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“Extreme speech and hate hide in everyday chats”
How does hate find its way into birthday greetings and family chats? Media anthropologist Sahana Udupa explores the dark side of messaging apps.
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Research transfer: infection research leads to therapeutics
A cutting-edge center for immunology, infection, and pandemic research is being built in Penzberg. Scientific experts from LMU and LMU University Hospital will be playing a major role in the new research facility.
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Foundations for innovations in higher education: new CRC at LMU Munich
A new Collaborative Research Centre is being launched at LMU to investigate the possibilities of personalized and simulation-based learning at universities.
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Food from all angles
Sophia Johler is rethinking food safety – in a holistic, interdisciplinary manner and with the use of artificial intelligence. Since August 2024, she has been Professor of Food Microbiology at LMU’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
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LMU and Stellenbosch University launch strategic partnership
LMU expands its network of international collaborations with top-class universities. A research fund for 2025 has been set up together with Stellenbosch University.
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Traumas: Bitter inheritance
The suffering of traumatized people can manifest itself generations later – but there are ways of breaking the vicious cycle.
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Multimedia
LMU's University Library over the course of time
500 years of change: How the university library today is a place of learning, a cultural asset and a meeting place all in one.
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Studying abroad – a boundless adventure
How studying and internships abroad can change and enrich your life: Multimedia story with experience reports and tips.
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Cultural Heritage: „We’re making time visible“
Drones over Heloros: Nicola Lercari investigates historical sites with state-of-the-art remote sensing methods.
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Working the land to save the climate
Reforestation and a new approach to land management will play a crucial role in efforts to mitigate climate change.
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Viruses: the invisible danger from the wilds
Monkeypox, COVID-19, Ebola: viruses that jump from animals to humans can cause pandemics. LMU scientists are studying the tricks of the pathogens and developing suitable vaccines.
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Origin of life: Molecular gastronomy
What was the recipe for the "Ursuppe" from which life emerged? The early steps in the evolution of life some four billion years ago.
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