"HumanKind": Exploring children’s psychodiversity, strengthening their emotional intelligence
Some children are particularly brave, others very compassionate. And then there are the temperamental ones – all with their own unique strengths. Tina Malti calls these different human potentials psychodiversity, taking her cue from biodiversity in nature. “It’s like a garden with different plants:…
Forschung ∙
Arabica coffee: New database to better identify more climate-resilient plants
As climate change threatens coffee farming, experts at Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, are exploring how advanced data science and artificial intelligence can help select and breed more climate-resilient crops. Together with researchers from scientific institutions in Brazil, France, the…
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Researchers shed light on the molecular causes of different functions of opioid receptors
Drugs that target opioid receptors sometimes have severe side effects. Thousands of people around the world die every day from overdoses involving opioids such as fentanyl. An international team of researchers has taken a closer look at the molecular mechanisms of these active substances. The…
Zentraler Webauftritt ∙
Rector Eva Inés Obergfell admitted to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Rector of Leipzig University, Professor Eva Inés Obergfell, was officially admitted to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) at a ceremony in Salzburg on Saturday (6 April 2024). The legal scholar was elected by the Senate of the Academy in October 2023 as an ordinary member of Class…
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LeipzigLab workshop on historical biodiversity and past environmental changes
The LeipzigLab working group “Historical Anthropospheres“ focusses on early, human-dominated landscapes that arose at different times under different circumstances and in different spaces. Historical Anthropospheres are characterised by artificial changes in the magnitudes and frequencies of…
Graduiertenakademie Leipzig ∙
The new representatives of doctoral researchers and postdocs have been elected
From 11 March 2023 to 17 March 2023, the members of the Graduate Academy Leipzig were able to elect their representatives to the Board.