Press Releases 2012
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December
- December 19, 2012 – No. 291/2012Business shows great interest in tool developed by Heidelberg industrial and organisational psychologists
- December 21, 2012 – No. 289/2012Heidelberg researchers are developing artificial tissue structure as a test model
- December 14, 2012 – No. 288/2012Sinologist Barbara Mittler and Historian Thomas Maissen join three-member board
- December 11, 2012 – No. 286/2012Senate members voted for the 53-year-old with large majority
- December 6, 2012 – No. 278/2012New book looks at the connections between the spread of telegraphy and globalisation
- December 3, 2012 – No. 275/2012Researchers observe development processes in fish embryos with the aid of 4D recordings
- December 3, 2012 – No. 274/2012Heidelberg scientists study interactions between proteins and DNA in living cells
November
- November 30, 2012 – No. 273/2012Researchers study influence of chemically produced variants of natural indirubin
- November 20, 2012 – No. 260/2012Heidelberg Molecular Life Sciences prize endowed with 200,000 euros
- November 19, 2012 – No. 258/2012Heidelberg researchers uncover the function of specific molecular chaperones
- November 2, 2012 – No. 246/2012Hitching a ride into the nucleus: Protein controls synchronised transport of ribosome factors
October
- October 26, 2012 – No. 242/2012Cooperation with the Vatican: Virtual reconstruction of the once most famous library north of the Alps
- October 19, 2012 – No. 237/2012Conference of FIIT and the John Templeton Foundation to be transmitted live on the internet
- October 17, 2012 – No. 233/2012Virtual reconstruction of the once most famous library north of the Alps
- October 15, 2012 – No. 228/2012The circulation of the Atlantic Ocean was faster during the last Ice Age than today
- October 15, 2012 – No. 227/2012Highest student count since the early 1990s – Number of first-year students remains high
- October 11, 2012 – No. 226/2012Council has entered its fifth period in office in October
- October 12, 2012 – No. 220/2012Heidelberg scientists unveil fundamental differences to single-particle tunneling process
- October 2, 2012 – No. 218/2012Event organised by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe” and CRC 933 “Material Text Cultures”
September
- September 26, 2012 – No. 210/2012“Bertalanffy Lecture” as a forum for engagement with new findings and current issues
- September 21, 2012 – No. 207/2012Ceremony in Santiago de Chile with Ministers Annette Schavan and Theresia Bauer
- September 19, 2012 – No. 205/2012The galaxy designated MACS1149-JD1 was created less than 500 million years after the Big Bang
- September 10, 2012 – No. 199/2012University event run by HeKKSaGOn consortium from 17 to 26 September in Heidelberg
- September 6, 2012 – No. 198/2012Heidelberg scientists contribute to the encyclopedia of all functional DNA elements in the human genome
- September 6, 2012 – No. 197/2012Heidelberg scientist shows that silver and gold materialised in different stellar explosions
August
- August 24, 2012 – No. 194/2012Heidelberg University research team casts new light on their role in protein folding
- August 23, 2012 – No. 193/2012Dortmund and Heidelberg researchers’ project receives ERC funding
- August 9, 2012 – No. 189/2012Heidelberg scientists explain a basic difference between plant and animal cells
July
- July 27, 2012 – No. 185/2012DFG approves funding to the tune of approx. EUR 4.8 million for major new research device
- July 27, 2012 – No. 184/2012Alongside medical urgency, prospects of success should also be taken into account in allocating donor livers
- July 13, 2012 – No. 175/2012Neurooncologist Dr. Christiane Opitz to receive 2012 Hella Bühler Prize of 100,000 euros
- July 13, 2012 – No. 174/2012Heidelberg researchers unravel new degradation route
- July 12, 2012 – No. 172/2012Japanese quantum physicist to work at Heidelberg University’s Institute for Physics
- July 12, 2012 – No. 171/2012Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation supports the work of five new C.H.S. research groups
- July 12, 2012 – No. 170/2012Frauke Melchior elected to German Research Foundation’s statutory body for research policy
- July 11, 2012 – No. 169/2012Heidelberg University Library again out in front in the BIX Library Index: high usage and efficient work routines
- July 5, 2012 – No. 163/2012Scientists also discuss the development of regeneration mechanisms
- July 3, 2012 – No. 161/2012Federal Ministry of Education and Research approves resources for continuation of successful work in basic research
