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Dr Juliane Müller from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research received the second prize of the Deutscher Studienpreis (German Study Award) for her doctoral thesis on the subject of marine ice expansion. The insights gained by her thesis allow for the reconstruction of changes in marine ice expansion for the past 30,000 years....more

With the Friedmund Neumann Prize, the Schering Foundation honours young, next generation scientists with an outstanding performance record in basic research in the fields of biology, chemistry or medicine. The award is endowed with 10,000 Euro. Nominations for the Friedmund Neumann Prize 2013 may be submitted up until 01 February 2013. Direct...more

with the Excellence Initiative coming to an end in 2017 and the question remaining open as to how the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation and the Higher Education Pact are to be continued, the German research landscape faces the prospect of significant changes. In our new position paper "Helmholtz 2020 – Shaping the Future...more

In the coming years, German research policy is set to face important decisions: In 2017, the Excellence Initiative will come to an end. Moreover, the question remains unresolved as to how the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation and the Higher Education Pact are to be continued. These funding instruments constitute fundamental elements in...more

Like the coypu or the Asian tiger mosquito, the Common Ragweed is not indigenous to Europe, but an alien invader. It looks quite harmless, however, its flowers are very potent: the pollen of the Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) causes allergies and prolongs the affliction season for people allergic to plant pollen. The health system has to...more