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Ekkard Brinksmeier, Professor of Production Engineering at the University of Bremen and Director of the main department of production engineering at the Institute of Materials Sciences has been granted a Reinhart Koselleck project. Germany’s largest funding organization, the Deutsche…

This fascinating phenomenon has been puzzling research groups around the world. Since 1979 NASA has been registering a diminutive anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft. As small as this may be, over the course of years it has led to a deviation from the calculated orbit in excess of…

History lessons – dull, boring, no connection to real life? At any rate, that is what a group of young British and French high school students thought – until they suddenly found themselves transported into 15th century England to witness the history of King Henry V “first hand”. That is the…

For 20 years the “unifreunde“ (friends of the University of Bremen and the Jacobs University Bremen) have been awarding the “Berninghausen Prize for Outstanding Teaching “ to deserving faculty at the University of Bremen. On Wednesday 25th May, this year’s prizewinners, Dr. Karsten Hölscher,…

The concept has proven its worth, it is highly appreciated, and now the research cluster LogDynamics of the University of Bremen has also received an award for its innovative approach: In the competition “Best practices and new ideas to improve the doctorate in engineering sciences” LogDynamics won…

The University of Bremen has conferred an honorary doctorate on Professor Wolfgang Berger. The internationally renowned oceanographer and climate researcher received this accolade for outstanding scientific achievement and his contribution to building up the Faculty of Geosciences at the University…

The idea to invite outstanding external experts for short stays of teaching came from the University of Bremen’s Institute of Post-colonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) some three years ago. Members of the Institute initiated a project with the goal of inviting high-profile personalities in…

The internationally renowned expert in East European history, Dr. Wolfgang Eichwede, professor emeritus for Politics and Contemporary History and founding director of the Research Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Bremen is to receive the Aleksandre Men Prize 2011. The prize,…

On Wednesday 18th May 2011 the University of Bremen is once again organizing an open day for prospective students. What earth scientists do, which languages are spoken in Europe, the career prospects open to political scientists, and the different subjects offered in teacher training at the…