The ceremonial opening of the Environmental Health Sciences Institute (EHSI) on the 28th of November 2025 marked an important milestone for the Faculty of Medicine. The institute, which is unique in Germany, strengthens future-orientated research in the Environmental Health Sciences.?

The legalisation of cannabis could be responsible for more cases of psychosis and hospital admissions.?This is suggested by a pilot study conducted at the Chair and Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the University of Augsburg, led by Prof. Alkomiet Hasan.?The study was published in the German medical journal ?rzteblatt.

Dr Mohammed Aldeep has been awarded this year’s DAAD Prize for Outstanding Achievements of International Students at German Universities. Aldeep, a recent legal doctoral graduate of the postgraduate programme for international legal experts at the University of Augsburg, was honoured on the 30th of October.

We introduce seven recently appointed professors to the University of Augsburg for the beginning of the new semester.

Multiple cropping, the simultaneous cultivation of several crop species in space or time, is a widespread global agricultural practice. However, it is not adequately included in existing land use models. A study conducted at the University of Augsburg shows how such models could be improved.

Physicists at the University of Augsburg together with collaborators from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Rutgers University, USA, have successfully switched an antiferromagnetic state in an insulator by voltage pulses, within just a few tens of billionths of a second. Their findings were recently published in Physical Review Letters.?