News

The Biden Presidency and International Science

DWIH New York Director Benedikt Brisch reflects on the incoming Biden/Harris Administration and the outlook for German-American exchange in science and research.

Blueprint for Restoration

The development of cities or industrial facilities as well as intensive agriculture affect the environment around the world. Such interventions create challenges for natural ecosystems and their diversity. Over the last years many projects have emerged with the aim of transforming regions that were ecologically exploited back into natural ecosystems. One approach is rewilding.

TUM Hyperloop

Public Transportation at 745 MPH

In the next years, the topic of effective and sustainable transportation will become increasingly important. Global technological trends change our daily mobility practices. One of these trends in the field of traffic development is the hyperloop. TUM Hyperloop is a project from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was launched in 2015 as a student initiative. The goal is to develop a climate-neutral high-speed ground transportation system based on the hyperloop concept.

Project DEAL

Germany Leads Shift Toward Open Science

The higher education and research institutions of Germany believe science should not be locked behind paywalls. Through nationwide agreements with two of the world’s largest academic publishers, they have joined forces in a consortium known as Project DEAL to enable open publication of German research and restructure the financial streams around scientific publishing.

The Lars Borchardt Group

A Paradigm Shift in Chemistry: Nanostructured Materials Without Waste

“It is not waste until it is wasted.” That’s Lars Borchardt’s motto. Together with his team of the Lars Borchardt Research Group at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Borchardt is trying to make chemistry more sustainable. Two of their major projects include conducting chemical reactions without solvent waste and using renewable resources and waste material to create energy storage.

Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center

New Cancer Therapy Shows Success in Heidelberg

Founded in 2009, the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT), part of the Heidelberg University Hospital, is pioneering carbon-ion cancer treatment.

Germany to Strengthen 11 Universities to Elite Status

In the US there are Harvard, Stanford and MIT—the elite universities whose research and influence ranks them among the best worldwide. In Germany there are the “Universities of Excellence.”