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Dr. Carina Schmitt from the Center for Social Policy has received a very special honor from Harvard University in Cambridge, USA: The John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship 2013/2014. This September she will take up a ten-month research fellowship at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,…

The countdown has begun: Only few days left to OPEN CAMPUS Day at Uni Bremen! On the dot of 3.00 p.m. on 21st June, all the University has to offer will be on show to the public, including a wide range of attention-grabbing laboratories and learning workshops, all intent on presenting what the…

The observant passer-by may have noticed the elegant white dome on the roof of building NW1 (Natural Sciences 1) in the Otto-Hahn-Allee. What goes on there? Does it house a planetarium, a telescope, or some other kind of mysterious astronomical gadgets? “Nothing really spectacular at all”, says Pr…

On 21st May 2013, Joachim Gauck, the German Federal President, will be paying a visit to Bremen. To round off the day, the town will hold a reception in the upper rooms of the City Hall to which prominent local personalities will be invited. The evening program will begin with a rendering of musical…

Once again, the recently published new university rankings compiled by the Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE) [Center for university development] confirm the University of Bremen’s strength in acquiring research funding. The area of Production Engineering, which is no newcomer to third-party…

Workshop "Socio-Ecological Novelty – Frontiers in Sustainability Research"

Professor Dr. Frank Wilderson has been given a nine-month advanced research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to work in the high-profile research area of Black Diaspora Studies in the University of Bremen‘s Faculty of Linguistics and Literature Studies. The University is…

Within the context of introducing innovative teaching formats in early undergraduate studies, the Rectorate of the University of Bremen has selected six projects for funding under the ForstA Project (Studies Linked with Research – From the Outset: Heterogeneity as Potential (www.uni-bremen.de/forsta…

The origin of the marine ecosystem in the waters surrounding Antarctica is closely intertwined with the advance of the ice cover which took place on the sixth continent some 33.5 million years ago. The current issue of the scientific journal ‘Science’ contains a report on this climate change…

Brain stem infarcts, paraplagia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Serious illnesses affecting the central nervous system that can render patients completely helpless. Some patients are no longer able to control parts of their body, making any form of communication quite impossible. Researchers all…