This year's Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr - three researchers who have worked intensively on…
Schumpeter's heirs - who and what is behind the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics

Almost 2,500 young people are starting a new chapter today: they are all beginning their studies at the University of Wuppertal (BUW). At the…
New impetus for the winter semester

How do brand companies organise their communication effectively? How do they get the attention of their target group? And what solutions can…
Keeping an overview: Symposium sheds light on how brands can communicate successfully today

Dr Matthias Jacob, Managing Director of Implenia Hochbau GmbH, has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Wuppertal by Rector Prof Dr…
Dr Matthias Jacob new honorary professor at the University of Wuppertal

How do we master the challenges of our time? By focussing together on the opportunities to solve them. With "BUWissen", the University of Wuppertal…
BUWissen - New newsletter provides a quick overview of impulses and solutions from the University of Wuppertal

The Chair of Electrical Power Supply Technology opened its high-voltage hall on Friday, 3 October, as part of the WDR "Mouse Door Opener Day"…
Excitement guaranteed: Mouse Door Opener Day attracts over 120 guests to the university

Women study, graduate, do a doctorate - and then? Then they often disappear from the academic system. In contrast to their male colleagues, who…
Women in science: A day characterised by potential

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the topping-out ceremony for the first construction phase of the Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, now the University…
50 years of the university building have left their mark - in the archive and on the façade

Colours shape our lives - they calm or invigorate, they create trust, orientation and have a stronger effect than we realise. With "The Big Book of…
Axel Buether decodes the hidden language of colours

Do we really only use 10 per cent of our brain? Is our personality reflected in our handwriting? And are eyewitnesses to an accident a reliable source…
Lecture on facts and myths of psychology