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GAIA Masters Student Paper Award

The international journal GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society - invites Masters students to publish their research results in transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability science. EXTENDED submission date: 171114

Schlögl-Award 2014

The Karl-Schlögl Award 2014 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences was presented to Jean-Baptiste Farcet, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemistry.

Young Investigator Award

to graduate from BOKU/Department of Biotechnology

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASMBR) has awarded the Young Investigator Price to Dr. Matthias Hackl for his work on “Circulating microRNAs as novel diagnostic targets for osteoporosis”. Dr. Hackl was invited to join the annual ASBMR meeting in Houston to present his work during the translational science session (12th to 15th September 2014).

Freshwater Metadata Journal

A new way of publishing information on freshwater datasets

The first journal set up to exclusively publish freshwater related metadata was launched online at the beginning of October.

ÖGMBT PhD Award 2014

On the occasion of the annual ÖGMBT meeting Christoph Hasenhindl, postdoc at the Department of Chemistry and graduate of the doctoral college BioToP, was given a PhD award for doctoral theses with potential for application.

How will agriculture look like in 2030?

A video message from the agrinatura Science Days, Vienna, May 5-8, 2014, hosted by BOKU

Kaplan Graduate Award for Khalil Karimov

Khalil Karimov, a graduate student at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, was recently awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Kaplan Graduate Award.

EUSDR-Conference

Current developments and achievements as well as limits of the EU Strategy für the Danube Region (EUSDR) will be summed up and critically questioned at the conference on November 12th, 2014 at the Danube University Krems.

Poster Award

Manuela Maurer

Manuela Maurer, PhD student at the Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation and member of the doctoral program BioToP, won the Greta Pifat Mrzljak Award at the „12th International School of Biophysics“(Primošten, Croatia, October 2014).

Gregor-Johann-Mendel-Medal

of the Mendel University Brno (Czech Republic), awarded to Rupert Wimmer

European FooD-Studies and Training Alliance

BOKU coordinates one and is partner in another ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance project.

Best Talk & Poster prizes

for BioToP PhD students

Four students of the PhD program BioToP won prizes for both oral and poster presentations at the 6th Annual Meeting of the ÖGMBT (15.-19. September 2014).

Danube AgriFood Master

selected as Austrian “UN Dekadenprojekt”

The Master "Sustainability in Agriculture, Food Production and Food Technology in the Danube Region has been selected as an Austrian “UN Dekadenprojekt” for Education for Sustainable Development by the Austrian UNESCO Commission.

Accreditation

BOKU-assisted accreditation of the “Sarjana” program in Forest Products at Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia.

Professor Sam Zeveloff from Weber State University, Utah

is now teaching as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

Club Biotech

Life Sciences and Entrepreneurship

Club Biotech is going to take a closer look at two biotechnology start-ups in order to provide answers concerning the development of an idea to its implementation at enterprise level. 10th of October 2014, 4:30 pm, HSXXI (Muthgasse 18)

AIESEC Recruitment

Are you young, motivated and open to the world? Then come and join AIESEC, the world's largest studen-run organisation and make a positive impact on our society!

The ÖH-BOKU-Calendar for October

Greetings from the Students Union : Let´s launch the new academic year

BOKU goes East courses

We still have free places in our BOKU goes East courses! Croatian, Polish, Russian I, Russian Science and Technology, Slovakian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian

Poster Award Bernhard Gasselhuber

Bernhard Gasselhuber, PhD student at the Department of Chemistry and member of the PhD doctoral program BioToP, won the Poster Award at the „European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference – EuroBIC12“ (Zürich, August 2014).

Shadowing Programme at the United Nations in Vienna

BOKU students look behind the scenes of the UN organisations in Vienna - application deadline September 11th

EXHIBITION | On Stage - In Szene setzen!

at the "8th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education"

The exhibition focuses on the careers of gender sensitive female planning experts in politics, administration, universities and planning practice in Austria. On Stage was at the BOKU library in March 2014 and will be exhibited at the conference, September 3rd-5th and until October 31st, 2014 |||VENUE||| Vienna University of Technology Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna. |||VERNISSAGE||| September 3rd, 2014, 11.00

Best Poster Award Elisabeth Lobner

Elisabeth Lobner, PhD student at the Department of Chemistry and member of the PhD program BioToP, won the Best Poster Award at the “European Congress on Biotechnology – ECB16” (Edinburgh, July 2014).

Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering

BOKU hosted the pre-conference workshop “Regenerate” ahead of a major conference in September in Valencia.

One author

two poster awards

Dipl. Ing. Oberlerchner Josua has won poster prizes at two international conferences.

International Summer School

"Plant and Fish Biodiversity in the Danube Delta"

within the frame of the CASEE network

Biosphere n+1

A transdisciplinary play in 3 acts

In the course of an event with the title “Biosphere n+1”, students from the master program “Art & Science” of the University of Applied Arts and the Doctoral School of Sustainable Development (dokNE) reflected on the area of tension between real and modelled worlds.

Admission and Students' Records (STUDABT) closed due to relocation!

02-06-14 to 06-06-14

Application deadline: 20th June for the international BOKU Master's programme that won the Sustainability-Award!

The ÖH BOKU event calendar for May

Focus: Food is human rights: the preciousness of foo

EUR-Organic wants you!

1st of June 2014 is the application deadline for the EUR-Organic: Get your international career started & apply now!

Univ. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Freyer was invited to IATP-Meeting

Career goal: sustainability expert in the Danube region?

- BOKU offers the ideal Master's program for this! International Joint Degree Program "Sustainable Agriculture, Food Production and Food Technology in the Danube Region" (Danube AgriFood Master / DAFM) The international Master's program is focused on sustainability in agriculture and food industry in the Danube region, combined with intercultural training (9 partner universities).

Sensory and Consumer Science - Thinking out of the Box

Symposium of the Sensorik Netzwerk Österreich SNÖ in partnership with the European Sensory Science Society E3S

The 1964 Vienna International Garden Exhibition - Green post-War Modernism

The opening of what was then Europe's largest garden show was celebrated 50 years ago, in April 1964. About 2.3 million people visited the WIG, turning it into a landmark event in the history of post-war Vienna that left its traces in the collective memory and, above all, gave rise to one of the biggest 20th-century parks in Vienna, the "Donaupark".

Climate change and bees

Students of the Sir Karl Popper school research at BOKU Tulln

Within the Young Science research project "Climate Research in Austria - the future we want", pupils of the Sir Karl Popper School Vienna (SKP) visited the VIRIS laboratory for Analytical Ecogeochemistry on University and Research Tulln (UFT) .

One Year Later!

Club Biotech is glad to invite you to its next interactive talk “One Year Later” dealing with future perspectives of life science students and graduates. March 27th, 2014, 18:00 at HS XXI, Muthgasse 18

Guest professor Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University:

PERSISTENT SHEAR BAND IN UNSATURATED POROUS MATERIALS

On March 28, 2014 Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, professor at Stanford University and long-term project partner of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, will hold a lecture on the topic "Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials".

Welcome

to our new BOKUweb

Since March 20 the website of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences has had a fresh look. Enjoy browsing through!

PNAS Special Feature

on “Global Climate Impacts: A Cross-Sector, Multi-Model Assessment” with BOKU participation.

Learning together!

Apply HERE for the International Training Course on Organic Agriculture l Uganda l July 9-30, 2014 l A unique learning opportunity on organic farming and rural development.

Visiting professor Örjan Bodin

Professor Bodin is theme leader Adaptive governance, networks and learning at theStockhom Resilience Centre. He joins BOKU for a seminar and an evening event.

BOKU in PNAS

In the course of the BOKU-IIASA collaboration, an article on “Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions” has been published in PNAS.

On Stage Vienna

Invitation to Exhibition:
Portraits and Projects of Experts in the Fields of Feminist and Gender Planning. Vernissage: March 27th, 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Successful China Workshop

A delegation of the IFA-Tulln together with colleagues from the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) organized a workshop with the focus on soil and ground water remediation in Shanghai and Beijing.

Doctoral Certificate Program in Agricultural Economics

BOKU students can choose from over 30 courses on doctoral level and acquire an additional certificate.

Site Visit of Peers

During the on-site visit for the quality audit on March 6th and 7th, the peers will gain insight into the quality management system of BOKU.

Rural Women Day 2014

on March 6th, 2014, 5 p.m. in the BOKU Festsaal.

New Strategies against Parasites

Parasites cause a number of diseases: a new Marie Curie Network with Iain Wilson as partner will train young parasitologists.

AIESEC Recruitment

Are you young, motivated and open to the world? Then come and join AIESEC, the world's largest studen-run organisation and make a positive impact on our society!