News 2012

18.12.2012: German Council of Science and Humanities Research Rating: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz earns top marks for American Studies

Assessment team gives American Studies at Mainz University very good to excellent grades in all areas / Top rank for best research quality in all of Germany ...

18.12.2012: Kurt Binder awarded the Medal of Honor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of statistical physics ...

17.12.2012: Students from six European universities to practice academic journalism at the University of Turin

Participants in the EU-funded Intensive Program will create professional film clips about research projects ...

17.12.2012: Klaus Lieb of the Mainz University Medical Center is Germany’s "Professor of the Year"

Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is awarded the prize of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers worth EUR 10,000 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...