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Bidding Farewell to Graduates of the Universität zu Lübeck

Our Universität zu Lübeck congratulates a total of 542 graduates in two separate functions, on Friday and Saturday respectively.

Our Universität zu Lübeck held two festivities, on 25 and 26 January, to congratulate and bid farewell to all graduates. For the first time, a separate function is held for all who complete their master’s degree, state board exams and doctorates in the winter semester (at 11 am on Saturday, in the St. Petri University Church). In the past, only one function was organised for all such students at the end of the summer semester. However, the rising number of students completing their degrees has made it necessary to split functions by semester. Just this Friday, gradation certificates will be handed-over to all bachelor’s degree candidates who graduated last year (at 4 pm in Audimax).

Bachelor’s degree graduation celebration
(Friday, 25 January at 4 pm in Audimax)

The function on Friday will be to bid farewell to 259 students who completed their bachelor’s degree programme in 2018. This batch includes students from Medical Engineering (63), Molecular Life Science (46), Psychology (37), Informatics (34), Computational Life Science (28), Media Informatics and Medical Informatics (23 ea.) and Nursing (5). Vice-President Prof. Dr Enno Hartmann will welcome and congratulate the graduates on behalf of the Executive Board, while the department head, Prof. Dr Till Tantau will cover details of the function.

The students who topped their programme get a special commendation. These are Katrin Brandt and Kristin Kleta (Medical Engineering), Lennart Bundt (Media Informatics), Katja Marie König, Patrick Ogrissek and Philipp Ralfs (Molecular Life Science), Mena Leemhuis (Medical Informatics), Finn Lübber, Annika Struck and Ricarda Alicia Vielhauer (Psychology), Frederike Lüth (Nursing), Thorsten Peinemann (Informatics) and Vanessa Trapp (Computational Life Science).

The Walter Dosch Prize for teaching “Ethics of Innovative Technologies” will be conferred upon Dr-Ing. Christian Herzog (maiden name Hoffmann) from the Institute for Medical Electrical Engineering. Dr rer. nat. Daniel Wessel from the Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems will also receive the same prize for the “Gamification” event. Prof. Dr Walter Dosch (1947–2010) was the first director of the Institute for Software Engineering and Programming Languages founded in 1996 at our Universität zu Lübeck. The Lübeck Pop symphonics ensemble will round off this function with a performance. Masters, Doctorates and State Board Examination Festivities
(Saturday, 26 January at 11.00 am in the St. Petri Church)

The festivities on Saturday in the St. Petri Church is for 283 graduates of the master’s, state board examination and doctorates completed in the second half of 2018. In all, 102 finished their master’s programme in Medical Engineering (28), Psychology (26), Informatics (15), Molecular Life Science (14), Medical Informatics (8), Infection Biology (7) and Media Informatics and Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies (2 each). A total of 83 medical students passed their state board exam, and 98 received their doctorates (64 in Medicine and 34 in the MINT sections Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Engineering).

Dr Bernd Schwarze, Pastor at St. Petri Church, says a few words of farewell, while Prof. Dr Stefan Fischer welcomes them on behalf of the university’s Executive Board. Speakers on behalf of the students are Anna-Clara-Franke of the Informatics/Engineering and Natural Sciences sections and Göran Boeckel from the Medicine section.

All graduates receive a piece of artwork, a lithograph by Katharina Reinshagen. Björn Engholm, Chair of the Alumni, Friends and Patrons Society of the Universität zu Lübeck talk about the art and the artists. The orchestra and the university choir add a musical touch to the function by playing works of Ludwig van Beethoven and John Rutter.

The Mayor, Jan Lindenau invites all those receiving their doctoral degrees to a
Reception in the Hanseatic City Hall
at 10.00 am (group picture at about 10.45 am), followed by a function in the St. Petri Church.