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Politics - Media - 05.02.2025
Experts from Leipzig University answer questions about the Bundestag election
What role do the candidates for chancellor actually play for voters? How important is TikTok for young people in particular when it comes to deciding who to vote for? How dangerous are disinformation

History / Archeology - 04.02.2025
First handbook on the history and culture of the Black Sea region published
First handbook on the history and culture of the Black Sea region published

History / Archeology - 04.02.2025
Akkadian dictionary: 'A great scientific endeavor'
Akkadian dictionary: ’A great scientific endeavor’

Social Sciences - 29.01.2025
Leipzig University awards transfer prizes and promotes new transfer projects
Leipzig University awards transfer prizes and promotes new transfer projects

Media - Politics - 29.01.2025
Why many media are skeptical
Why many media are skeptical

Environment - 16.01.2025
Lessons Learned from the German 'Double Whammy'
Lessons Learned from the German ’Double Whammy’

Environment - Psychology - 15.01.2025
Becoming a professor with ADHD: Professor Ana Bastos
Becoming a professor with ADHD: Professor Ana Bastos

Physics - Pedagogy - 26.11.2024
Making quantum physics easier to digest in schools
Making quantum physics easier to digest in schools
News from A team of physics educators from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools.

Agronomy / Food Science - 19.11.2024
Humboldt Fellow from Egypt to research at the Institute of Animal Nutrition

Health - Life Sciences - 18.11.2024
Cause of the yo-yo effect deciphered
Cause of the yo-yo effect deciphered
News from An international team of researchers have discovered a key mechanism behind the yo-yo effect. Fat cells store memories of obesity in their cell nucleus. These memories remain even after a weight loss programme, making it more likely for someone to put the weight back on. The research team, which includes scientists from the University of Leipzig Medical Center, report on their work in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

Politics - 13.11.2024
Leipzig Authoritarianism Study 2024 published
Leipzig Authoritarianism Study 2024 published
In western Germany, support for xenophobic statements has risen significantly and is now approaching attitudes in the east.

Life Sciences - 11.11.2024
Blue Flame Award for Professor Irene Coin’s lab
Over the years, chemical biology methods have made an important contribution to the study of integral membrane proteins.

Health - Veterinary - 25.10.2024
Indian-German Partnership for Veterinary Education and Research launched
Indian-German Partnership for Veterinary Education and Research launched

Health - Physics - 22.10.2024
Leopoldina honours the physician Bahriye Aktas and the biophysicists Jochen Guck and Josef Käs with
Leopoldina honours the physician Bahriye Aktas and the biophysicists Jochen Guck and Josef Käs with

Pharmacology - 15.10.2024
Jens Meiler toasted Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner David Baker with chocolate bars
Jens Meiler toasted Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner David Baker with chocolate bars
News from Jens Meiler was returning from a conference in Mainz with students and postdocs when he received the good news: his long-time colleague and friend, biochemist David Baker from the Universit

Environment - Life Sciences - 01.10.2024
Biodiversity fact check shows the state of biodiversity in Germany for the first time
Biodiversity fact check shows the state of biodiversity in Germany for the first time
More than half of the natural habitat types in Germany are in an ecologically unfavorable state, and more valuable habitat areas are disappearing every day.

Chemistry - Physics - 19.09.2024
Breakthrough in hydrogen research
Breakthrough in hydrogen research
The lightest of all'elements, hydrogen, is in great demand due to its promising role as a sustainable resource in the energy transition. A team from Leipzig University and TU Dresden, as part of the Hydrogen Isotopes 1,2,3H Research Training Group, has made an important breakthrough in the efficient and cost-effective provision of isotopes.

Health - Environment - 19.08.2024
Leipzig University submits two full proposals under Excellence Strategy
Leipzig University submits two full proposals under Excellence Strategy
News from Leipzig University has today (22 August 2024) submitted two detailed full proposals for Clusters of Excellence.

Sport - 23.07.2024
Olympics: Doping control station manager Luana hopes for 'simply fair' games
Olympics: Doping control station manager Luana hopes for ’simply fair’ games

Sport - Campus - 22.07.2024
The International Coaching Course (ITK): 'The interaction of different cultures leaves a mark'
The International Coaching Course (ITK): ’The interaction of different cultures leaves a mark’

Sport - History / Archeology - 22.07.2024
Olympic Games in Paris: In Pursuit of Gender Equality, Sustainability and Peace
Olympic Games in Paris: In Pursuit of Gender Equality, Sustainability and Peace

Campus - 28.05.2024
University supports Ukraine with university entrance exams for refugees
University supports Ukraine with university entrance exams for refugees

Politics - 28.05.2024
Legal expert Lisa Wiese: Israel's 'serious violations of international law' are obvious
Legal expert Lisa Wiese: Israel’s ’serious violations of international law’ are obvious

Environment - 09.05.2024
Research Training Group ECO-N has started
Research Training Group ECO-N has started

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 30.04.2024
Low-intensity grazing is locally better for biodiversity but challenging for land users
Low-intensity grazing is locally better for biodiversity but challenging for land users
A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University (UL), and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has investigated the mo

Health - 29.04.2024
How do young people in the Middle East and North Africa see the future?

Psychology - Health - 22.04.2024
’HumanKind’: Exploring children’s psychodiversity, strengthen their emotional intelligence
Some children are particularly brave, others very compassionate. And then there are the temperamental ones - all with their own unique strengths.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 19.04.2024
How vulnerable are forests to extreme events?

