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What used to be a bleak, deserted space in the Lange Gasse is now the WiSo oasis. However, the path toward the shared garden was anything but easy. It all began with an unusual email and blossomed into a project that made a lasting change to life at our uni. “It was an ugly piece of land, unuse...

Two mobile radioisotope laboratories in eleven countries? That's possible! Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope laboratories were offered as gifts to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the United States.

Alex Blania ist CEO of Tools for Humanity and founded the cryptocurrency World together with OpenAI founder Sam Altman. His ideas receive great attention worldwide. He studied physics and industrial engineering at our FAU. In the interview, Alex Blania gives personal insights into his time as a student, talks about his path to Silicon Valley and reveals what he would say to his childhood self today.

The three winners of the German Future Prize 2023 decided to donate their prize money. The 250,000 euros were used to purchase a Magnetom Free.Star scanner, which they themselves developed. The MRI system will be installed in the charity hospital ”Diospi Suyana” in Apurímac in the south of Peru to i...

Funded by the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) with 180,000 euros, FAU researchers are hoping to develop a new method to examine the brains of newborns by combinging new high-speed ultrasound devices with AI Imaging. The high resolution images could help detect stroke and and aspyhxia in babies.

FAU has again shown that it is one of Germany’s top universities and above all how successful it is in attracting public research funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Between 2020 and 2022, FAU received a total of 289,4 million euros from DFG funding, a 20.3 percent gain on the previous three years.

Since 2016, FAU has awarded the annual University Teaching Award to early career researchers in recognition of excellent achievements in teaching. The award was presented to five researchers at FAU in 2024: Emel Löffelholz from the Department of Didactics (Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, ...

In episode 14 of A Cup With the President, the FAU President Joachim Hornegger is meeting with Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser who holds the professorship for Information Systems, especially Gamification at FAU.

In this episode of A Cup with the President, Prof. Dr. Hornegger visits Prof. Dr. Andreas Kist, who is an expert on AI for communication disorders.

FAU alumna Veronika Kamer works as a project manager at the Fürth agency da kapo and studied Book Studies and German at our FAU. Her tip to students: make contacts and keep your eyes open - while you're studying.