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8 hours ago

🏛️ How did school actually work around 2000 years ago? 📜 The Center for Ancient Worlds at #LMUMunich organized an "Ancient Schoolroom". At the Museum of Casts of Classical Sculptures, pupils from local schools were able to immerse themselves in the world of ancient schooling. Read more here:

Journey to a classroom from 2,000 years ago

Visiting professor Eleanor Dickey has launched a project with the Ancient Schoolroom that shows how teaching worked 2,000 years ago. It's not just about ink and wax tablets, but also about finding you...

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13 hours ago

How strongly does #education affect our attitude toward #immigration? And does this influence change as people grow older and across generations? A study by sociologicst Dr. Fabian Kratz shows that polarization processes do not only unfold across generations, but that they also intensify with age.

Attitudes to immigration: The gulf between educational groups is widening

A new study uncovers age-specific and cohort-specific polarization – and helps explain contradictory findings on how education affects people’s attitudes.

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3 days ago

🌍 How does government-supported nurse migration affect healthcare systems? An international team led by LMU researcher Julia Lohmann is investigating this question using Indonesia as a case study. Funded with €1.4 million by the Volkswagen Foundation. #GlobalHealth www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Global health and labor migration

The Volkswagen Foundation is funding a project by LMU researcher Julia Lohmann about the shortage of skilled medical workers and migration, with a focus on Indonesia.

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3 days ago

🚀 #DFG grant for LMU Biostatistician: @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social receives €750,000 through the prestigious Reinhart-Koselleck program. Her project will boost the reliability of evaluations of statistical methods – paving the way for better research & medicine. 📊 #LMU #Statistics #Research

DFG funding: more reliable evaluations of statistical methods

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding LMU scientist Anne-Laure Boulesteix: How can we improve research on statistical methods, asks the biostatistician, and thereby also improve their use?

LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

3 days ago

#AI as a new religion? 🤖 #LMU theologian Christoph Heilig warns: “The discourse around AI has quasi-religious overtones”. In our interview christophheilig.bsky.social‬ explains why some people hope to become immortal thanks to AI and what AI-generated texts reveal about religion.

Interview: “The discourse around AI has quasi-religious overtones”

Does AI believe in God? Or is it even itself a deity? Christoph Heilig looks at artificial intelligence from a theological perspective.

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11 days ago

Language should never be a barrier. 💬 The #FLAP App, created by Prof. Jörg Roche & Munich Police, helps officers connect with migrants using simple words, images, videos & translations. 🚓🌍📱 #Innovation #Communication #LMU #Police

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13 days ago

Four #LMU researchers receive prestigious #DFG funding through the German Research Foundation’s Emmy Noether and Heisenberg programs for projects on water beings, volcanoes, medieval knowledge, and cosmic structures. Congratulations! 🎉 #Research #Science www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

DFG awards for four LMU researchers

Dance scholar Mariama Diagne, geologist Edgar Zorn, astrophysicist Julia Stadler, and literary scholar Tilo Renz have been awarded funding through the German Research Foundation’s Emmy Noether and Hei...

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13 days ago

#Ukrainian refugees prefer countries with better job opportunities to countries with higher social benefits. This is the finding of a recent study by the ifo Institute and #LMU Munich, which surveyed over 3,300 Ukrainian refugees in Europe. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Job opportunities are more important to refugees from Ukraine than social benefits

New study shows: Ukrainian refugees prefer countries with better job opportunities to countries with higher social benefits.

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17 days ago

How can learning German be made #immersive? 🌍✨ Prof. Almut Ketzer-Nöltge uses 360° technology to prepare international learners for real-life situations such as flat-sharing castings and more. #GermanAsAForeignLanguage #LMUMunich

Teaching and learning spaces of the future: immersive methods in GFL lessons

Almut Ketzer-Nöltge researches how virtual technologies can improve German lessons for international learners.

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18 days ago

An international team led by nanophysicist Andreas Tittl has developed an ultrafast optical switch that can turn light interactions on& off within trillionths of a second, a breakthrough that could open up new paths for optical computers, hack-proof quantum communication, & novel photonic circuits.

Nanophotonics: an ultrafast light switch

LMU researchers have developed a method that allows ultrafast control of the interactions between light and a material. This opens up new paths for faster optical computers, quantum communication, and...