News 2012

03.04.2012: Malte Persike of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz awarded the Ars legendi Prize 2012 for Excellence in University Teaching in the field of social sciences

Commended by the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany and the German Rector's Conference for innovative and student-oriented teaching concepts ...

29.03.2012: All domestic cattle descend from a small herd of aurochs in the Near East

Anthropologists from Mainz University together with French and English colleagues have calculated the size of the first domesticated cattle herd ...

15.03.2012: Information processing in Drosophila: Initiation of a new EU research network for doctoral candidates

Neurobiology division of the Institute of Zoology of Mainz University is now part of the EU-funded pan-European FLiACT initial training network on systemic neuroscience ...

14.03.2012: Gold nanoantennas detect proteins

New method of monitoring protein molecules using gold nanoparticles ...

07.03.2012: Internet-based therapy relieves persistent tinnitus

A German-Swedish study shows that internet-based self-help training for tinnitus is as successful as group therapy ...

01.03.2012: Executive Master in European Sport Governance program congratulates first graduates

European program on management and administration in the modern world of sports ...

23.02.2012: Universities in Mainz and Edinburgh cooperate in literature project on Sir Walter Scott

Funding of the German-Scottish research initiative on "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" to the tune of EUR 500,000 ...

21.02.2012: First digital dictionary of German surnames planned

Surname inventory to be generated as a joint project of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature ...

13.02.2012: Islamic Law Materialized: A new database for Islamic documents from the Middle Ages

Mainz Professor of Byzantine Studies and specialist in Arabic Studies Johannes Pahlitzsch cooperates with the French research center CNRS to create a new database for historical Arabic documents ...

10.02.2012: Art historian at Mainz University participates in a new project on the history of royal residential cities

The long-term cultural studies project will examine the interaction between the bourgeois civil society and courtiers in urban environments ...

06.02.2012: CI3 immunotherapy cluster wins the Leading-Edge Cluster competition held by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

More than EUR 80 million in funding for the development of individualized forms of immunotherapy and diagnostics ...

03.02.2012: Outside his comfort zone: RISE alumnus Kurtis Malecha on his internship at the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry at Mainz University

"Frontiers," the student magazine of Minnesota State University, Mankato reports on Kurtis Malecha's experiences working as research assistant to Nils Stöbener at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

02.02.2012: Human immune cells react sensitively to "stress"

Scientists at the University Medical Center in Mainz prove multiple DNA repair defect in monocytes ...

31.01.2012: Germersheim-based Open Access journal "TC3 – Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition" fills a gap in the field of translation studies

New academic journal for translators and interpreters ...

23.01.2012: Funding approved for a Franco-German project looking at the synthesis of non-conducting surfaces

Cooperation between Angelika Kühnle of Mainz University and André Gourdon of CEMES-CNRS ...

23.01.2012: Third issue of the Journal of Unsolved Questions (JUnQ) published by the Graduate School MAINZ is now available

JUnQ attracts considerable national and international interest and notice ...

20.01.2012: Three new group leaders join Institute of Molecular Biology to investigate epigenetic processes during development and disease

Jean-Yves Roignant, Natalia Soshnikova, and Vijay Tiwari begin their research into epigenetic processes that control development and the occurrence of disease ...

17.01.2012: German Research Foundation funds new research center on the low-energy frontier of the Standard Model of particle physics

Institute of Nuclear Physics at Mainz University will examine the formation and composition of subatomic particles / Cooperation with the BES III Experiment in Beijing ...

09.01.2012: Sabine and Kurt Groenewold fund a high-ranking scholarship for the Mainz Publishing Archive

Scholarship will facilitate the study of the extremely valuable material in the Mainz Publishing Archive at Mainz University ...

06.01.2012: First hint of the Higgs boson particle

Particle physicists at Mainz University are excited: 50 years after its prediction, the Higgs boson gradually takes shape ...