Dipl.-Chem. Anke Petter and Nina Schwalb received the Otto Diels Prize of the Chemistry Department of Christiana Albertina University Kiel for the best chemistry diplomas of the academic year 2005/06.  They submitted their diploma theses in December of 2005, Anke on an "Investigation of the Dynamics of the Ultrafast Z - E Photoisomerization of a Furyl Fulgide by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy" and Nina on "Time-Resolved Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy of N⁶,N⁶-Dimethyladenine".