News 2009

14.12.2009: Mainz University receives a donation of EUR 10,000 to enhance its family friendliness as a standard in top-level research

Geotechnik Büdinger Fein Welling GmbH supports the promotion of excellent science ...

11.12.2009: First volume of the German Surname Atlas now available

The University of Freiburg and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz publish globally unique reference work ...

10.12.2009: Lighting can influence how wine tastes

Survey of the Institute of Psychology demonstrates that the color of ambient lighting can have an effect on how a wine is assessed ...

09.12.2009: Time Magazine chooses computer algorithm for packing problems as one of "The 50 Best Inventions of 2009"

When it comes to packing, the scientists of Mainz University are unbeatable ...

07.12.2009: Start of building operations for Institute of Molecular Biology marked by ground-breaking ceremony

State government and Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation promote state-of-the-art research at Mainz University ...

02.12.2009: Personality 2.0: What do user profiles in the social network studiVZ reveal about their owners?

Study of the Section of Personality and Psychological Assessment analyzes "Personality and the social perception in online social networks" ...

12.11.2009: European languages vitality barometer to save minority languages from extinction

European Language Diversity for All project receives EUR 2.7 million in EU funding ...

06.10.2009: The new Mainz Publishing Archive is a most valuable treasure of German publishing history

Archive with a scope unique in Germany will be used for scientific purposes at the JGU Institute of Book Science ...

03.09.2009: Central Europe was repopulated 7,500 years ago

Hunter-gatherers of the Ice Age are not the ancestors of the first sedentary tillers ...

28.08.2009: Lactose tolerance in adults originated in Southeastern Europe

New scientific study shows that milk production began in Southeastern Europe rather than in Northern Europe ...

07.08.2009: Link between over-indebtedness and obesity identified

Higher risk of over-indebted individuals becoming overweight and obese - problem could be further exacerbated by the financial crisis ...

29.07.2009: Physicists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz develop a multifunctional storage device for light

Monolithic microresonator enables the controlled coupling of light and matter / Publication in Physical Review Letters ...

19.07.2009: Trinational Summer School 2009 in Mainz: The South in Global Perspectives

Coordinated PhD program of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Georgia State University, Atlanta, and Peking University ...

13.07.2009: Air full of fungi, study reveals

Researchers from Mainz find great diversity of fungi floating in the air ...

09.07.2009: Family physician survey in Mainz: Patients with depression frequently suffer from medically unexplained pain

High frequency of somatoform pain disorder reported from GP practices - significant differences between patients with and without depression ...

16.06.2009: Tubules "grown" from droplets

Bismuth-catalyzed growth of tin disulfide nanotubes ...

09.06.2009: What the immune system reveals about breast cancer

Researchers of Mainz University identify the prognostic significance of the immune system in breast tumors ...

28.05.2009: Environmentally compatible chemical processes: Mainz University enters into new cooperation agreement in Dalian, China

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperate in research on the production of ionic liquids ...

26.05.2009: Activation mechanism of key enzymes in oxygen transport to melanin formation explained

Researchers from Mainz and Houston make use of cryo-electron microscopy to show the exact process of enzyme activation ...

19.05.2009: Bacteria and algae act as biocatalysts for deep-sea raw material deposition

Microorganisms trigger the formation of manganese nodules and manganese crusts - a model for future extraction of raw materials ...