Press Releases

The presented list of press releases in English is only a selection of our German press texts. For the time being, these translated press releases focus primarily on science and research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

13.12.2012: Stuart Parkin recognized for great service to interdisciplinary materials research

Experimental physicist Stuart Parkin of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California and member of the Gutenberg Research College received the 2012 Von Hippel Award ...

11.12.2012: Academy for Foreign Coaches in Mainz offers training courses for track and field coaches from developing countries

Sports promotion as part of cultural foreign policy ...

07.12.2012: Launch of the EU large-scale integrating project "BlueGenics" to combat osteoporosis

Project aims to discover the genetic blueprints for new drugs from marine organisms that could help to prevent and to treat major human diseases such as osteoporosis ...

07.12.2012: Claudia Felser appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society

Chemist receives high distinction for her research into new materials ...

06.12.2012: Political scientist Arne Niemann appointed to Jean Monnet Chair

European recognition of teaching and research in the field of European integration ...

04.12.2012: Ray of hope for human Usher syndrome patients

Biologists at Mainz University achieve repair and read-through of stop mutations responsible for the disease ...

04.12.2012: Mainz neuroscientist Robert Nitsch receives the European Union’s most highly remunerated research funding award

ERC Advanced Grant for the promotion of cutting-edge research in the field of neuroscience at the Mainz University Medical Center ...

04.12.2012: Gerold Krause-Junk is recipient of the 2013 Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship

Lecture series of the internationally renowned public finance expert is to focus on the European Monetary Union and the future of the European Community from an economic perspective ...

29.11.2012: New MRI technology to provide even better images of the inside of the human body

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research earmarks EUR 1.3 million to develop magnetic resonance imaging using polarized substances ...

29.11.2012: After Bologna: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz breaks new ground in university teaching

Strategic measures lead to professionalization of learning and teaching as well as study management at Mainz University ...

29.11.2012: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz continues expanding services relating to the student life cycle

Mainz University adapts advisory services to the changing student situation / Career Service offers occupational orientation and provides skills ...

28.11.2012: Mainz University Medical Center agrees partnership with Yale University

Major boost for the Research Unit Translational Neurosciences ...

28.11.2012: New collaborative research center at Mainz University focuses on basic research in neurosciences

German Research Foundation provides funding of approximately EUR 9.3 million ...

26.11.2012: Founders Day 2012 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: EUR 50,000 for projects in research and teaching

Sources of innovation and inspiration: Foundations present various forms of social commitment to the university ...

26.11.2012: Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz develop new methods for cooling of ions

Ions are cooled during collisions with cold atoms / Similar processes assumed to occur in space ...

26.11.2012: Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology identify key event for sex determination

Deletion of just one gene results in complete sex reversal of male mice ...

21.11.2012: Research Training Group "Transnational Social Support" receives EUR 2.8 million in support for the next four and a half years

Young researchers look at the provision of social support across national borders ...

20.11.2012: Scientists at Mainz University identify inhibitor of myelin formation in the central nervous system

Possible implication for various neurological illnesses ...

19.11.2012: New database at the Institute of Musicology contains 40,000 musical settings of the Mass

Online database lists settings from the 14th century to the present ...

15.11.2012: Consolidating the scholarship tradition: Students at Mainz University receiving a German National Scholarship meet their sponsors

Strenghtening the network of business, academia, and society ...