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A large container with more than 10 tons of reference literature and glass equipment has started

a long journey from Würzburg. Its destination is Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of

the Congo. The delivery is designed for a partner university of the University of Würzburg, the

Free University of the Countries of the Great Lakes.

 

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At the “248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition” in San Francisco Peter Spenst, Doctoral Candidate at the Würthner Group, received one of two poster prizes at the session “Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials”.

 

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The renowned “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (“Shanghai Ranking”) puts Würzburg's Chemistry Department on 30th place. Only one German university is placed better.

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S. Hünig, A. Fürstner and F. Würthner

Students as well as established scientists have learned at this year's Siegfried Hünig Lecture that the classical repertoire of a synthetic chemist needs to be supplemented if one wants to build complex biomolecules in the laboratory.

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V. Kunz presents his poster

At the 3rd "Solar Technologies Go Hybrid Workshop" in Wildbad Kreuth Valentin Kunz, doctoral candidate at the Würthner Group, received one of three poster prizes.

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M. Hügel

Markus Hügel, PhD student at the Institute of Organic Chemistry was awarded a prize for one of two best posters at the 41st German Liquid Crystal Conference in Magdeburg.

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Helmut Schwarz and Michael R. Wasielewski

US scientist Michael R. Wasielewski has received a Humboldt Research Award. He will now pursue his research activities in the field of artificial photosynthesis at the Nanosystems Chemistry Center of the University of Würzburg.

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The Fernández Group

Congratulations to Sofja-Kovalevskaja Awardee Dr. Gustavo Fernández Huertas. Due to his excellent research results, which were published in top chemistry journals and also received attention at international conferences, he was chosen as the very first awardee of the newly established “Keck-Köppe-Förderstiftung” with 5000 €.

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Pawaret Leowanawat and Soichiro Ogi

Good news for the scientists at the Center of Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC). Two young colleagues from Asia have been granted fellowships for their stay here in Würzburg.

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University presidents and representatives with Minister Spaenle

Several Bavarian universities do research activities in Africa and cooperate with African partners there. In a new network, they now want to bundle their activities and to develop, link and communicate them in public.

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T Lymphocytes

Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens trigger changes to cell membranes in humans in the event of an infection. What exactly happens there will be investigated by a new research group at the universities of Würzburg and Duisburg-Essen. The faculty of chemistry and pharmacy is represented with the group of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Seibel, Institute of Organic Chemistry. The research cluster will receive around two million euros for their work.

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