Tuulia Ortner receives Alfred Binet Prize
Univ. Prof. Dr. Tuulia Ortner, Department of Psychology at PLUS, received the prestigious Alfred Binet Science Award, which comes with 2,500 euros in prize money, at the online conference of the Section for Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics of the German Psychological Society.
Coherence in Comics – An Interdisciplinary Approach
The 16th Annual Conference of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) approaches the topic “Coherence in Comics” from an interdisciplinary perspective. We seek to not only negotiate and explain meaning-making across panel borders and semiotic modes, but also across disciplines, seeking commonalities, shared interests and points of contact.
Dead wood in the carbon cycle
How fast dead wood is decomposing in the forest depends on the climate as well as on fungi and insects. An international research team, including evolutionary biologist Jan Christian Habel from the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, has determined the annual contribution of deadwood to the global carbon cycle and, for the first time, also quantified the relevance of insects in wood decomposition. The study was published in Nature on 1 September 2021.
