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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.…
Pandemic Drinking Hits Middle-Aged Women Hardest, Study Finds
Middle-aged women experienced increases in alcohol-related health complications during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research led by a University of Pittsburgh physician-scientist and published today in JAMA Health Forum.
The…
Breakthrough Insights Offer Potential for Immunotherapy in Rare, Deadly Eye Cancer
New research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient’s T cells outside the body before reinfusing them,…
UPMC Sports Medicine Clinic Expands Access to Care with New Opening in Ireland
In partnership with Mardyke Arena University College Cork (UCC), UPMC Sports Medicine Clinic, Mardyke Arena, UCC opened its doors to patients this week, expanding UPMC’s multinational sports medicine and orthopaedics network. Serving…
New Bush University to Be Established in North-east Arnhem Land
The bush university, scheduled to launch later this year, was one of 10 new Regional University Study Hubs recently announced by the Australian Government, and follows a successful five-week trial led by Macquarie University and the…
Professor Leanne Piggott Appointed as Dean of Students at Macquarie University
Macquarie University has announced the appointment of Professor Leanne Piggott as the new Dean of Students.
Professor Piggott will join Macquarie in May from the University of New South Wales, where she holds the positions of…