From the 1^st of January 2025, the University of Augsburg will have a new head of administrative services. Katja Graßl will join the university executive alongside the president, Prof Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, and the three vice-presidents.

An international team with the significant involvement of Augsburg University Medicine has made progress in the risk assessment and treatment of extracranial malign rhabdoid tumours. Recently published in the renowned journal “Clinical Cancer Research,” the study shows how clinical and molecular factors can influence disease progression.

Following successful evaluation by an international expert committee, twelve new graduate positions have been funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, with the call for applications already advertised. Twenty-one professors researching and teaching in the environmental humanities at the University of Augsburg and LMU in Munich are looking forward to receiving applications.

A team of researchers at the University of Augsburg has discovered a groundbreaking method to turn a soft magnet into a hard one using nothing more than moderate uniaxial stress - pressure applied in a single direction. Their findings were recently published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.

The University of Augsburg is once again participating in the Public Climate School from the 4th to the 8th of November 2024. During the PCS week, research institutes from around Germany open their doors to the public in an effort to provide sound scientific knowledge about the climate crisis. In Augsburg, simulation games, lectures, film screenings, and other interactive events will take place.

Together with around 400 guests, the University of Augsburg celebrated a new milestone in the university’s history: the opening of the new teaching building for the Faculty of Medicine and its growing number of young medical students. This marked the opening of Augsburg’s new medical campus. Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, and the founding dean of the Faculty of Medicine (2017-2019), Prof Guido Adler, gave keynote addresses.

To mark World Heart Day on the 29th of September, Prof Philip Raake, Chair of Internal Medicine with a Focus on Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg and Director of the I. Medical Clinic at Augsburg University Hospital, gave an interview about current trends in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. He explains what is being researched in Augsburg when it comes to heart health and provides some tips for a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Banning smartphones in schools has a measurable effect on the social well-being and learning of school students. This is the result of a meta-analysis recently published in the journal Education Sciences conducted by the Chair of School Pedagogy at the University of Augsburg.

Registration for lectures, seminars, and exercises: The general registration period for courses in the winter semester 2024/2025 at the University of Augsburg will take place from the 2nd of September to the 7th of October 2024 via the online platform Digicampus. For first-semester students, a later registration period applies. First-semester students should attend the introductory events offered by their respective degree programmes.

With the help of funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), a new Centre for Electron Microscopy is being established at the Institute of Physics. The aim is to create an organisational infrastructure that enables effective use of cutting-edge equipment by researchers at other institutes within the university as well as by external research institutes.

A team led by the Augsburg cell biologist and anatomist Prof Peter Wieghofer has shown that macrophages develop in the vitreous body of the eye as early as the embryonic stage. Up until now, it was assumed that they regularly regenerate from blood cells during the course of life.

The air is so thin at an atmospheric altitude of around 80 to 120 kilometres above the Earth that it is often described as the edge of space. This zone has enormous importance for both the flight of satellites and for the Earth’s climate. The University of Augsburg and Bern together with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) now want to research this area at the edge of space.