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FAU is asking its students to design the print for a shirt for the University. The deadline for entries is 30 November 2015.

ElMo is the nickname for the electric motocross motorcycle designed by students at FAU and Fraunhofer IISB.

FAU would like to welcome all new students to the University and wishes everyone a great start to the winter semester 2015/16.

In mid-September, FAU President Joachim Hornegger and Bing-Jean Lee, President of Feng Chia University (FCU) in Taiwan, signed an agreement that aims to strengthen collaboration between the two universities in the field of innovative development and manufacturing of electronics.

One of this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is the Chinese researcher Youyou Tu. FAU sinologist Prof. Dr. Marc Matten explains why there are two reasons that this is particularly remarkable.

The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities 'Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe' is hosting a lecture series in which academics from all over the world will present their research projects.

Around 300,000 people in Germany suffer from Crohn's disease. FAU researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that antibodies used to treat the disease not only alleviate inflammation but also affect how pain is perceived in the brain.

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking 2015–2016 places FAU at number 123 in its list of 800 research-intensive world universities. In the comparison of 37 German universities FAU comes in at number 12, ten places higher than last year.

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and FAU have agreed to extend their collaboration in their joint institution, AudioLabs. This unique teaching and research institution has been successfully carrying out research and development on audio and multimedia technologies since 2010.

Obesity, a widespread disease, affects the body in various different ways. Researchers at the new Collaborative Research Centre 1181 at FAU have now discovered that obesity severely impairs blood formation and weakens the immune system.