Freie Universitaet Berlin

Extreme climate events pose an ever-increasing threat to savannas around the world. However, the ability of these mixed woodland-grassland ecosystems to resist periods of drought can be improved with a higher number of browsing herbivores…

Two researchers from Freie Universität Berlin have received the 2022 CAAT Humane Education Award. They received the prize based on their concept for an e-learning platform on alternatives to animal testing. Veterinarian Dr. Vivian Kral…

American writer and translator Susan Bernofsky will hold the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professorship in Poetics of Translation at Freie Universität Berlin this summer semester. Established in 2007 by the Deutscher…

Scottish writer Nancy Campbell will hold the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, this summer semester. She will be teaching a seminar titled “On Water…

Using data taken from tree-ring isotopes, researchers have proven that the summer droughts that have swept parts of Europe in recent years were actually very unusual in comparison to droughts experienced during the past centuries. In…

The European Studies Program at Freie Universität Berlin (FU-BEST) welcomed 111 students from overseas to the university campus at the start of its new term. The sixteen-week academic program offers participants thirty-five courses to…

This year, Freie Universität Berlin will be once again presenting the Margherita von Brentano Prize to outstanding individuals and innovative projects whose work has contributed to the advancement of women and/or gender studies. The…

A new junior research group at Freie Universität Berlin, which will investigate the production of biodegradable antiviral and antibacterial materials, with one of the goals of synthesis being new alternatives to conventional antibiotics,…

For a long time, human remains were used in universities for teaching purposes. Freie Universität Berlin also harbors such human remains, however, their origin is insufficiently known. Through the initiative of the human biology teaching…

Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) and the Center for Modern Greece (CeMoG) at Freie Universität Berlin are pleased to announce that they will be awarding the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor House Fellowship in cooperation with the Benaki…