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Björn Gerer had an undetected heart attack. Following an operation at the University Hospital, a special "double patch" is now closing the hole in his heart.

Glossy flowers are visible to bees from a distance, but make color recognition difficult up close. They thus represent a visual compromise of nature, as a new study by the University of Würzburg shows.

JMU alumna Dr Astrid Freyeisen is head of the economic and social affairs editorial team at Bayerischer Rundfunk. She deals a lot with trends and moods in China.

The Faculty of Law invites you to its Advent concert on Thursday, 4 December, in the Neubaukirche. Only members of the faculty will be on stage - from students to professors.

New Christmas cards with motifs from the collections of the Würzburg University Library are now available. Anyone who buys them is supporting a good cause.

Professor Peter Bofinger remains Chairman of Alumni & Friends e.V., the central alumni association of the University of Würzburg. Who else was elected.

25 years of research have gone into a guide to monitoring the added value of tourism in German natural landscapes. It was compiled by researchers from the Würzburg Geography.

Professor Eva-Bettina Bröcker has donated a digital piano to the university. It is used at concerts in the Welz-Haus and is available to international guests.

The corps student organisations have awarded the Rector Max Meyer Prize for young researchers. It went to Dr Luzia Keupp from the Institute of Geography.

Professor Jorit Wintjes from the Chair of Ancient History will take us back in time at the children's university on Saturday, 13 December: Greek and Roman heroic stories are the order of the day.

Success for computer science doctoral student Vanessa Borst: she was selected as one of the IT Women of the Year 2025 in the "Young Leader" category in the field of eHealth.

Dr Patrick Pascal-Strunz was honoured by the German Bekhterev Disease Foundation. He received the research prize for the best scientific paper in German in this field.

The amount of data sent and received via the 5G mobile network is constantly increasing. Now, an international team involving the University of Würzburg is working on a globally standardized 6G concept.

Sustainability is a top priority here: Professor Denitsa Docheva's chair was the first orthopaedic research laboratory in Germany to be certified by My Green Lab.

A new Research Training Group in medicine and an extended one in psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology: researchers in Würzburg are celebrating funding success from the German Research Foundation (DFG).