Our US Chapter serves under the vision and strategic objectives of Alumni Lovanienses, and has as its mission:

• To develop links, exchanges, and friendships between fellow alumni.
  
• To strengthen existing contacts amongst alumni and explore new ones.
  
• To organize several meetings annually for and with our graduates.
  
• To foster the spirit of academic and professional excellence in our network.
  
• To stimulate curiosity for and interest in the achievements of fellow alumni, across the whole range of academic disciplines.
  
• To re-establish and/or strengthen communication with high-level representatives of the KU Leuven.
  
• To facilitate internship and job opportunities of KU Leuven students and recent graduates in the United States.

June 7, New York - Honorary Rector Andre Oosterlinck - see also our community page.

Lemaitre revisited!

Georges Lemaitre has been on this spot before. But we had him come back: the IAU, International Astronomical Union, has voted to rename Hubble's Law into the Hubble-Lemaitre Law, to recognize his work on the Big Bang Theory (no, not the series). Lemaitre 'discovered' the big bang concept as he was the first to utilize Einstein's theory to the cosmos.