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FAU cultural geographer receives award for dissertation Dr. Shadia Husseini de Araújo from the Institute of Cultural Geography at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was awarded with the dissertation prize for German-speaking research on the Middle East at the “German Middle E...

The communications engineer Robert Schober receives Germany’s highest-endowed international research award. For the second consecutive year the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has been successful in its application for an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship: nominated by ...

Winter semester sees FAU matriculation exceed 33,000 for the first time At Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) more students enrolled for the winter semester (WS) 2011/12 than ever before: to be precise 33,340 students (updated: 18 October 2011) are currently matriculated at the...

Scientists from the FAU use globally unique stamping press Weighing in at 100 tons and measuring more than nine meters in height, but accurate down to one hundredth of a millimetre: the Neue Materialien Fürth GmbH (NMF) stamping press is a true heavyweight. This piece of research machinery is one o...

Prof. Dr. Josef Pfeilschifter and Dr. Frank-Jürgen Weise strengthen FAU board The Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts has, as scheduled, reappointed the external members of the university council at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The board’s four-y...

Brownian movement under close observation The slightest trembling can tell us something. Tiny particles, dissolved in liquid, register what is going on in their surroundings, and react as a result. Without sophisticated measuring techniques and high precision instruments it is impossible to decode ...

The Erlangen University Clinic’s Radiation Clinic is a partner in the EU Excellence Network for low dose research The application submitted by the research team headed by academics PD Dr. Udo Gaipl and Dr. Benjamin Frey from Radiation Immunobiology at the Erlangen Radiation Clinic was successful....

Journal STEM CELLS Awards Pioneering Research into Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency A young scientist who led research into the use of stem cells from hair follicles to treat the ocular surface disease has been named the winner of the Young Investigator Award by the journal STEM CELLS. Dr. Ewa Meyer-B...

International research alliance supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The research alliance comprising researchers from the Department for Genetics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn, and Harvard University, Oxford University ...

FAU academics research the formation of nitrides Traditional light bulbs are being phased out and replaced with energy-saving bulbs. However, researchers have for some time been working to develop new, very bright and simultaneously far more energy-efficient light diodes. To do so, they are using...