Information portal on the rehabilitation of the library of the University of Konstanz
In the following information portal you can find out about the current status of the renovation of the Library. In addition to answers to frequently asked questions, we have also provided assessments, measurement results, press releases, photos and information about the planning. more...
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke gives the renowned Adorno Lectures in Frankfurt
In collaboration with the German publishing house „Suhrkamp Verlag“ the Institute of Social Research at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main elected the professor of Modern German Literature and General Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz for this prestigious series of lectures. more...
He will supersede Tessa Theodorakopoulos, who has been director of the theatre from 1975 on. The theatre was founded in 1970. The selection panel at the University of Konstanz decided in favour of Andreas Bauer, who was born in Munich. more...
The Konstanz historian and economics lecturer Dr Thilo Jungkind has been awarded the Environmental Prize of the foundation “Umwelt und Wohnen an der Universität Konstanz”, endowed with 10,000 euros and sponsored by the LBS Landesbausparkasse Baden-Württemberg. more...
Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Award for Professor Marcel Leist
The Konstanz toxicologist, Professor Marcel Leist has been awarded the Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Award endowed with 15,000 euros for his work in developing alternative methods to animal testing. For many years, Marcel Leist has been dedicating his research to methods for testing the safety of chemicals without the use of animals. more...
Political scientists at the University of Konstanz, the University of Mannheim and the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA, have analysed the numbers of victims in the Syrian civil war up to the end of February 2013 in efforts to forecast the risk of further escalation. more...
Margarete von Wrangell Fellowship for Konstanz Philosopher
The Konstanz scholar Dr. Amber Griffioen has been accepted in Baden-Württemberg’s Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation Programme for Women. The programme is run by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK). It supports the careers of outstanding female scientists on their way to a professorship. more...
Study shows that cyberbullying is far rarer than supposed
This conclusion was reached in a study supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and carried out by the Thurgau University of Teacher Education (PHTG) and the Universities of Konstanz, Zurich and Bern. According to the study results, cyberbullying occurs about three times less than bullying in the real world. more...
Forensic psychology is set up at the University of Konstanz as part of the course of study in the bachelor and master programmes of the Department of Psychology. The programme of study is characterized by high practical relevance. more...
The funded project entitled "Towards a diversity-friendly university: Development and implementation of demand-driven subject-specific measures" focuses on the area of teaching and learning, particularly on students of bachelor's and master's degree programmes. more...
A group of chemists, biologists and physicists from the University of Konstanz developed an innovative method to study the structures of biological macromolecules such as proteins or DNA in cells. more...
Scientists as well as individual departments can receive funds for staff and material expenses in order to increase international mobility and win back the world's most highly qualified researchers. more...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spohn receives the Lakatos Award in philosophy of science
The Konstanz philosopher Prof. Wolfgang Spohn was awarded the Lakatos Award 2012 by the London School of Economics and the Latsis Foundation. The Lakatos Award of £10,000 is considered the world's most prestigious award for the philosophy of science. more...
Maximum success in the Excellence Initiative – funding continues for the Institutional Strategy
In the second funding period of the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments, the University of Konstanz has achieved maximum success with the funding of the Institutional Strategy, a Cluster of Excellence and two Graduate Schools. The funding approvals mean that the University of Konstanz has now increased the number of successful proposals to four, compared with three in the first funding phase. more...
Gerda Henkel Prize 2012 for Professor Jürgen Osterhammel
The historian Jürgen Osterhammel, Professor for Modern and Recent history at the University of Konstanz, has been chosen to receive the Gerda Henkel Prize 2012. The award, which is worth 100,000 euros, will be presented to Jürgen Osterhammel on 29 October 2012 in Düsseldorf. more...
As one of three universities in Germany, the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz has successfully solicited co-financing from the EU programme "Marie Curie Actions COFUND" in the amount of 6.24 million euros. more...
The PsychoEconomics Research Group at the Universities of Konstanz and Cologne has received the go-ahead from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In an interdisciplinary cluster of six contributing projects scientists at both universities are investigating the psychological processes that underlie economic decisions. more...
