In 2020, the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass. offered the Johann Lorenz Bausch Scholarship for the fifth time. The awardee in 2020 was Ms Tracy Wietecha. As part of her scholarship stay, she worked at the Leopoldina Centre for Science Research in Halle during the four-month funding period which started in August and
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The Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass. recently had the overgrown grave site of the XV. Leopoldina President, Carl Hermann Knoblauch (1820 – 1895), restored on the graveyard (“Stadtgottesacker”) in Halle and also took over the sponsorship for it. In doing so, he followed the wish of the Academy’s leadership and at the same
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On the 18th of February 2020, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friendsreg. ass. invited the 2019 Mendel Medal Laureate to a lecture and joint spring reception. The theme of the evening was: “From the formation to the repair of the brain”. The discovery that glial cells can also
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The outstanding Halle molecular biologist and former Leopoldina President Prof. Dr Benno Parthier (1932 – 2019) was remembered in a dignified memorial service on the 23th of January 2020. His term of office as XXIV. President (1990 – 2003) included the restructuring of the Academy after German reunification. He successfully adapted it to the conditions
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