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From Lake Ammersee to cultivated algae: With a new Early Career Research Group, Würzburg-based European ethnologist Laura Otto aims to investigate a distinctive living environment and economic space: Bavaria’s standing waters.

A new observatory is set to detect sources of cosmic rays, dark matter and other relics of the Big Bang in a few years’ time. Astrophysicists from the University of Würzburg are involved in the project.

What makes studying and student life in Würzburg so special? Students at the University of Würzburg write about this on the blog ‘My Studies in Würzburg’.

The successful work of the Else Kröner Centre Würzburg-Mwanza can continue: the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung is funding the collaborative project to improve healthcare for a further 2.5 years.

Many women have made a significant contribution to science – yet their achievements have often been overlooked. The travelling exhibition ‘Versäumte Bilder’, which opens at JMU on 17 September, shines a light on such women.

With funding of 1.5 million euros, Dr Karl Petri from Würzburg University Hospital is developing a new technology for safe and long-lasting CAR-T cell therapy.

The University of Würzburg invited its new trainees to a welcome day. The programme included icebreaker games, a visit to the canteen and a campus rally.

Tom Beneke, a researcher from Würzburg, has received an ERC Starting Grant for his work on the tropical disease leishmaniasis. This prestigious European research award is worth 1.5 million euros.

Psychedelic, experimental, electronic: so-called Krautrock is not just an alternative music scene from the 1970s. The bands also developed their own understanding of the world. A project is investigating what defines the scene.

The university and its researchers are always well represented in the media. Here are some recent examples.

Read about new appointments, job anniversaries, research sabbaticals and more.

Members of the university can order the university calendar for the coming year via an online form by 30 October at the latest.

JMU alumnus Matthias Coeler stumbled upon his work with batteries rather by chance. It all began at the Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg and during his Erasmus year in Scotland.

German Cancer Aid has approved the funding of the Comprehensive Cancer Centres at the University Hospitals of Würzburg, Erlangen, Regensburg and Augsburg. It still carries the title ‘Centre of Excellence in Oncology’.

Silver for the men, bronze for the women: the Würzburg joint team, made up of players from the University of Würzburg and the Technical University, has won two medals in football at the European University Games in Italy.