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.

23.02.2012: Universities in Mainz and Edinburgh cooperate in literature project on Sir Walter Scott

Funding of the German-Scottish research initiative on "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" to the tune of EUR 500,000 ...

21.02.2012: First digital dictionary of German surnames planned

Surname inventory to be generated as a joint project of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature ...

13.02.2012: Islamic Law Materialized: A new database for Islamic documents from the Middle Ages

Mainz Professor of Byzantine Studies and specialist in Arabic Studies Johannes Pahlitzsch cooperates with the French research center CNRS to create a new database for historical Arabic documents ...

10.02.2012: Art historian at Mainz University participates in a new project on the history of royal residential cities

The long-term cultural studies project will examine the interaction between the bourgeois civil society and courtiers in urban environments ...

06.02.2012: CI3 immunotherapy cluster wins the Leading-Edge Cluster competition held by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

More than EUR 80 million in funding for the development of individualized forms of immunotherapy and diagnostics ...

03.02.2012: Outside his comfort zone: RISE alumnus Kurtis Malecha on his internship at the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry at Mainz University

"Frontiers," the student magazine of Minnesota State University, Mankato reports on Kurtis Malecha's experiences working as research assistant to Nils Stöbener at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

02.02.2012: Human immune cells react sensitively to "stress"

Scientists at the University Medical Center in Mainz prove multiple DNA repair defect in monocytes ...

31.01.2012: Germersheim-based Open Access journal "TC3 – Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition" fills a gap in the field of translation studies

New academic journal for translators and interpreters ...

23.01.2012: Third issue of the Journal of Unsolved Questions (JUnQ) published by the Graduate School MAINZ is now available

JUnQ attracts considerable national and international interest and notice ...

23.01.2012: Funding approved for a Franco-German project looking at the synthesis of non-conducting surfaces

Cooperation between Angelika Kühnle of Mainz University and André Gourdon of CEMES-CNRS ...

20.01.2012: Three new group leaders join Institute of Molecular Biology to investigate epigenetic processes during development and disease

Jean-Yves Roignant, Natalia Soshnikova, and Vijay Tiwari begin their research into epigenetic processes that control development and the occurrence of disease ...

17.01.2012: German Research Foundation funds new research center on the low-energy frontier of the Standard Model of particle physics

Institute of Nuclear Physics at Mainz University will examine the formation and composition of subatomic particles / Cooperation with the BES III Experiment in Beijing ...

09.01.2012: Sabine and Kurt Groenewold fund a high-ranking scholarship for the Mainz Publishing Archive

Scholarship will facilitate the study of the extremely valuable material in the Mainz Publishing Archive at Mainz University ...

06.01.2012: First hint of the Higgs boson particle

Particle physicists at Mainz University are excited: 50 years after its prediction, the Higgs boson gradually takes shape ...

22.12.2011: The -s plural marker is not a foreign import into the German language

Unis, Studis, CDs, Pkws, and Buddenbrooks: Plural formation adding the suffix -s is truly German and dates back to the 17th/18th century ...

21.12.2011: Institute of Molecular Biology starts international PhD program on "Dynamics of Gene Regulation, Epigenetics and DNA Damage Response"

Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation funds a new program for 30 outstanding doctoral students from all over the world
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19.12.2011: EUR 11.7 million for teaching concept: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is successful in the national "Quality in Teaching" competition

JGU implements measures for staff and organizational development to further optimize teaching and learning processes at subject level ...

12.12.2011: Humboldt Research Award for Top US Researcher Robert J. Cava of Princeton

Renowned materials scientist comes to Germany at the invitation of researchers at Mainz University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Focus on superconductors ...

06.12.2011: Friedemann Schrenk will hold the Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship 2012

The road to Homo sapiens and "Out of Africa" represent the focus of the lecture series to be given by the internationally renowned paleoanthropologist in the summer semester 2012 ...

06.12.2011: World Record for One-Loop Calculations

Physicists at Mainz University significantly improve the calculation method for scattering experiments in particle physics ...