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23 December 1999
• Sciascia Exhibition "La Sicilia, il suo cuore" Opens at the University of Heidelberg on 13 January 2000
  6 p.m. in the foyer of the Old University (University Square) – Sciascia best known for crime novels set in the milieu of the Sicilian Mafia – Exhibition previously shown in Rome, Milan, Paris, Grenoble, Salamanca and Madrid

23 December 1999

• New Long-Term Collaborative Research Project (SFB) in Molecular Developmental Neurobiology at the University of Heidelberg
  SFB 488 to start work in January 2000 – Rector Prof. Dr. Jürgen Siebke "highly gratified": "Further consolidation of the neurosciences in Heidelberg" – 7.7 million marks from the German Research Council (DFG)

21 December 1999

• Ricarda Huch Manuscript Discovered in Heidelberg University Library
  Heidelberg historian Petra Schaffrodt chanced on the original manuscript of Ricarda Huch's important historical work Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation – Authenticity confirmed by Marbach Literature Archives

20 December 1999

• Krupp Foundation Donates 1.5 Million Marks for Extension of the University of Heidelberg's Department of Chinese Studies
  Support for the ongoing development of a Sinological resource centre with research capacities – Sinologist Prof. Rudolf G. Wagner highly gratified

17 December 1999

• Hans Dengler Clinical Pharmacology Research Award for
  Dr. Michael Christ
  Dr. Christ's study designed to determine whether and how various forms of hormone replacement therapy affect regulation of cardiac functions—Grant worth DM 16,000 awarded for the first time—Named after Prof. Dr. Hans J. Dengler, a pioneering figure in clinical pharmacology

15 December 1999

• Ruperto Carola 3/99
  University of Heidelberg Research Magazine
  featuring
  Gene Therapy with Suicide Genes: A New Weapon against Tumours?
  "Ruperto Carola" 3/99, the University of Heidelberg's research round-up: Title story by Uwe Haberkorn on the intriguing idea of driving tumour cells to suicide – Further topics: Five acid tests for law in Europe (Paul Kirchhof); Intracellular logistics (Constanze Reinhard/Felix Wieland); German Hunger Aid (Wolfgang Eckart); Consensus or conflict in Japan? (Wolfgang Seifert); Heavy ions in the fight against cancer (Jürgen Debus/Michael Wannenmacher)

11 December 1999

• University of Heidelberg Presents Awards for the Best Doctoral Dissertations of 1999
  Ruprecht-Karl Prizes awarded at festive ceremony in the Great Hall of the Old University to Dr. Hanno Kube, Dr. Annette Reich, Dr. Joachim Gentz, Dr. Achim Stellberger and Dr. Udo Baron – Dr. Thorsten Matthias Heim received the Fritz Grunebaum Prize – Awards come with DM 5,000 prize money apiece

10 December 1999

• Service Cross for Heidelberg Professor Hannah Monyer
  Undersecretary of state Michael Sieber: "Outstanding achievements of an internationally renowned scientist and inspiring teacher" – Vice-Rector Prof. Jochen Tröger congratulated Prof. Monyer on behalf of the University – Research on glutamate receptors (important for learning and memory at the cellular level)

3 December 1999

• Leibniz Prize 2000 for Heidelberg Psychologist Prof. Dr. Klaus Fiedler
  DM 1.5 million from German Research Council – Prof. Fiedler investigates connections between language and social perception and the workings of social information processing – Using the analysis of linguistic features to detect lies

2 December 1999

• Baden-Württemberg's New Higher Education Law in Force as of 1 January 2000
  Heidelberg Rector Prof. Dr. Jürgen Siebke and 200 professors had urged amendments – University of Heidelberg sees its autonomy menaced – Protest against new hierarchies in higher education and curtailment of self-administration

1 December 1999

• New Psychology Section of the "Friends of the University"
  In Germany graduate identification with the Faculty is stronger than with University as a whole – Prof. Funke: "The beginning of a new friendship between the Institute of Psychology and its alumni"

