DAAD RISE Program: Call 2011

DAAD RISE Program: Call 2011

The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) announced a new call for its program “Research Internships in Science and Engineering” (RISE) for summer internship in 2011. The program works in both ways. German and American Ph.D. students submit internship offers for undergraduates students for a duration of 6 to 12 weeks.  German bachelor students can work as research interns at U.S. universities and U.S. undergraduates can work in labs of German universities. The DAAD provides stipends to help cover living expenses, the partner universities and research institutes provide housing assistance. The call is applicable for all fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. Please visit for further

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Students from Vanderbilt with DAAD RISE in Leipzig

Students from Vanderbilt with DAAD RISE in Leipzig

The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) offers since 2005 a yearly program that gives undergraduates from U.S., Canadian and U.K. universities the opportunity for a research internship during the summer holiday weeks. In 2010 four students from Vanderbilt University used the collaborative efforts of the partnership to visit work groups in the fields of biochemistry (AG Beck-Sickinger), medicinal physics and biophysics (AG Huster), and environmental technology andmanagement (Prof. Holländer) to get a hands-on experience of the research at Leipzig University. They stayed 8 to 12 weeks here learning new methods and techniques as well as getting in touch with life in Germany. All of them enjoyed their stay

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Kick-off meeting in Leipzig, June 2010

The Kick-off meeting of the establishment of a university partnership between Vanderbilt and Leipzig University took place in Leipzig from June 16th to 20th. During this first joint scientific workshop seven researchers from Vanderbilt University presented their research an audience of Leipzig faculty and students. Topics of the workshop were parts of research of both universities in the natural and life sciences (organic chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine). Besides the workshop we organized multiple face-to-face meetings with work groups from Leipzig University and introduced the visitors to Leipzig and its research institutions. Until now exists several cooperations of researchers from both universities, for instance in the areas of G-protein coupled

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