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Following your nose into the swarm

Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded swarms of up to billion animals, as researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz discovered. They published their results in the journal Nature Communication.

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Building bridges between universities and cities

Nantes Université invites leading representatives from the European University for Well-Being to join EUniWell Rectors’ Assembly and Mayors' Meeting. The University of Konstanz Rectorate is represented by Katharina Holzinger and Rüdiger Wilhelmi, and the city of Konstanz by David Tchakoura, director of Konstanz International.

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Election results 2024

From 10 to 13 June, the academic committees and student representatives 2024 at the University of Konstanz were elected online.

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Information about the election and how to participate

Election 2024

From 10 to 13 June, the election of the academic committees and student representatives 2024 at the University of Konstanz will take place as an online election.

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Helmholtz Prize awarded to Konstanz physicists

Peter Baum's research team (University of Konstanz) was awarded the Helmholtz Prize for Fundamental Research for the development of an innovative attosecond microscopy technique – award ceremony on 28 August 2024 in Hamburg.

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