1 December 1999

• Rector Prof. Dr. Jürgen Siebke: "This project has set new standards in neurobiology research"
  Successful Long-Term Collaborative Project on "The Molecular Biology of Neural Mechanisms and Interactions" comes to a close – Siebke: One of the most forward-looking subjects in the field of biological and medical basic research – 45 million marks from the German Research Council

1 December 1999

• Erwin Schrödinger Prize for Dr. Jürgen Debus
  For interdisciplinary work on cancer therapy with ion beams – PD Dr. Dr. Jürgen Debus one of three recipients of the prize (worth DM 100,000) – Innovative technique for destroying deep-lying tumours

1 December 1999

• Katja Stoll Awarded VMI Prize for her Study on Trade Union Confederations in Japan
  Association of Metalworking Industries (VMI) in Baden-Württemberg awards prize money of DM 10,000 for outstanding young scientists – Study supervised by Heidelberg Japanese Studies scholar Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seifert

November

29 November 1999
• DAAD Prize of the University of Heidelberg for Özkan Ergen
  A token of recognition both for academic excellence and socio-political and intercultural commitment – In the Protestant Student Congregation Özkan Ergen was one of the initiators of the Christian-Moslem Prayers for Peace

26 November 1999

• Federal Service Cross for Heidelberg Art Historian Prof. Peter Anselm Riedl
  Undersecretary of state Michael Sieber: "High commitment in research and teaching and outstanding merits in preserving the national heritage" – Vice-Rector Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik congratulated Prof. Riedl on behalf of the Rector

26 November 1999

• What Do Heidelberg Students Get Up To in their Leisure Time?
  120 students at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Heidelberg took a searching look at the leisure-time habits of their fellow students – Here are some results

26 November 1999

• Heidelberg University Library Closes Lending Section for Three Weeks, 20 December 1999 to 8 January 2000
  HEIDI system up for conversion – Library regrets any inconvenience – Users should update their accounts – Improved service with new EDP – User training sessions from mid January

23 November 1999

• Extra Highlighting for the Attractions in the Old University Building
  Students' prison an integral part of the University's history – Museum has interesting holdings and exhibitions – Academy of Senior Citizens doing sterling work – Students' prison open Saturdays from next summer – Vice-Rector Horner: "Tourist guides can approach us any time".

19 November 1999

• BioFuture Prize for Dr. Markus Sauer
  Federal minister Edelgard Bulmahn presented the award in Bonn – Prize worth DM 3 million – Alongside systematic manipulation of single biological probes in electric fields and submicrometer microchannels, Sauer is also developing methods for the selection of single enzymes and nucleic acids for individual study

17 November 1999

• Author in Residence Programme 1999: Michael Rutschky

17 November 1999

• Hartmut Mehdorn New Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg
  University Senate confers title of Honorary Senator on former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG – Rector Prof. Dr. Jürgen Siebke: "Herr Mehdorn has supported the University both in his own right and through his company."

11 November 1999

• Heidelberg University Library Provides Campus-Wide Access to 750 Electronic Journals
  Close cooperation with institutes and departments – Free of charge for teaching staff and students at the University

10 November 1999

• Heidelberg Physicist Prof. Dr. Josef Bille Nominated for the German Federal President's Prize for Technology and Innovation 1999
  Rector Prof. Dr. Juergen Siebke "very gratified" – Siebke: "The nomination is a major success for the University of Heidelberg and is impressive proof of the way in which the staying-power of those engaged in basic research at the University can reap excellent rewards and form the basis for innovations" – Prof. Bille's research puts perfect vision within everyone's reach

4 November 1999

• BioFuture Prize for Dr. Roland Eils
  Unprecedented in-sights into dynamic processes in living cells – Heidelberg research scientist develops intelligent bioinformatic system – Prize worth DM 2.4 million – University of Heidelberg gives exclusive patenting licence to T.I.L.L. Photonics (Munich)

