Students experience a wide range of emotions in their everyday university life. Research conducted by Dr Kristina Stockinger from the Chair of Psychology shows that how they cope with these emotions affects their well-being, health, and academic achievement. Two particularly effective strategies are cognitive reappraisal and competence regulation.

The book "The Toxic Ship – The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" by Simone Müller, University of Augsburg, has been awarded two international academic prizes. These are the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Hagley Prize awarded by the Business History Conference (BHC) and the Hagley Museum and Library.

With its meadows, woods and bodies of water, the University of Augsburg campus provides habitats for numerous animal and plant species. The green spaces are not only important for the climate and people, but also play a role in regional nature conservation. To ensure that these valuable areas are developed sustainably, the university is specifically promoting biodiversity with a further project.

On Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 11 a.m., the Music Education Institute of the University of Augsburg will open its doors for the annual open day for prospective students. Find out about the wide range of musical and and artistic-pedagogical courses on offer.

Similar to a digital route planner, specific programmes support doctors in their everyday clinical work by selecting diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The MIDAS study, led by Augsburg University Medicine, examined the effectiveness of such clinical decision-making aids for medical imaging in a multicentre, randomised study.

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. To improve the remediation process, researchers at the University of Augsburg are trialling various cleaning methods. Their work is now being financially supported by the Bavarian Research Foundation.

So-called Rayleigh–Bloch waves can release enormous amount of energy that can damage technical systems under certain circumstances. They only exist below a precisely defined cut-off frequency; above this they disappear abruptly. Mathematicians from the Universities of Augsburg and Adelaide have recently proposed an explanation for this puzzling phenomenon.

The University of Augsburg belongs to the top 10 percent of places to study business and economics in Germany. According to the current WirtschaftsWoche ranking, the university is ranked 18^th among German universities and 24^th among universities in the D-A-CH region.

With the new BRaVE research network, the University of Augsburg is aiming to research vulnerabilities arising from the effects of climate change and develop solutions for adaptation. The network was officially launched on the 23rd of January 2025 and involves twelve interdisciplinary sub-projects.

The Extended Executive Board of the University has adopted a new sustainability strategy. The concept's central areas of action - governance, research, education and campus operations - are intended to promote sustainable action at all levels. The strategy is based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and defines higher objectives.

The president of the University of Augsburg, Prof Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, wishes all members of the university a happy and healthy Christmas. She also a podcast recommendation for the festive season.

The University of Augsburg has been honoured with the “Best New Participating University” award in the international UI GreenMetric ranking. The ranking evaluates universities worldwide in areas including research, teaching, and sustainable campus design. The University of Augsburg impressed with its sustainability-orientated research and its future-orientated campus concept.