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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…

The University of Bremen continues to excel in the acquisition of external funding. Especially in the fields of Political Science and the Social Sciences, the University enjoys a particularly high reputation, attracting considerable sums of funding from external sources. This is shown by rankings…

Starting next winter semester 2011/2012 the University of Bremen will be offering several new degree courses: three Bachelors and three Masters. A fourth new Masters program, Master of Arts in Early Childhood Pedagogy (Frühkindliche Bildung), is already in the planning stage.  One of the new…

At its annual conference in Vienna, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) awarded the University of Bremen's professor Gerold Wefer the Alfred-Wegener-Medaille 2011. At the same time Prof. Wefer, who is also the Director of the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, was made an honorary…