2 November 1999

• New Indoor Sports Complex Inaugurated for Joint Use by the University of Heidelberg and the Heidelberg College of Education
  Finance minister Gerhard Stratthaus and undersecretary of state for science Michael Sieber: "Future-oriented enhancement of the higher-education landscape – exemplary commitment by the state government" – "Together with the Olympic Base the new complex forms one of the largest unified higher-education sports centres anywhere in Germany"

October

28 October 1999
• Heidelberg's "Unispiegel" Celebrates 30th Anniversary: Exhibition in the Foyer of the Old University
  "Unispiegel" is one of Germany's longest established university newspapers – Visitors welcome to an exhibition tracing the changes in style and outlook over the last three decades


28 October 1999

• Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Giuseppe Blasotta at the University Museum
  Exhibition opens 12 November 1999 and closes 5 January 2000 – Central topic: the contemporary conflict between the individual and a world dominated by technology

28 October 1999

• Alumni Meeting in Damascus: University of Heidelberg Presents New Medical Programme
  Continuing education worldwide for alumni: "Alumni.med.Live" – Rector Prof. Dr. Juergen Siebke also met Heidelberg graduates with an active commitment to the Syrian health system – Medical centre "an impressive testimony of what our graduates are achieving the world over"

28 October 1999

• New Expertise Network on the Subject of Leukemia
  Expertise network on "Acute and Chronic Forms of Leukemia" starts work – Coordinator: Professor Dr. Ruediger Hehlmann, Faculty of Clinical Medicine of the University of Heidelberg at Mannheim

27 October 1999

• New Kirchhoff Institute of Physics at the University of Heidelberg
  Joining forces on the verge of the new millennium – On 2 November the Institutes of Applied Physics and High Energy Physics amalgamate to form the Kirchhoff Institute – New prospects for research and teaching

25 October 1999

• Start-Up for StartUP, the Biggest Business Plan Competition for People Starting Out in Business
  Vice-rector Prof. Dr. Heinz Hoerner hopes for participation by persons from the university with a strong interest in branching out on their own and assuming entrepreneurial responsibility – Regional kick-off at Neuenheimer Feld, Building 306, Tuesday 26.10.99, 4 to 6 p.m.

25 October 1999

• Award of the "Georg Wittig Lectureship – BASF Guest Professorship for Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg" on 27 October
  Ceremonial colloquium at the auditorium building of the Faculty of Chemistry: official award to the 1999 recipient, Professor Ryoji Noyori from Japan – Special lectures by Prof. R.W. Hoffmann (Marburg) and the recipient – Further lecture by Noyori on 28 October

22 October 1999

• New Curt Engelhorn Chair of American History at Heidelberg University
  Rector Prof. Dr. Jürgen Siebke: "Closes a gap in research and teaching" – Prof. Dr. Detlef Junker has accepted the appointment – Endowment of 1.5 millon marks from Curt C. Engelhorn, former Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Boehringer Mannheim company

21 October 1999

• Title of Honorary Senator Conferred Posthumously on Ignatz Bubis
  Rector Prof. Dr. Jürgen Siebke: "Far-reaching commitment to assuring the development and status of the Institute of Jewish Studies" – With this commitment Ignatz Bubis also made an indirect contribution to research and teaching at the University of Heidelberg

19 October 1999

• 6 November 1999: Open Day at the University of Heidelberg
  Old Town only (not Neuenheimer Feld!) – Visitors need not fear they'll be "out of their depth": many items centre on everyday problems and there are lots of opportunities to join in activities

15 October 1999

• 20 Years of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg
  Festive ceremony with Federal President Johannes Rau on 21 October 1999 – Title of Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg conferred posthumously on Ignatz Bubis

13 October 1999

• University of Heidelberg Welcomes 2,500 First-Year Students
  18 October 1999: official welcome in the Great Hall of the New University – Rector Prof. Dr. Juergen Siebke wishes newcomers every success in "this new and very exciting stage in your lives" – "What you need most at university is initiative and a capacity for enthusiasm."

