The Public Climate School at the University of Augsburg

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.

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Nov. 5, 2024

A Simple Method to Transform Soft Magnets into Hard Magnets

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.

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The sample - hidden in the center of the cell - has a cross section of roughly 1 mm2 and is located between two anvils.
Oct. 21, 2024

The Public Climate School at the University of Augsburg

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.

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Hero-Bild Public Climate School 2024
Oct. 7, 2024

Ceremonial opening of the new teaching building at Augsburg’s new medical campus

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.

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Schlüsselübergabe bei der Eröffnung des neuen Lehrgebäudes Medizin
Sept. 27, 2024

Heart health: What’s new in research?

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.

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Symbolbild Herz Gesundheit Weltherztag
Sept. 4, 2024

Banning smartphones in schools is meaningful when pedagogically guided

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.

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Schülerin hält Smartphone in der Hand
Aug. 30, 2024

Course registration

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.

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Studierende in einer Vorlesung mit Dozentin
Aug. 22, 2024

DFG funds Centre for Electron Microscopy at the University of Augsburg

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.
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Transmissionselektronenmikroskop für physikalische und medizinische Forschung
Aug. 12, 2024

Research reveals the origin of scavenger cells in the vitreous body of the eye

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.
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Repräsentativer Schnitt durch das sich entwickelnde Mausauge.
Aug. 6, 2024

New project researches “potholes” at the edge of space

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.
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Scheibenartiges Nachthimmelbild mit sichtbaren Schwerewellen
July 16, 2024

The realities of migrant life

The 2024 Augsburg Academic Prize for Intercultural Studies has been awarded to Dr des. Dilek Tepeli for her dissertation on the conflict patterns of Alevi and Sunni migrants. Meanwhile, Canê Çağlar received the 2024 Encouragement Award for her master’s thesis, which researched how students of colour perceive university life. The prize was awarded on the 15th of July together with the association “Forum Interkulturelles Leben und Lernen (FiLL e.V.)” and the City of Augsburg.

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Preisverleihung Augsburger Wissenschaftspreis für interkulturelle Studien
July 12, 2024

Study places for the winter semester 2024/25

From English and American Studies to Business and Information Systems Engineering, the University of Augsburg is offering 93 diverse degree programmes for the winter semester 2024/5, which prospective students can now either apply or enrol for.

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Studierende im Hörsaal
June 19, 2024

Future of cancer detection

Liquid biopsy is a very precise method by which to diagnose cancer, which is much less invasive than conventional tissue sampling. The course of cancer treatment and its success can be comprehensively monitored using this method and tumours treated more accurately. A long-term clinical study at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg is now focusing on the question of how liquid biopsy can be used in everyday clinical practice. Initial results have been published in the Journal of Laboratory Medicine.

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