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.

13.07.2011: Mössbauer Group of Mainz University is preparing for participation in Japanese Moon mission and a mission to Mars' moon Phobos

Team led by Göstar Klingelhöfer cooperates with leading researcher of the Japanese space agency JAXA on solar system research projects ...

11.07.2011: Ant colonies with more behavioral variety are more successful

Variation in aggression is possibly part of the division of labor in ant colonies ...

11.07.2011: Olympia hypothesis: Tsunamis buried the cult site on the Peloponnese

Andreas Vött presents new results of geomorphological and geoarchaeological investigations on the sedimentary burial of Olympia ...

06.07.2011: English for Advanced Learners: Linguists at Mainz University examine obstacles to native-like proficiency in foreign language acquisition

Aim is to improve academic writing skills in university teacher training / Additional contributors to help build a text corpus welcome ...

01.07.2011: Treatment approach to human Usher syndrome: Small molecules ignore stop signals

New treatment approach shall soon be ready for use in Usher syndrome patients ...

01.07.2011: Gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori protects against asthma

Dramatic increase in allergic diseases in industrial societies is linked to rapid disappearance of specific micro-organisms that populate the human body ...

28.06.2011: Conventions in the naming of corporate entities change rapidly from tradition to imagination

Linguistic research looks at names of German companies ...

28.06.2011: Change in leadership at the Friends of Mainz University

Klaus Adam hands over to his successor Peter Radermacher and takes over as Chairman of the Board of Trustees / Otto Boehringer becomes Honorary President of the Board of Trustees ...

21.06.2011: Quantum leap: Magnetic properties of a single proton directly observed for the first time

Most important milestone in the direct measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton and its anti-particle has been achieved / Focusing the matter-antimatter symmetry ...

15.06.2011: Mainz becomes the European center of Scottish Studies

Foundation of the Society for Scottish Studies in Europe to promote and foster the interest in Scottish culture, history and literature ...

09.06.2011: Center for Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies founded at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

The aim is to bring the worldâs indigenous people into the center of research interest ...

09.06.2011: Ultracold neutrons for science: UCNs will help to solve mysteries of astrophysics

Mainz has the most powerful source of ultracold neutrons, opening up the possibility of conducting a key experiment to determine the life time of the neutron ...

18.05.2011: Skills Lab at the Mainz University Medical Center wins award

Training center for students to help them acquire medical skills wins poster prize for its outstanding publicity concept ...

05.05.2011: Future technology spintronics: Mainz intensifies its cooperation with renowned experimental physicist Stuart Parkin

Stuart Parkin of IBM Research - Almaden in San José has become a fellow of the Gutenberg Research Center and will be mentoring Mainz postgraduates ...

03.05.2011: Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship 2011: "A different language. Images and the principles of human communication"

Swiss art historian Gottfried Boehm lectures on the language of images ...

03.05.2011: Profile building: Gutenberg Research College welcomes five new members

Top international researchers Stuart Parkin and Detlef Schuppan nominated as GRC fellows ...

20.04.2011: The energy highway of the future

Top US researcher Robert J. Cava of Princeton University receives the Gutenberg Lecture Award worth EUR 10,000 from the MAINZ Graduate School for his research on superconductivity ...

20.04.2011: Worldwide unique science journal published by Mainz postgraduates wins "University Pearl" award

The Mainz "Journal of Unsolved Questions" has been named "University Pearl of the Month" for April 2011 by the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany ...

14.04.2011: New data from XENON100 narrows down the search for dark matter

No evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) ...

31.03.2011: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is the first German university to receive the official seal of accreditation

System accreditation confirms success of university quality assurance system integrating university governance and development, evaluation, and accreditation ...