Magazine Collection
Plant structures inspire cool concepts
Freiburg biomimetics specialists develop low-maintenance bioinspired shading systems for complex building facades
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Rector Hans-Jochen Schiewer offers his wishes for a happy holiday and a successful New Year in this video message
Gingerbread, lametta, and smelly fir trees
Five researchers test themselves to see how well they know Christmas
First-class friends of Europe
Peace, freedom of movement and the single market need to be celebrated says a Freiburg initiative, calling for ‘positive populism’
Off to America!
During the 19th century many Germans dreamed of a better life on the other side of the Atlantic. They fled not only from war and poverty, but also from climate extremes
Athena has been given a good brush off
Jens-Arne Dickmann has to take on new heights to clean a plaster cast
Back in the day -- cooking with your college roommates
Alumnus Hans-Albert Stechl cooks a three-course Christmas meal on a two-burner electric stove
Notes, words and a sense of commitment
The Nachhall concert readings project combines entertainment with a good cause
Listening and taking problems seriously
The Awareness Group of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology is here to listen to students
Awakening from a deep sleep
University collections tend to go unnoticed and spend a great deal of time in a deep sleep even though teaching programs could benefit from them
Reading under the Revolution
Mao Zedong dictated to the people what they were to read – but the masses discovered forbidden literature
Unclarified constants
“Suffering” and “pain” are key concepts in medicine – to this day, doctors have disagreed about what they actually mean
Time for research
The “Berta Ottenstein Program for Clinician Scientists” makes it easier to advance a combination of clinical and scientific careers