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University of Bremen Attracts Top-notch Researchers

Two internationally renowned cognition scientists have chosen the University of Bremen for their research: Dedre Gentner and Kenneth D. Forbus from the Northwestern University, Chicago. Their research sojourn will be supported by a €60,000 Humoldt Research Prize. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundatio…


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Survey: University of Bremen and Facebook, Twitter & Co.

Nowadays, it is hard to imagine things without social networks – whether in private or in business life. By now, virtually every enterprise and institution has its own website and more and more they take advantage of social media platforms to spread news and information in a quick and uncomplicated…


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Studying Abroad Fair

To spend some time studying in a foreign country is many students’ dream, whether in the form of an internship or enrolled on a formal program of studies. Moreover, a rapidly increasingly number of career paths also call for practical or academic experience gained abroad. How, though, does a student…


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Online Service Helps Overcome Writer’s Block

Most of us know the feeling: 40 or more blank sheets of paper waiting to be filled. But how?! Now there is a new online service to provide advice to students: the “Bremen Writing Coach”. This online guide (www.bremer-schreibcoach.uni-bremen.de) is aimed at university students of all disciplines and…


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For Freshers: Turbulent Semester Start Plus Official Welcoming and Party

For many freshers the semester start was a spontaneous and rushed affair – not only for those taking up their studies at the University of Bremen. At universities all over Germany, the shortened length of attendance leading to the school leaving examination (Abitur) and abolition of the draft and…


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Start of the Lecture Series “A University for Everyone”

For over two decades the “unifreunde” association of friends of the University has been organizing the lecture series called “A University for Everyone” in cooperation with the University Press Office. Every winter semester, scholars and scientists of the University report on their research projects…


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Biologist Awarded Grant from the European Research Council

Antje Boetius, Professor of Geomicrobiology at the University of Bremen and lead scientist of the deep-sea research group at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, has been awarded funding in an amount of € 3.4 million from the European Research…


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Premiere at Shanghai: Meeting of Bremen's Alumni

At the beginning of November the International Office welcomed ex-students, -lecturers, and -researchers of the University of Bremen to the first alumni meeting to be held in Shanghai. Seventeen alumni made the most of this opportunity to reminisce about their experiences in Bremen, as well as to…