News 2012

Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology division at Mainz University has been involved in the archaeological survey of the ancient city of Jaffa since 2007 ...

Innovative research concept jointly initiated by the Mainz University Medical Center and the JGU Biology and Chemistry institutes receives funding of EUR 1 million ...

Matthias Schott is to form an independent work group to precisely measure the mass of the W boson ...

Academics at Mainz University will make available the last eight of 35 volumes of Schlegel’s writings over the coming years ...

Academic Ranking of World Universities places Mainz University's Physics institutes among the top 75 in the world and among the six best in Germany ...

Dendritic cells possibly reduce autoimmune reactions / Re-evaluation of therapy concepts ...

Studies of Germany's largest river reveal a correlation between periods of low activity of the sun and regional cooling ...

Increase in the prevalence of overweight among German children calculated precisely for the first time ...

Results will help to pin down the so-called island of stability ...

University facilitates contact between sponsors and scholarship students / Awardee of the Rhineland-Palatinate Teaching Award donates prize money ...

Study reveals the impact of social media activity and fan communication on the motivation of elite sportsmen ...

Research group at the Mainz-based Institute of Molecular Biology aims to develop mathematical models that will aid research into diseases such as cancer ...

A contribution towards safeguarding an intangible cultural heritage ...

Further constraints of models of new physics with WIMP candidates ...

Success at the world's largest particle accelerator LHC / Experiments involving scientists from Mainz University show first direct evidence of the Higgs boson ...

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer of the Institut Néel â CNRS Grenoble receives the EUR 10,000 Gutenberg Lecture Award from the Graduate School Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ) ...

Exploiting "molecular glues" to target disease relevant proteolytic enzymes ...

Calculations prepared by Mainz scientists will also influence the way current climate change is perceived / Publication of results in Nature Climate Change ...

Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles mimic natural enzymes and inhibit surface build-up of algae and bacteria ...

Junior researcher Zuzana Fajkošová passes international selection procedure and begins her doctorate in the Palaeogenetics Group at the JGU Institute of Anthropology ...