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Münster University Newspaper wissen|leben

Our German-language University newspaper wissen|leben covers a wide range of topics highlighting higher education policies, people, research activities and degree programmes. The newspaper is published eight times a year with a circulation of 6,000 copies. You can subscribe to receive email notifications for the online edition or to receive it by post.

If you wish to propose a topic, announce an upcoming event, send a letter to the editor, or make a suggestion for improving the newspaper, please notify our editorial staff well in advance, at best several weeks before publication.

Publication dates 2025:

29 January, 2 April, 7 May, 12 June, 16 July, 1 October, 5 November, 10 December

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Current issue: January 2025 [de]

In an open letter, geoscientists of the University of Münster respond to politicians who have criticised teaching Geology in schools. The Communication and Public Relationship Department presents a new dossier entitled “Energy for the Future”. In an interview, two behavioural biologists discuss the protracted approval process and public perception with regard to animal testing. In the new edition of the University newspaper wissen|leben, you will also learn how law students in “unirep” prepare for their exams over many months. Five prospective teachers offer their views on the importance of sports and movement in everyday life at school. We present the personal profiles of this year’s Rectorate Award winners, physics professor Dr Ursula Wurstbauer and alumnus Alexander de Ahsbahs. Finally, the historian Professor Silke Mende elaborates in a guest commentary on the challenges facing a multi-party democracy.

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