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The Research Award 2020 of the German Duchenne Foundation, funded with 25.000 euros, goes to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The two prize winners are Dr. Alf Spitschak of University Medicine Rostock and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Brinkmeier of University Medicine Greifswald.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Michael North from the University of Greifswald’s Department of History has been appointed Humboldt Scout as part of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Henriette Herz Scouting Programme. 33 researchers from Germany were selected by an interdisciplinary committee in the…

What does the internal structure of atomic nuclei look like? Physicists can approach this question by using precision measurements of the weight, size, and shape of atomic nuclei. An international research team, including physicists from Greifswald, has now studied the short-lived mercury isotopes…

Researchers of the University of Greifswald have discovered four new species of small freshwater snails in New Zealand. Dr. Gerlien Verhaegen and Dr. Martin Haase from Greifswald’s Zoological Institute and Museum, have named three of the new species after public figures. The newly discovered species…

Following agreement with the Academic Senate, the University of Greifswald’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities has decided to award the title of Honorary Doctor (Dr. phil. h.c.) to the Finnish linguist Prof. Kaisa Häkkinen from the University of Turku, Finland. The bestowal of the title shall take…

For the seventh time now, two students of the University of Greifswald have recently published the anthology Neue Nordische Novellen (New Nordic Novellas). The latest anthology Zeitstücke was published by the Heiner Labonde Verlag. It comprises 53 short stories and poems which engage with various…

Fenja Neumann, who is studying Landscape Ecology in Greifswald, has won 2020’s first prize in the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue’s category ‘project ideas’. The prize is awarded by the Council for Baltic Sea States. The prize ceremony took place in Lithuania’s National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vilnius…

Scientists from the University of Greifswald and University Medicine Greifswald have collaborated with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and various institutions from across Germany to analyse an outbreak of particularly multidrug resistant bacteria belonging to the species Klebsiella pneumoniae. The…

As contributing editor and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Online, Dr. Nicole Rupschus and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Assel, both theologians from Greifswald, have been awarded the American Library Association’s ‘Outstanding Academic Titles 2020’. The encyclopaedia is one of…

The European Union is funding a project on artificial intelligence (AI) to enable researchers and doctors from Germany and Poland to continue their collaboration in spite of the contact restrictions as a result of the coronavirus. University Medicine Greifswald and the Pomeranian Medical University…