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With a view towards predicting the consequences of human-made climate change for Mediterranean ecosystems, Earth scientists from Heidelberg University have studied natural climate and vegetation fluctuations of the past 500,000 years.…

DFG ALLOCATES APPROXIMATELY 7.4 MILLION EUROS TO FUND JOINT RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP WITH UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGARTA new Research Training Group (RTG) in materials science is to be established at Heidelberg University. Jointly organised with…

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a “warm ice age” permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. Contemporaneous with this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A European research team including…

The Codex Manesse – a splendidly crafted collection of Middle High German songs and sayings in the stocks of the Heidelberg University Library – has been admitted to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme as world documentary heritage.…

In the current approval round of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Heidelberg University has been successful with four applications to fund large research consortia, receiving funding worth a total of approximately 63 million euros.…

Heading Heidelberg University in future will be molecular biologist Prof. Dr Frauke Melchior: the Senate and University Council elected the 60-year-old scientist as Rector of Ruperto Carola. The two bodies met jointly on 9 March 2023 for…

For her scientific potential with regard to her doctoral phase, which has now begun, and a subsequent career in academic research, Janin Schokolowski is being honoured as an outstanding master’s graduate of Heidelberg University. A…

Zircon crystals, like a time capsule, can preserve traces of life hundreds of millions of years old in the form of biogenic carbon. Using new methods, geoscientists at Heidelberg University have succeeded in tracing very old and rare…

CEREMONY FOR OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF BUILDING FOR MOLECULAR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TAKES PLACE ON 17 APRILA new workplace and laboratory building for the engineering sciences at Heidelberg University is about to be officially opened. Host…

In recognition of his outstanding achievements in cancer research, cell biologist and geneticist Prof. Dr Webster K. Cavenee is to receive an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty Heidelberg of Heidelberg University. At the same…