Volunteering in your free time is a good thing: It can strengthen the team spirit in a club, is beneficial to the environment and provides support to older people. A team of researchers at FAU and the digiDEM Bayern Digital Dementia Register has now discovered that voluntary work can have a positive effect on the cognitive abilities of the volunteers themselves.
What only existed on drawings up to now is soon set to become reality. “We expect to begin building work this year and are already looking forward to moving into the building at the end of 2025,” said Prof. Dr. Markus F. Neurath, spokesperson of Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI).
Siemens announced that it intends to spend half of its two billion euro investment program in Germany. Siemens stated that the investment will establish Erlangen as a center for the technology of the “industrial metaverse”, where this technology supports the connection between the physical and digital world.
Budget committee of the Bavarian state parliament has approved construction plans for the new Technical Chemistry building at FAU. Construction work of the new high-tech building can therefore begin. A total of 140 million euros is being invested in the new building.
Headaches, high blood pressure or digestive problems can be signs of many different medical conditions. Treatment is often aimed at alleviating symptoms. This is something experts at FAU hope to change.
Each semester, FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger sets out to visit professors who have just recently joined FAU. At the Chair for Neurology he meets up with Heisenberg professor Veith Rothhammer.
Face capture and facial reenactment are some of his specialist fields and he has been working on them for several years: FAU alumnus Prof. Dr. Matthias Niessner. In this interview he talks about the start-up he co-founded in 2017 and which has just achieved “unicorn” status as it is valued at one billion US dollars.
FAU duly celebrated its doctoral graduates. Together with the doctoral jubilarians who earned their doctorates 15, 25 and 50 years ago, they were recognized for their achievements by FAU's university administration and numerous guests.
Having a well-trained midwife at their side who can offer their assistance whatever happens is very important for expectant mothers. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Universitätsklinikum has set up a new skills and simulation lab so that trainee midwives can gain comprehensive practica...
Students can apply for the one-off 200 EUR energy price allowance until September 30, 2023. This payment is available to all students who were enrolled at a German institute of higher education on the cut-off date of December 1, 2022 and who had their domicile or habitual residence in Germany on that date.
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