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Bremen environmental physicists are to be congratulated on scoring an outstanding achievement: at a recent meeting of the advisory committee on the “Earth observation” program acting for the European Space Agency, the Bremen “Carbon Monitoring Satellite” (CarbonSat) concept was selected for…

Successful business couple Christa and Manfred Fuchs (OHB System AG) has agreed with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft to fund an endowed professorship at the University of Bremen. The sponsors are providing follow-up financing in an annual amount of €165,000 over the next ten…

The far North of Canada and the consequences of climate change – that is the theme of the trilingual conference “Der hohe Norden – The Far North – Le Grand Nord (Canada/Québec)”, which will take place on 27th and 28th November 2010 in the Überseemuseum, Bremen. The conference is being…

Exceptionally good news for the University of Bremen and another visible endorsement of the excellence of its researchers: the German Research Foundation (DFG) has prolonged its funding of three Collaborative Research Centers [Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFBs)] for a further four years. The…

On Tuesday and Wednesday 16th and 17th November, Bremen University’s Research Academy ProUB officially opened its doors, kicking off with an intensive two-day program. On Tuesday, Professor Rolf Drechsler, Vice President for Research and Young Researchers, and Dr. Klaus Vosgerau, Director of…

The Friends of the University, unifreunde e. V., have presented the Sparkassen Prize 2010 for outstanding research cooperation in Bremen. The prize was awarded this year for the excellence of cooperation between Jacobs University and the University of Bremen in the area of gravitational…

Stephan Eggersglüß, member of the research group on computer architecture headed by Professor Rolf Drechsler, has just received an international award for his doctoral thesis. His dissertation, which deals with improvements to the quality of testing, won the award for having the greatest…

“It’s an easy matter to preach morals, but not so easy to practice them.” This variation on a quote by Schopenhauer describes the discrepancy which often occurs between ethical principles and actual practice – both on the part of private persons as well as commercial enterprises. But why is…

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Students of schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven want to graduate, those with a migration background are particularly motivated to learn, and girls have a more positive attitude towards education than boys: These are key findings of a study on the motivation of students, which has now been…