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11DEC 2024
FAU news
DAAD Award: Ups and downs in academic freedom
Dr. Lars Lott, who is a researcher at FAU, has been awarded this year’s “Fundamental Academic Values Award”. With this award, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) honors outstanding academic achievements of early career researchers in areas such as academic freedom or university autonomy at European universities. Lott, who is a researcher at the Institute […]
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04DEC 2024
Alumni
Soon 15.000 members in the FAU Community
Join now and win! Our FAU Community is about to reach an exciting milestone: we will soon reach 15.000 members! To celebrate this special event, we would like to invite you to become part of our dynamic and diverse community. Register now and help us break the 15.000 member barrier! Get your hands on an […]
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04DEC 2024
FAU news
FAU on Christmas break
This year, from December 20, 2024 to January 6, 2025 there are no lectures. FAU is closing its gates for Christmas break from December 23, 2024 to January 6, 2025 to save energy. Service points of the university administration, e.g. the student advice service or the exam offices are not available during this time. Lectures […]
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02DEC 2024
FAU news
From a stone desert to a blooming oasis
What used to be a bleak, deserted space in the Lange Gasse is now the WiSo oasis. However, the path toward the shared garden was anything but easy. It all began with an unusual email and blossomed into a project that made a lasting change to life at our uni. “It was an ugly piece […]
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28NOV 2024
Research
Video: radioisotope laboratories in buses?
Two mobile radioisotope laboratories in eleven countries? That’s possible! Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope laboratories were offered as gifts to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the United States. The two mobile laboratories represent an important stage in the early development of the IAEA. Yet, […]
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28NOV 2024
Alumni
FAU Alumni #MyStory: Alex Blania, CEO Tools for Humanity
The young founder and managing director Alex Blania went from Erlangen to Silicon Valley after his studies. He is CEO of Tools for Humanity and founded the cryptocurrency Worldcoin with OpenAI founder Sam Altman, which was recently renamed World. His company makes devices that scan our irises and can be used to identify ourselves as […]
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28NOV 2024
FAU news
Donating prize money for better health care in Peru
The three winners of the German Future Prize 2023 decided to donate their prize money. The 250,000 euros were used to purchase a Magnetom Free.Star scanner, which they themselves developed. The MRI system will be installed in the charity hospital ”Diospi Suyana” in Apurímac in the south of Peru to improve health care there. “We […]
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27NOV 2024
FAU news
Pioneering ultrasound method for detailed imaging of the newborn brain
New high-speed ultrasound devices combined with AI imaging can deliver high resolution images of the newborn brain. Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are hoping to develop this method and explore potential applications. Stroke either before or directly after the birth and asphyhxia, which is a dangerous condition where the newborn is deprived of oxygen, are currently […]New high-speed ultrasound devices combined with AI imaging can deliver high resolution images of the newborn brain. Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are hoping to develop this method and explore potential applications. Stroke either before or directly after the birth and asphyhxia, which is a dangerous condition where the newborn is deprived of oxygen, are currently […]
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26NOV 2024
FAU news
DFG Funding Atlas: Seventh place for FAU
Seventh place in the DFG Funding Atlas 2024: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has again shown that it is one of Germany’s top universities and above all how successful it is in attracting public research funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). FAU acquired approximately 290 million euros of DFG funding Between 2020 and 2022, FAU received […]
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26NOV 2024
FAU news
FAU Teaching Award presented to early career researchers
Since 2016, FAU has awarded the annual University Teaching Award to early career researchers in recognition of excellent achievements in teaching. The award was presented to five researchers at FAU in 2024: Emel Löffelholz from the Department of Didactics (Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology), Dr. jur. Hyun Jung Lee from the Professorship for […]
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25NOV 2024
A cup with the President
A Cup with the President – Episode 14: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser
Visiting Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser, Professorship for Information Systems (Gamification) Each semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors who have just recently joined FAU. At their respective institutes, he gets to know them better as they talk about their research and share what is important to them. This series serves as a brief […]
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25NOV 2024
A cup with the President
A Cup with the President – Episode 16: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kist
At the office of Prof. Dr. Andreas Kist, Professorship for Artificial Intelligence in Communication Disorders Each semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors who have just recently joined FAU. At their respective institutes, he gets to know them better as they talk about their research and share what is important to them. This […]
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