Press Releases 2010
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December
- December 22, 2010 – No. 316/2010European Commission provides funding of 8.5 million euros for the international “BrainScaleS” project
- December 20, 2010 – No. 313/2010Doctoral scholarships from Heidelberg University’s Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”
- December 14, 2010 – No. 311/2010New electronic periodical from Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”
- December 14, 2010 – No. 310/2010“HAIlife” reports on the university’s alumni work all over the world
- December 8, 2010 – No. 308/2010Heidelberg Molecular Life Sciences prize endowed with 200,000 euros
- December 8, 2010 – No. 307/2010Direct proof of the hitherto controversial “Efimov effect”
- December 7, 2010 – No. 306/2010Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedrich Quack awarded research prize of the German Research Foundation
- December 7, 2010 – No. 304/2010Presentation on 14 December 2010 at the University Library
- December 6, 2010 – No. 302/2010Conference in New Delhi organised by Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”
- December 3, 2010 – No. 301/2010Heidelberg University opens a new Core Facility for research groups in life sciences
- December 2, 2010 – No. 298/2010Prize for highly qualified young Heidelberg scientists
November
- November 30, 2010 – No. 296/2010Institute of Psychology organises programme for PhD students
- November 23, 2010 – No. 285/2010Universität Heidelberg and the Institute for the German Language (Mannheim) step up collaboration
- November 22, 2010 – No. 282/2010“Religion and Society” research group investigates the value inculcation process
- November 19, 2010 – No. 281/2010International workshop on the cultural history of perfume
- November 19, 2010 – No. 280/2010ERC Advanced Grant for Prof. Dr. Bruce Edgar – Research at the Center for Molecular Biology and the German Cancer Research Center
- November 18, 2010 – No. 279/2010New offering from the “Asia and Europe” Cluster of Excellence
- November 18, 2010 – No. 277/2010German Research Foundation provides 8 million euros for integrated research project at the Centre for Astronomy
- November 17, 2010 – No. 276/2010Scientists from Ruperto Carola represent largest German university contingent involved in the LHC ALICE experiment
- November 4, 2010 – No. 257/2010Important findings for the understanding of interactions between bacteria and biomolecules
- November 4, 2010 – No. 256/2010South Asia Institute’s donation campaign benefits flood victims in Pakistan
- November 3, 2010 – No. 252/2010Prof. Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti working at the Institute of Physical Chemistry
October
- October 28, 2010 – No. 249/2010Heidelberg among the winners of this year’s Welcome Centres competition
- October 28, 2010 – No. 248/2010Marsilius Kolleg holding interdisciplinary winter school for young scientists
- October 27, 2010 – No. 246/2010CHE publishes ranking of research-intensive subjects with high internationality
- October 26, 2010 – No. 241/2010Scientific symposium presents research findings on high-resolution light microscopy
- October 22, 2010 – No. 237/2010Four awards – prize money to be used for symposia at the International Science Forum
- October 21, 2010 – No. 236/2010Marsilius Kolleg Autumn School being held 9 – 17 November 2010
- October 21, 2010 – No. 235/2010Honorary senator and alumnus commits 250,000 euros to renovation of the New University
- October 15, 2010 – No. 229/2010Heidelberg University Library exhibits priceless medieval manuscript in the original
- October 8, 2010 – No. 223/2010Heidelberg scientists coordinate DFG Priority Programme on the early solar system
- October 8, 2010 – No. 222/2010Starter conference of the new Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience in Heidelberg
- October 7, 2010 – No. 221/2010Heidelberg Scientists Discover Similar Mechanisms as in Humans
- October 7, 2010 – No. 220/2010Heidelberg scientists explain day/night distinction despite intrusive light signals
- October 7, 2010 – No. 219/2010Heidelberg scientists publish health psychology studies
- October 6, 2010 – No. 218/2010Extension of the Heidelberg Center for Latin America funded by resources from the Federal Foreign Office
