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University of Bonn Welcomes New Schlegel Professor¹

The University of Bonn has appointed yet another outstanding Schlegel Professor financed from Excellence funding. Professor Maja Köhn is set to inject fresh momentum into the Institute for Cell Biology as its Managing Director. Her main area of work is studying phosphatases.

University of Bonn Researcher Involved in Sensational Find in Frankfurt²

Some time ago, archaeological excavations in the Praunheim district of Frankfurt am Main uncovered a burial ground from the 3rd century. Inside one of its graves, the archaeologists came upon a complete skeleton accompanied by grave goods, in this case an earthenware jug and an incense burner in the shape of a chalice. However, it was not until they were cleaning the bones that they discovered something else—an amulet capsule, which has now turned out to be a truly sensational find. Professor Markus Scholz, an archaeologist and expert in Latin inscriptions based at Goethe University Frankfurt, has managed to decipher the inscription on the capsule with the help of church historian Professor Wolfram Kinzig from the University of Bonn and a number of other researchers.

Think Big – Ideas and Technologies with Market Potential³

The audience in the packed hall of the DIGITALHUB experienced eight high-caliber pitches on innovative ideas at the final of the University of Bonn's 2024 ideas competition. The pitch event, now in its fourth year, once again demonstrated the innovative potential of students and researchers at the university. In the end, three ideas convinced the expert jury: “Hoya Institut NRW” and “Cytosphere X” each won €1,000 from the Bonn University Foundation and Comma Soft AG. The idea “Parnox – Pioneering AI-based medical coding” received the Digital Startup Prize from DIGITALHUB.

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New findings on blood clotting⁴

A deficiency in blood plasma coagulation factor XIII leads to a disruption in the cross-linking of fibrin, the "glue" in blood coagulation. The enzyme therefore plays an essential role in blood clotting. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn, together with Thermo Fisher Scientific in the Netherlands, deciphered the previously unknown structure of the Factor XIII complex using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), even at the atomic level. This enabled them to visualize the effects of disease-causing, clinically relevant factor XIII mutations in the structure of the coagulation complex. Their results have now been published in the print edition of the journal “Blood”.

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Angkana Rüland receives Leibniz Prize⁵

In recognition of her excellent research work, Prof. Dr. Angkana Rüland receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, which is endowed with 2.5 million euros. The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced this today. The researcher from the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) at the University of Bonn is honored with the award for her outstanding work. The mathematician at the Cluster of Excellence HCM is being recognized for her outstanding work in mathematical analysis, particularly on models for microstructures in phase transitions in solids and inverse problems with non-local operators. The highly endowed prize permits a large degree of freedom in research.

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Among the Top 100 Universities Worldwide for Sustainability⁶

In the new Sustainability Rankings of ranking provider Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the University of Bonn has emerged as one of the world’s top 100 universities. Climbing 43 slots, the institution now ranks 95th worldwide, showing very good results in many of the ranking categories.

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“The Man with the Bow Tie” Who Threw Small Children Down a Well⁷

How were anti-Semitism, fear and children's scare stories connected in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe? This is the question being investigated by Professor Robert Braun of the University of California Berkeley. An Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow, Braun spent nearly a year at the University of Bonn working under Professor Ove Sutter of the Department of Empirical Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology to explore archived material from the Atlas of German Folklore.

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Rebuilding the Ahrtal: Potential Solutions for a Socially Just and Resilient Future⁸

How can the reconstruction of the Ahrtal valley be made socially just and resilient? This is the question being studied by the “Social, Economic and Administrative Challenges of Climate Resilience” project (“Soziale, Ökonomische und Administrative Herausforderungen von Klima-Resilienz,” or SOZIAHR). It involves an interdisciplinary team of economists, legal scholars, geographers, sociologists and political scientists and is being funded by the Individuals & Societies Transdisciplinary Research Area at the University of Bonn.

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