Alle Artikel des Autors: Jennifer Hohensteiner

17. Februar 2021

Goethe University: New, cutting-edge research projects on trust in conflict, neutron stars and disease mechanisms

What opportunities to create trust do social conflicts offer? What happens when neutron stars merge and produce gravitational waves and heavy chemical elements in the process? How can a better…

15. Februar 2021

Newly founded: Buber-Rosenzweig Institute as a prominent research centre on modern Judaism

A new research institute will be established at Goethe University: The Buber-Rosenzweig Institute will be dedicated to the study of modern and contemporary Judaism. It brings together numerous and largely…

10. Februar 2021

Cluster project ConTrust receives state funding in preparation for the next round in the excellence strategy

The interplay of conflict and trust is at the centre of the ConTrust cluster project, which is to enter the race for the Goethe University in the next round of…

4. Februar 2021

New Science Award for Romanticism Research

For the first time in 2021, innovative contributions to the study of Romanticism can be awarded the Goethe University’s Klaus Heyne-Award. The new award, endowed with 15,000 euros, is aimed…

3. Februar 2021

Scientists develop method to detect fake news

Social media is increasingly used to spread fake news. The same problem can be found on the capital market – criminals spread fake news about companies in order to manipulate…

1. Februar 2021

Understanding skilled labour migration in East Asia

The economies of China and Singapore are among the most dynamic migration regions in the world. But Japan and Korea also rely on the immigration of skilled workers. The competition…

1. Februar 2021

Goethe Coronavirus Fund reaches 5 million euro mark

A short ten months after Goethe University and Frankfurt University Hospital first called for donations, the Goethe Coronavirus Fund has passed the targeted 5 million euro mark. The idea of…

28. Januar 2021

Pharmaceutical research: when active substance and target protein “embrace” each other

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt, together with colleagues from Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Oxford and Dundee (UK), have investigated how the fit of potent inhibitors to their binding sites can be optimised…

28. Januar 2021

Michael R. Silverman and Bonnie L. Bassler win 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

Bacteria act in groups to accomplish feats that are impossible to achieve if a single bacterium acts alone. For example, pathogenic bacteria act collectively to synthesize toxins to attack the…

28. Januar 2021

Elvira Mass receives 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers

The course for organ health is set in the early embryo. This year’s laureate has shown that specialized immune cells from the yolk sac accompany organ development and contribute to…

20. Januar 2021

Current resolutions on working from home

On 19 January 2021, the German government and the federal states agreed on further measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, which will also directly affect work at Goethe University. With…

11. Januar 2021

Coronavirus: Currently no tightening of protective measures at Goethe University

Following this week’s decisions by the German government for further measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Goethe University’s existing protective measures do not need to be further tightened for the…

23. Dezember 2020

Quantum wave in helium dimer filmed for the first time

For the first time, an international team of scientists from Goethe University and the University of Oklahoma has succeeded in filming quantum physical effects on a helium dimer as it…

23. Dezember 2020

Passing the baton at Goethe University

The symbolic transfer of the Goethe University presidency from Professor Birgitta Wolff to Professor Enrico Schleiff took place during an online public university event on 17 December 2020. Schleiff was…

21. Dezember 2020

Newly concept for teaching physics in schools: better understanding of electric circuits

The topic of electricity often poses difficulties for many secondary school students in physics lessons. Physics Education researchers at Goethe University and the University of Tübingen have developed and empirically…

14. Dezember 2020

Physics: New method for precision studies of the strong interaction

Extremely dense neutron stars may contain unstable hyperons in their interior, which, like the stable hadrons of the atomic nucleus, protons and neutrons, are held together by the strong interaction.…

14. Dezember 2020

Networking and designing – Interview with University President Birgitta Wolff

The new year will bring a change at the university’s top level. After six years, University President Birgitta Wolff will hand over the office to Enrico Schleiff, who already previously…

3. Dezember 2020

Normative Economic Policy: online event on 11 December

In this online conference we deal with important shifts in the normatively of economic policy during the last decades until today. As a starting point we present a quantitative analysis…

30. November 2020

International workshop on 3-4 December 2020: Interpreting the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the era of pervasive human impact on the planet. Atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane concentrations that exceed Holocene peak levels, techno-fossils frozen in Greenland ice sheets, and…

29. Oktober 2020

Face mask mandate on Westend Campus

Due the changed pandemic situation, the city of Frankfurt decreed through a change on 27 October 2020 to the general ruling that beginning immediately a mandate to wear a mouth-and-nose…

24. September 2020

Winter 2020/2021 semester will be a hybrid semester

More in-person events, especially for the introductory and conclusion phases, for laboratory work, rehearsals and discourse In-person operations at Hessian Universities will be extended with caution during the Winter 2020/2021…

17. September 2020

Chemicals in bioplastics not safer than those in conventional plastics

So-called “bioplastics” are marketed as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional, petroleum-based plastics. They can be made from renewable feedstock, might be bio-degradable or even both. The question is however…

26. August 2020

Liver cirrhosis: researchers at Goethe University participate in basic development for preventive therapy

When the body can no longer compensate the gradual failure of the liver caused by liver cirrhosis, there is a high risk of acute decompensated liver cirrhosis. In some patients…

20. August 2020

Goethe University part of European initiative to accelerate therapy development for COVID-19

CARE (Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe), supported by Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), is the largest undertaking of its kind dedicated to discovering and developing urgently needed treatment options for…

10. August 2020

Geosciences: Exact climate data from the past

Corals and cave carbonates are important archives of past climate. This is because the composition of these carbonate deposits can reveal the temperatures that prevailed at the Earth’s surface at…