- July 2, 2012 – No. 160/2012New centre for American religious history in cooperation with the Yale Divinity School
June
- June 15, 2012 – No. 146/2012Funding from Excellence Initiative also approved for two clusters of excellence and three graduate schools
- June 6, 2012 – No. 134/2012Albert J. Raboteau, professor of religious history, receives new prize for research in African American history
- June 6, 2012 – No. 133/2012International Conference during EURO 2012 on Economics and Psychology in Football
- June 1, 2012 – No. 131/2012DFG provides over ten million Euros to fund CRC “Cellular Quality Control and Damage Response”
May
- May 15, 2012 – No. 124/2012International Conference by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”
- May 11, 2012 – No. 120/2012International cooperation project republishes auction catalogues from the time between 1930 and 1945
- May 11, 2012 – No. 119/2012Funding in addition to ERC Starting Grant for the Heidelberg chemist
- May 3, 2012 – No. 110/2012Scholars and journalists at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies
- May 2, 2012 – No. 105/2012Programme includes opening ceremony, alumni evening, open day and SAI party
April
- April 30, 2012 – No. 103/2012Heidelberg researchers study automatic generation of so-called shadow profiles
- April 25, 2012 – No. 99/2012Presenting the international cooperative project “German Sales 1930-1945”
- April 19, 2012 – No. 91/2012Heidelberg researchers analyse proteins of stinging cells in the Hydra freshwater polyp
- April 4, 2012 – No. 78/2012Representatives of the six partner institutions met in Kyoto for a two-day conference
March
- March 23, 2012 – No. 70/2012Ministers from Hesse and Baden-Württemberg present the unique project
- March 16, 2012 – No. 66/2012SAI founded 50 years ago at Heidelberg University with branch office in India
- March 16, 2012 – No. 65/2012HAI alumni initiative organises event programme in New Delhi (India)
- March 15, 2012 – No. 64/2012Young scholars discuss the dissemination of objects and images between cultures
- March 14, 2012 – No. 63/2012Scientists at Heidelberg University study fine-tuning of protein production
- March 13, 2012 – No. 62/2012Ministers from Hesse und Baden-Württemberg discuss the unique project
- March 6, 2012 – No. 58/2012Ethical, legal and economic aspects of the total sequencing of the human genome
- March 5, 2012 – No. 57/2012Application deadline for young academics on 16 April 2012
- March 2, 2012 – No. 55/2012Heidelberg Project will be presented at a DFG exhibition in the German Bundestag
February
- February 22, 2012 – No. 50/2012International conference investigates visualization of natural catastrophes: examples from various periods and cultures
- February 15, 2012 – No. 46/2012Heidelberg astronomers investigate how galaxies get their stars
- February 14, 2012 – No. 43/2012Twelve Heidelberg scientists and scholars engage with interdisciplinary research issues
- February 9, 2012 – No. 40/2012Heidelberg biochemists decipher the “escort service” for biological solar collectors
- February 8, 2012 – No. 39/2012Concluding findings of a long-term study at Heidelberg University
- February 7, 2012 – No. 37/2012Heidelberg scientists discover the molecular mechanism of a G protein family
- February 2, 2012 – No. 34/2012Third funding period: over EUR 12 million from DFG for Collaborative Research Centre 638
- February 1, 2012 – No. 31/2012Results from an international field measurement campaign coordinated by scientists from Heidelberg University’s Institute of Environmental Physics
January
- January 31, 2012 – No. 28/2012Second funding period for DFG priority programme coordinated by Heidelberg scientists
- January 27, 2012 – No. 25/2012Dr. Anton Meinhart and Prof. Michael Platten receive the 2011 Chica and Heinz Schaller Research Awards
- January 23, 2012 – No. 19/2012Prof. Dr. Edna B. Foa on causes and potential therapies
- January 19, 2012 – No. 14/2012Ceremony in the Old University with science minister Theresia Bauer
- January 12, 2012 – No. 9/2012Anniversary programme begins with a talk by mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
- January 12, 2012 – No. 8/2012DFG approves second funding stage for integrated research venture involving Heidelberg and Karlsruhe
- January 11, 2012 – No. 5/2012Using gravitational microlensing, research team shows exoplanets are virtually everywhere
- January 9, 2012 – No. 3/2012Heidelberg scientists discover unexpected precision in membrane component interaction
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