Content: The Leopoldina Senate elects Jörg Hacker as the new President of the Academy and selects further members for the Presidium

• Biennial Assembly of the Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), 2-4 October 2009
• Leopoldina presented medals and awards to prominent scientists at its Biennial Assembly
• “Whatever the spirit of the times” – excerpts from the speech by Leopoldina President Volker ter Meulen
• Leopoldina sets up stele in memory of Nazi victims
• EASAC Bureau will move to the Leopoldina in Halle
• FEAM Autumn Conference, Prague, 17/18 September 2009