Press Releases 2018
Out of Office
Due to its office outing, the University administration will only have limited services on Thursday, October 25, 2018
Conflicts and their effects
The lecture series “War and Peace” is dedicated to central questions of history
Connecting Creative Minds – Trinational, European, Global
To mark the start of the 2018/19 academic year, Rector Hans-Jochen Schiewer introduces the motto for the strategic development of the University of Freiburg
Europe in the World
Open access e-learning project sheds light on the international role of the European Union.
Power to Ingenuity
University of Freiburg receives outstanding ranks in the Thomson-Reuters Top 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities - 2018
An excursion to the varied world of plant life
Experience a green oasis in the winter cold at the Botanical Gardens
Living history of the city
Lecture series on everyday life in Freiburg in the early modern period starts 22.10.2018
Ways of Researching the Brain
The next series of lectures by the Bernstein Center Freiburg starts on Monday 22nd October 2018 at the Faculty of Biology
Dynamics of individual proteins
New measurement method allows researchers to precisely follow the movement of individual molecules over long periods of time
A step toward insect-borne biological weapons?
US research program could easily be misused for biological warfare
Scientific Dialog with Africa
The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa opens at the University of Ghana
Plant defense to stress
Researchers make real-time measurements on how plants respond to climate extremes by synthesizing volatile organic compounds
Creative and practice-related teaching
University of Freiburg awards two prized totaling 140,000 euros
One hundred percent success
Two Clusters of Excellence for the University of Freiburg: Biological Signalling Studies and Bioinspired Materials Research
Consistently in the top group
University of Freiburg has improved its nationwide position in the Times Higher Education Ranking to number 5
On the road to the prosthesis of the future
Researchers are developing coding that allows patients to feel and move more naturally
Bodyguards for trees
Researchers for a European-wide Citizen Science Project call for students to work with clay
A Transformer of Worlds Between East and West
A new exhibition takes the Russian author Ivan Turgenev as a means of tracing the relationship between Russia and Europe – and wants to encourage more lingering in the museum
German musical life from 1959 to 2016
Read the magazine Musikmarkt at the Center for Popular Culture and Music