Press Releases
Symposium “Mehr Mut!” (“More Courage!”) at FRIAS
Lectures and discussions explore the question of why courageous decisions are difficult to make
Four projects with new ideas for university teaching will be funded by the “Freiraum” program
Funding format of the “Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre” (Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching) to be offered on a permanent basis in the future
University Medal for Bożena Górczyńska
Distinction for historian’s many years of dedication to German-Polish understanding
How crops can better survive floods
Researchers from Freiburg and Utrecht show which signaling pathways make plants more resistant to flooding
Political Scientist Julia Gurol and Art Historian Anne Hemkendreis Are New Members of the Young Academy
The Young Academy provides a platform for interdisciplinary projects involving research, art, and society
The University of Freiburg Issues Invitation for the 41st (Winter) Colloquium “Forestry and Wood” on 30 June and 1 July 2022
Lectures and discussions address the information bases for the forestry and wood industry
Deep Learning helps improve gene therapies and antiviral drugs
Team led by bioinformatician Rolf Backofen develops algorithm to identify anti-CRISPR protein
Exhibition in the Botanical Garden: “New Wildlife - Globalization in the Plant Kingdom”
Botanical Garden Week will be dedicated to so-called neophytes from June 11, 2022 - Family day is on June 19, 2022
Awarding of a University Medal and an Honorary Senatorship
Petra Markmeyer-Pieles and Karl-Reinhard Volz recognized for their commitment
Hatice Ceren Ates receives Klee Prize 2022
Young Scientist Award honors development of biosensor for monitoring antibiotic concentration in the various body fluids
How tree extinction affects the food web
German Research Foundation approves international research group headed by biologist Alexandra-Maria Klein
Two Freiburg life scientists are new members of Leopoldina
Sonja-Verena Albers and Robert Grosse have been elected for the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina
New insights into the movement of pine cone scales
Cone scales open and close due to the interaction of multiple tissue layers, all of which respond to moisture
Thomas Filk receives senior professorship from the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Freiburg physicist seeks to make teacher training in physics more practice-oriented with newly designed lecture
"FreiPose" enables measurement of neuronal activity during the movement of individual body parts
New tracking method captures 3D motion of body points and can factor out the influence of unwanted movement
A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River
Drought reveals urban center of the Mittani Empire
Sensor network in the forest to improve forecasts of climate change impacts
The German Research Foundation approves the Collaborative Research Center "ECOSENSE"
Ceremonial opening of the new research center “Institute for Machine-Brain Interfacing Technology”
Freiburg scientists at IMBIT conduct interdisciplinary research on human-machine interfaces
Students organize University Sustainability Days
Freiburg event series with workshops, initiatives and discussions will take place May 21-26, 2022
Hybrid edition from Schelling's previously unpublished estate
DFG is providing six million euros in funding for a 12-year project at the University of Freiburg and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities