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On May 7, three new professors who have been jointly appointed by the Julius Kühn Institute and Hochschule Geisenheim will hold their inaugural lectures on the Geisenheim campus. The event starts at 3:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 50, and all interested parties are warmly invited to attend.

Dr. Hannah Robinson, a researcher at Geisenheim’s Department of Plant Breeding, has been approved for a postdoctoral fellowship under the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. These highly coveted research grants are awarded to exceptional scientists for their innovative…

Welcome to Graduate School’s first lecture seminar Thursday, April 3rd at 4pm!

This week Hochschule Geisenheim University was host to the Entomology Congress 2025, the international conference of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology (DGaaE). From March 17–20, around 300 entomologists from over 20 different countries gathered at the university to discuss…

The last week of February saw the return of the foundational ‘School of Pruning’ course offered by Simonit&Sirch in cooperation with Hochschule Geisenheim University. In addition to the standard German-language course, an English version was also available for international students of the…

Hochschule Geisenheim University’s Department of Plant Breeding recently announced the official approval of two new phylloxera-resistant rootstock varieties, namely ‘Vinto’ (Vitis berlandieri x Börner; Gm 9230-3) and ‘Libero’ (125 AA x Börner; Gm 9228-45). Both varieties have been officially…

How can biochar help make urban infrastructure more resilient and ecofriendly? From April 3 to 4, 2025, biochar specialists from around the globe will convene at Hochschule Geisenheim University to address this question at the second annual Black2GoGreen conference.

On February 13–14, the third event in the viSiOONWALD series took place, this time with a focus on water retention within the context of practical forestry. Over 60 stakeholders, mainly comprising practitioners in the field of forestry, came together from across Germany to take part in the event.