Content: Millions towards the new Leopoldina headquarters

• Visit by Princess Sirindhorn - The heir to the Thai throne learned about science and policy consultancy at the Leopoldina
• IPCC review delivered to UN Secretary-General - The InterAcademy Council committee calls for the Panel to be restructured
• German Federal President Wulff takes on patronage
• G8 countries donate five billion dollars to Africa
• Exhibition shows “New Images of Age and Aging“ - Photographers focused on the work of the Academy‘s group “Aging in Germany“
• Academy portrait collection digitalised
• First parliamentary evening on EASAC in Berlin
• New Council members elected at the EASAC meeting in Budapest
• Delegation of the Leopoldina visited the Polish Academy of Sciences
• The Leopoldina advises Namibia on setting up an Academy of Sciences- A workshop with the African delegations took place in July in Halle
• Cracking the code to the genetic causes of neuropsychiatric disorders, step by step - Scientists discussed the latest results at the Leopoldina symposium in Bonn
• The neuroscience of the honeybee - The international symposium “Honeybee Neuroscience” in Berlin shed light on the present state of development, focussing on the future prospects of this science