Interviews

Due to their unique collections as well as their contributions to collection-based research, Universität Hamburg's Zoological Museum and Geological-Paleontological Museum enjoy an excellent scientific reputation at home and abroad. Read on in German....

Ziel der Gründung eines Centrums für...

Roughly 1,000 first-year students and their families will be officially welcomed in the Audimax on 15 October 2014. Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, president of Universität Hamburg, and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Poehls, professor for European ethnology and cultural anthropology, will host the festivities. Read...

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Die 1933 Art Zone ist ein bekanntes Kreativzentrum in Shanghai und ein Motiv der Ausstellung im Geomatikum.

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Dr. Michael Waibel
Institut für Geographie
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Universität Hamburg sent a delegation to East Asia from 28 September to 9 October. The delegation was successful in establishing new partnership agreements with several institutions. [Read on in German ...]

Mit dem Ziel der Entwicklung strategischer Partnerschaften hat der Präsident der...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has authorized a new research group spearheaded by Universität Hamburg. The project, Marketing Hedonic Media Products in the Context of Digital Social Media, is the first research group working exlusively in the field of business to receive DFG funding. Other...

Universität Hamburg mourns author Siegfried Lenz. Lenz, who studied philosophy, English and German literature at the University in the 1940s, passed away on Tuesday at the age of eighty-eight. Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Languages on his fiftieth birthday, Lenz received...

Crystallography enables scientists to analyze molecular structures.  An article in Nature Methods describes the so-called time-resolved crystallography—a new method developed by a research team headed by Prof. Arwed Pearson from the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). This unprecedented...

„Türöffner-Tag 2014“ der „Sendung mit der Maus“
am Freitag, dem 3. Oktober 2014,
im Experimentallabor der Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Aufgang C, Raum 2224,
Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146 Hamburg.

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In dem Experiment rund...

Once again, Universität Hamburg offers a versatile public lecture program in the upcoming winter semester. Altogether, our Public Lecture Series comprises thirty-five offerings which consist of 340 individual lectures. There are no restrictions on admission or participation and all lectures are...

Am Donnerstag, dem 18. September 2014, um 20.30 Uhr begrüßen im Nachtasyl des Thalia Theaters NDR-Moderatorin Julia-Niharika Sen und Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, der Präsident der Universität Hamburg, besondere Talkgäste aus Wissenschaft, Alltag und Kultur zum Gespräch über einen besonderen Saft...

After discussion in the Presidium, the Chamber, and the University Council, the Academic Senate has now reviewed the Office of Science and Culture's (BWF) paper "Strategic Perspectives for Hamburg's Higher Education Insitutions to 2020" and formulated a position thereon. [Read on in German]

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On 11 September 2014 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will award the Anneliese Maier Research Prizes in Hamburg for the third time. The prizes are each worth €250,000 and are awarded to researchers in the humanities and the social sciences. The seven award winners were selected from among...

Today the chair of University Council, Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wagner, and the president of Universität Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, responded to the Office of Science and Research's paper "Strategic Perspectives for Hamburg's Higher Education Institutions until 2020." [Read on in German]

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Zwölf, douze, doce—the twelfth round of the Hamburg Children's Uni starts on Monday, 29 September 2014 at 5 pm and discusses the question: Why are there so many languages? In the following five sessions, which take place each Monday thereafter at 5 pm, researchers will discuss topics arising from...

The Southern Ocean, also known as South Polar Ocean or Antarctic Ocean, is home to more than 9,000 species. Scientists have been researching their distribution and special traits for centuries. Today the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) introduces a sea atlas that ties together...

Mathematics are part of our daily lives, from cellphones and navigation systems to special effects and medical diagnoses. In order to promote mathematical talent and enthusiasm at the youngest possible age and to improve the quality of math instruction at primary-school level, PriMa was...

In the movies, museum exhibits spring to life. Although this doesn't usually happen in real life, exhibitions and collections have been evolving into dynamic places of discovery. As part of "Kultur macht stark," an initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)...

Light can be used to instantaneously manipulate magnetic forces in materials such as iron. Dr Johan Mentnik and Prof. Dr. Martin Eckstein from Universität Hamburg's Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have...

Am 31. Dezember 2013 hat die vom Präsidium der Universität Hamburg beauftragte Gutachtergruppe unter Vorsitz von Prof. Dr. Borsch ihr Gutachten mit Empfehlungen zur Entwicklung einer Konzeption für den Botanischen Garten der Universität Hamburg vorgelegt. Darin wird vor...