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During a festive awards ceremony in Berlin on 9 May 2019, both Professor Margaret Crofoot and Professor Anke Hoeffler were officially presented with an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship by Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, and the President of the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Hans-Christian Pape. With up to five million euros, the Humboldt Professorship is the most highly endowed research award in Germany.

New Max Planck Institute to strengthen the University of Konstanz's top-level research hub in the area of “Collective Behaviour”

Prof. Florian Kunze (University of Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence „The Politics of Inequality“) and Max Reinwald (University of Konstanz, Graduate School for Decision Sciences) investigate workplace behavior of employees who are in the minority in their teams.

Winners of the nationwide school competition “Beschützer der Erde 2.0” (protectors of the earth 2.0) to be honoured on Mainau Island – Ideas competition of the German Aerospace Centre in cooperation with the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

Microscopic swimmers with visual perception of group members form stable swarms

Projects by Dina Dechmann, Alex Jordan and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin are among 34 selected in global competition for prestigious Human Frontiers Science Program Grants.

Study on the “Fridays for Future” school strikes by the University of Konstanz

Cultural scientist from Konstanz, in collaboration with police institutions, developed course on how to deliver death notifications responsibly

A political science study at the University of Konstanz finds that asylum applicants are not treated equally in all German federal states during all relevant decision-making stages.