13 October 1999

• In Heidelberg: "Physical Chemistry – 100 Years After Robert Wilhelm Bunsen"
  On 15 and 16 October 99: 73rd Bunsen Colloquium of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry – In honour of the nestor of this area of research in Germany – Public evening lecture on the virtuoso of chemical experimentation – Everyone welcome

7 October 1999

• Campus TV: Focus on Institute of Jewish Studies and Heidelberg University Sports Club
  The televised higher education and research magazine extends its vistas – 120,000 viewers per broadcast – New sponsor: the Klaus Tschira Foundation (Heidelberg) – Next broadcast: Tuesday 12 October 1999, 3 p.m. on RNFplus – Five repeats

1 October 1999

• Heidelberg's Rector in the Middle East – New Continuing Education Programme for Medical Graduates
  First presentation of "Alumni.med.Live" in the framework of the German-Syrian Medical Conference in Damascus – Rector Prof. Siebke: "Many of our foreign medical students come from the Middle East. The new continuing education project is especially interesting for them."

September

30 September 1999
• Miller Dentistry Prize for Heidelberg Scientists Stefan Hassfeld and Wolfram Stein
  Newly developed 3D software makes implantation safer – German Society for Dentistry and Oral Medicine presents award at its annual meeting today – User-friendly system to be developed from the prototypes

28 September 1999

• Heidelberg Still Critical of New University Law
  Baden-Wuerttemberg's cabinet approves bill for new University Law – University of Heidelberg still has misgivings – Central features in conflict with academic identity

28 September 1999

• Third University of Heidelberg Regional Alumni Meeting: Prague
  Regional meetings an integral part of the Heidelberg Alumni International philosophy – Maintaining contact with Heidelberg graduates all over the world

27 September 1999

• University Sports Club Celebrates Centenary
  Friends and supporters of the USC cordially invited to festive ceremony, 9 October 99 in the Great Hall of the Old University – Address by chief PR officer of Deutsche Bank, Hanns Michael Hoelz – Subject: Clubs and Societies in the Economic Context – From 4 p.m.: Oldies basketball game, Federal League basketball game, party at the Sport Institute

27 September 1999

• Open Day at the University Botanical Gardens
  Sunday, 10 October 1999 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Programme of events includes horticultural advice and guided tours – Everyone welcome

23 September 1999

• New Degree Course in Heidelberg: Biochemistry / Molecular Biotechnology
  Improved career prospects for pharmacy graduates – University Senate unanimously in favour of the new Diplom course of study in biochemistry/molecular biotechnology – Part of the overhaul of the Faculty of Pharmacy

21 September 1999

• Drug Interaction: University of Heidelberg Steps Up Research
  Financial shot in the arm for Clinical Pharmacology – Federal Research Ministry provides DM 2.8 million for model project – Drug security more important than ever

9 September 1999

• City of Heidelberg Foundation supports cooperative project between University Library and University Archives: Exploring the documentary bequest of Dr. Marie Baum
  City of Heidelberg Foundation supports work on the posthumous papers pertaining to one of the most important personalities of 20th century Heidelberg – 65,000 marks for work on hitherto undiscovered correspondence by and with a major figure in the German women's movement

8 September 1999

• Foundation stone laid for the University of Heidelberg's new Otto Meyerhof Centre for Outpatient and Clinical Research
  The following is an extract from Rector Juergen Siebke's words of welcome on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone on 8 September 1999. It outlines the aims and significance of the new centre.

August

31 August 1999
• 27 to 29 September at the University of Heidelberg
  Renowned experts on future prospects for sport and sport science – Keynote topics: Sport as violence prevention, Doping, Support structures for top upcoming sport talents, School sport

27 August 1999

• World Conference in Heidelberg on Medicine and the Internet
  19 to 21 September 1999 – Breaking new ground: patients, Internet experts and doctors discuss the topic "How Patients Can Use the Internet" – The age of "cybermedicine" poses new problems – How should doctors respond to "over-informed" patients?

