Biologist Prof Dr Gela Preisfeld talks about a complex organism: the native woodlouse and its relatives.
Transfer stories: Small animals, complex organisms - the native woodlouse and its relatives

The Wuppertal Teaching Lion is awarded to lecturers for excellent teaching. The award recognises lecturers who set standards with creativity,…
Fewer slides, more responsibility - Dr Björn Beele receives the Wuppertal Teaching Lion 2024

The BUW awards the Sustainability Prize 2024 to Prof Dr Gertrud Lohaus (Botany working group) and Tom Schürhoff and (Dec. 5) for the project "Natural…
Sustainability Award of the BUW 2024 for Prof Dr Gertrud Lohaus

From 2 to 6 June, biology students at the University of Wuppertal are inviting you to an action week on the Grifflenberg campus as part of the…
Biology students' project week makes plant diversity visible

Fatty acids and the substances formed from them play an important role in inflammation in the human body - and therefore also in health and disease…
Wuppertal food chemists develop international standards for the analysis of oxidised fatty acids

On Thursday, 15 May at 5 p.m., the University of Wuppertal will host a botanical-literary walk across the main Grifflenberg campus under the motto…
With Goethe through the arboretum

On Biodiversity Day, the Molecular Plant Research / Plant Biochemistry working group (Botany) would like to showcase botanical biodiversity with a…
Biodiversity Day on 22 May 2025 - guided tour of the plant system in the inner courtyard

The University of Wuppertal is sending out a clear signal in favour of protecting and promoting biodiversity by joining the international "Nature…
With the participation of the Botany and Biodidactics working groups: BUW joins the global "Nature Positive Universities" network

The SommerUni is aimed at schoolgirls from year 10 onwards who want to find out about the wide range of study options in maths, IT, science and…
SommerUni 2025 - Register by 30 May and get a taste of university life

Get to know most of Germany's tree species, typical forest, park and street trees as well as a range of large shrubs over a distance of around 1,000…
Appreciating and protecting biodiversity - two new tree sponsors for the university arboretum