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21MAY 2025
FAU news
Influenza triggers respiratory failure: Hannah’s temporary lung
After influenza triggered severe respiratory failure in three-year old Hannah, an interdisciplinary ECMO team brought the little girl to Erlangen for treatment. “I saw the X-ray of her lungs,” reports Hannah’s mother, Laura C., who is also a nurse. “And I knew straight away what it meant: all white. Basically no gas exchange at all […]
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16MAY 2025
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Social media: What needs to change to improve the mental health of young people?
FAU is part of a European collaborative project that will receive 1.5 million euros in funding How must we rethink social media to improve the mental health of young people? This is the focus of the international research project “PROMISE: Promoting Well-Being in Preteens, Adolescents, and Young Adults – Toward Improved Social Media Policies Among […]
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08MAY 2025
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Professor Xu Zhangrun receives Human Rights Award
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) honors Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhangrun, formerly a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is this year’s recipient of the Human Rights Award from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The award has been presented every two years since 2022 to international researchers who have made significant contributions to human rights. For many years, […]Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) honors Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhangrun, formerly a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is this year’s recipient of the Human Rights Award from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The award has been presented every two years since 2022 to international researchers who have made significant contributions to human rights. For many years, […]
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26MAR 2025
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15 million euros for the expansion of AI resources at NHR
New boost for AI research in Erlangen: A total of 30 million euros of EU funding has been earmarked for the further development of digital signal processing using generative artificial intelligence. Half of this total will be invested at the Erlangen National High-Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) for setting up and operating […]
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13MAR 2025
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Anti-pluralist Parties Threaten Academic Freedom
2025 Academic Freedom Index Update reveals decline in 34 countries Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025. Scholars at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) publish the index every […]
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12MAR 2025
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Quantum physics: Where quantum theory and the theory of relativity meet
Physicist at FAU is dedicated to one of the most important questions in physics. Physics has a problem – their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, the German Research Foundation is funding physicist Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) as part of the Heisenberg Program […]
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27FEB 2025
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Climate change: Glaciers melting at an alarming rate
New ESA study involving FAU shows dramatic trend Glaciers that cover the mountainous regions of the world are important reserves for freshwater, providing resources for drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. However, they are melting dramatically as a result of climate change and are causing sea levels to rise at an ever increasing rate. That […]
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12FEB 2025
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Photovoltaics: Highly relevant basic research
Phillip Greißel and Dominik Thiel are researching particularly efficient solar cells At the current time we are still burning vast amounts of fossil fuels such as crude oil or coal in a bid to quench our thirst for energy. This generates the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide that acts like a warming woolen blanket in the […]
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28JAN 2025
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ECTS credits for brewing beer
At FAU, students can gain ECTS credits for brewing beer: Various types of craft beer ranging from pale ale to Weizenbock are produced at the “Röthelheimbräu” brewery at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering. Brewing beer also allows students to gain an insight into the wide range of areas of application for bioprocess engineering. And the […]
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24JAN 2025
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Project funding: Improving the detection of deepfakes
Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation […]Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation […]
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15JAN 2025
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Former asylum in Erlangen to become a place of remembrance and learning
A remembrance trail in the outside area, a core exhibition in the main building of the former asylum combined with an annex showing the fate of those murdered there and an extensive educational program: An important milestone has been reached on the journey towards establishing a place of remembrance and learning dedicated to the victims […]
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