Interviews

Violent conflicts, climate destruction, and climate change have been the main causes of mass migration in the past several decades. These topics form the focus of the international workshop Critical Perspectives on Human Mobility in Times of Crisis on 25 and 26 June at CliSAP (Universität...

Universität Hamburg's Institute of Experimental Physics and the Institute for Theoretical Physics receive about €5 million from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for projects within the research alliance at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator of the...

To celebrate their 35th anniversary, the University Players will be performing Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The production will be performed in English. Read on in German...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
am 26., 29., 30. Juni und am...

The Japanese government has awarded Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, president of Universität Hamburg, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star for his outstanding achievements and services. 

A conferment ceremony will take place on

Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 11:00 am in the Main Building of...

With the help of a research group at Universität Hamburg, the international OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso INFN lab in Italy has now measured a tau neutrino. Read on in German...

Das Neutrino, das seinen Flug am CERN in der Schweiz als Myon-Neutrino begann, erreichte nach seiner Reise über...

This year's Women's Advancement Award at Universität Hamburg is being bestowed upon the equal opportunity team in the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences. The €10,000 prize has been awarded annually since 1997 and recognizes outstanding, long-term commitment to the advancement...

The Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia of the Asien-Afrika-Institut cordially invites the general public to take part in the

First Southeast Asia Day at Universität Hamburg, 13 June 2015,  9:30 am– 8:30 pm in the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Main Building of the University, East Wing...

This year, collaborative research center 950 (SFB 950), "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe", is celebrating its fourth anniversary as well as the pledge by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) to finance the center with another €9.5 million over the...

Through to the second round: the German Research Foundation (DFG) will extend the collaborative research centers "Light-Induced Dynamics and Control of Correlated Quantum Systems" (SFB 925), "Multi-Site Communication in the Brain" (SFB 936), and "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe"...

The Loki Schmidt Haus, a museum of useful plants in the Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, is set to open its latest special exhibition on the topic of collecting ("Sammeln–Von Leidenschaft, die Wissen schafft")

on: Sunday, 17 May 2015, at 2 pm,
Ohnhorststr. 18, 22609 Hamburg.

Read on in German...

Die...

The astronaut, geophysicist, and vulcanologist Alexander Gerst is coming to the Audimax at Universität Hamburg to present his Blue Dot Mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in film and pictures. [Read on in German]

Warum sind Satellitendaten so wichtig für die Klimaforschung...

High density poses a serious challenge to the study of urban climate. Researchers at Universität Hamburg are now turning the steeple of the St. Nikolai Church into a weather station. Read on in German...

Aufgrund von Bauarbeiten und einer damit verbundenen Einrüstung des Gebäudes konnte ein...

The conservation of numerous wild horse breeds depends largely on protection and breeding programs. Yet while their nutrition in the wild is somewhat meagre, consisting of hardy herbs and grasses, their diet in captivity is often too soft  to wear down their teeth.

Read on in German...

Die...

Excess weight and obesity are important risk factors for glucose intolerance, diabetes mellitus (type 2), and cardiovascular diseases. For that reason, sport and exercise medical experts at Universität Hamburg are currently planning a study on the effects of a plant protein product designed to...

The Loki Schmidt Haus in Universität Hamburg's Botanical Garden is preparing a new special exhibition entitled Sammeln (Collecting). To present the topic as vividly as possible, Hamburg residents are being asked to submit photographs of their own collections. Read on in German...

Aus der...

Für Rückfragen:

Daniel Bein
Universität Hamburg
Museumspädagogik Zoologisches Museum
Tel.: 040 42838-2276
E-Mail: Daniel.Bein"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Prof. Reinhard Schulz-Schaeffer
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW)
Professor für Informative Illustration
Tel.: 0175 522 70 45
E-Mail: rein...

Universität Hamburg cordially invites the public to the:

Tenth International Conference: Väter und Vaterfiguren in jüdischer Geschichte, Religion und Kultur

3–5 May 2015, Warburg House, Heilwigstr. 116

Start: Sunday, 3 May, 6 pm

Eröffnung und Grußworte:

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann, Sprecherin des...

"I congratulate Ms. Katharina Fegebank on her appointment as Senator of Science and Research. The University looks very much forward to cooperating with her.“

Read on in German...

Gerade für unser Exzellenzkonzept einer „Universität der Nachhaltigkeit“ sehen wir Entwicklungsperspektiven, wenn das...

Antarctica is of utmost importance for the assessment of environmental developments attributable to the growing magnitude of human activities across the world. Its enormous ice sheet is one of the tipping elements in the world's climate system. The partial melting of arctic ice masses would...