The University of Bremen’s “Impulse” science blog presents topics taken from current research activities in the Humanities and the natural and engineering sciences. Scholars and scientists in all Faculties can use the blog to explain interesting aspects and provide insights into the research projects they are working on. The blog is available in German language only.

Commenting on the start, Professor Kurosch Rezwan, the University of Bremen’s Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics said: “This new idea will help project the results of our excellent research to audiences outside the University”. A very special feature: By using the comment function readers of the blog will be able to get into direct contact with the authors. Bremen is the first German university to set up such a means for keeping in touch with what’s going on in its research areas.
One of the opening reports takes readers on a trip to the Southern Ocean where researchers on board the Polarstern research vessel made a surprising discovery of methane gas reservoirs. Other contributions include: Why doesn’t the young generation in the East German states take more interest in the “unjust regime” of the former GDR? Where does EU asylum policy come up against its limits, and what causes depletion of the ozone layer?

The blog will be kept constantly up-to-date. Konrektor Kurosch Rezwan: “We want to present research results and insights in a way everyone can understand and create a dialogue with interested members of the general public outside the university. Who knows, maybe we will even made aware of issues that have escaped the notice of science and scholarship.”

"IMPULSE – The Science Blog" is immediately accessible under www.uni-bremen.de/impulse

Editors:
Karla Götz
Phone: +49 421 218-60156
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Jacqueline Sprindt
Phone: +49 421 218-60154
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