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Ursula M. Staudinger elected Vice President of Leopoldina

   

On October 4, 2007 the senate of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina elected Ursula M. Staudinger, Professor of Psychology, Vice President and Dean of the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, as one of its four vice presidents. By appointing Ursula M. Staudinger, the Academy’s chair of 12 is complete again. Ursula M. Staudinger succeeds Paul B. Baltes of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, who passed away in November 2006.

[ Oct 05, 2007]  Ursula M. Staudinger is a member of Leopoldina since 2002; she also participates in the section "Empirical Psychology and Cognitive Sciences". Her research interests include the mechanics and pragmatics of lifespan development and lifelong learning.

Professor Staudinger is also member of the chair of the working group “Chances and Problems of an Ageing Society – The world of work and lifelong learning.” The working group is a joint project of Leopoldina and the Council of Technical Sciences at the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities acatech.



The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is the world’s oldest academy involved in natural sciences. It was founded in 1652 in the Free Imperial City of Schweinfurt. Since 1878, it has been seated in Halle on the Saale river. Scientists are elected members who represent subject areas corresponding to the Leopoldina’s section structure and who have distinguished themselves by demonstrating academic excellence.
The Leopoldina sees its chief mission in promoting science, in interdisciplinary deliberations of scientific insights and their dissemination. To this end, it runs various events on a regular basis (biennial assemblies, biennial conferences, symposia, meetings, monthly sessions) in Halle and in other places. It appoints ad-hoc commissions to discuss scientific problems with a societal and social policy background. All results are printed and published in the Academy journals.

 


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