmert ( born 1952 ), economist and manager
  • Oliver Wittke (born 1966 ), former Minister of Construction and Transportation in NRW (CDU )
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