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“Expedition into Corral Land”: That is the title Thomas Willke has given to a ten-page report that appears in the October issue of Bild der Wissenschaft, in which he describes an expedition on board the research vessel “MARIA S. MERIAN”. The research trip was led by Professor Dierk Hebbeln from the…

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How feasible is it for patients with a high degree of paraplegia to return to employment? The FRIEND robot assistant from Bremen makes it possible, enabling persons highly paralyzed as result of illness or accidents to return to gainful employment. FRIEND (Functional Robot arm with user-frIENdly…

About 5,500 new students will take up studies at the University of Bremen when the winter semester 2012/2013 begins on 1st October 2012. The number includes about 3,000 freshers, who study the first time at a university, and about 1,500 Master students. “That’s about the same number we’ve had over…

There is an established tradition of cooperation between the Group of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen and the renowned Duke University in North Carolina (USA). Under the leadership of Prof. Rolf Drechsler, the group works with Duke on the development of new techniques for testing…

It could be an eclipse of the sun, hurricanes, sunrise over Europe, or Sahara sand blowing across the Atlantic: A technique developed by Dr. Maximilian Reuter from the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen captures such images – and reveals unusual views of our planet Earth.…

The tedious task of harvesting asparagus by hand could soon be a thing of the past: Engineers at the University of Bremen are currently working together with partners from the private sector on the development of an automatic asparagus harvester. The goal is for the “AutoSpar” to harvest six…

On Tuesday 4th September 2012, the head of the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen, Professor Hans J. Rath, passed away following a short but severe illness. He was 65. The University of Bremen and the ZARM center are now mourning the institute…

A change of leadership at the University of Bremen: Prof. Bernd Scholz-Reiter took over the office of University Rector on 1st September 2012. He succeeds Prof. Wilfried Müller, who has steered the fortunes of the University of Bremen for the past ten years. “I am looking forward to my new duties,…

Why was the East German Ministry for State Security (popularly known as the Stasi) involved in undercover activities at universities in Western Germany? What sort of contacts did the Stasi maintain, what were the lines of communication, and what form did such cooperation take? Following an…