University of Konstanz lands several top positions again in the DFG Funding Atlas
In the funding atlas of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2012 that has been published today on Thursday, May 24, 2012, the University of Konstanz confirms its outstanding performance in third-party funding once again. more...
Together with his team and specialist colleagues from Switzerland and South Korea, the experimental physicist Professor Alfred Leitenstorfer, director of the Center for Applied Photonics (CAP) at the University of Konstanz, has succeeded in making an important contribution to the understanding of high-temperature superconductors. more...
Top grades for the University of Konstanz
The University of Konstanz attained top ratings in the current university ranking by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) in several departments. Students are very satisfied with the support given in the departments of Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science. The Konstanz biologists were in the top group in most categories. more...
Student mobility at the University of Konstanz surpasses Bologna Process target
40 per cent of Konstanz graduates have pursued part of their studies abroad. This gives the University of Konstanz a clear lead over Germany’s nationwide average of 25 per cent. The high mobility level at Konstanz is a sign of success for the university’s internationalistion strategy. more...
Springboard to a Lifetime Professorship
As one of the first German universities, the University of Konstanz established junior professorships in 2002. Meanwhile, a first generation of scientists has successfully completed the young career model and achieved a lifetime professorship. more...
Professor Brigitte Rockstroh receives the Christian Roller Prize worth 120,000 euros
Professor Brigitte Rockstroh has now been awarded the Christian Roller Prize for her work on cognitive rehabilitation in schizophrenic psychoses. The award of the Foundation “Illenauer Stiftungen”, which is endowed with 120,000 euros, was given to her last Thursday, 3 May 2012, at a ceremony in Achern, Baden. more...
International Research Team lead by Prof. Dr. Elke Deuerling receives prestigious support
The Konstanz molecular biologist Prof. Dr. Elke Deuerling receives funds from the "Human Frontier Science Program Organization" (HFSPO) amounting to over one million U.S. dollars. The international research team includes Professor Judith Frydman, Ph.D., of Stanford University, USA, and Professor Sheena Radford, Ph.D., of the University of Leeds, England. more...
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Dr. Denis Gebauer
The Konstanz junior research group leader and assistant professor Dr. Denis Gebauer was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for his outstanding research in the field of physical chemistry, in particular for his pioneering work on early stages of crystallization of calcium carbonate. more...
Honorary Doctorate for Ulrich Rüdiger
The Rector of the University of Konstanz, Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Ulrich Rüdiger, received an honorary doctorate from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow. The Russian university of economics pays tribute in particular to Ulrich Rüdiger’s nearly ten year commitment to the cooperation between the University of Konstanz and the Plekhanov University of Economics. more...
Based on calcium carbonate (chalk), the researchers generate naturally grown surface layers with an ordered position of micrometer sized half spherical chalk lenses. So far, micro lens arrays could only be generated with a sophisticated lithographic process on basis of plastics. more...
The joint project "German Bioimaging" that will build a Germany-wide network for biological imaging over the next three years, for which the DFG will provide € 450,000, will be coordinated from Konstanz by Prof. Dr. Elisa May, head of the Bioimaging Centre (BIC). more...
Research Success Against Autoimmune Diseases
The research groups around the Konstanz immunologist Prof. Dr. Marcus Groettrup and the chemist Prof. Dr. Michael Groll from the Technische Universität München (TUM) have succeeded in crystallizing the so-called immunoproteasome, which plays a central role in the development of autoimmune diseases, for the first time and determined its structure. more...
The chemist Prof. Helmut Cölfen analyzed in cooperation with eleven other international scientists, the structure of sea urchin spines and decrypted a design principle applied by nature for over millions years for high-tech composite materials. more...
Professor Axel Meyer, Ph.D., receives Hector Science Award 2012
On February 3, 2012, Prof. Axel Meyer, Ph.D., received the Hector Science Award, which is endowed with prize money totaling 150,000 euros. The awards ceremony at the Hotel Europäischer Hof in Heidelberg was also used by the Rector of the University of Konstanz, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüdiger to award the title of Honorary Senator of the University of Konstanz to Dr. hc Hans-Werner Hector. more...
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