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Senate Elects Three New Vice-Rectors

The Senate of Heidelberg University elected three new vice-rectors. Their three-year periods of office all begin on 1 October 2013. The election has to receive finally approval from the University Council. [More...]

EGF Growth Factor Accelerates Cell Division

Biologists at Heidelberg University have discovered new approaches for the treatment of cancer. They investigated how a special signalling molecule stimulates the separation of chromosomes in the cell. [More...]

Coming of Age Rituals and Renewal of Sacred Sites

Religious rituals in South Asia along with ritual restoration processes in Japan are the subject of six documentaries produced by Heidelberg scholars from the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”. [More...]

Elucidating Environmental History

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in providing a full picture of so-called karst depressions on the island of Crete, including a three-dimensional view into the subsurface structure of these hollows. [More...]

Summer School on “Sites of Knowledge”

The question of how and at what locations knowledge is generated is the subject of a summer school organised by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” this coming August. [Mehr...]

The Release of Bromine in Polar Regions

New measurements by an international research team of scientists have shown that the chemical element bromine is also released in polar regions to a great extent from snow on land. [More...]

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