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Hard work and back breaking effort, which at the same time calls for utmost precision: rotor blades for wind turbines are still mostly made by hand. Huge sheets of glass or carbon fiber composite measuring as much as 130 square meters have to be laid crease-free into a mould and then coated with…

The young researcher Mathias Soeken, member of the "Work Group Computer Architecture" led by Professor Rolf Drechsler in the Faculty of Mathematics / Computer Science at the University of Bremen, has been awarded an international young-researcher prize in Yokohama, Japan. The prize is for research…

Last Monday a happy group of graduates of the University Bremen gathered in the grand reception room of the Bremen Town Hall to receive prizes for their outstanding final exams and doctoral theses. Ever since 1983 the Society of Friends of the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen…

As of April 2011 there will be two new faces in the President’s Office at the University of Bremen: Heidi Schelhowe and Yasemin Karaka?o?lu. At its meeting on 26th January the Academic Senate passed a resolution recommending the University President to appoint the two professors to their new posts.…

This week the University of Bremen was host to the Vice President of the German Research Society (DFG), Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth from the Max-Planck Institute füf Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The University Vice President responsible for the areas of research and young academics, Prof. Dr.…

Professor Ekkard Brinksmeier from Faculty of Production Engineering at the Universty of Bremen, Head of the Laboratory for Precision Machining and Director of the main department of production technology of the Stiftung Institut für Werkstofftechnik (IWT) in Bremen has been awarded the “Advanced…

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In a lecture entitled “Perceived Victims. Forms and Patterns of Remembrance“, Dr. Ulrike Jureit deals with the culture of remembrance of the Holocaust and Germany’s Nazi past. The historian will be guest at the University of Bremen on Thursday 27th January, the day of remembrance of the victims of…

“Academic best practice in the humanities and social sciences” is the topic of a panel discussion being organized by the Research Academy ProUB at the University of Bremen on Wednesday 26th January. In view of the increasing incidence of academic wrong behavior, the German Research Foundation (DFG)…

“The European Union between Border Controls and Protection of Refugees. A Geography of Refugee Law in the Mediterranean“ [Die Europäische Union zwischen Grenzkontrolle und Flüchtlingsschutz. Eine Geographie des Flüchtlingsrechts auf dem Mittelmeer]: That is the title of the doctoral dissertation for…