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The computer scientists Christoph Amma and Prof. Tanja Schultz from the KIT were honoured with the Google Faculty Research Award. They received the award endowed with 81,000 US-Dollar for their research on mobile, gesture-based interfaces. They have developed a glove registering hand movements by way of sensors, which then are translated into...more

Prof. Michael Platten, working group leader at the DKFZ and neuro-oncologist at the Heidelberg University Hospital, is the recipient of the Sir Hans Krebs Prize 2012 awarded by the Friends of the Hannover Medical School. Platten has discovered that particularly aggressive brain tumours generate increased levels of a semiochemical resembling the...more

Prof. Sibylle Günter, Scientific Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, has been awarded the Merit Cross on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Office of the Federal President in Berlin stated that "in addition to her scientific work, Prof. Günter is highly committed to promoting scientific young talent and has...more

On 1 February 2013, the new Graduate School "Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)" at KIT was officially opened with a grand celebration. This ceremony was attended by more than 200 people. The foundation of the school is based upon the successful application in the framework of the German...more

Yet another member of the Helmholtz Association now has adopted the name of the association's namesake to be included in its official denomination: recently, the AWI changed its name to Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Thus, 10 of the altogether 18 Helmholtz centres carry the name of...more