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7 September 2016|Pressemitteilung

Children's Uni Hamburg kicks off with "Why are there wars?"

Logo Children's Uni Hamburg

Photo: UHH

Even adults find current political developments in the world difficult to understand. How, then, does one go about explaining to children why humans commit violent acts against one another? The Children's Uni Hamburg takes up this challenge on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 5 pm with the lecture "Why...
29 August 2016|Press release

400 researchers from 25 countries to convene at Universität Hamburg

Sultan Ahmed mosque in Istanbul

Photo: von Dersaadet (Eigenes Werk) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) oder GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

The Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies will take place at Universität Hamburg from 14 to 17 September 2016. Over 400 participants from 25 countries make this conference the largest academic event devoted to Turkey's past and present and the Turkish-speaking diaspora...
25 August 2016|Pressemitteilung

Multitasking and attention training to prevent falls

Warning in front of a potential tripping hazard.

Photo: By Torsten Henning (drawn by Torsten Henning) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Studies at Universität Hamburg have shown that the elderly are most prone to falls when several things take place around them simultaneously, requiring them to distribute their attention to a number of tasks (multitasking situations). The research group around Prof. Dr. Klaus Mattes and Dr. Bettina...
25 August 2016|Pressemitteilung

Wild Bee Day at the Zoological Museum at Universität Hamburg

Wild bee on yellow flower

Photo: UHH/Grabener

As part of this summer's wild bee theme, the Center of Natural History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg warmly invites all interested members of the public to a Wild Bee Day featuring a colorful program on bee mortality and protection.
18 August 2016|Pressemitteilung

Hedges and biodiversity on Madagascar

Diurnal gecko on a fig cactus

Photo: Joachim Nopper

We are currently witnessing a steady decline in plant and animal biodiversity worldwide. In particular on Madagascar, a so-called biodiversity hotspot, unique fauna communities are in danger of losing their natural habitats through human activities. A research team from Universität Hamburg has...
18 August 2016|Pressemitteilung

Three ERC starting grants

ERC logo

Photo: ERC

Dr Irene Fernandez-Cuesta from Prof. Dr. Robert Heinrich Blick's research group at the Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics as well as junior professor Dr Annalisa Bonafede und Dr Franco Vazza from Prof. Dr. Marcus Brüggen's research team at the Institute for Extragalactic Astronomy...
15 August 2016|Pressemitteilung

Universität Hamburg congratulates student Maximilian Munski on silver medal

Maximilian Munski (2016)

Photo: Von Gregor Rom - Eigenes Werk, CC-BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48647224

On Saturday, the German men's eight rowed so fast in Rio that the team was awarded the silver medal; the British took gold. Among the rowers in the German team was Maximilian Munski, a student in the special needs teacher training program at Universität Hamburg.
29 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

Freigeist Fellowship for research at Universität Hamburg

Foto von Dr. Rainer Kaufmann.

Photo: privat

Dr. Rainer Kaufmann is one of thirteen researchers to receive a Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation. He will use the award to conduct research at Universität Hamburg, specifically to tread new paths in microscopy in order to better understand complex cellular processes. Kaufmann has...
21 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

Lemur DNA reveals what Madagascar looked like before human arrival

Maki-Art Microcebus griseorufus

Photo: Jacques Rakotondranary

Madagascar is best known for its forests that are home to a very diverse flora and fauna. Since humans settled on the Island, however, endemic species have been severely threatened with extinction: within a few thousand years, Madagascan forests were decimated considerably through land clearance. By...
19 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

Universität Hamburg and Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht establish Helmholtz Institute Climate Service Science (HICSS)

Motif of researchers in front of a map of the world

Photo: UHH/KlimaCampus/Steinhauser

Universität Hamburg and the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG) with its Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) want to expand collaboration in research on climate service. They have thus agreed to establish the Helmholtz Institute Climate Service Science...
19 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

Liebelt Foundation professorship for historical and contemporary provenance research

Main Building of Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Dichant

A new six-year junior professorship for historical and contemporary provenance research is to be established at the Art History Seminar at Universität Hamburg. Funding has been provided by Susanne and Michael Liebelt, who have donated €500,000 for the professorship.
18 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

ICME–13 at Universität Hamburg

Logo of the worldwide largest congress for mathematics education

Photo: Pixabay

From 24 to 31 July 2016 Universität Hamburg will be hosting the most important congress worldwide for researchers working in the field of maths teaching and learning: the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME–13). Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaiser, professor for mathematics education...
12 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

Europe's largest health economics conference in Hamburg

Die EuHEA Conference 2016 findet in Hamburg statt.

Photo: HCHE

The Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) and the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) are hosting the EuHEA Conference, Europe's largest health economics conference, from 13 to 16 July 2016. This marks the first time that Germany hosts the conference, which takes place every two...
8 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

University welcomes takeover of HWWI by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Main Building of Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Dichant

Universität Hamburg welcomes the decision by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to purchase the University's share of the HWWI. This decision will permit the Institute to pursue its new, more applied research-oriented profile.
7 July 2016|Press release

Hamburg's wild bees in danger—strategies and current research projects

Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) from the historical insect collection

Photo: CeNak/ Thure Dalsgaard

Time is running out for Hamburg's wild bees: around half of the species native to the city is under threat of extinction. The Center of Natural Science (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg is researching the level of this threat using the University's historical insect collections.
4 July 2016|Pressemitteilung

University mourns Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Helmut Greve

The West Wing of the Main Building at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Meike Hansen

Universität Hamburg mourns its honorary senator Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Helmut Greve, who passed away last night aged 94.
23 June 2016|Pressemitteilung

Universität Hamburg Equal Opportunity Prize for the PIASTA intercultural tutor program team

Multicolored zebra on a zebra crossing

Photo: UHH/PIASTA

This year's Women's Advancement Prize of Universität Hamburg, awarded since 1997, will for the very first time be awarded as the Equal Opportunity Prize for outstanding, visible, and sustainable activities promoting equal opportunity in the area of gender and diversity. The 2016 Equal Opportunity...
21 June 2016|Pressemitteilung

Literature Meets Nature

Ed Ricketts' laboratory in Cannery Row, Monterey

Photo: LordHarris at the English language Wikipedia, GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)

The Center of Natural History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg warmly invites you to join it on a literary journey of readings from Nobel Prize laureate and author John Steinbeck in the lecture series Literature Meets Nature on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 at 7 pm.
16 June 2016|Pressemitteilung

EU funding for research project on value-driven cyber security

Symbolbild Cybersicherheit

Photo: Pixabay

Besides its obvious benefits, e.g., better information accessability, digitalization also bears risks such as possible loss of privacy. In order to investigate the technical and ethical perpectives of digitalization, Universität Hamburg (UHH) and Schleswig-Holstein's Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für...
15 June 2016|Pressemitteilung

Gravitational wave detected

Simulation of collision of two black holes

Photo: LIGO

Researchers involved in the LIGO–Virgo Collaboration (LVC) recently detected a further gravitational wave generated by the collision of two black holes. They are due to report on their observations today, 15 June 2016, at the conference of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in San Diego and in...