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Biodiversity Day at Germany's Most Biodiverse Campus
[11.06.2013]
Everybody who loves nature and would enjoy experiencing the diversity of species at our doorstep is welcome. Biodiversity Day is about finding as many plant and animal species within a self-selected area over the course of 24 hours. The target: to tally 1,000 species on the university campus with the help of zoologists, botanists and landscape ecologists of the University of...more
10-year Jubilee:
Life Science Fair of the University of Hohenheim Offers Career Start [07.06.2013]
For two days, companies and students, as well as soon-to-be graduates will be showing their best side. To this end, Hohenheim Palace will be transformed into a gigantic networking platform with information booths and lively conversation about careers, career paths, internships and thesis work. For the University of Hohenheim the Life Science fair is a success story that...more
Pipes, snuff and medicinal remedies:
Exhibition illustrates the past and future of tobacco [31.05.2013]
Formerly often used as a cure-all, discovered by native Americans, snorted, smoked, chewed, cultivated - and even applied in modern genetic engineering. The exhibition "Tobacco, a warm but sadly abused by us plant" at the Museum of History of the University of Hohenheim explores the checkered history of the cure-all agent and its current usage. The museum is located in the...more
Fish in Orbit:
Researcher explores why travellers often feel queasy [16.04.2013]
Between 10 to 15% of travellers are effected by motion sickness: in cars, busses, trains, and on board ships and planes, sometimes leading to spells of vomiting. Since fish also suffer from motion sickness, a biologist from the University of Hohenheim plans to send 40 fish of the species cichloid into space, more specifically to the Russian space station Baikonur on 19th April...more
"Stuttgart 21“: A Major yet Controversial Project [12.03.2013]
The Hohenheim communication specialist Frank Brettschneider together with the former mayor of Stuttgart, Wolfgang Schuster have produced a new anthology on the subject entitled "Stuttgart 21“: Ein Großprojekt zwischen Protest und Akzeptanz". The work contains 268 pages with contributions from 16 autors in 14 essays dedicated to the issue of the "Stuttgart 21“ railway project....more