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Guest lecture by Prof. Rostam J. Neuwirth | University of Macau

China and Digital Agriculture: Law and Policy

Professor Neuwirth will give a guest lecture on 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30, on „China and Digital Agriculture: Law and Policy“ at BOKU Institute of Law. Participation is free of charge. Please register in advance until 20 January 2020 at: law(at)boku.ac.at

Charity Dindl-Sale

On January 23rd at TÜWI Beisl

Choose betweeen 400 second-hand Dirndl dresses and many -blouses at the Charity Dirndl-Sale. A part of the earnings will be donated.

LTS with Prof. Sarah de Rijcke

"Bend until it breaks? On interactions between research evaluation, research conduct, and science-society relations"

Prof. Sarah de Rijcke, Leiden University, will be giving a lecture on "Bend until it breaks? On interactions between research evaluation, research conduct, and science-society relations" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Oskar-Simony-Haus (Attic Floor, Seminar Room 20) on 22 January 2020 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 20 January 2020 as lunch will be provided.

Awards for Bettina Lier and Thomas Teufl

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research granted two BOKU Students awards for the best Master degrees. Bettina Lier wrote her Masterproject at the Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, and Thomas Teufl wrote his at the Institute of Food Technology. Both students finished their Master degree in three semesters. Foto: BMBWF/Martin Lusser.

LTS with Prof. Arianna Vedaschi

"Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Terrorism: A Tipping Point for Constitutional Law"

Prof. Arianna Vedaschi, Bocconi University, will be giving a lecture on "Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Terrorism: A Tipping Point for Constitutional Law" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, Seminar Room SR 02) on 13 December 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 11 December 2019 as lunch will be provided.

VSC 4: 8m € computing power for research

The VSC 4 supercomputer, which opened on 2 December 2019, is one of the world's top 100 computers. The Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), a successful model of inter-university cooperation, is now in its fourth round and also enables BOKU scientists to use a world-class supercomputer.

L-x Lecture Series Björn Wiström (Alnarp / SWE)

05.12.2019 / 19.00

L-x Lectures 2019, presented by Institute of Landscape Architecture and ÖGLA - Austrian Association of Landscape Architecture

IRSEL - Innovation on Remote Sensing Education and Learning

Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education Project

Institute of Geomatics attended the "Project Meeting and Workshop on Train-the-Teachers on learning management technologies" hosted by the College of Tourism and Geography Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China.

Future Food: Nigeria and its Changing Climate

Invitation: Dec 2, public film screening and discussion with Amara Nwankpa, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation (Nigeria).

BOKU Double and Joint Degree students awarded

At the ELLS Scientific Student Conference held in Uppsala on 15 and 16 November 2019, many students of international master programmes were among the winners.

Winter Tourism – Trends and Challenges

New book publication with CABI

Univ.Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider of the Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN), Harold Richins (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) and Stefan Türk (German Sport University Cologne) have edited a comprehensive book on winter tourism.

BioToP award

The doctoral programme Biomolecular Technology of Proteins (BioToP) celebrated lecturers and students by awarding BioToP student awards to Leander Sützl, Vera Pfanzagl and Charlotte Brey. BioToP lecturer awards went to Eva Stöger, Florian Rüker and Clemens Peterbauer. The awards were sponsored by Solutions 4 Science Handels GmbH.

Meeting of the Working Group "Structural Equation Modeling" (SEM)

26th / 27th of March 2020 Call: Deadline for Abstract Submission: 25th November 2019

Institute for Transport Studies University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna

Gender Competence Training at the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Strengthening gender competence in transport planning and management

the Institute for Landscape Planning, in cooperation with the Institute for Transport Studies held their second training session on "Sharpening Gender Competence in Transport Planning and Management" at the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

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To Canada with TransforM!

Three canadian Universities ...

... eligible for a 1-year exchange ... for BOKU Mountain Forestry Master students

LTS with Prof. Brice Laurent

Prof. Brice Laurent, MINES ParisTech, will be giving a lecture on "European Objects: the troubled dreams of harmonization" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, Seminar Room SR 01) on 25 October 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 22 October 2019 as lunch will be provided.

