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A team of German and Spanish researchers headed by Prof. Hubert Krenner from the Institute of Physics at Münster University has succeeded in using a soundwave to switch individual photons on a chip back and forth between two outputs at gigahertz frequencies.

The workshop project "MINT4all" for children from Ukraine has started at the University of Münster. The project team is looking forward to volunteers who would like to participate. Especially people with Ukrainian or Russian language skills are welcome.

Every year, members of the Asia Minor Research Centre at Münster University spend several weeks in the summer in south-eastern Turkey to study the archaeological remains of the village of Doliche. Sophie Pieper, a member of the University’s Communications and PR Department took a look at the excavation during a visit there.

Dr. Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Professor of Book Studies at Münster University’s Department of English, is the co-editor of a collection entitled “Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, which examines the privileges of private book ownership. With a Swedish “Billy” bookshelf as the starting point, she and 14 other authors look at questions of participation in society.

Countless metabolic products can be found in urine that say something about a person's environment. Food chemists at WWU Münster search for these traces and are in international demand for their expertise.

Cryptocurrencies: some people hype them, others disdain them – and most people have no idea what’s behind them. This digital currency is based on a complex, highly technological encryption process – the so-called blockchain. A brief description of the digital currency shows its turbulent a rollercoaster ride.

Using the neutrino detector “IceCube”, researchers have for the first time found indications of high-energy neutrinos originating from an active galaxy in the Cetus (‘whale’) constellation. Alexander Kappes' group at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at WWU is involved in the "IceCube" project.

Many exciting research questions arise when computer science intersects with other sciences. In this video, Prof Benjamin Risse gives examples of how artificial intelligence is helping analyse the behaviour of ants and biomedical images. He also talks about how mathematics can be made accessible and what makes academia more attractive to him than business. The video is in German with English subtitles available.

The Welcome Centre and the Graduate Centre of the University of Münster invite international scientists and their hosts to a digital information event. On November 10, all interested parties will have the opportunity to obtain information about their stay in Münster and at university.

Nazarii Lishchuk receives this year's DAAD Prize of the German Academic Exchange Service for his social and intercultural commitment as well as his academic achievements. The Ukrainian has been studying human medicine at Münster University since 2019. Among other things, he is involved in the ambulant healthcare service, the „MediSupport-International“ project and as a volunteer interpreter.

Münster University's application in the recent round of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Philipp Schwartz Initiative was crowned with success: with funding of 350,490 euros, four threatened researchers can now continue their careers in different research groups at Münster University.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Jörg Kudla from the Institute of Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Münster are the first to demonstrate, using the model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), how plants perceive manganese deficiency and which processes subsequently take place in the plant at the molecular level.