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Catherine Heymans is following in the footsteps of Albert Einstein.

Don’t Fear the Unknown

British astrophysicist Catherine Heymans held the 2019 Einstein Lecture at Freie Universität Berlin

Karol Kubicki mit seiner Frau Petra vor der Boltzmannstraße 3, dem ersten Hörsaalgebäude der Freien Universität. Das Bild wurde im April 2016 aufgenommen.

Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Karol Kubicki Passed Away

Longtime Professor and First Student to Enroll at Freie Universität was 93

Christian Goroncy (left), Eva Göbgen (3rd from the left), and Ludovico Sepe (right) all completed doctoral degrees in the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy. They talked about their career paths following their doctoral studies.

Doctoral Students under One Roof

The Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy at Freie Universität Berlin is opening a new graduate center.

Industrialization speeded up production: The first assembly line in the world ran in 1911 at the Ford Motor Company.

“Management consultants are the shamans of modern society”

Matthias Kipping, a business historian at York University in Toronto, Canada, does research on the history of management consulting. In June he completed a one-year stay as a Humboldt Research Award recipient at Freie Universität.

Literally unique: These two rhinoceros cows, Najin (left) and Fatu, are the last northern white rhinoceroses in the world. Since all the bulls have died off, researchers are taking an innovative tack to harvest reproductive cells.

The Last Two of Their Kind

An international team of researchers from Berlin headed by Professor Thomas Hildebrandt is trying to use state-of-the-art reproductive medicine to save the critically endangered northern white rhinoceros from extinction – a race against time.