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This page provides you with all news from Universität Hamburg, which is divided into the following categories: 19neunzehn, Campus, Research, In focus, Internal, Interviews, and Videos.

22 August 2023|Campus

Welcome aboard!: Prof. Dr. Nicole strengthens the humanities.

Prof. Dr. Nicole Brisch

Photo: Inger Ulrich

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Assyriologist...
16 August 2023|Research

Human or machine—who do customers order more from?

Burger and fries

Photo: pixabay/Fotorech

Whether when shopping or in the service sector, customers are increasingly coming into contact with automated processes first rather than with...
9 August 2023|Excellence Strategy

Predicting Premature Births

Symbolic photo of a pregnant woman

Photo: CC0

Professor of medicine Petra Arck from Universität Hamburg is researching whether the blood of pregnant women gives clues to possible premature birth...
7 August 2023|Research

Doing the Research: “Networked thinking must be learned and promoted”

MINT4all key visual illustration

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schulz

Many current problems, such as climate change, are very complex. In school, however, these topics are taught separately from the perspective of the...
7 August 2023|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Benno Fladvad joins the MIN Faculty

Prof. Dr. Benno Fladvad

Photo: Studioline

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. And this time, we talk to...
1 August 2023|Excellence Strategy

How come so many children die after wars and why do people who are sick go to work?

Double portrait Prof. Wild and Prof. Schaub

Photo: UHH/privat

Every year, researchers at Universität Hamburg can apply for funding from the Ideas and Venture Fund to prepare for a large externally funded project...
27 July 2023|Excellence Strategy

Funding for research into inflation and vaccine willingness

Photo of an economic graph on a computer monitor

Photo: CC0

A new funding line is allowing Universität Hamburg researchers to develop interdisciplinary research at the interface between digital methods and...
26 July 2023|Research

Doing the Research: How We Learn Fear

EEG examination in the lab

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Many pathological fears are learned according to well-known mechanisms. Do these mechanisms apply when fear is not based on real experiences but only...
24 July 2023|In focus

Operation Gomorrha 1943 The Bombs, Their Meaning, and the Consequences Today

Album photo of a building destroyed in 1943

Photo: Erinnerungswerk Hamburger Feuersturm / private Eduard Engel

In World War II, National Socialist Germany brought death and destruction to the world. The Allies also bombed German cities. Eighty years ago, large...
20 July 2023|Excellence Strategy

International Experience at Home

Foto Studentin mit Laptop

Photo: UHH/Röttger

A new funding line allows researchers at Universität Hamburg to develop virtual teaching and learning formats with international partner universities...
19 July 2023|Research

Digitalization to Reconstruct Music

Symbolic image of early music

Photo: ylanite/pixabay

There was a fundamental change in instrumental music around 1600: the bass line was firmly established while for harmonies there were only numbers and...
17 July 2023|Research

Doctoral project: Community-Owned Sports Clubs and Democracy-Building

Fabian Fritz

Photo: Private

Sports clubs can be an important place for children and adolescents to participate. For his doctoral thesis, Fabian Fritz, from the social work...
13 July 2023|Research

Project on protecting critical infrastructures receives €2.5 million

Prof. Dr. Mathias Fischer and Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Security in Distributed Systems

In the second round of its current research competition, the federal government’s Agency for Innovation in Cybersecurity selected 3 outstanding and...
12 July 2023|Intern

Introducing Dr. Pellegrino Favuzzi, chief of staff to the president

Our video series is now introducing leading administrative and academic staff members at Universität Hamburg. In this video, Dr. Pellegrino Favuzzi...
12 July 2023|Campus

Hamburg Teaching Prize: Awards for 21 Teachers at Universität Hamburg

Group photo, awards ceremony for the Teaching Prize 2022 and 2023

Photo: Michael Zapf/BWFGB

Every year, Hamburg’s education authorities award the teaching prize to especially outstanding teachers at Hamburg’s 6 public universities. On 7 July...
12 July 2023|Campus

Pilot project in educational science: €10,000 for Experimental Space for Didactic Innovation

Symbolic image—hybrid work

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

In the upcoming 18 months, the Stifterverband (a German association of corporations and foundations) is supporting a pioneering digitalization project...
10 July 2023|In focus

“We want to take advantage of digitalization in all areas.”

University president Hauke Heekeren (right) and Chief Digital Officer Sebastian Gerling

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

After a year in creation, Universität Hamburg has released its digital strategy. So what is it, and why is it important for the University? University...
10 July 2023|Research

MIN research videos contest Winners announced

Symbolic picture with film

Photo: Universität Hamburg/ STEM

Making research visible in the truest sense of the word—under this motto the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences held a research...
7 July 2023|Research

German Sign Language project awarded Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache (German Language Culture Award).

A man is filmed signing a contribution for the sign language dictionary

Photo: AdWHH/Jann Wilken

The Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at Universität Hamburg has maintained a digital dictionary since 2009 reflecting...
4 July 2023|In focus

QS World University Rankings: Universität Hamburg Among Top 10 Leading German Universities

Main Building of the University with a red Universität Hamburg cube

Photo: UHH/von Wieding

In the twentieth issue of QS World University Rankings 2024, Universität Hamburg ranked number 10 nationally and 205 internationally. The evaluation...