Month: February 2021

A warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi, the new chair for 'Science, Technology and Gender Studies' since 1 January 2021. She has been trained as physicists and as historian of science and technology. Her research focus is a highly interdisciplinary field at the intersection of science and technology studies, history of science, diplomatic history, political sciences, and international affairs.

Aiming to address the many new questions brought up in context of the pandemic, the VolkswagenStiftung had published a call for proposals titled “Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society” in May. Out of 1,105 proposals, 102 have been selected for funding including four projects of the faculty!

Media pedagogue Dr. Michaela Kramer has investigated the influence of smartphone photography and the presentation of images on social media on the identity formation of teenagers and young adults. In doing so, she has developed a typology that describes different ways in which young people can present themselves through photos on Instagram, Snapchat and similar platforms and what this says about their process of personality formation.

To honour the great importance of teaching, the Faculty of Humanities and Department of Theology has tendered a teaching award for the faculty for the first time in 2020. From now on, the new teaching award will be awarded every year to two innovative teaching concepts.

Dr. Krisztina Kovács of the Hungarian Szeged University is spending the winter term teaching and researching at the Institut für Grundschulforschung. Her stay is being funded by the DAAD’s programme for funding foreign guest lecturers (Förderung ausländischer Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an deutschen Hochschulen), which Dr. Günter Renner of the institute has successfully applied for.

The Division "Public Health and Physical Activity" of the Department of Sport Science and Sport has received two grants for the projects „Bewegung als Investition in Gesundheit – BIG“ (Physical Activity as an Investment in Health) and „Gehen, Spielen und Tanzen als lebenslange Tätigkeiten – GESTALT“ (Walking, Playing and Dancing as Lifelong Activities).