News 2015

19.10.2015: Birth order has only very small effects on personality

Psychologists from Leipzig and Mainz analyzed central personality traits of over 20,000 grown-ups from Germany, the USA, and Great Britain ...

15.10.2015: MAINZ Graduate School of Excellence awards Visiting Professorships 2015

Oxford theoretical physicist Dieter Jaksch and spintronics expert Thierry Valet have been awarded MAINZ Visiting Professorships ...

14.10.2015: Lower recidivism rates through improved education programs for female inmates in European prisons

Completion of the EU-funded FEFI €“– Finding Education for Female Inmates project on educational options provided for female inmates in various European countries ...

12.10.2015: TRIGA Mainz reaches world record of 20,000 pulses in 50 years

Powerful neutron source at Mainz University is used by chemists and physicists from all over the world for basic research ...

28.09.2015: GET Across Borders Program of Mainz University wins "Committed to Uniqueness 2015" award from the German Academic Exchange Service

Internationalization of teacher training at Johannes Gutenberg University to serve as role model ...

25.09.2015: EUR 25 million for the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis at the Mainz University Medical Center

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides funding for the next five years ...

07.09.2015: Indications of the origin of the spin Seebeck effect discovered

Thermally excited magnetic waves enable generation of electricity using insulators ...

18.08.2015: Hydrogen sulfide loses its electrical resistance under high pressure at minus 70 degrees Celsius

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz observed new record high for superconductivity / Publication in Nature ...

14.08.2015: European consortium develops new approaches for dealing with Big Data

Mainz University is participating in the BigStorage graduate network being funded by the EU with EUR 3.8 million for the next four years ...

12.08.2015: Carl Zeiss Foundation donates EUR 850,000 to the Advanced Lab for Electrochemistry and Electroorganic Synthesis at Mainz University

Research structure concept of ELYSION enhances the strategic relevance of Mainz in the fields of electroconversion and electroactive materials ...

10.08.2015: Solving a long-standing atomic mass difference puzzle paves way to the neutrino mass

ECHo collaboration with reseachers of Mainz University publishes new results in Physical Review Letters ...

23.07.2015: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research sponsors CERN-related research by Mainz teams

Mainz-based physicists receive support for their work on the ATLAS and NA62 experiments designed to analyze new particles ...

07.07.2015: Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy enables the measurement of fundamental magnetotransport details

Terahertz spectroscopy provides basis for advanced nanoelectronics ...

23.06.2015: German literature scholar Dagmar von Hoff receives award from Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz in Poland

Bestowal of the Casimirus Magnus Medal for academic cooperation ...

16.06.2015: New measurement of the mass of a strange atomic nucleus achieves very high degree of precision

Results obtained at the MAMI particle accelerator in Mainz should add to the understanding of the "strong force" ...

15.06.2015: New electron accelerator at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz reaches first milestone

Official project start for the production of superconducting accelerator modules ...

15.06.2015: New mechanism that attacks viral infections discovered

German researchers find evidence of the interaction between two components of the innate immune system to combat rotavirus infection / Publication in Nature Immunology ...

12.06.2015: Vijay Tiwari of the Institute of Molecular Biology receives Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung Award 2015

Recognition of outstanding contributions in biomedical research ...

11.06.2015: Mainz-based Institute of Translational Oncology is part of European Bioinformatics Research Consortium on personalized cancer immunotherapy

Collaboration funded by the European Union within the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation ...

03.06.2015: Mainz physicists provide important component for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Super-fast circuit board to be used for the identification of important particle collisions comes from Mainz University ...