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This week the University of Bremen was host to the Vice President of the German Research Society (DFG), Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth from the Max-Planck Institute füf Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The University Vice President responsible for the areas of research and young academics, Prof. Dr.…

Professor Ekkard Brinksmeier from Faculty of Production Engineering at the Universty of Bremen, Head of the Laboratory for Precision Machining and Director of the main department of production technology of the Stiftung Institut für Werkstofftechnik (IWT) in Bremen has been awarded the “Advanced…

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In a lecture entitled “Perceived Victims. Forms and Patterns of Remembrance“, Dr. Ulrike Jureit deals with the culture of remembrance of the Holocaust and Germany’s Nazi past. The historian will be guest at the University of Bremen on Thursday 27th January, the day of remembrance of the victims of…

“Academic best practice in the humanities and social sciences” is the topic of a panel discussion being organized by the Research Academy ProUB at the University of Bremen on Wednesday 26th January. In view of the increasing incidence of academic wrong behavior, the German Research Foundation (DFG)…

“The European Union between Border Controls and Protection of Refugees. A Geography of Refugee Law in the Mediterranean“ [Die Europäische Union zwischen Grenzkontrolle und Flüchtlingsschutz. Eine Geographie des Flüchtlingsrechts auf dem Mittelmeer]: That is the title of the doctoral dissertation for…

Back in 2007 he addressed an overcrowded auditorium at the University of Bremen, and now he is coming back: Peter Warren Finlay – better known as DBC Pierre – is returning to the University of Bremen on Thursday 20th January 2011. Starting at 6.15 p.m. the popular English-language author will be in…

The Choir of the University of Bremen has just issued its first CD. It is entitled “Sing along with friends” and features the best of 35 concerts given by the University Choir, including folk songs from Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Germany and Turkey. Under the direction of the…

The communal fridge has been filled, the flat cleaned from top to bottom, even the window panes have been given an unaccustomed sparkle: all well-known student strategies to keep away from the desktop and avoid starting work on that long overdue written assignment. The result is always the same,…

On 2nd January 2011 a new experimental facility became operational on board the International Space Station (ISS). Its purpose is to investigate the capillary behavior of fluids under conditions of microgravity. To be more precise, the experiments are intended to shed light onto how capillary canals…