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Reported missing in Hessen by 2028: 200,000 skilled workers – with no peak to the shortage in sight
The baby boomer generation is gradually retiring, leaving behind large gaps in the labor market that a younger workforce is only partially able to fill. On behalf of the Hessian

Ivan Đikić from Goethe University receives Swiss Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
Prof. Ivan Đikić, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University, will be awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for his contributions to research into the ubiquitin system,

Pioneering method for stem cell diagnostics: Leif S. Ludwig receives Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award
Biochemist and physician Dr Leif S. Ludwig (40) from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and the Max Delbrück Center will receive the 2023 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig

Download it now: The New Goethe Uni App 2.0
Dear Students, Now you can organize your everyday university life even more easily and conveniently: With the new Goethe University App 2.0, you can, for example, directly access your course

Early humans: Annual cycles in tooth enamel provide insights into life histories
An interdisciplinary team of scientists, led by Goethe University Frankfurt and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, has discovered – by analysing their teeth – what our

“Turning everyone into a sustainability officer”
To mark its founding year, Goethe University’s Sustainability Office organized an event at the end of 2022 to discuss the current state of sustainability at the university. All told, some

The Powerlessness of the Working Class in the 21st Century
British political scientist Cain Shelley is a fellow at Goethe University’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Institute for Advanced Studies working on “A Class For Itself?: The Future of Class Politics.” Nowadays, the

Hummingbird’s hovering flight likely evolved because of a lost gene.
Hummingbirds, native to North and South America, are among the smallest and most agile birds in the world. Often barely larger than a thumb, they are the only bird species

What really helps in the fight against cardiovascular disease?
A review of the Friedrich Merz Visiting Fellowship Endowment 2022 It is thanks to the research of cardiologists like Joseph C. Wu, professor at Stanford University, that the post-heart attack

Encounters with police violence
The KviAPol research project deals with “Police Use of Excessive Force”. UniReport: Ms. Abdul-Rahman, Professor Singelnstein, the Black Lives Matter movement in the US in particular likely roused people throughout
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Download it now: The New Goethe Uni App 2.0
Dear Students, Now you can organize your everyday university life even more easily and conveniently: With the new Goethe University App 2.0, you can, for example, directly access your course

“Turning everyone into a sustainability officer”
To mark its founding year, Goethe University’s Sustainability Office organized an event at the end of 2022 to discuss the current state of sustainability at the university. All told, some

The Powerlessness of the Working Class in the 21st Century
British political scientist Cain Shelley is a fellow at Goethe University’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Institute for Advanced Studies working on “A Class For Itself?: The Future of Class Politics.” Nowadays, the

Hummingbird’s hovering flight likely evolved because of a lost gene.
Hummingbirds, native to North and South America, are among the smallest and most agile birds in the world. Often barely larger than a thumb, they are the only bird species

What really helps in the fight against cardiovascular disease?
A review of the Friedrich Merz Visiting Fellowship Endowment 2022 It is thanks to the research of cardiologists like Joseph C. Wu, professor at Stanford University, that the post-heart attack

Encounters with police violence
The KviAPol research project deals with “Police Use of Excessive Force”. UniReport: Ms. Abdul-Rahman, Professor Singelnstein, the Black Lives Matter movement in the US in particular likely roused people throughout

The full-time job as the (sole) guarantor for social participation? Interview with Carlotta Giustozzi
In her dissertation, sociologist Carlotta Giustozzi examined the consequences of labor market marginalization on social participation. One of the questions that emerged from the results of her work was the

Pharma research: Mild bee venom shows greater application potential
Honeybee venom has been used in traditional medicine for centuries as an anti-inflammatory. Only its main component, melittin, has been scientifically well researched. However, with its strong effect, the natural

11th ILF Conference on the Future of the Financial Sector
“The Next Systemic Financial Crisis – Where Might it Come From?”: Financial Stability in a Polycrisis World 24 January 2023, Campus Westend, Casino Building and Online On January 24, 2023 the ILF

Researchers @Goethe University: Bodo Ahrens, Meteorologist
Weather is not the same as climate. Weather phenomena include spring weeks with bright sunshine, scorching midsummer heat, autumn storms and snowy winters, as well as a rainy Easter, thundery