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13.11.2012
Environmental Physicist Goes for a Dip
When on a bleak and overcast day a Bremen professor wades into the chilly waters of the campus lake, it can only be in the interest of science, and to find solutions for pressing issues of our time. Clad in a dry-suit—which he... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
09.11.2012
Admission to Studies without a High
It’s always been difficult to build a successful career without a good education, and today it’s especially important to have gone to university or college. More and more people would therefore like to benefit from a higher... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
01.11.2012
Change at the helm of MARUM
Professor Gerold Wefer has passed on the leadership of MARUM to marine geologist and climate modeler, Professor Michael Schulz. The changeover signifies the end of an era for the Bremen Center for Marine Environmental Sciences.... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
23.10.2012
New Center for Transnational Studies
Firms conduct business with other enterprises around the globe – and their workers are often stationed abroad. Modern societies are increasingly feeling the impact of transnational processes. How can we deal with the resulting... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
17.10.2012
Cold-water Corrals: What Bremen Marine Researchers Do
“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.... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
01.10.2012
The FRIEND Robot Facilitates Career Re-entry
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
01.10.2012
A Warm Welcome to the University’s New Students!
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
26.09.2012
Great Honor: Duke University Makes Computer Scientist a “Term Member”
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
17.09.2012
Impressive Images From Outer Space
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
14.09.2012
University of Bremen Develops Automatic Asparagus Harvster
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
07.09.2012
University and ZARM Mourn Prof. Rath, Founder of the Campus Drop Tower
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
03.09.2012
The New Rector Takes Office!
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
03.09.2012
What was the Stasi up to at West German universities?
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... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
24.08.2012
Summer University for MINT Subjects
Girl power at the University of Bremen – for once again this year two summer universities are being held for women in the engineering and computer sciences. One of these events, Informatica Feminale, is celebrating its 15th... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
24.08.2012
Slime Mold Networks Give Insights into Treating Cancer
Slime mold can be found everywhere in nature. These apparently primitive unicellular organisms have perfected a highly developed strategy for transporting nutrition and information on their environment via an extensive arterial... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
16.08.2012
Black Smokers in Miniature
The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) has awarded the University of Bremen – in the person of oceanographer Prof. Wolfgang Bach – a grant amounting to EUR 1.5 million. Over a period of five years,... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
06.08.2012
Palm Trees in the Antarctic
Climate researchers are able to gain insights into how our climate will develop in future by analyzing other interglacial periods that have occurred through the ages. Recently, a scientific team discovered some surprising new... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
06.08.2012
Lichtenberg Professorship for the University of Bremen
The first Lichtenberg Professorship for Bremen: Dr. Moritz Renner has been awarded a Lichtenberg Professorship for Transnational Business Law and the Theory of Economic Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Bremen. Starting... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
27.07.2012
New Nature Study on Corals and Climate
MARUM researcher Dr. Thomas Felis and a group of international marine scientists present a new piece of the global climate puzzle: They demonstrate that, unlike today, the tropical South Pacific was affected by El Niño events... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
22.07.2012
Successful Bremen Ethnologist Admitted to the “Junge Akademie”
A great honor for Bremen ethnologist, Dr. Silja Klepp: The young researcher from artec [Research center for sustainability at the University of Bremen] has been admitted to the “Junge Akademie” (JA) in Berlin, an elite... more »
Publisher: Universität Bremen
