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The communal fridge has been filled, the flat cleaned from top to bottom, even the window panes have been given an unaccustomed sparkle: all well-known student strategies to keep away from the desktop and avoid starting work on that long overdue written assignment. The result is always the same,…

On 2nd January 2011 a new experimental facility became operational on board the International Space Station (ISS). Its purpose is to investigate the capillary behavior of fluids under conditions of microgravity. To be more precise, the experiments are intended to shed light onto how capillary canals…

The Schülercampus, a campus workshop for pupils, entitled “More Migrants as Teachers” will now also take place in Bremen. This orientation seminar on teacher training and teaching careers is aimed at school pupils with migrant backgrounds. It will be hosted by the University of Bremen from 26th…

Since the 3rd December the University of Bremen boasts a new Institute for Maritime Technologies (MarTech-Bremen). The initiators and founder members are Prof. Gerold Wefer (Faculty of Earth Sciences) together with MARUM, Prof. Frank Kirchner (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)…

The main committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Bonn has announced the award of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize to a total of 10 persons. Among the prizewinners is the Earth scientist Professor Kai-Uwe Hinrichs from the University of Bremen. Prof. Hinrichs has been…

“Justice“ and “personal prospects“ – these are the core themes of the first nation-wide Internet survey undertaken by the research project entitled “Deutschlandweit-gefragt.de“, which has just been begun within the context of “Germany in Transition” [Deutschland im Wandel]. “The project…

Bremen environmental physicists are to be congratulated on scoring an outstanding achievement: at a recent meeting of the advisory committee on the “Earth observation” program acting for the European Space Agency, the Bremen “Carbon Monitoring Satellite” (CarbonSat) concept was selected for…

Successful business couple Christa and Manfred Fuchs (OHB System AG) has agreed with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft to fund an endowed professorship at the University of Bremen. The sponsors are providing follow-up financing in an annual amount of €165,000 over the next ten…

The far North of Canada and the consequences of climate change – that is the theme of the trilingual conference “Der hohe Norden – The Far North – Le Grand Nord (Canada/Québec)”, which will take place on 27th and 28th November 2010 in the Überseemuseum, Bremen. The conference is being…

Exceptionally good news for the University of Bremen and another visible endorsement of the excellence of its researchers: the German Research Foundation (DFG) has prolonged its funding of three Collaborative Research Centers [Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFBs)] for a further four years. The…