News Archive

24.04.2012
Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship 2012: The road to Homo sapiens and "Out of Africa"

The endowed professor Friedemann Schrenk discusses the evolution of humanity with internationally renowned guests (press release in German) ...

18.04.2012
"The Anthropocene – Humans in the Earth System"

Mark Lawrence addresses the United Nations General Assembly at its Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature ...

06.12.2011
Prof. Friedemann Schrenk will hold the Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship 2012

The road to Homo sapiens and "Out of Africa" represent the focus of the lecture series to be given by the internationally renowned paleoanthropologist in the summer semester 2012 ...

17.10.2011
"The Human Being as Force of Nature"

Interview with Prof. Bernd Schöne from JGU's Institute of Geosciences on DRadio Wissen (in German) ...

01.09.2011
JGU competes with other German universities in all three funding lines of the Excellence Initiative

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has submitted full proposals for a graduate school, three clusters of excellence, and its institutional strategy to promote top-level university research ...

25.08.2011
20 young journalists from all over the world visit Mössbauer Group of JGU

As part of "Xplore FrankfurtRheinMain", young journalists gain information on Mainz cutting-edge technology from Prof. Göstar Klingelhöfer (press release in German) ...

23.08.2011
First dissertation completed at Max Planck Graduate Center

Doctoral candidate from Japan presents dissertation at the interface between Chemistry and Physics (press release in German) ...

13.07.2011
Mössbauer Group of JGU is preparing for participation in Japanese Moon mission and a mission to Mars' moon Phobos

Team led by Göstar Klingelhöfer cooperates with leading researcher of the Japanese space agency JAXA on solar system research projects ...

18.06.2011
"Making Sense of the Atmosphere"

Article on Jun.-Prof. Christiane Voigt from the JGU Department of Physics of the Atmosphere appears on "Welt Online" (web page in German) ...

13.04.2011
Latest technology for excellent research at the Geocycles Research Centre

Equipment acquisition of ESI-produced laser ablation platform NWR-193 extends infrastructure (press release in German) ...

22.03.2011
Rhineland-Palatinate strengthens universities participating in the Excellence Initiative

Prime Minister Beck and Minister of Science Ahnen assure JGU and the University of Kaiserslautern of financial assistance in case of successful results in the final selection round of the Excellence Initiative (web page in German) ...

02.03.2011
Minister of Science Doris Ahnen congratulates successful universities in Mainz and Kaiserslautern

With its institutional strategy "The Gutenberg Spirit: Moving Minds - Crossing Boundaries", JGU has chances to become one of Germany's so-called Universities of Excellence ...

02.03.2011
Off to a flying start in the Federal Excellence Competition

JGU enters the final round of the Excellence Initiative with its definite proposals for a graduate school, three clusters of excellence, and its future concept ...

27.01.2011
JGU scientists postulate association between climatic fluctuations of the last 2,500 years and social upheaval

Complete record of the Central European climate of the last 2,500 years reconstructed for the first time – publication in "Science" ...

24.01.2011
"Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a New Global Ethos"

Article by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen for online magazine "Yale Environment 360" ...

26.11.2010
Isotopes and species protection

JGU and international partners to set up an innovative reference database for the identification of the origin of elephant ivory ...

12.11.2010
DNA analyses from central European early Neolithic farmers reveal their Near Eastern affinities

In an international research project anthropologists at the JGU study the structure and dynamics of processes influencing population genetics in central Germany during the Neolithic ...

29.09.2010
Professor Alfred Kroener receives Chinese Friendship Award

ERA associate researcher is honored for his outstanding contribution to geological research in China ...

20.09.2010
The Amazon rainforest creates its own clouds

Mainz scientists decode the significance of biological aerosols for the formation of clouds and rainfall during the rainy season. Publication in "Science". ...

17.08.2010
Mainz geoscientists participate in research drilling on Eiderstedt Peninsula

New insights into 500,000 years of climate history expected ...

24.07.2010 - 28.07.2010
ISC 2010 - Second International Conference on Sclerochronology Research held at Johannes Gutenberg University

150 participants discussed methods for the analysis of growth patterns of organic hard tissues ...