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With the new Master's program 'Computational Humanities', the University of Würzburg is combining the humanities and artificial intelligence starting in the winter term of 2025. This opens up new avenues for cultural research.

The Institute of Computer Science mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague, Professor Hartmut Noltemeier, who passed away on May 10, 2025, at the age of 84.

Marcel Roth and Micha Nowak were the first to decipher the title and author of a charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum. The two University of Würzburg students won $60,000.

For the third time, the European Space Agency (ESA) challenged students to find innovative ways to operate a satellite. A team from Würzburg's elite Satellite Technology degree program came out on top.

On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will fly past Earth. Researchers at the University of Würzburg are now developing a concept for two small satellites that will rendezvous with Apophis in space and collect photographs of it.

A new cooperative study between the University Hospital and the University of Würzburg shows that the presence of virtual characters exhibiting certain characteristics can mitigate physical anxiety responses.

The Games Engineering, B.Sc. degree course at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is getting a brilliant makeover!

The CAIDAS AI Academy at the University of Würzburg starts in May with the compact course 'Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Science with Python'. The innovative training programme is aimed at companies.

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have developed a headset that astronauts can use to train for different missions. It has now been tested at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne.

The Arctic may be an inhospitable place for many, but it has enormous value for science. For more than 20 years, Norwegian universities have maintained an outpost on Spitsbergen - which is now collaborating with the University of Würzburg.

Researchers and students from the University of Würzburg are tracking asteroids with a telescope on the Hubland Campus. The measurements are very welcome in the USA.

On January 27, 2025, new waste stations were installed in the Computer Science building, among other places

On March 3, 2023, IBM and the Chair of Software Engineering of the University of Würzburg celebrated the kick-off of their one-and-a-half-year research project on the topic of energy efficiency.