3rd place of the presentation competition at the mite-congress of the IOBC to Theresa Steiner

At the IOBC-Mites-congress which took place in September, organised by the institute of Plant Protection, three participating students were prized for their oral presentations. On of the proud winners is our master student Theresa Steiner.

IOBC-meeting of the working group "Integrated control of plant-feeding mites" 2019 at BOKU

Recent findings concerning integrated pest control of plant-feeding mites were presented and discussed from 16.-20. September 2019 at BOKU.

Go Tandem!

Learn Languages with Natives for Free

Form a "tandem" and teach each other your mother language! Decide yourself, how, when and where you want to learn. Registration in BOKUlearn - deadline: October 10.

Mobility funding options for BOKU PhD students

Join this info session specifically addressing PhD students to learn about funding possibilities for research, teaching and training abroad.

DGT conference 2019 at BOKU

Recent developments in environmental science were presented and discussed in an international conference

Start of studies in the winter term 2019/20

The week starts for you on Tuesday, October 1st "on the Türkenschanze".

New languages new perspectives

Register for a BOKU language course now

Take your chance and bring your language skills to perfection! The clock is ticking, registration is open now!

Welcome Days for International Students

The Center for International Relations and the Erasmus Student Network BOKU kindly invite you to our Welcome Days for International Students from September 25 to 30 (+weekend programme by ESN). Get to know BOKU and your fellow students!

Because it matters: BOKU donates to neunerhaus

With a donation, the After-Work at the BOKU site Muthgasse is supporting neunerhaus.

Gendered Approaches to Spatial Development in Europe

23rd of August 2019 | Book launch of the publication of an ARL International Working Group, Routledge 2019 | Zentrum Architektur Zürich (ZAZ)

An Export Meeting on "Gendered Approaches to Spatial Development in Europe", 23rd of August 2019 from 6.00 - 8.30 pm at the Zentrum Architektur Zürich (ZAZ), with: Barbara Zibell, before Leibniz University Hannover; Marion Roberts, University of Westminster, London; Doris Damyanovic, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; Ulrike Sturm, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts; Alexa Bodammer, network frau+sia, Stephanie Tuggner, Lares association

To South Africa with BOKU!

Internships and master thesis...

...at Stellenbosch University, South Africa ...in the field of horticulture, ecophysiology, etc.

VSC-4 reaches Top500 place 82

VSC-4 is ranked 82th in the June 2019 TOP500 list. The HPL (High Performance Linpack) benchmark has reached a performance (Rmax) of 2.7 PFlop/s, with the theoretical peak performance Rpeak being 3.7 TFlop/s.

Young Scientists Competition Awards

for Georg Schütz and Linda Schwaigerlehner

At the ACB2019 - 14th Asian Congress on Biotechnology – (Taipei, Taiwan – July 2019) Georg Schütz and Linda Schwaigerlehner, two PhD students of the PhD program BioToP, have been awarded for their excellent scientific work.

ESST Best Paper Award for Cordula Kohout

Cordula Kohout, PhD student at the Institute of Food Science at BOKU (Advisor: Ass. Prof. Konrad Domig) and project manager at ARIC was awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 6th Conference of the European Society of Sugar Technology (ESST) in Poznań (Poland). In her presentation she focused on modern molecular methods for the characterization of the microflora in beet sugar factories.

Science award "Der Alimentarius" awarded to Denisse Bender and Christina Ukowitz

The science award "Der Alimentarius" was awarded by the journal "Die Ernährung" within the event "Empfang der österreichischen Lebensmittelindustrie" the first time this year. Denisse Bender achieved the first place with her doctoral thesis. Christina Ukowitz received the award with her master thesis.

95th Birthday of Anton Krapfenbauer

BOKU-Professor Anton Krapfenbauer celebrates his 95th birthday with an exhibition of his paintings.

Invited Chair Position for Bioeconomy and Biorefinery

Assoc. Prof. Falk Liebner, Institute for Chemistry of Renewable Resources has accepted a call for an Invited Chair (Full Professor, part-time) Position for Bioeconomy and Biorefinery at the Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

LTS with Dr. Jack Stilgoe

Dr. Jack Stilgoe, University College London (UCL), will be giving a lecture on "How experiments become futures - Social learning for self-driving cars" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, meeting Seminar Room SR 02) on 27 June 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 25 June 2019 as lunch will be provided.

