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December 2004

8 December 2004
• University of Heidelberg the Model of a Leading University
  Chairman of the University Council Dr. Dr. Peter Bettermann and Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff on the University of Heidelberg's strategy for the future


8 December 2004
• New Strategy for the University of Heidelberg
  Invitation to the media to attend the press conference on Monday, 13 December 2004, 10.30 a.m. (Old University, Bel Etage, Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg – Invitation extended by the Chairman of the University Council and the Rector


1 December 2004
• Heidelberg Has One of the Fastest Computer Systems in the World
  Research magazine "Ruperto Carola" 3/2004: Title story on the status of cluster computing at the University of Heidelberg—Broad range of topics—From cluster computing and neurophysiology to philosophy and archaeology

November 2004

24 November 2004
• The Times Calls the University of Heidelberg the "Jewel of German Learning"
  Only one German university is among the Top 50 in the Times Higher Education Supplement survey of the world's best universities: the University of Heidelberg — 12th best in Europe


22 November 2004
• University of Heidelberg among the Leaders for the Brightest Students in Law, Medicine and German Studies
  Der Spiegel presents the "biggest online student survey in the world": Who has the brightest students? — University of Heidelberg 7th in the overall ranking — Rector Prof. Hommelhoff: "Notably in law, medicine and German we have succeeded in attracting the brightest students to Heidelberg. But there's still plenty to be done."


4 November 2004
• Rector: Universities Need to "Raise their Voices"
  Rector Prof. Hommelhoff at the "Heidelberg Evening": open criticism of the Rhine-Neckar Triangle's "Initiative for the Future" and Baden-Württemberg's higher education and research policies


4 November 2004
• 250,000 Euros for Top-Flight Research: University of Heidelberg Lautenschläger Research Prize 2005
  One of the most generously endowed international research prizes to be awarded for the third time — Top-level internationally renowned scientists and scholars from all disciplines eligible — Nomination deadline: 15 January 2005

October 2004

27 October 2004
• ASIC Lab Ten Years Old
  Heidelberg's ASIC Lab celebrates its 10th anniversary on 5 November 2004 — Only institution of its kind at a German physics Faculty


27 October 2004
• Physics Nobel Prize Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle at the Physics Colloquium in Heidelberg
  Physics Nobel Prize laureate to speak at the Physics Colloquium in Heidelberg on 29 October 2004 (5.15 p.m.) on the occasion of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wolfrum's 65th birthday — Institute of Physical Chemistry expects an audience of several hundred


20 October 2004
• This Year's Author-in-Residence at the University of Heidelberg: Patrick Roth
  The Los Angeles-based writer will be continuing his Frankfurt Lectures (2001) at the University from 28 October to 12 November 2004 - All lectures and the panel discussion can be followed live on the internet


19 October 2004
• Sport Psychology: Heidelberg Leads the Field in Germany
  Pressure on athletes increasing — Major public interest in top-level sport — "Training champions" unable to exploit their full potential in contest situations — How the Institute of Sport and Sport Science of the University of Heidelberg provides assistance


19 October 2004
• Heidelberg Way Out in Front (Focus)
  In its new ranking the news magazine puts Heidelberg well ahead of all other German universities for mathematics — In physics, where it was just pipped to the post, Heidelberg outstrips all other German universities in the international response to its scientific publications


15 October 2004
• New Course at Germany's Oldest University
  The secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to speak in Heidelberg at the opening of the M.A. course in American Studies on 20 October 2004


12 October 2004
• The University of Heidelberg Mourns the Death of Jacques Derrida
  Probably the world's best-known philosopher — Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "Beyond the boundaries of philosophy as an academic discipline he was a leading intellectual figure not only for the humanities but for the cultural perception of a whole age."