- October 01, 2010 – No. 212/2010New programme of the Baden-Württemberg Seminar begins on 4 October 2010
September
- September 23, 2010 – No. 204/2010Commitment from universities to optimise support of foreign students
- September 17, 2010 – No. 201/2010Funding from German Research Foundation for research unit coordinated from Heidelberg
- September 16, 2010 – No. 200/2010Heidelberg scientists crucially involved in new German Research Foundation Priority Programme
- September 16, 2010 – No. 199/2010Annual conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”
- September 13, 2010 – No. 197/2010Management and career research: Cooperation with researchers from Brazil
- September 10, 2010 – No. 196/2010Research team able to prove occurrence of polarization-entangled photon pairs through indirect measurements
- September 9, 2010 – No. 195/2010Researchers from the Institute for Sociology work with Brazilian counterparts
- September 8, 2010 – No. 193/2010Heidelberg Alumni International (HAI) moving into new office in the Old Town
- September 7, 2010 – No. 192/2010Research project for integrated management of water resources in Mongolia
August
- August 19, 2010 – No. 190/2010Universität Heidelberg to offer online degree courses for working professionals starting winter semester 2010/2011
- August 17, 2010 – No. 189/2010Universität Heidelberg releases results from first graduate survey
- August 17, 2010 – No. 188/2010ERC Starting Grants for Physicist Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer and Chemist Oliver Trapp
- August 6, 2010 – No. 185/2010Heidelberg, Göttingen and Karlsruhe working with three of the leading universities in Japan
- August 5, 2010 – No. 184/2010Dr. Michael George Cowling receives Senior Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- August 3, 2010 – No. 183/2010German Research Foundation provides funding for new confocal microscope
July
- July 29, 2010 – No. 181/2010Timothy C. Beers receives Senior Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- July 29, 2010 – No. 180/2010Federal Ministry of Economics finances cooperative project between Universität Heidelberg and Mannheim company
- July 22, 2010 – No. 176/2010Multi-purpose building on Neuenheimer Feld campus will cost 11 million euros
- July 22, 2010 – No. 175/2010Course run jointly by Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- July 21, 2010 – No. 172/2010Wissenschaft weltoffen 2010: New study by the German Academic Exchange Service
- July 8, 2010 – No. 152/201012 new professorships established – Teaching and research structure enhanced
- July 7, 2010 – No. 151/2010Supplementary interdisciplinary programme to start in 2010/2011 winter term
- July 7, 2010 – No. 150/2010Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing supports new institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- July 2, 2010 – No. 146/2010“Klaus Tschira Building” on the Neuenheimer Feld campus
June
- June 30, 2010 – No. 143/2010Freiburg composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann at the Universität Heidelberg
- June 30, 2010 – No. 142/2010University Library on top of the renowned BIX Library Index for the first time
- June 23, 2010 – No. 139/2010Interdisciplinary approach: society, politics, history and culture of North America
- June 23, 2010 – No. 138/2010Thomas Pfeiffer remains in charge of international relations
- June 23, 2010 – No. 137/2010Stem cell researchers from Heidelberg and Tübingen elucidate complex interaction between auxin and cytokinin
- June 22, 2010 – No. 136/2010“Heinrich Zimmer Chair” at Ruperto Carola: The science historian Dhruv Raina holds his inaugural lecture
- June 18, 2010 – No. 133/2010Integrated interdisciplinary research venture receives approx. 9.6 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- June 16, 2010 – No. 131/2010Rector of Ruperto Carola: “Moving sign of their deep connection to the Universität Heidelberg“
- June 11, 2010 – No. 127/2010University Library to display renown treasure on the occasion of the 625th anniversary of the Universität Heidelberg
- June 10, 2010 – No. 126/2010Heidelberg jurists evaluate the German Consumer Information Law (VIG)
- June 9, 2010 – No. 124/2010Of interest for pharmacists, physicians, medical scientists, botanists and biotechnologists
May
