News 2011


December 2011

01.01.2011

Presentation of the initiatial proposal of the MGSE in front of the external, international DFG review panel in Bonn. The decisions are expected in June 2012.


November 2011

22.11.2011

This years' lecture series "The Growth of Evolutionary Thought" has started. [WWU press release]


August 2011

26.08.2011

WWU submitted three proposals for the final round of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments: initial proposals for the MGSE and the cluster of excellence "Cells in Motion", as well as a renewal proposal for the cluster of excellence "Religion and Politics". The decisions are expected in June 2012.


July 2011

07.07.2011

4th general meeting of the MGSEI members at the IEB, 1 pm.


May 2011

19.05.2011

3rd general meeting of the MGSEI members at the IEB, 1 pm.

09.05.2011

Start of the new interdisciplinary MSc Advanced Module "Evolutionary Medicine" with 13 students.

EvolMed Course


April 2011

07.04.2011

2nd general meeting of the MGSEI members at the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1, Seminar room, Ground floor, 1 pm).


March 2011

02.03.2011

The joint commission from the DFG and the Wissenschaftsrat asked two of the WWU's excellence initiatives to submit a full proposal by 1 september 2011: the excellence cluster "Cells in Motion" and our "Münster Graduate School of Evolution". DFG press release

WWU press release


February 2011

17. & 18.02.2011

MGSEI Graduate Students' Symposium "evolution across fields" with two public lectures: Thomas Junker (Universität Tübingen), "Darwins gefährliches Erbe: Das neue Bild der Welt", Thu 5 pm [WWU•press•release]

Sudhir Kumar (Arizona State University), "Molecular Evolution in Personal Medicine", Fri 9 am [WWU•press•release]

"evolution across fields"