international - Bergische Universität Wuppertal
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· BERGISCHE · UNIVERSITÄT · WUPPERTAL ·<br />
naumann, uwe (Researcher, Faculty of Mathematics and Na-<br />
tural Sciences): German Swimming Champion, short distance<br />
(200 m) 2010.<br />
Pott, thorsten (UW student): German Mountain Bike Cham-<br />
pion, olympic Cross Country Master-Class I.<br />
scheffler, Franziska (UW student): German University Cham-<br />
pion, triathlon.<br />
schmidt, Lena (UW student): German Athletics Champion<br />
(under 23s); German University Champion, 200 m.<br />
stäglich, dieter, dr.: Sports Medal of the State of North Rhi-<br />
ne-Westphalia.<br />
staubach, Michael (researcher, School of Safety Enginee-<br />
ring): bronze medal in German open Judo Championships<br />
(over 30s).<br />
yilmaz, Pinar (UW student): German Amateur Women’s Fly-<br />
weight Boxing Champion 2010.<br />
uW’s solar decathlon team was awarded the Federation<br />
of German Architects’ Good Building Prize 2010 for their Zero<br />
Energy House.<br />
the Association of German engineers nominated five UW<br />
graduates for outstanding degree theses:<br />
Hagemann, Philipp (School of Safety Engineering)<br />
Paffrath, tobias (School of Civil Engineering)<br />
Platvoet, Maximilian C. (School of Mechanical Engineering)<br />
räupke, Andre (School of Electrical Engineering)<br />
sonderfeld, Hannah (School of Physics).<br />
A group of uW school of industrial design (uwid) graduates<br />
was awarded a red dot Junior Prize 2011 for their project<br />
‘New Design for the Schwebebahn (<strong>Wuppertal</strong>’s suspension<br />
monorail)’.<br />
Competitions anD rankings<br />
banerji, Amitabh (Researcher, School of Chemistry): first<br />
place in the fourth Cologne Science Slam with lecture on ‘Fantastic<br />
plastic – oLEDs in the chemistry lesson’.<br />
blank, Christiane (Researcher, Faculty of Economics): Best<br />
National University Advisor Award in federal SIFE (Students in<br />
Free Enterprise) competition.<br />
breuer, Gerda Prof. dr.: Art of the Book Foundation’s Best<br />
German Books Award 2009 for Hans Schwippert. Bonner Bundeshaus<br />
1949.<br />
Heming, Matthias (Graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics<br />
and Natural Sciences): first prize in ExaMedia competition<br />
NRW with master’s thesis on ‘Using Mobile Phones in the Informatics<br />
Lesson’.<br />
scherf, ullrich, Prof. dr.: 26th place in Thomas Reuters Ins-<br />
titute rankings of the 100 best materials scientists worldwide.<br />
uW’s Central student Advisory and Counseling service:<br />
ranked excellent in University of Heidelberg evaluative survey<br />
of student counseling service quality.<br />
Two interdisciplinary student teams from uW’s schools of<br />
Architecture and Civil engineering took first and second<br />
places in the ThyssenKrupp Real Estate Award.<br />
UW team won Final Round Award in federal siFe (Students in<br />
Free Enterprise) competition.<br />
Faculty of economics: all indicators make top group of latest<br />
Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) ranking.<br />
real estate Management & Construction Project Ma-<br />
nagement reM/CPM degree program: third place overall<br />
and repeated first place for content, structure and organization<br />
in 2011 Immobilien Zeitung (Real Estate News) ranking. With<br />
grades of 1.27, 1.28 and 1.31, the first three universities were<br />
very close together. The UW program was placed first overall<br />
in 2010.<br />
Knowledge Floater project: SACHEN MACHEN (Make<br />
Things) Award of the Association of German Engineers.<br />
uW’s university sports: two prizes in ‘Good Practice /<br />
Healthy University’ competition, for ‘Study Break Express’ and<br />
‘Break Potential’ project.<br />
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