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RWTH’s Clinical-Experimental Work Garners Recognition
Kai Markus Schneider, Junior Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology and Organ Crosstalk at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen has been awarded the 2024 Theodor Frerichs Prize by the German Society of Internal Medicine for his research into a…
RWTH Researchers Transforming Rural Rail Travel
Trains every 10 or 15 minutes – and in rural areas. And this rail service is not only sustainable and economically viable, it also runs autonomously in response to the increasing shortage of skilled workers. The Aachen Rail Shuttle (ARS)…
RWTH Highlights Sustainability Strategy with Introduction of Electric Bus
Since 2022, RWTH Aachen University has been developing a Sustainability Strategy and an associated Sustainability Roadmap in a participatory process. It was approved by the Senate in December 2023. RWTH has set itself the goal of being…
University of Freiburg Research Team Uncovers Novel Gene Indirectly Enhancing Photosynthesis
Cyanobacteria – also called blue-green algae – are known as the “plants of the ocean” because they carry out photosynthesis on a gigantic scale, produce oxygen and extract the greenhouse gas CO2 from the environment. However, to do this…
University of Freiburg Excels Nationally with Multiple Top 10 Spots in QS World University Rankings…
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 have been published. A total of 55 subject-specific rankings were compiled in five broad subject areas, including “Arts & Humanities,” “Engineering & Technology,” “Life Sciences &…
Attosecond Laser Technology Advances Electron Tracking
The electrons in atoms and molecules move incredibly fast. Put simply, an electron in a hydrogen atom orbits the nucleus of an atom once in around 152 attoseconds. By comparison, a million trillion attoseconds pass in one second. Physicists…
Creators of “Cyber and the City” Exhibition at Tübingen City Museum Awarded German…
This year, the Communicator Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Stifterverband goes to an interdisciplinary team from the University of Tübingen: Ulrike von Luxburg, computer science professor for the theory of machine…
Journalist Dunja Hayali Appointed as 19th Tübingen Media Lecturer at University of Tübingen
On Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., the journalist and presenter ( today's journal, among others) Dunja Hayali will speak in the university's ballroom (Neue Aula, Brüder-Scholl-Platz). Her lecture will be about the new power of…
A Place Where Cultures Meet: LETI Celebrates Nowruz Holiday
On 28 March 2024, in the Assembly Hall of Dormitory 1, ETU “LETI” students celebrated Nowruz, a traditional Iranian and Turkic holiday of the coming of spring and the beginning of the New Year according to the Solar Hijri Calendar. This…
RUDN Environmentalists to Train Ghanaian Specialists in Effective Waste Management
10 profile officers of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly from the city of Accra (Ghana) are being trained at the school "Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy" of the Institute of Environmental Engineering of RUDN University.…