Magazine Collection
Circuitry dabblers
Humanities students are building robots – how does it affect their attitude toward technological progress?
A Concert of Many Voices
Katharina Brizić talks about what society can learn from Nadia Murad receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
Between Constraints and Morals
In a seminar at Eucor – The European Campus, students are exploring ways of dealing with ethical conflicts
Testing out additional study spaces
The Combined Departmental Library in Collegiate Building IV will be open on 16 weekends in 2019
Rector’s Christmas greetings
Hans-Jochen Schiewer looks back on an eventful year and talks about pending challenges
Braking and Accelerating
Maja Köhn uses biochemical tools to investigate how certain enzymes behave when the immune system meets invaders
A critical look at a world hit
“Silent Night, Holy Night” is said to be too corny, too crude, to unchristian – how has this song lasted for two centuries?
Castles and Feuds
An exhibition recalls the House of Zähringen, the founding fathers of Freiburg and eleven other cities
A Piece of the Excellence Mosaic
Stephan Lengsfeld's Co-Creation Camp gives the university slogan "Connecting Creative Minds" a face and refines the institution's own lost-and-found procedures.
Power from next door’s garden
Digitization is upending the energy market; new software enables the electricity produced in thousands of small systems to be pooled into one big virtual power plant
Curving, not straight
The original course of the Rhine could remedy many environmental problems – can the waterway return to nature?
An exact date of burial?
Why researchers doubt the widely-accepted date of the destruction of Pompei
A Model for the Arab World
Islamic Studies researcher Simon Wolfgang Fuchs studies how the Iranian Revolution influenced other Muslim countries in the 1970s
Summer heat, health and security
All employees are invited to attend the staff meeting on December 6, 2018
Learning landscapes
With the help of a smartphone app from the University of Freiburg, students can expand their expertise in the feld
The WhatsApp of the Middle Ages
A computer program is to help fathom the linguistic nuances of Church Slavonic