Press Releases 2019

May

• 27 May 2019 - No. 55/2019
  Success For Collaborative Research Centres
  Humanities CRC “Material Text Cultures” enters third funding period – funding for four Heidelberg consortia in medicine – further Heidelberg CRC/TRR participation
• 22 May 2019 - No. 53/2019
  Galaxies As “Cosmic Cauldrons”
  Young stars heat molecular clouds and drive hot interstellar gas bubbles throughout galaxies
• 20 May 2019 - No. 52/2019
  New Measurement Device: Carbon Dioxide As Geothermometer
  Researchers quantify rare CO₂ variants using laser spectroscopy
• 14 May 2019 - No. 49/2019
  Distinction for Ten Young Scholars
  “Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise” will be presented
• 14 May 2019 - No. 48/2019
  Digital Quantum Simulators Can Be Astonishingly Robust
  Heidelberg Researchers investigate “error bound” that limits usable simulations

April

• 26 April 2019 - No. 40/2019
  Facts and Fakes: Research Communication and Public Trust
  Talk by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor emeritus of renowned journal "Nature"
• 9 April 2019 - No. 35/2019
  Are Brown Dwarfs Failed Stars Or Super-Planets?
  Heidelberg astronomers find first signs they can also form like a planet
• 5 April 2019 - No. 32/2019
  New Class of Fellows at the Marsilius-Kolleg
  Fifteen Heidelberg scientists engage in interdisciplinary research projects
• 1 April 2019 - No. 31/2019
  Traffic Jam in the Cell: How Are Proteins Assigned to Specific Transporters?
  Heidelberg researchers comprehensively identify the composition of transport vesicles for the first time

March

• 12 March 2019 - No. 27/2019
  Bernhard Eitel Re-Elected Rector of Universität Heidelberg
  Members of University Council and Senate elect the 59-year-old scientist by a large majority – Third term at the helm of Ruperto Carola
• 4 March 2019 - No. 25/2019
  National Climate Policy Pays Off
  International research consortium investigates development of CO2 emissions in 18 countries

February

• 20 February 2019 - No. 22/2019
  A Volcanic Binge And Its Frosty Hangover
  German-Mexican research team discover large igneous province which could have triggered an early glaciation of Earth
• 15 February 2019 - No. 19/2019
  Tidal Tails – The Beginning Of The End Of An Open Star Cluster
  Heidelberg researchers verify this phenomenon using Gaia data from the Hyades

January

• 22 January 2019 - No. 9/2019
  Bifacial Stem Cells Produce Wood and Bast
  Heidelberg researchers study one of the most important growth processes on Earth