Interviews

To trace and understand chemical and biological processes taking place in quintillionths of a second in atomic resolution: that is the aim of a research project conducted by four scientists from Universität Hamburg, DESY, and Arizona State University that will receive 14 million euros worth of...

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder, head of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology at Universität Hamburg, is one of nine scientists to receive the EUR 2.5 million Leibniz Prize, the highest monetary award in Germany. Recipients may use the award money for up to seven years to pursue their research as...

The Department of the Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia in the Asien-Afrika-Institut of Universität Hamburg invites the public to the:

Fourth Thai Day at Universität Hamburg
on Sat, 7 December 2013, from 10:30 am to 3 pm
in the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Main Building of Universität Hamburg, East...

The Presidium of Universität Hamburg and the University Society Hamburg extend a warm invitation to the media to participate in the ceremony marking the installation of Emil Artin's life mask on

4 December 2013, 6 pm, in the Main Building of Universität Hamburg, Emil Artin Lecture Hall (M)...

Participants from universities in India, Pakistan, Ghana, Indonesia, Europe and other countries are sending "delegations" to the Hamburg Model United Nations (HamMUN). They will be taking part in debates from 5 to 8 December 2013 at Universität Hamburg in simulated committees such as the UN Human...

Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 668 at Universität Hamburg, "Magnetism from the Single Atom to the Nanostructure," is set to continue researching. The DFG has agreed to a third period of funding for the research network and will provide approximately 10 million euros for four further years of...

Flowing waters release a great deal more carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere than previously believed, according to scientists from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University, the Center for Earth Systems Research and Sustainability (CEN) at Universität Hamburg and...

Feminismus ist Pop. Und das ist gut so. Oder nicht?
on Tuesday,  26 November 2013, 6-8 pm,
in the Philosophenturm, Lecture Hall Phil D, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg.

Panelists:

Prof. Dr. Jochen Küpper from the Institute for Experimental Physics at Universität Hamburg and the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) has received a Consolidator Grant worth approx. EUR 2 million from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC grant, which is being awarded for the...

The Department of the Culture and History of India and Tibet in the Asien-Afrika-Institut invites the public to the

Eleventh South Asian Day
on Saturday, 16 November 2013, from 11:30 am to 9:30 pm
in the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Main Building of the University, East Wing
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146...

Today, digital media sources are endlessly accessible. They can be saved, copied and altered. How to view these phenomena remains a topic of controversy, however. Are we dealing with creative recreations and useful changes? Or are we talking about piracy and plagiarism? Read more in German...

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The Academic Council has spoken–but the future of the higher education landscape and academia still raises several questions: how will academia or scientific pursuit be organized? What types of cooperation will promote research most efficiently? What role will–and can–external research institutions...

Science and research are becoming increasingly significant in all areas of our lives. But how does research lead to knowledge? How do research projects generate the kind of knowledge which shapes daily life and promotes science? These questions form the heart of the travelling exhibition From the...

The Hamburg School of Food Science (HSFS) at Universität Hamburg was recently appointed as scientific partner to the American federal food surveillance administrative body. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the largest food surveillance organizations in the world and this is the...

Für Rückfragen:

Dr. Henning Tidow
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Tel.: 040 42838-2841
E-Mail: henning.tidow"AT"chemie.uni-hamburg.de

Für Rückfragen:

Magdalene Asbeck
Universität Hamburg
Arbeitsstelle für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung
Tel.: 040 42883-2487, -2499
E-Mail: m.asbeck"AT"aww.uni-hamburg.de

Under the motto "Treasures that explain the world", nineteen of Universität Hamburg's scientific and scholarly collections will exhibit at this year's Night of Knowledge on 2 November 2013. Journalists are able to find out about the exhibition, photograph exhibits, and obtain materials and images...

Universität Hamburg is currently housing a travelling exhibition with impressive photos and accessible texts showing how developmental aid projects and programs can fully and fairly integrate people with disabilities. Read more in German... Sie informiert über die Zusammenhänge von Armut und...

Dr. Richard Woodward from the Philosophical Seminar at Universität Hamburg has been accepted to the German Research Foundations (DFG) Emmy Noether Programm. He will receive EUR 1.18 million to create a young researchers' group for the project Ontology after Quine: Fictionalism and Fundamentality...