Freie Universitaet Berlin

The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system has just taken a giant leap forward. A team of researchers led by Professor Frank Postberg, a planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, has discovered new evidence that the…

FUB-ContinuEd, the international professional development program of Freie Universität Berlin, will be offering its online certificate courses again this fall. The focus of the program lies on socially relevant topics such as diversity…

After serving eighteen years as the academic director of Freie Universität Berlin’s European Studies Program (FU-BEST), Dr. Dirk Verheyen retired on May 31, 2023. In 2005, he worked together with the university’s Division of International…

Various aspects of Palestinian literature will form the main focus of a new podcast series produced and released at Freie Universität Berlin. The podcast, Country of Words, is run by the team of researchers behind the PalREAD project at…

This year not only marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Freie Universität Berlin’s founding, but also the sixtieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s iconic speech on its campus. The university will be celebrating this milestone…

The director of Freie Universität Berlin’s Division of International Affairs, Dr. Herbert Grieshop, has been elected as a member of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)’s Executive Committee. The twelve newly elected committee…

Freie Universität Berlin will host a theater performance about mathematician Emmy Noether (1882–1935) on May 11. The piece “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether” will be performed in English by the Portraittheater Vienna and presents the…

The German Research Foundation is set to fund the international research training group (IRTG) 2445 “Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation” based at Freie Universität Berlin for a further…

With its selection of Jennifer Evans, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has singled out an internationally recognized expert for German and European queer history to receive the 2023 Konrad Adenauer Research Award. Besides receiving…

FUB-ContinuEd, the international continuing education program at Freie Universität Berlin, is set to offer a course titled “Positive Futures – Die Hoffnungswerkstatt” (“the hope workshop”) in cooperation with the acclaimed scholar Dr.…