RuhrFellowship Program June 5 - July 26, 2019 Bochum, Bermuda3eck Welcome RuhrFellows 2019, It is a great honor and privilege to Congratulations on joining our choose the three universities of the internship at an innovative and welcome you to the Ruhr Area! RuhrFellows community. You Ruhr as their gateway to Europe. worldwide operating company can call yourself one of the nine based in the region. Against this distinguished students carefully As a RuhrFellow, you will be background, you will get to know chosen as this year’s participants. participating in an outstanding the Ruhr Area as an excellent two-month program hosted by environment for studying, working, Since 2012, this program, which Ruhr University Bochum. In June, and living well. aims at fostering academic, you will improve your German cultural, and economic exchange language skills and learn more Such programs would not be between US and Ruhr universities, about the University Alliance possible without the support has brought more than 100 Ruhr and its partners. The Culture of outstanding people and students to the Ruhr Area. Located Series will provide you an insight institutions. With that said, in the heart of Europe, the Ruhr is into current issues, such as the we would like to thank our Germany’s largest metropolitan Energiewende, cyber security as wonderful sponsors, the Max Kade region with over 5 million well as migration, intercultural Foundation New York City, the inhabitants. Once one of Europe’s communication, and popular Wirtschaftsförderung Dortmund largest coal and steel producing culture. Excursions to the State and the Regionalverband Ruhr hubs, the region has since made Parliament, the US Consulate, for their generous support tremendous transformations the RWE power plant, the of this year’s RuhrFellowship and is paving the way to a more Chemiepark Marl, and the Coal program. Without their trust and digital, more sustainable, and Mine Recklinghausen complement commitment, this program would greener future. It is therefore no the exciting summer school part of not have been possible and we truly coincidence that students from the program. In July, you will apply hope to continue this productive American universities increasingly your gained knowledge during an collaboration in the future. 2 3 Essen, Red Dot Design Museum We thank our participating We are very much looking forward companies the Emscher- to taking you on an academic, genossenschaft, Evonik, cultural, and social journey innogy, ista, Klöckner, KPMG, through the region. We sincerely thyssenkrupp, Vaillant, and WILO hope that your experience will deeply for providing internship continue beyond this summer and placements and allowing you to that it may be the first step into learn more about their business lifelong intellectual, professional, and organizational practices. and personal bonds between you and the Ruhr Area. Our heartfelt thanks goes out to all of the professors, staff members, and students at the Jutta Schmid University Alliance Ruhr and Deputy Director beyond, who have helped to put International Office, Ruhr University Bochum this unique program together. Sina A. Nitzsche The RuhrFellowship 2019 and Lan Nhi Nguyen would not have been possible Organizing Team without their unlimited efforts, International Office, Ruhr University Bochum commitment, and enthusiasm! 4 5 University Alliance Ruhr The academic hub for research, teaching, studying, and networking in Germany’s vibrant Ruhr Area The University Alliance Ruhr is universities in over 130 countries We invite you to learn more about an alliance between the Ruhr and a combined annual budget the UA Ruhr alliance and our University Bochum (RUB), TU of close to €1.2 billion – which universities, and we look forward Dortmund University (TUDO), provides our students and to welcoming you in the Ruhr Area and the University of Duisburg- researchers with virtually soon! Essen (UDE), the three largest unlimited possibilities for universities in Germany’s thriving exchange and resources for Ruhr Area. Each of our institutions development. To support our has a strong tradition of breaking already strong global network down walls between disciplines. of international exchange and We believe in the benefits of collaboration, the UA Ruhr has also collaboration on all levels of created academic liaison offices for scholarship and research, which North America, Latin America, and is one of the reasons we came Russia. together in this unique university The Ruhr Area is not only alliance. Germany’s largest academic hub, More than 120,000 students, of but also an epicenter of innovation which 20,400 are international, as that fosters close interaction well as over 1,300 professors and between academia and the private 9,300 researchers study and work sector – and our alliance provides within the UA Ruhr universities. students and researchers from Together, the three universities around the world with an open have 800 partnerships with gateway to our region. 