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The unifreunde Bremen Association, together with the University of Bremen and Constructor University, presented the Bremen Thesis Award on November 27. At the event in the Bremen State Parliament ceremonial hall, eight people were honored for outstanding master's theses and dissertations.

Sociologist Nils Kumkar is one of the 14 outstanding personalities from the fields of science and culture who have been awarded a Thomas Mann Fellowship for 2025. The theme for the year is “Across Boundaries.”

Performing laboratory research involves immense energy usage. Members of Bremen’s higher education institutions discussed how to make this more efficient during a meeting at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen.

Kerstin Schill, Professor of Cognitive Neuroinformatics at the University of Bremen and Rector of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, has been appointed to the Senate of the Helmholtz Association.

Cornelia Frank is a professor of movement science in the newly established Sports degree program within the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen.

How can the state of Bremen tackle health challenges? Researchers from the University of Bremen, Bremen University of Applied Sciences, and the APOLLON Hochschule der Gesundheitswirtschaft have been researching this for two years.

The Faculty of Physics at the University of Bremen once again invites you to an experimental show. On Saturday, November 30, 2024, Professor Justus Notholt, Lukas Grosch, and the physics internship team will provide an Advent atmosphere with spectacular and exciting entertainment.

“University Talk” is the title of a format with which the University Executive Board would like to enter into regular dialog with members of the university. The last event focused on the topic of academic freedom and the question of how Article 5 of the German Basic Law is put into practice.

The Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) has now a dual leadership team. Together with Professor Marc Avila, Professor Katharina Brinkert is now serving as the director of the institute.

The duration of care will double in the coming years, which will further increase care costs. This is the conclusion of this year's Care Report, which was compiled by the SOCIUM at the University of Bremen on behalf of the BARMER health insurance company.

Daniel Leidner joined the University of Bremen as a cooperation professor in cognitive robotics manipulation in October 2024. He is also head of the Autonomy and Teleoperations Department at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR).

Almost 200 newspaper volumes from Bremen-Nord, including issues of the Vegesacker Wochenblatt from 1849 onwards and the Nordwestdeutsche Landeszeitung, have been added to the Bremen State and University Library's collection.

Lars White joined the university in the 2024 summer semester as a professor of clinical psychology and pediatric psychotherapy. He is also co-head of the Psychotheratherapeutic University Outpatient Services over the Lifespan (PULS) at the University of Bremen.

Around a month after 1,500 law students began their studies, the Forum at Domshof building was opened in the city center on November 14, 2024. It is home to the Faculty of Law and several institutes.

From November 19 to 21, the “Humans on Mars” initiative will present its own research focus, as well as this year’s submitted cluster proposal for the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments.

4,468 new students started at the University of Bremen in the 2024/25 winter semester. Although many German universities are experiencing a decline in the number of first-year students, the University of Bremen has seen an increase in the number of new students compared to the previous year.

Sebastian Uhlemann has been a professor of environmental geophysics within the Faculty of Geosciences since the 2024/2025 winter semester.

392 students completed their teaching degree at the University of Bremen in the 2024 examination year. Around 110 of them took part in the farewell ceremony in the university's large lecture hall at the end of October.

The latest developments and innovative approaches in the field of artificial intelligence will be the focus of the “AI in Health” Symposium at Bremen State Parliament and the House of Science. Those interested can register until November 21 and participation is free of charge.

An international team of researchers that includes scientists from MARUM, the Faculty of Geosciences, and the Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen, have investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain Forest.