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News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne Achieves Top Results in Two International Subject Rankings

The subject rankings of the Times Higher Education World University (THE) Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) give subjects at the University of Cologne top scores: In the THE Ranking, the University is among the 10 best universities in Germany in more than half of the ranked subjects. In the ARWU Ranking, sociology in particular stands out, achieving first place nationally. Both rankings take different subjects into account and use different indicators.

News from UA Ruhr

New Emmy Noether Group Researches Interstellar Ice Mixtures

A team from the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Ruhr University Bochum plans to explore exactly how chemical processes in ice mixtures contributed to the emergence of life on Earth. The research group has set out to gain insights into how the building blocks of life were created by recreating conditions from space on Earth.

News from TU Berlin

International Alumni Workshop “Sustainable Food Cultures”

Apply now to attend TU Berlin’s international alumni workshop on “Sustainable Food Cultures” taking place from 2 to 8 June 2024 at TU Berlin in Germany.

News from Campus OWL

HSBI and the University of Tübingen Are Developing an Alternative to Glyphosate

Glyphosate reliably destroys unwanted plants, is used worldwide – and has been hotly disputed for years because of its negative effects on the environment and health. A ban on the herbicide in Germany and possibly even in the whole EU has hung in the air for a long time. A better alternative is in sight: in a cooperation project with the University of Tübingen funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), doctoral candidates at Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) are working on an environmentally friendly herbicide based on a natural sugar from cyanobacteria.

News from NYU

European Physical Journal D published a Special Issue honoring DWIH NY Advisory Board Chair Kurt H. Becker

The European Physical Journal D “Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Plasma Physics” published a Special Issue entitled “Electron-Driven Processes: From Single Collisions to High-Pressure Plasmas” that honored Professor Emeritus Kurt H. Becker (Applied Physics, MAE, CUSP) on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

#DWIHzeitgeist February 2024

Three Questions for Ekkehard Strauss

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Prof. Ekkehard Strauss, speaker at our online event #DWIHzeitgeist – Science Diplomacy in Practice on February 1, 2024, and a professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), part of UAS7 – German Universities of Applied Sciences, one of the DWIH main supporters with an office in New York.

News from the University of Cologne

ERC Synergy Grant for University of Cologne’s Professor Björn Schumacher: Bats as a Guide to Extend Healthspan

The European Research Council (ERC) is funding the project ‘BATPROTECT’ with 11.9 million euros over a period of six years.