6 7 Bochum, Jahrhunderthalle Program Tuesday, June 4, 2019 Friday, June 7, 2019 Thursday, June 13, 2019 6pm RuhrFellows Warming 9-11:30am German Language Course 1-10 pm Meeting of the Minds 12-1:30pm Official Welcome Lunch with Reception, Essen Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Prof. Dr. Kornelia Freitag, 9-12pm RuhrFellows Vice President of Friday, June 14, 2019 Welcome Brunch 2019 Ruhr University Bochum, 10am-12pm RuhrFellows Culture Series 2: 1-2pm Campus Tour Partners, and Sponsors Hip-Hop in the Ruhr Area: 2-4pm Faculty of Engineering: 2-3pm Climate Change and its Impact Histories, Identities, and Meet & Greet on Fauna and Flora: Tour of Communities 5pm Pub Crawl Botanical Garden Speakers: Hosted by Engineering Students Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang Stuppy Dr. Sina Nitzsche, Faculty of Philology, Thursday, June 6, 2019 Monday, June 10, 2019 Amandip Singh, Dancer 9-11:30am German Language Course Public Holiday 1-3 pm RuhrFellows Culture Series 3: 1-3pm RuhrFellows Culture Series 1: The Germans: Society, History, The Ruhr: How it all Started, Tuesday, June 11, 2019 and Culture How it Changed, and Why it is 9-11:30am German Language Course Speakers: Prof. Dr. Werner Voss, Important 3-5pm Surprise Event organized by Dr. Frank Hoffmann, Speaker: Dr. Lutz Budrass, Transatlantic RuhrFellows ‘19 Institute for German Faculty of Historical Sciences Cultural Studies Wednesday, June 12, 2019 9-11:30am German Language Course Monday, June 17, 2019 1-3 pm Company Visit 8am-5pm Field Trip: RWE Power Plant Proudly Presented by innogy 8 9 Dortmund, Signal Iduna Park Program (continued) Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Monday, June 24, 2019 Thursday, June 27, 2019 9-11:30am German Language Course 9-11:30am German Language Course 8:30-10am Breakfast Meeting at the NRW 1-3pm Horst Görtz Institute for 12:30-5pm Field Trip to Coal Mine Parliament, Düsseldorf IT Security Trainingsbergwerk Speaker: Angela Freimuth, Cyber Security in the Digital Age Recklinghausen Vice President of the NRW Speakers: Proudly Presented by RAG Parliament, President of Prof. Dr. M. Angela Sasse, the German American David Rupprecht, M.Sc., Tuesday, June 25, 2019 Parliamentary Group Lea Schönherr, 9-11:30am German Language Course 10-10:30am Tour of NRW Parliament, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 1-3pm Doing a PhD in the Ruhr Area: Düsseldorf and Information Technology How the RUB Research School & 11-12:30pm US Consulate Düsseldorf: 3-5 pm RuhrFellows Culture Series 4: Research Academy Ruhr Support Q&A with US Consul General Culture and Psychology Young Scholars Fiona Evans Speaker: Dr. Pradeep Chakkarath, Speaker: Dr. Nicole Sprafke, Faculty of Social Sciences Research Academy Ruhr Friday, June 28, 2019 9-1:30pm Field Trip Chemiepark Marl Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Proudly Presented by Evonik 9-5pm Field Trip to TU Dortmund 9-11:30am German Language Course University 2-7pm Field Trip to Thursday, July 4, 2019 University of Duisburg-Essen 6pm Fourth of July BBQ Thursday, June 20, 2019 Public Holiday Friday, July 26, 2019 6 pm RuhrFellows Farewell Party 10 11 Participants Sarah Bui Cassidy Crone Thomas Jankovic Sarah Bui is a rising junior at the Cassidy Crone is a rising junior at Thomas Jankovic is a rising senior University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University from Tucson, at Princeton University majoring in majoring in Environmental Science. Arizona, studying Mechanical German Politics and Culture and She is from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Aerospace Engineering with minoring in Environmental Studies and currently discovering solutions to a certificate in German Language Vocal Consort Performance. He studies environmental problems around the and Culture. Her interests include German culture as an intersectional world to bring back to Vietnam. She spacecraft and aircraft design and framework for his interests in classical currently works as a Waste Reduction aerodynamics. She is the vice president music and environmental policy. He is Coordinator for UC Berkeley residence of Princeton Club Fencing and enjoys currently researching the mechanisms halls and dining halls, conducting painting in her free time. Last summer linking the German energy transition weekly audits and training staffs to she participated in a one-month study to energy democratization. Last sort their waste. She is also involved abroad in Munich and is excited to summer he worked at the Hessisches in plant-microbe interactions research learn more about the Ruhr valley and Ministerium für Energie (Hessian Sarah Bui Cassidy Crone Thomas Jankovic in the USDA and has climbed a roof German language and culture and Ministry of Energy) within the to install solar panels with Grid improve her German-speaking abilities. Energiemonitoring department. On Alternatives. Besides academic and campus, he sings with the Nassoons professional work, she loves to cook, acapella group, the Decem consort go hiking, and travel. She is excited to choir, and the Glee Club, and he plays freshen up her German this summer. French horn in the orchestra. He grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut, and also enjoys tutoring, long distance running, and Ultimate frisbee.