6 October 2004
• The Heidelberg Centre for Study Counselling and Continuing Education: A Three-Way Liaison Agency
  Centre at the University of Heidelberg provides assistance on getting into university, making the best of one's studies and finding the right job — A single facility for counselling on all matters connected with studying


4 October 2004
• Minister-President Erwin Teufel Congratulates University of Heidelberg on its "Magnificent Success" in the BioFuture Competition 2004
  "The University is producing excellent results in the entire life-science sector and is up among the international leaders. The BioFuture prize is an eloquent testimony to its achievements" (Teufel)

September 2004

29 September 2004
• Relishing New Vistas
  A British biology student on university life in Cambridge and Heidelberg — Philine zu Ermgassen is in Heidelberg for a year on a Baden-Württemberg scholarship from the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg


28 September 2004
• The Best of the Bunch
  Selection at the University of Heidelberg: the quest for the "best of the best" for the B.Sc. course "molecular biotechnology" — Good prospects for those who make an impression in interviews


24 September 2004
• 179 Hurdles for Would-Be Psychologists
  Studying psychology as a subsidiary subject at the University of Heidelberg requires intelligence and a whole lot of answers — Institute of Psychology has organised aptitude tests since 1997


23 September 2004
• Links Forged by Science: Research Delegation from North Korea Visits Heidelberg
  15 delegates from North Korea came to Heidelberg for a seminar on applied mathematics and physics — Gradual thaw in communist North Korea — Science as an opportunity to break out of the country's isolation


21 September 2004
• "Focus" Ranking: University of Heidelberg Heads the Field in Medicine and Biology
  Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "With reference to a broad range of academically relevant factors, the news magazine has once again confirmed the University of Heidelberg's leading status among German universities" — In the overall ranking of 16 subjects and in psychology the University came fourth, with a fifth place in chemistry — "Gratification and challenge"

August 2004

25 August 2004
• History in Words: Heidelberg as a Centre of German Lexicography
  Now available: University of Heidelberg research magazine "Ruperto Carola 2/2004" – Other articles: The Heidelberg Encyclopaedia of Scholars – Piggybacking to the target (how molecular biotechnologists prime active substances to go exactly where they're needed) – How black holes got into the universe – National Socialist racial and extermination policy in the artistic memory of Eastern Europe – Squandered opportunities (a dispute on the marketing of inventions at the University of Heidelberg)


20 August 2004
• Emmy Noether Programme Supports 26 Grant Recipients from Heidelberg — A Token of Quality for the University
  Special German Research Council programme has been supporting the upcoming research elite for 5 years now — Recipients accorded research groups of their own at an early stage in their careers — A token of quality for universities — 26 grant recipients so far in Heidelberg


13 August 2004
• A Historian's View of Stalin: The Aftermath Lives On
  Heidelberg historian Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dietrich Löwe presents an extremely precise account of the multi-faceted Stalin phenomenon based on broad research foundations

July 2004

22 July 2004
• A Window on the Environmental Sciences — Heidelberg Front Runner in the Analysis of Arctic Ice Samples
  Heidelberg Environmental Sciences Work Show opened up a fascinating window on ongoing research in the field — and on the latest developments in the exploration of Arctic ice samples, a research area in which the Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the University of Heidelberg has recently become the international front runner


21 July 2004
• Extension of the University of Heidelberg Guest House — "A Fantastic View of the Neckar Valley"
  Topping-out ceremony on 23 July — Work on the guest house on Neuenheimer Feld campus has gone smoothly — The 62 new apartments needed to accommodate visiting academics


14 July 2004
• University of Heidelberg Successful in German Academic Exchange Service Competition
  New summer school on radiation therapy at the Heidelberg Latin America Centre in Santiago de Chile


14 July 2004
• Continuing Education: Intensive Mediation Training Course at the University of Heidelberg
  Mediation a successful procedure for conflict settlement — Training begins September 2004


12 July 2004
• Order and Disorder — Two Interactive Sculptures at the Kirchhoff Institute of Physics
  Unveiled on the occasion of the joint emeritus ceremony for the Heidelberg physicists Siegfried Hunklinger (Kirchhoff Institute of Physics) and Heinz Horner (Institute of Theoretical Physics)

June 2004

29 June 2004
• Heidelberg Physicist Centrally Involved in First-Ever Demonstration of Five-Particle Entanglement and Open-Destination Teleportation
  Significant advance in the field of quantum information processing


25 June 2004
• Was Mad King Ludwig II Really Mad?
  Does a spectacular chapter of Bavarian history need to be rewritten? — Professor Heinz Häfner's study published by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities


24 June 2004
• Prof. Volker Gerhardt of Humboldt University (Berlin) at the Heidelberg Life Sciences and Society Forum
  Kant and his philosophy of the human world — The "Forum" encourages interdisciplinary dialogue between the sciences and the humanities — Support from the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation


24 June 2004
• Nobel Prize Laureate Roald Hoffmann New Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg
  Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "It is an indication of Roald Hoffmann's personal stature that, although his family was almost completely wiped out by the National Socialists, he has not allowed resentment to prevent him from cultivating a special relationship with university chemists in Germany" — Long and close contacts with Heidelberg's Institute of Chemistry — A committed friend and supporter of the University of Heidelberg


24 June 2004
• University of Heidelberg Announces 7th Ecumenical Forum
  "Protestant Pope" Sam Kobia in Heidelberg on 28 June, a unique chance for Heidelberg citizens (churchgoers and others) to hear what he has to say and discuss their views with him


22 June 2004
• Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universität Heidelberg Celebrates 1,000^th Event with a Symposium
  University of Heidelberg extends a cordial invitation to the media — Beginning 9 a.m., 25 June 2004: "Civilizing America: Manners and Civility as Categories of Social, Cultural and Literary Analysis"


17 June 2004
• Gadamer Professorship 2004: Prof. Jan Assmann
  Opening lecture on 6 July at 7.15 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Old University — Assmann devotes his lectures to the topic "The Price of Monotheism"


16 June 2004
• Invitation to the University of Heidelberg Summer Athletics Event
  In cooperation with the University Sports Club Heidelberg 1899 — Heidelberg Mile, Rieder Javelin Cup, MLP University Cross-Country Run — Date: 25 June from 4.50 p.m.


15 June 2004
• "The Concept of Life" at the Heidelberg Life Sciences and Society Forum
  All interested are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion — "Heidelberg Life Sciences and Society Forum" and Interdisciplinary Forum announce a talk by Prof. Dr. Volker Gerhardt on "The Concept of Life — A Subject for the Sciences and the Humanities"


9 June 2004
• 41^st Congress of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology Meets in Heidelberg
  Congress from June 9 to June 11, 2004 — Rector Hommelhoff: "Paediatric Radiology is a subject that must be preserved at all costs"


8 June 2004
• Rector Hommelhoff Elected Spokesman of the Universities and Vice-President of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK)
  Rector Hommelhoff to coordinate the voting of 82 universities in the German Rectors' Conference (HRK): "At the moment the discourse on the universities has been given a major fillip. I look forward to the collaboration with all the universities in the HRK from Flensburg to Konstanz and from Aachen to Frankfurt an der Oder"


7 June 2004
• Ulysses Marathon
  The events in James Joyce's Ulysses cover one single day, the 16th of June 1904. — On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of "Bloomsday" the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Heidelberg extends a cordial invitation to attend a series of events ranging from academic lectures to a cartoon film


2 June 2004
• Prof. W. Eckart in Santiago: Bioethics Debate on the Beginning and End of Life
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eckart, director of the Institute of Medical History at the University of Heidelberg, spoke at a seminar on "The Fight for Human Dignity: 10 Years of Discussion in Bioethics" in Santiago de Chile in late May — Event co-organised by the Heidelberg Latin America Centre

May 2004

19 May 2004
• The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy
  New book by Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla, professor of psychotherapeutic medicine at the University of Heidelberg, published by Karnac Books (London — New York)

13 May 2004
• Symposium at the University of Heidelberg: "Physics and Biophysics in the Age of Goethe: Concepts of Nature around 1800"
  3 July 2004 — Organizers: Prof. H. Günter Dosch (Institute of Theoretical Physics), Prof. Dieter Borchmeyer (Department of German Studies), Dr. Letizia Mancino-Cremer (Goethe Society, Heidelberg), Prof. Christoph Cremer (Kirchhoff Institute of Physics/Biomolecular Machines Network)

13 May 2004
• Heidelberg Scientist Discovers 1859 Lecture Manuscript by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
  On 17 May the manuscript of a lecture by chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen will be presented to the public — Dr. Christof Schulz of Heidelberg University's Institute of Physical Chemistry found the important 19th century document — University extends a cordial invitation to the media

11 May 2004
• Molecular Cell Biology — New B.Sc. Course at Heidelberg University's Faculty of Life Sciences
  Course begins in the winter semester 2004/05 — Research-oriented six-semester course at an internationally renowned scientific location

