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The Dean’s Office wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and a peaceful holiday season. We would like to sincerely thank you for the pleasant cooperation and wish you health, success, and a good start to the year 2026. The Dean’s Office will be closed from 22 December 2025 to 5 January 2026 and will be available again from 7 January 2026.

The popular program FAUmentoring ARIADNEphil is starting its next round in April 2026! Until 10th February 2026, female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, habilitation candidates and W1-Professorinnen from the Faculty of Humanities and Theology are invited to apply for the 18-month mentoring program.

AI models are able to derive the rules of human language without being provided with explicit information about grammar and word classes. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Their experiment corroborates the theory of cognitive l...