News 2019

01.07.2019: Exploring the strong interaction: Helmholtz Institute Mainz celebrates its 10th anniversary

International player in researching the fundamental forces of nature   ...

01.07.2019: MiLiQuant: Putting quantum technology into practice

Collaboration of businesses and universities aims to transfer technology from the lab scale to practical industrial applications  ...

26.06.2019: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz enhances its research profile

Rhineland-Palatinate Research Initiative will fund leading-edge research areas to ensure national and international competitiveness   ...

26.06.2019: A beacon in the European Education Area: European Commission funds JGU and partners for their vision of a European University

European FORTHEM Alliance under the aegis of JGU to receive millions in funding for harmonizing learning, teaching, and research across national borders   ...

25.06.2019: An ion channel with a doorkeeper: The pH of calcium ions controls ion channel opening

Biochemists identified the structure of a ring located at the opening of the TRPML2 ion channel that can be blocked by calcium ions   ...

21.06.2019: Dental microwear provides clues to dietary habits of lepidosauria

Microscopic images allow to differentiate between carnivores and herbivores and might support the discovery of the first herbivorous terrestrial vertebrates   ...

18.06.2019: Beewolves use a gas to preserve food

Scientists discovered that the eggs of the European beewolf produce nitric oxide, a gas preventing the larvae’s food from getting moldy in the warm and humid brood cells   ...

11.06.2019: Teacher Training Quality Campaign: Mainz University receives EUR 1.2 million to promote teacher training

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and network partners develop digital teaching-learning tools for vocational teacher training  ...

06.06.2019: Mainz University achieves excellent positions in the U-Multirank university ranking

JGU is represented in the international top group in terms of the number of research publications and patents  ...

05.06.2019: German Research Foundation funds new research unit examining the microstructure of adaptive polymer gels

Research alliance on "Adaptive Polymer Gels with Model-Network Structure" will close a gap in the German research landscape ...

03.06.2019: New interaction between thin film magnets discovered

Physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz lay the foundations for new three-dimensional spin structures  ...

28.05.2019: German Research Foundation continues funding for research into the limits of weather forecast

DFG approves second funding period for Transregional Collaborative Research Center "Waves to Weather" (CRC/TRR 165)  ...

27.05.2019: The effects of the Internet on learning in higher education

RMU Initiative Funding for Research to fund educational researchers, computer scientists, linguists, and neuroscientists at the Rhine-Main Universities   ...

24.05.2019: New European project at the forefront of strong interaction studies

EU project "STRONG-2020" brings together 44 institutes from all over Europe conducting research on the strong interaction  ...

20.05.2019: German Research Foundation approves new research training group investigating the evolution of gene regulation

New Research Training Group "Gene Regulation in Evolution: From Molecular to Extended Phenotypes" gives a boost to Mainz University as a major center of research in the life sciences  ...

20.05.2019: New international open access journal on ancient and Christian ethics published by theologians at Mainz University

Journal aims to contribute to the dialog between ethical traditions of antiquity and current ethical discourses  ...

07.05.2019: The power of randomization: Magnetic skyrmions for novel computer technology

First steps towards a practical application for magnetic skyrmions   ...

07.05.2019: Driving chemical reactions with light

Chemical nature of surface molecules influences plasmon responses of metal nanoparticles  ...

06.05.2019: Mainz University welcomes leading researchers and bestows the 2019 Gutenberg Research Award

Annual celebration of the Gutenberg Research College / Public lectures by Corine Defrance in Mainz   ...

03.05.2019: Astroparticle physicists observe longest half-life ever directly measured

Detector for dark matter search provides impressive measurement results / Publication in Nature   ...