6 May 2004
• Heidelberg Students in Leyden to Discuss the Role of Universities in Europe
  From 6 to 8 May: Bright Conference for League Universities in Leyden — Head of Research Management Dr. Jens Hemmelskamp: "Excellent contacts for future education elites"

April 2004

29 April 2004
• Ranking of World Universities Confirms Leading Position of the University of Heidelberg
  International comparison by "Academic Ranking of World Universities — 2003" puts University of Heidelberg in the first division — 12th place in Europe — Vice-Rector Professor Angelos Chaniotis: A leading institution in the international higher-education landscape


27 April 2004
• ZMBH Forum: Latest Findings in Genetic Research on Mice
  The XV. ZMBH Forum "Mammalian Physiology: Lessons from the Genetically Altered Mouse", 6-8 May 2004, Kirchhoff Institute of Physics (Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120 Heidelberg)

22 April 2004
• Rector of the University of Heidelberg: Mass Universities a Dead End
  Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "The misguided laws on student admission capacities dating from the 1960s and 1970s have made Germany's higher-education institutions into faceless mass universities" — Appeal to Baden-Württemberg's higher-education minister: "Ditch the standardised admissions system!" — Better teacher-student ratio required — Students' fees would improving teaching quality

20 April 2004
• Heidelberg Research Magazine "Ruperto Carola 1/2004": Serendipity, Cells and Cell Portals
  Title story by Blanche Schwappach: Diabetes — From Basic Understanding to Basic Treatment — Other topics: A Survey of Protein Energy Landscapes — Taxing without Overtaxing — New Agents against Hepatitis C — Rain, Steam and Speed: Impressionism in Painting and Literature

20 April 2004
• University of Heidelberg up among the Leaders in Law, Biology and Chemistry
  University ranking by "Junge Karriere" magazine: in law, biology and chemistry Heidelberg very highly rated by personnel managers

15 April 2004
• Heidelberg's Romantic Scenery not the Sole Attraction for Future History Teachers
  New students' guide by stern, stern Campus & Career and CHE: history, English and German on the way up

15 April 2004
• Resounding Success by the Heidelberg University Team at the International Willem C. Vis Moot for Law Students
  Best memorandum for claimant — Second place and honourable mention for oral arguments — Team reached the final round

8 April 2004
• A Growing Alumni Family Worldwide
  Albrecht Bayer supervises contacts with former Heidelberg students all over the world

7 April 2004

• "Research for You"
  Series of public lectures organised by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities highlighting ongoing work and new findings in four research departments of the Academy

2 April 2004

• Exhibition "The Madness of Women" at the Prinzhorn Collection
  From 29.4. to 25.9.2004: Artistic interventions of women in psychiatry around 1900

1 April 2004

• Bursts of Activity, Then Back to Par
  What goes on in the brain after four weeks of learning training? Heidelberg study in the "American Journal of Psychiatry"

March 2004

31 March 2004

• Professor Volker Diehl Heads the Heidelberg Comprehensive Cancer Center in its Initial Phase
  Joint press release by the University of Heidelberg Hospitals Complex and the German Cancer Research Centre


30 March 2004

• The World of Homo heidelbergensis
  Klaus Tschira Foundation supports a project by the Homo Heidelbergensis Society (Mauer, near Heidelberg) — World-famous lower jawbone of a hominid in the keeping of the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Heidelberg

25 March 2004

• Fatp4 and Restrictive Dermopathy in Mice
  Heidelberg scientists studying fat transport in the intestine have come across a possible key gene for severe skin disorders

23 March 2004

• Can Old People Donate Blood for Small Children?
  Budding reporters from the online Children's University on a fact-finding mission to the Blood Donation Centre — Answers to intriguing questions

23 March 2004

• How Impotence Pills Help Combat Altitude Sickness
  Sport medicine experts from the University of Heidelberg have a lab 13,000 feet up in the mountains — "Tadalafil" effective as a remedy for acute pulmonary oedema

22 March 2004

• Master of Arts in American Studies
  New postgraduate course at the University of Heidelberg — Covers politics and history of the United States, American legal system, geography, literature and religious studies — Starts October 2004

22 March 2004

• Worldwide Search Ended in Heidelberg
  Aid campaign for a local boy with leukaemia saved another patient's life — Heidelberg stem-cell registry has over 19,000 donors


22 March 2004

• Nobel Prize Nurseries
  Heidelberg professor Jürgen Wolfrum on chances for top-flight research in Germany: "We can reverse the trend if we really want to!"