- May 27, 2010 – No. 113/2010Second funding period: approx. 10 million euros from the German Research Foundation for Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 33
- May 26, 2010 – No. 111/2010Ruperto Carola tests new ways of making higher education more flexible
- May 20, 2010 – No. 109/2010Young scholars discuss “Knowledge on the Move”
- May 18, 2010 – No. 107/2010Scientists investigate the influence of the regulatory gene “Wuschel”
- May 10, 2010 – No. 99/2010Award worth 400,000 Euros – Funding for research work on ”The Free Thinker – a German Enemy Image”
- May 7, 2010 – No. 96/2010Joint project by the Marsilius Kolleg, the University of Calgary and Carnegie Mellon University
- May 4, 2010 – No. 89/2010Two Heidelberg dissertations among the winners of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
April
- April 23, 2010 – No. 81/2010100,000-euro award to be presented on 30 April
- April 23, 2010 – No. 80/2010Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation finances the modernisation of lecture hall 13 – Inauguration in early May
- April 22, 2010 – No. 79/2010Congreso de 3 días – invitado especial: Chile
- April 15, 2010 – No. 74/2010Series of events at the university from 20 to 30 April 2010
- April 13, 2010 – No. 72/2010Chinese ambassador attends the opening ceremony
- April 9, 2010 – No. 68/2010Heidelberg ZONTA Club selects young woman scientist
- April 6, 2010 – No. 65/2010Series of lectures, dialogues and concerts in the summer term 2010
- April 6, 2010 – No. 64/2010Lecture by Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Dr. William Phillips at dedication ceremony
- April 1, 2010 – No. 63/2010Heidelberg physicists publish results in Nature
March
- March 30, 2010 – No. 62/2010Heidelberg scientists involved in three of the four LHC experiments
- March 29, 2010 – No. 61/2010Universität Heidelberg: Computing Centre crucially involved in master plan
- March 24, 2010 – No. 59/2010Heidelberg scientists explain anomalies in experimental findings on the growth velocity of biopolymer networks
- March 19, 2010 – No. 56/2010Distinction for outstanding research in late antiquity
- March 16, 2010 – No. 54/2010Eleven Heidelberg academics engage with interdisciplinary research issues
- March 16, 2010 – No. 53/2010Prestigious distinction for Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer and Prof. Dr. Herbert Kronke
- March 15, 2010 – No. 52/2010Ten scholarships awarded by Robert Bosch Foundation to study issues surrounding dementia
- March 11, 2010 – No. 50/2010Research casts light on the tight evolutionary links between humans and ancient animals
- March 11, 2010 – No. 49/2010Dr. Frenette Southwood visiting scholar at Department of German Language and Literature at Universität Heidelberg
- March 11, 2010 – No. 48/2010Honorary title conferred in recognition of his service to the university
- March 9, 2010 – No. 47/2010Heidelberg astrophysicists solve a 20-year-old mystery in astronomical research
February
- February 25, 2010 – No. 38/2010International conference at the Universität Heidelberg
- February 19, 2010 – No. 37/2010New artwork by Klaus Horstmann-Czech for the Neuenheimer Feld Campus
- February 17, 2010 – No. 35/2010International symposium of the cluster of excellence “Cellular Networks”
- February 16, 2010 – No. 34/2010Broad range of offerings at the Botanical Gardens in 2010
- February 12, 2010 – No. 33/2010Film report on the Universität Heidelberg in the video portal of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- February 5, 2010 – No. 31/2010Dr. Richter heads junior research group in the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”
- February 5, 2010 – No. 30/2010Dr. Gerhard Schratt receives C.H.S. Foundation research award – Research monies amounting to 100,000 euros
- February 1, 2010 – No. 28/2010Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard visits the Universität Heidelberg
- February 1, 2010 – No. 27/2010Vice-Rector for International Affairs welcomes guests from abroad
January
- January 28, 2010 – No. 24/2010Research on the sustainable anchorage of work-life balance in corporate culture
- January 15, 2010 – No. 11/2010Heidelberg’s GIS Experts Support Crisis Management Following the Earthquake
- January 12, 2010 – No. 8/2010Joint research facility for chemical catalysis of the Universität Heidelberg and BASF
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