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View of a meadow, mountains and blue sky in the background
5/3/2024
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Global warming leads to decline in humus

Climate change threatens mountain meadows

Mountain meadows are unique ecosystems. A research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered that climate change reduces the humus content as well as the nitrogen stores in the grassland soils of the Alps and disturbs the soil structure. Organic fertilization, for example with liquid manure, can compensate this loss of soil organic matter to some extent.

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Research Sustainability
Students at TUM
5/2/2024
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CHE rankings for quality of degree programs

TUM awarded outstanding grades by its students

TUM students have again given their university an excellent report card. For the CHE University Rankings they rated various aspects of their degree programs. In all of the assessed subject areas the students reported outstanding levels of satisfaction, both with the quality of teaching and the study conditions.

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TUM in Rankings Studies Community
Prof. Daniel Pittich (center) and his team at a meeting.
4/30/2024
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Continuing education program Faculty@TUM

"Good Leadership is well worth it!"

The path to a professorship calls for expert knowledge, creativity and, more than anything, for ambition and motivation. And there's a new challenge waiting at the end of the journey: Leading a team. TUM's "Faculty@TUM" continuing education program helps professors navigate this role change.

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Campus news Community
4/29/2024
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Combining robotics and ChatGPT

TUM professor uses ChatGPT for choreographies with flying robots

Prof. Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) uses ChatGPT to develop choreographies for swarms of drones to perform along to music. An additional safety filter prevents mid-air collisions. The researchers' results demonstrate for the first time that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can be used in robotics.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
4/28/2024

TUM Autonomous Motorsports wins spectacular race in Abu Dhabi

Victory for TUM AI racers on Formula 1 track

The TUM vehicle controlled by artificial intelligence has achieved first place in an international race on the Formula 1 track in Abu Dhabi. Without a human driver or remote control, using only the superior autonomous software, the fully automated vehicle was able to prevail against seven other international teams with identical racing cars. It independently searched for the limits, mastered spectacular overtaking maneuvers and speeds of up to 250 km/h on the winding track.

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President Research Mobility Artificial Intelligence Community
4/26/2024
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Study with infants shows a surprising "internal clock" of intestinal bacteria

The formula of baby food has an effect on intestinal flora

The formulation of infant formula has an effect on the intestinal flora of babies. This was discovered by a team led by Prof. Dirk Haller from the Department of Nutrition and Immunology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in a study involving 210 children. According to the study, baby food enriched with galacto-oligosaccharides ensures a higher concentration of desired bifidobacteria in the intestine than substitute food enriched directly with bifidobacteria.

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Research
TUM student Matthias Decarli has just taken part in an international conference in Seville.
4/26/2024
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TUM Global Week, May 13–17 2024

“Contacts in other countries are invaluable”

TUM is colorful and diverse: over 40% of its students are international and every semester up to 1,000 exchange students come from all over the world. You can experience this internationality during Global Week. We spoke to Matthias Decarli, President of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) TUMi, in the run-up to the event.

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Studies Campus news Community
Magazin TUMcampus Ausgabe 2/2024
4/25/2024
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TUMcampus magazine issue 2/2024

„Creating something new together“

In this issue, we talk to Thomas F. Hofmann about the first success in the new round of the Excellence Strategy and we accompany students on a very special course - in the theater instead of the lecture hall. In addition: Professors learn how good leadership works in the Faculty@TUM continuing education program of the TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning. Two of them report on how this has changed the way they work with their team.

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Campus news Community
4/25/2024
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Surprising result of an elaborate genome analysis of the plant world

Pumpkins and roses are closely related

An international team of researchers, with the participation of TUM, has produced the most comprehensive genome analysis of the plant world to date. The aim was to determine the relationships of almost 10,000 flowering plants. The surprising result of the group led by Prof. Hanno Schaefer from the Chair of Plant Biodiversity at the Technical University of Munich (TUM): Pumpkins and roses are closely related.

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Research
Dr. Jan Böttcher (left) and first author Sebastian Lacher
4/24/2024

Newly discovered mechanism could significantly improve cancer immunotherapies

Tumor cells evade the immune system early on

Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by so-called cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) Hospital have now uncovered for the first time how this exactly happens. The study in the journal "Nature" provides rationales for new cancer immunotherapies and could make existing treatments more effective. A second paper in "Nature" confirms the findings.

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