18 March 2004

• Prinzhorn Collection a Crowd-Puller
  The Prinzhorn Collection of Heidelberg University's Psychiatric Hospital arouses major interest at exhibitions in Belgium, Switzerland and Berlin — 20,000 people have seen the exhibition in Ghent


18 March 2004

• Pancreatic Cancer: Post-Operative Chemotherapy Improves Survival Prospects
  European study in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates advantages in the treatment of pancreatic cancer — Study headed jointly by the Universities of Heidelberg and Liverpool


16 March 2004

• Lookers-On? Perpetrators? Victims?
  Exhibition "Victims of Right-Wing Violence in Germany since 1990" at the Heidelberg Documentation and Culture Centre of German Sinti and Roma — Rector Professor Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "Clear token of resistance to racism and neo-Nazism"


10 March 2004

• Rector: "We Need to Encourage Elite Universities"
  The Rector of the University of Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff, criticises the plans of the state higher-education ministers for encouraging elite universities


9 March 2004

• Making Science Understandable
  Klaus Tschira Foundation's writing workshop for young scientists at the Villa Bosch


9 March 2004

• "International Summer School" Enhances the Profile of the University of Heidelberg
  Cooperation with partner universities significantly stepped up — Vice-Rector Professor Angelos Chaniotis: "Summer courses are a platform for making ourselves known to students from many different countries"


8 March 2004

• New B.A. Course: Translation Studies for Information Technologies
  The University of Heidelberg and the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim sign a cooperation agreement on the joint course — Graduates have access to highly qualified professions in information technologies


4 March 2004

• Accelerated Vaccination Prevents Further Liver Damage
  New vaccination regime provides protection against hepatitis A and B for patients with hepatitis C — Study by the University Hospital for Internal Medicine, Heidelberg


2 March 2004

• University of Heidelberg Comments on the Fine Imposed on Dr. von Hagens for Unlawful Assumption of a Title
  Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "From the outset we have had no desire to be associated with the Body Worlds exhibition"


2 March 2004

• Heidelberg's Ball School a Successful Model for Germany
  From a motoric viewpoint Germany's children are not "fit for Pisa" — Ball School opens new bases in Berlin, Essen and Munich — Two major sponsors from Heidelberg help to spread the innovative children's sport programme of the Institute of Sport and Sport Science of the University of Heidelberg to a national level

2 March 2004

• When the Baby Arrives, Everything Changes
  New course programme at the University Hospital Complex in Heidelberg — Parents learn how to establish a secure bond with their children — Midwife training before and after birth

1 March 2004

• Dr. Ulrike Albrecht Appointed Member of Heidelberg University Council
  Dr. Albrecht heads the Department for Questions of Principle of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation — Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "The fields in which Dr. Albrecht is a qualified expert are extremely valuable for the University of Heidelberg"

February 2004

25 February 2004

• Rector: "Education Needs Bridges"
  Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff is passionately in favour of the fifth Neckar crossing to improve access to the Neuenheimer Feld and the University campus—Why the University intends to contribute funding for the planned environmental compatibility study


18 February 2004

• Heidelberg's Studium Generale Brings Citizens into the University
  The lecture series in the summer semester 2004 centres on the Olympic Games—Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Jochen Tröger: "We want an atmosphere of lively debate!"

6 February 2004

• Children's University Goes Online
  Internet project starts Saturday, 7 February at www.kindernetzuni.de—Joint press release by the University of Heidelberg and the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung newspaper

January 2004

28 January 2004

• University of Heidelberg Welcomes Federal Government's New Plans for Top-Flight Universities
  Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff: "The University of Heidelberg is already up among the front runners in Germany and has carved out a successful position for itself internationally"—Rector "very much in favour" of the new government programme—"The brainstorming process has already begun here in Heidelberg"

21 January 2004

• International Guest List of 150 at New Year's Reception
  University of Heidelberg attracts scholars and scientists from all over—Vice-Rector Angelos Chaniotis: "The University battens on mutual respect and peaceful cooperation"