Owing mostly to Prof. Dr. Stefan Schierholz's (German Linguistics) commitment, the European Union has approved additional funding of three million euros from Erasmus Mundus for a further phase of the international degree program European Master in Lexicography (EMLex).
The interdisciplinary research project “Reeducation Revisited: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on the Post-World War II Period in the US, Japan, and Germany” has received funding from the DFG.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) honors Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2018. The Leibniz Prize is the most significant research prize in Germany.