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Professor Helmut Neuhaus, former holder of the Chair of Modern History (Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte I), now Chair of Early Modern History (Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit), has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) of the Federal Republic of Germany. With thi...

The FAU student survey (FAU-St) 2020 has started. Until 26 July, students will once more be able to evaluate their studies at FAU, in either German or English. This year, the survey focuses on how satisfied students are with various aspects of studying at FAU as well as on their experiences of start...

50 essays on fundamental concepts of "futurology”

Demonstrations, public debates and the headlines in the media show that in many countries the corona pandemic is not only a medical but also a social challenge. Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm from the Institute of Political Science was interviewed in the program "Die Landespolitik" of the Bavarian radio sta...

FAUMUN is the Model United Nations (MUN) project of the FAU. Students take on the role of diplomats and develop solutions for current problems from the point of view of a specific country. Application is possible until August 1st.

The DFG (German Research Foundation) will fund Dr. Peter Maurits' position and his research for three years. Maurits is a research associate at the ‘Chair of American Studies: Culture and Literature', his project is titled “A Typology of African Science Fiction (2006-2018).”

As a protective measure in view of the further spreading of the corona virus, most employees are in home office. Life at FAU is being reduced in coordination with the university management and emergency operations are being maintained. Please address your inquiry by e-mail.

The programme “Geisteswissenschaften International” (Humanities International) has presented “Theoderich der Große“ (C. H. Beck 2018), written by Prof. Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Chair of Ancient History (Alte Geschichte), with an award. Costs for a translation into English will be covered with around 25,000 Euro. Yale University Press will publish the English edition in spring 2023.

To avoid spreading of the corona virus all university libraries have been closed. As this might handicap students to write their term paper the Faculty decided to extend the deadlines by five weeks.

At least two different groups of Neanderthals lived in Southern Siberia and an international team of researchers including scientists from FAU have now proven that one of these groups migrated from Eastern Europe. The researchers have now published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).