17 August 1999

• University of Heidelberg honours the memory of Ignatz Bubis
  Ceremony officially conferring the title of Honorary Senator on the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany to take place posthumously

16 August 1999

• Rhine-Neckar Cardiac Centre a Pioneering Institution in Germany and Europe
  Cooperation between the university hospital complexes of Heidelberg and Mannheim – A further stage in the implementation of the agreement finalised late last year

6 August 1999

• Research Magazine of Heidelberg University featuring Malaria: new ways of fighting an old scourge
  Title story of Ruperto Carola 2/99: Katja Becker-Brandenburg and Heiner Schirmer on new approaches to finding effective antimalarials – Further topics: Civil society – astonishing career of a fashionable term; Seeing silicon: hope for the blind; Lorenzo's Oil: new treatment prospects for peroxisomal disorders – and lots more


5 August 1999

• Fellowship Agreement between the Government of Bangladesh and the University of Heidelberg
  Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Professorial Fellowship established at the South Asia Institute

3 August 1999

• Two Exhibitions on Goethe / Goethe and Heidelberg & Goethe's Theory of Colour
  Two exhibitions at the University Library until 28 August 1999

July

28 July 1999
• Exhibition at Heidelberg University Museum: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen – A Life in the Service of Science (1811-1899)
  One of the things everyone remembers from chemistry classes at school is the Bunsen burner. Paradoxically, the scientist it is named after – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen – appears to have had only a minor part in its development. But he was one of the most important chemists of the 19th century and his association with Heidelberg University was a long and fruitful one.

8 July 1999

• University of Heidelberg International Vacation Course 1999
  25 July to 20 August 1999: over 600 participants from 54 countries attending the course on German language and culture Prof. Siebke: "The central theme of this year's course could hardly be more topical"

June

29 June 1999
• Greater Senate Elects New Vice-Rectors
  Prof. Dr. Heinz Horner re-elected; new from 1 October 1999: Prof. Dr. Jochen Tröger and Prof. Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

28 June 1999

• Rector Siebke Reviews Major Developments of the Past Year
  "Misgivings" about Baden-Württemberg's proposed amendments to its University Law

17 June 1999

• "We need an elite"
  Rector Jürgen Siebke interviewed by Klaus Welzel of Heidelberg's Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung newspaper ("RNZ" in the following) on planned reforms in higher education and the Rector's criticisms of Baden-Württemberg's higher education and research minister Klaus von Trotha

May

May 19, 1999
• Research Magazine of Heidelberg University featuring anti-stress programs in plants and early signs of glaucoma
  Title story of Ruperto Carola 1/99: Prof. Thomas Rausch on the astonishing strategies plants develop to reduce stress at the cellular level – Further topics: Heidelberg scientists on a small satellite for the big issues in astronomy; the way four different western European countries go about providing for financial security in old age


May 5, 1999

• Japanese chemistry professor is awarded BASF's guest lectureship at the University of Heidelberg
  Recipient of the "Georg Wittig Lectureship": Dr. Dr. h.c. Ryoji Noyori, professor at the University of Nagoya in Japan – He will be officially awarded at a ceremonial symposium in Heidelberg, Germany on Wednesday, October 27, 1999

March

March 22, 1999
• International symposium on "100 Years of Organized Cancer Research"
  (Heidelberg, Feb. 18 – 20, 2000)
  Under the influence of Ernst von Leyden the German "Comité fuer Krebsforschung" was established on February 18, 1900 in Berlin – Symposium wants to look back on a hundred years of medical thinking about, research on, and treatment of cancer

March 12, 1999

• "Georg Wittig Lectureship": BASF Funds Guest Professorship at the University of Heidelberg
  Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, BASF: "This guest professorship is a way for us to underline our good relations with the University of Heidelberg" — Rector Prof. Dr. Juergen Siebke: a way of recognizing the University's research accomplishments in the field of chemistry

January

January 25, 1999

• Research magazine of the University of Heidelberg: Inoculations against Cancer — A Dream Soon to Come True? In the title story of "Ruperto Carola" 3/98 Professor Dirk Schadendorf describes the latest advances in what looks to be a promising anti-cancer strategy — Other subjects range from musicology to image processing