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In the wheel of time: Graduates of the University of Graz from four centuries

What would the University of Graz be without the people who studied, worked and made their mark here? Some of them were famous or became famous later…

Graz Declaration aims to strengthen academic freedom at universities

At the 2025 University Talks, held in Graz for the first time, experts discussed current threats to academic freedom. With the adoption of the Graz…

Hot Earth: Annual report on global climate documents new records

The international annual report on the State of the Climate, published in mid-August, confirms new climate records for 2024. Despite the natural…

Ten years of FAME: The career boost for female students

For over ten years, the FAME program at the University of Graz has been connecting female students with successful women from the worlds of business…

Alpaca droppings against bullshit: Heinz Oberhummer Award goes to Eckart von Hirschhausen

With his combination of medicine, science journalism and comedy, Eckart von Hirschhausen invented the genre of medical cabaret in the mid-1990s. Since…

Graz Researchers discover what stiffens the Aorta

Cardiovascular diseases remain the most common cause of death worldwide. In Europe, they account for over 40 percent of all deaths. However, known…

Big questions at the end of life: How philosophy supports hospice care

Pain relief, palliative care, psychotherapy: dying people and their relatives receive comprehensive support and care. What they lack are answers to…

Zwischen den Zeilen lesen: Bernhard Bauer entschlüsselt Notizen von Mönchen im Mittealter

Pole position for studying: University of Graz invites you to the Welcome Weeks in September

Off to university, get set, go - that's the motto from 1 September 2025 as the University of Graz welcomes its first-year students with a varied…

PFAS in honey bees: Insects enable monitoring of pollutants in the environment

PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – have increasingly come under scrutiny in recent years as so-called “forever chemicals”. These…

Graz University invites you to Europe's largest education research conference

At the end of August, the University of Graz will become the center of international education research when experts from around the world gather for…

University of Graz develops dementia tool for people with mental disabilities

Conventional diagnostic methods cannot be used for the people affected. A team at the University of Graz led by Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera has now…

From the classroom to the glacier

The University of Graz offers school students unique research experiences on the Dachstein: through experiments, they discover the secrets of glaciers…

Census on the ground: searching for insects with schoolchildren

In the research project “Pillars of Soils,” the University of Graz is investigating microorganisms in the soil that have hardly been studied before.…

Austria's greenhouse gas emissions continue to fall: Uni Graz researchers identify causes

Climate protection is working. Austria's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.56 percent between 2023 and 2024, the Environment Agency Austria announced…

First-hand experience: Nino Molinaro made a successful start to his studies with Welcome Week

On 3 October, he starts the third semester of his Bachelor's degree in Physics. Nino Molinaro now knows the University of Graz like the back of his…