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.

26.09.2012: Slave rebellion is widespread in ants

Enslaved worker ants kill the offspring of their parasites and thereby improve the chances of survival for their neighboring relatives ...

26.09.2012: Businesses in Mainz still prefer to use family names in their company name

Forenames and surnames in company names disappear as businesses increase in size ...

20.09.2012: Historian Andreas Rödder becomes Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor 2012/2013

One-year professorship for the research sphere on Germany in Europe 1890-2000 ...

14.09.2012: Roman military camp dating back to the conquest of Gaul throws light on a part of world history

Evidence confirms the location of the oldest Roman military fortification ...

10.09.2012: Excavations in Jaffa confirm presence of Egyptian settlement on the ancient city site

Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology division at Mainz University has been involved in the archaeological survey of the ancient city of Jaffa since 2007 ...

06.09.2012: Carl Zeiss Foundation supports interdisciplinary research consortium ChemBioMed

Innovative research concept jointly initiated by the Mainz University Medical Center and the JGU Biology and Chemistry institutes receives funding of EUR 1 million ...

30.08.2012: New DFG-funded Emmy Noether Junior Research Group examines the role played by W bosons in the structure of matter

Matthias Schott is to form an independent work group to precisely measure the mass of the W boson ...

29.08.2012: German Research Foundation sponsors completion of the critical edition of the works of Friedrich Schlegel

Academics at Mainz University will make available the last eight of 35 volumes of Schlegelâs writings over the coming years ...

27.08.2012: Scientists at the Mainz University Medical Center discover immune cells that protect against multiple sclerosis

Dendritic cells possibly reduce autoimmune reactions / Re-evaluation of therapy concepts ...

27.08.2012: International team of researchers finds a link between cold European winters and solar activity

Studies of Germany's largest river reveal a correlation between periods of low activity of the sun and regional cooling ...

27.08.2012: Physics in Mainz maintains leading position in global comparison

Academic Ranking of World Universities places Mainz University's Physics institutes among the top 75 in the world and among the six best in Germany ...

14.08.2012: When do German children gain weight?

Increase in the prevalence of overweight among German children calculated precisely for the first time ...

10.08.2012: Stabilizing shell effects in heaviest elements directly measured

Results will help to pin down the so-called island of stability ...

08.08.2012: Mainz University attracts funding worth EUR 230,000 for student scholarships in the German National Scholarship Program

University facilitates contact between sponsors and scholarship students / Awardee of the Rhineland-Palatinate Teaching Award donates prize money ...

03.08.2012: Medals thanks to Facebook?

Study reveals the impact of social media activity and fan communication on the motivation of elite sportsmen ...

31.07.2012: Stefan Legewie receives about EUR 1 million to model biological networks

Research group at the Mainz-based Institute of Molecular Biology aims to develop mathematical models that will aid research into diseases such as cancer ...

20.07.2012: Anthropologists from the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt present oral history materials to the National Archives of Burkina Faso

A contribution towards safeguarding an intangible cultural heritage ...

18.07.2012: XENON100 sets record limits for dark matter

Further constraints of models of new physics with WIMP candidates ...

13.07.2012: Physicists in Mainz and all around the world cheer the discovery of the Higgs particle

Success at the world's largest particle accelerator LHC / Experiments involving scientists from Mainz University show first direct evidence of the Higgs boson ...

11.07.2012: Award for research on molecular spintronics

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer of the Institut Néel â CNRS Grenoble receives the EUR 10,000 Gutenberg Lecture Award from the Graduate School Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ) ...