Environment - 10.04.2024
The extent of future climate change is largely a policy choice
The extent of future climate change is largely a policy choice
News from Together with an international team of German and US scientists, Junior Professor Martin Hänsel suggests and discusses the concept of "Climate Policy Curves" in the international journal Climate Policy.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 20.03.2024
New Leibniz ScienceCampus researches wildfires and climate
New Leibniz ScienceCampus researches wildfires and climate
Over the next four years, a new joint project will investigate the links between wildfires and climate change.

Health - Life Sciences - 13.03.2024
Obesity Prize for Excellence for Antje Körner
Obesity Prize for Excellence for Antje Körner
News from Professor Antje Körner, Professor of Metabolic Research at Leipzig University's Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Metabolism Division at the Helmholtz Institute of Metabolic, Obesity and

Environment - Earth Sciences - 09.03.2024
Faces of Leipzig University: Professor Heike Kalesse-Los
Faces of Leipzig University: Professor Heike Kalesse-Los

Politics - 09.02.2024
Charlotte Meier on the reasons for the AfD's electoral success among young people
Charlotte Meier on the reasons for the AfD’s electoral success among young people

Health - Environment - 02.02.2024
Leipzig University clears first hurdle in excellence competition: Invitation to submit two full
Leipzig University clears first hurdle in excellence competition: Invitation to submit two full

Health - Pharmacology - 26.01.2024
Obesity in children: A problem far bigger than a person's waistline
Obesity in children: A problem far bigger than a person’s waistline
News from When it comes to modern diseases, paediatrician Professor Antje Körner believes that there is too great a focus on adults and not enough on children and adolescents.

Religions - 24.01.2024
Interview with the newly elected anti-Semitism commissioner Professor Gert Pickel
Interview with the newly elected anti-Semitism commissioner Professor Gert Pickel

Pharmacology - Health - 22.01.2024
Researching a new treatment option for severe blood disorders of the bone marrow
Researching a new treatment option for severe blood disorders of the bone marrow
When people develop myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS), the healthy maturation of blood cells is impaired.

Environment - 10.01.2024
New Phase for iDiv: Biodiversity Research Consolidated in Central Germany
New Phase for iDiv: Biodiversity Research Consolidated in Central Germany

Health - Life Sciences - 20.12.2023
EU funds project to develop new diagnostics for pandemic preparedness

Environment - Research Management - 18.12.2023
DFG to fund new equipment for HALO research aircraft
DFG to fund new equipment for HALO research aircraft
The High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft, or HALO, has been making unparalleled contributions to Earth system research for over a decade.

Environment - 24.11.2023
Another double success for excellent research at Leipzig University
Another double success for excellent research at Leipzig University
Top-level research at Leipzig University gets a boost thanks to another double success. Two collaborative research centres (CRCs), including a Transregio programme, that focus on climate and membrane receptors will be extended for another four years starting in January 2024.

Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 24.11.2023
All-rounder among receptors inspires drug research
All-rounder among receptors inspires drug research
News from Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1423, "Structural Dynamics of GPCR Activation and Signal Transduction", led by biochemists Professor Annette Beck-Sickinger and Professor Torsten Schöneberg from Leipzig University, has been extended for a second funding period. This was announced today (24 November) by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Research Management - Health - 15.11.2023
Six researchers from Leipzig University among the most cited worldwide

Life Sciences - 25.10.2023
Defect in fruit fly respiratory system may provide insights into human aortic aneurysms
A team of researchers led by Leipzig University has gained new insights into the respiratory system of fruit flies - the so-called tracheal system - which could be important for future research into aneurysms.

Health - Innovation - 17.10.2023
’The future of medicine lies in the networking of technologies’
Exchange data between medical devices from different manufacturers in a secure and user-friendly way: The answer is IEEE 11073 Service-oriented device connectivity (SDC). This is a networking technology that is primarily used in operating rooms and clinics and was co-developed at the University of Leipzig.

Law - 17.10.2023
Volksverhetzung: ’Applicable law partly too narrowly and partly misleadingly formulated’
Against the backdrop of reactions in this country to Hamas' terror in Israel, Felix Klein, the German government's anti-Semitism commissioner, has called for tougher criminal law in cases of incitement to hatred.

Politics - Social Sciences - 11.10.2023
Solveig Richter on peace research, Ukraine aid and new challenges posed by the Middle East conflict
Solveig Richter on peace research, Ukraine aid and new challenges posed by the Middle East conflict

Health - 28.09.2023
Physics of Cancer: Experts to discuss the different stages of cancer progression
Physics of Cancer: Experts to discuss the different stages of cancer progression

Life Sciences - Environment - 26.09.2023
Invertebrate decline reduces natural pest control and decomposition of organic matter
Invertebrate decline reduces natural pest control and decomposition of organic matter
Work Hauptgebäude Chemie 04103 Leipzig Phone: work +49 341 97-36000 341 97-36094 Dean Christoph Schneider Vice-Dean Holger Kohlmann Dean of Studies Reinhard Denecke Deanery Marco Weiß work Institutsge

Environment - Life Sciences - 25.09.2023
Climate change intensifies extreme heat in the soil
Climate change intensifies extreme heat in the soil
Work Hauptgebäude Chemie 04103 Leipzig Phone: work +49 341 97-36000 341 97-36094 Dean Christoph Schneider Vice-Dean Holger Kohlmann Dean of Studies Reinhard Denecke Deanery Marco Weiß Work Institutsg
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