News 2012

21.11.2012: Research Training Group "Transnational Social Support" receives EUR 2.8 million in support for the next four and a half years

Young researchers look at the provision of social support across national borders ...

20.11.2012: Scientists at Mainz University identify inhibitor of myelin formation in the central nervous system

Possible implication for various neurological illnesses ...

19.11.2012: New database at the Institute of Musicology contains 40,000 musical settings of the Mass

Online database lists settings from the 14th century to the present ...

15.11.2012: Consolidating the scholarship tradition: Students at Mainz University receiving a German National Scholarship meet their sponsors

Strenghtening the network of business, academia, and society ...

09.11.2012: Top-level research in particle and hadron physics at Mainz University is funded with EUR 35 million

Opening ceremony of the PRISMA Cluster of Excellence ...

08.11.2012: Mainz University Medical Center agrees to establish a German-Vietnamese Faculty of Medicine at Pham Ngoc Thach University in Vietnam

Medical students and scientists will benefit from joint research projects ...

07.11.2012: Development of measures to prevent wine indispositions

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the DLR develop measures to prevent health problems associated with biogenic amines in wine ...

06.11.2012: Leading expert in DNA damage signaling joins Institute of Molecular Biology at Mainz University as Scientific Director

Helle Ulrich complements related research initiatives at Mainz University ...

05.11.2012: Vijay Tiwari awarded prestigious grant to study how cancer cells transform to become invasive

Group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology is one of only eleven Young Investigators to be invited into the EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence this year ...

30.10.2012: Mainz physicist is awarded EU funding of EUR 2.75 million for research on the aerosol composition in the upper atmosphere

ERC Advanced Grant for Stephan Borrmann of the JGU Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry ...

05.10.2012: International research group shows that the aging of organic aerosols is caused by OH radicals

Climate models need to be updated ...

05.10.2012: Origin of ultrafast manipulation of domain walls discovered

Research success for the international research team including a fellow of the MAINZ Graduate School of Excellence ...

04.10.2012: Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project receives three-year funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant for excavations in the ancient city of Jaffa ...

02.10.2012: Mainz University Library significantly increases its fund for Open Access publications

German Research Foundation approved proposal by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and its University Medical Center ...

02.10.2012: Mainz University Medical Center searches for treatment for posttraumatic pain syndrome

German Research Foundation funds a three-year joint project of the Mainz University Medical Center and the University of Münster to the tune of about EUR 460,000 ...

01.10.2012: MAINZ Award for Christina Birkel and Christian Ohm

MAINZ Graduate School PhD Award given for outstanding dissertations in Materials Science ...

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 ...