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UoC Astronomers and Astrophysicists Discover High-Speed Young Stars Near Milky Way’s Black Hole

Young stellar objects travel around the black hole in the center of our galaxy at a speed of over a thousand kilometers per second.

News from New York University

Urban Future Forum 2024: Equity in Piloting Climate Solutions

In the spring of 2023, the ​Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering was awarded a grant from IN2 (the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator, co-founded and co-administered by NREL) to host an event bringing together community-based organizations (CBOs) focusing on climate and/or workforce, startups, investors, and channel to market partners. With this grant, they hosted their first ever Urban Future Forum on June 25, 2024, as an attempt to forge meaningful connections and enhance transparent communication between innovators and communities prior to deployment.

News from the University Alliance Ruhr

UA Ruhr Celebrates 20 Years with the Launch of the Future’s Fellowship Program: A New Era of Research Collaboration

Discover how the UA Ruhr‘s newly launched Future’s Fellowship Program is set to strongly impact our international research collaborations, with key insights from the Presidents’ Roundtable on leveraging science and academia to tackle global challenges.

News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne holds the Top Position in Germany with a Total of 16 CRCs as the Managing University

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Collaborative Research Centre in the field of mRNA research and extended the funding of four existing CRCs. The University of Cologne holds the top position in Germany.

News from the HU Berlin

Public Keynote Lecture by Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Academic Freedom

In his lecture on July 4 in Berlin, Pratap Mehta will offer reflections on the question of why academic freedom has become such an object of contention in contemporary democracies. The talk will draw on examples from the United States, India and Europe to delve into the intellectual and political foundations of academic freedom, and why these might erode.

News from the University of Cologne

UoC Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses (CECAD) Reveal Randomness in Biological Aging

Two scientists from the University of Cologne (UoC) have discovered that aging clocks are based on random events / publication in ‘Nature Aging’

News from Campus OWL

The AI Marketplace: Central Contact Point for AI in Engineering

Reducing production times, saving costs, and identifying errors – AI is an important key to product development. To bring users, providers, and experts in AI together, partners from industry and science, among them Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, have developed the AI marketplace, a digital platform that provides companies throughout Germany with easy access to AI applications from third-party providers.