President Wolfgang A. Herrmann (r.) presents Edmund Stoiber with the title of Honorary Senator. (image: Benz / TUM)
Campus news - This year's Technical University of Munich (TUM) Annual Academic Celebration was reason both to look back and to look ahead: Launching the festivities marking the 150-year anniversary of the founding of TUM, President Wolfgang A. Herrmann presented a preview of the anniversary program and announced the founding of the "Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence", to be led by the winner of the German President's Award for Innovation in Science and Technology, Prof. Sami Haddadin. And long-time Bavarian Minister President Dr. Edmund Stoiber was elevated to the rank of Honorary Senator as an outstanding patron and benefactor of TUM. TUM can look back on modest beginnings, boasting 400 students and 24 professors in its first year, 1868. Today, 150 years later, there are over 41,000 students and about 550 professors. "What began 150 years ago as a small royal Bavarian polytechnic school in Munich is today a world-class university," said TUM President Herrmann at the 2017 annual academic celebration. The university will celebrate its anniversary with a wide variety of activities. The highlights will be a ceremony on April 12 with the German President and the Bavarian Minister President, an exclusive performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" ("The Master Singers of Nuremberg", premiere 1868) at Munich's National Theater on September 27, and an open house day on October 13 at all of the TUM sites.
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