ClimateLaunchpad Finale 19th of June 2019

13 teams present their sustainable business ideas against climate change

Rethinking land degradation and sustainable management

Symposium on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification

Monday, June 17, 2019

Inter-university project DiLaAG offers 7 PhD positions

The project "DiLaAg - Digitalization and Innovation Laboratory in Agricultural Sciences" pursues the objective of establishing a scientific nucleus in the field of digitalization in agriculture and creating a platform for research, development, training and consulting, which is also open to the public. Within this project, 7 PhD positions are offered. Deadline for submission is the 26th of June 2019.

LTS with Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich (TUM), will be giving a lecture on "Testing future Societies? Developing a framework for test beds and living labs as instruments of innovation governance" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, meeting Seminar room SR 01) on 12 June 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. Please register via law(at)boku.ac.at until 10 June 2019 as lunch will be provided.

Phosphor Signaling by Roots

May 23 at UFT: guest lectura by Dr. Jörg Ziegler (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle)

Immunoactive N-glycans found in the dog heartworm

The parasitic nematode Dirofilaria immitis primarily infects dogs, but also humans with its geographic range increasing due to climate change. Recently Katharina Paschinger and Iain Wilson published in Nature Communications that significant glycomic features of this nematode are immunoactive.

Drought Resistance Phenotyping in Grapevine

Seminar with Prof. Gregory A. Gambetta (ISVV Bordeaux) at the BOKU Institute for Viticulture and Pomology.

Honorary Doctorate of Aalborg University awarded to Verena Winiwarter

# Ehrung

For her distinguished efforts in the field of environmental history Verena Winiwarter (Institute of Social Ecology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences) was conferred the degree of Doctor philosophiae honoris causa. The festive promotion took place on May 3rd, within the framework of Aalborg University´s Annual Celebration 2019.

Dr. Habil. Reinhard Miller

Visiting professor at the Institute for Biophysics (Department of Nanobiotechnology)

Dr. Habil. Reinhard Miller is the editor of the journal Advances in Colloid Interface Science (Elsevier) and has been President of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) and the International Association of Colloid & Interface Scientists (IACIS). He has a remarkable research record with ca. 640 SCI-papers, 50 book chapters, and more than 14000 citations (H-index: 55).

Johannes Grillari follows Heinz Redl

as Director of Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology

Entrepreneurship Workshop & Conference

for PhD students and early PostDocs

A compact introduction on how scientists might apply their skillset

LTS with Professor Claudia Müller-Birn

Professor Claudia Müller-Birn, Free University of Berlin, will be giving a lecture on "Bringing the human to the center of algorithmic systems design: challenges and opportunities" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, meeting Seminar Room SR 02) on 17 May 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 15 May 2019 as lunch will be provided.

Lecture Series: Law - Technology - Society

Summer term 2019

The LTS LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society enters into the Summer term 2019! The series will start on 17 May 2019 with a lecture by Professor Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin. Lectures by Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich, on the 12 June 2019 and by Dr Jack Stilgoe, University College London (UCL), on the 27 June 2019 will follow. The complete semester program is now available online on our website. Admission is free. Please register by e-mail to law@boku.ac.at.

"Environmental Histories of the First World War" wins Distinguished Book Award

# Book Award 2019

One of this year's winners of the Distinguished Book Awards of the Society of Military History is "Environmental Histories of the First World War", edited by Tucker, R.P., Keller, T., McNeill, J.R. and Schmid, M.

Martin Schmid is associate professor for environmental history at the Institute of Social Ecology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences (BOKU).

Energy Globe Award Lower Austria, category "air"

goes to wood scientists from BOKU and the Wood Competence Center

Roman Myna, Rupert Wimmer (both wood technology), Falk Liebner (chemistry of renewable resources), Stephan Frömel-Frybort (wood competence center), and the company General Laser, received the this year’s Energy Globe Award Lower Austria, category "air", for their project "Dustfree- the new tribowood-technology for less wood-fine dust".