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    • Event
    Return of valuable copies of ancient art

    Agreement with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: plaster casts of ancient artworks will once again become the property of the University of Jena
    Cast of Apollo from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
    Image: Walerija Latermann/Universität Jena
    • Life
    • Research
    Previously uncultivable bacteria provide new insights into groundwater ecosystems

    Research team from the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse« has succeeded in cultivating hard-to-grow microbes in the laboratory
    Groundwater samples in the laboratory in which bacteria of the Candidate Phyla Radiation are enriched under different conditions.
    Image: Martin Taubert
  3. A clear signal against forgetting

    Members of the University of Jena are once again involved in the »Klang der Stolpersteine« on 9 November.
    In Stadtroda, a stumbling block commemorates murdered children as well as victims of forced sterilization and the "Aktion T 4". The initiative for this place of remembrance came from three pupils.
    Image: AG Biologiedidaktik
    • Awards and Personnel
    • Studies and Teaching
    A skilful combination of analogue and digital teaching formats

    University of Jena Teaching Award 2025: Dr Manuel Robert Quaschner receives award in the category »Teaching and learning culture in times of AI«
    Dr Manuel Robert Quaschner receives the 2025 Teaching Award from the University of Jena.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Research
    Reliable AI systems for a changing environment

    Researchers at the University of Jena develop AI models on the consequences of climate extremes
    Prof. Dr Alexander Brenning is being supported by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung with a total of around six million euros over five years as part of its "CZS Breakthroughs" funding programme.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Event
    • Studies and Teaching
    Living diversity, shaping community

    Ceremonial Matriculation at the University of Jena: 3,800 students begin their studies
    University President Prof. Dr Andreas Marx (right) and Vice-President Prof. Dr Karina Weichold (left) at the matriculation ceremony
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Research
    The emergency switch: How bacteria react to hunger at lightning speed

    Researchers of the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse« discover previously unknown survival mechanism in freshwater bacteria
    Jena-based microbiologist Dr Kathrin Fröhlich and her team have discovered a previously unknown survival mechanism in bacteria.
    Image: Anna Schroll
    • Studies and Teaching
    Developing concepts against age discrimination

    Teaching Award 2025 of Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Dr Antje Rauers receives award in the category »Best course concept«
    Dr Antje Rauers from the University of Jena receives the Teaching Award 2025.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Research
    The beginning of the end

    Biologist at the University of Jena discovers the evolutionary origin of the anus
    Evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr Andreas Hejnol looks at panther worms (Hofstenia miamia) in a petri dish.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Awards and Personnel
    • International Affairs
    • Studies and Teaching
    »I stand for interculturalism and integration«

    Darragh Donnellan has won this year's DAAD Prize for international students at the University of Jena.
    This is a portrait of Darragh Donnellan, the recipient of this year's DAAD Prize for international students at the University of Jena.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Research
    The autonomous microscope

    International research team including Friedrich Schiller University Jena demonstrates first microscopy experiment performed by complete AI
    An LLM agent independently conducts experiments on a nuclear force microscope when prompted.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Event
    Ancient temples in miniature

    Exhibition »ArchitekTOUREN« presents historical models of ancient buildings from the Lindenau Museum Altenburg at three locations in the city centre of Jena
    This model of the Roman Temple of Minerva was created by Carl Joseph May.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
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