Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize Awarded to Timothy Nunan

Timothy Nunan has been awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important early career award in Germany in any discipline. It is awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft (DFG) and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Timothy Nunan is a scholar of international and global history. His work focuses on the history of Russia and Eurasia (Central Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan) in an international context.

The FUBiS Online program of Freie Universität Berlin has been recognized by the initiative Germany: Land of Ideas – Beyond Crisis. The initiative was launched by the German federal government and German industry to support projects that develop innovative and socially relevant ideas. The projects should aim to show ways out of the current crisis and to design a future worth striving for. The FUBiS program, an acronym for “Freie Universität Berlin international Summer and Winter University,” offers courses lasting several weeks during the semester break for students from all over the world. This year’s summer courses on campus were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, FUBiS is offering a virtual, partly interactive lecture series. The eleven lectures are free for all to attend online.

As part of the “Media Practice” module offered in the area of general professional skills (ABV), students of Freie Universität Berlin are now broadcasting three programs via their YouTube channel “uni.corn_bb”: “uni.corn discusses,” “uni.corn comments,” and “uni.corn - das magazine.” The magazine is also broadcast on television, on the channel ALEX Berlin. In the programs, the students deal with the topics of student life, media, culture, politics, and the economy, with a local focus on Berlin and Brandenburg. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg (MIZ), an institution of the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb).