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Forestry researchers receive awards -
Pressemitteilung, 30.09.2026
The Sattelmühle Foundation has recognised two dissertations in forest sciences at the University of Göttingen: Dr Christina Hackmann received the award for the “Best PhD Thesis”, whilst Leonie…
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Climate-resilient agricultural landscapes in Lower Saxony -
Pressemitteilung, 24.09.2026
How can agricultural landscapes remain productive, preserve biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services, despite climate change? The new collaborative project “AgRe-Lab”, led by the Univer…
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Delaying cherry blossom to reduce frost damage -
Pressemitteilung, 22.09.2026
Climate change is causing many fruit trees to flower earlier, increasing their exposure to damaging late spring frosts. A study led by the University of Göttingen shows that the plant growth r…
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Wildflower strips versus organic farming -
Pressemitteilung, 07.09.2026
What makes more sense when farming wheat – strips of wildflowers along fields or organic farming? Both options provide financial support via the European Union as environmentally friendly and …
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International awards for researchers at Göttingen Campus -
Pressemitteilung, 03.09.2026
Three researchers at the Göttingen Campus have been awarded ERC Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC): Dr Sophie de Vries, evolutionary biologist at Göttingen University, Dr T…
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Decades-old museum specimens reveal ten extraordinary new worms -
Pressemitteilung, 02.09.2026
An international team has reconstructed the evolutionary history of branching marine worms – rare annelids that live hidden inside sea sponges and whose bodies branch repeatedly into multiple …
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Award for bioinformatician -
Pressemitteilung, 01.09.2026
Bioinformatician Dr Jaccoline Zegers has been awarded the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize by the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) for her doctoral thesis, which she completed at the University of…
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Bats as a form of biological pest control -
Pressemitteilung, 24.08.2026
Labour-intensive harvesting, complex processing: the macadamia is one of the most expensive nuts in the world. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has now investi…
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Working together to combat wildfires: building resilient landscapes -
Pressemitteilung, 19.08.2026
Wildfires in the Mediterranean region are becoming drastically more intense. The recent major fires in France, Spain and Greece show that firefighting efforts are reaching their limits. An int…
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Trees in extreme drought in Germany -
Pressemitteilung, 11.08.2026
Forests in many regions of the world are increasingly under stress caused by drought as a result of climate change. Even forest ecosystems traditionally considered to be water-rich are being a…
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Zooming in: electron orbitals photographed in 3D -
Pressemitteilung, 04.08.2026
Fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location. Instead, a particle is described by its “wavefunction”. The electron wavefunctions within a molecule, kn…
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Drought alters pest infestations -
Pressemitteilung, 28.07.2026
Drought creates increasing challenges for agriculture: as well as affecting the growth of crops, it also affects interactions with pests. A research team at the University of Göttingen has inv…
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Fine-flavour cacao: high yields and income for smallholder farmers -
Pressemitteilung, 27.07.2026
Plantations of native fine-flavour cacao in countries like Peru have become rare due to the dominance of high-yielding cacao varieties for mass production. This threatens the valuable native c…
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How do migrants judge inequality? -
Pressemitteilung, 23.07.2026
Margherita Cusmano has been awarded a research prize by the Körber Foundation for her PhD thesis, “How Migrants View Economic Inequality: A Mixed-Methods Study in Germany”. Cusmano completed h…
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Words build bridges -
Pressemitteilung, 17.07.2026
Researchers at Göttingen University have contributed to the latest issue of the international intercul-tural magazine Jusur. Professor Sebastian Günther, a scholar in Arabic and Islamic Studie…
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