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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.

11 December 2018|Research

Onora O’Neill speaks at the Universität Hamburg

Onora O’Neill speaks at the Universität Hamburg

Photo: Onora O'Neill

Onora O'Neill is one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary moral philosophers. On December 18 she will give a lecture at the Universität...
12 September 2018|In focus

Unique International Joint PhD Agreement

Unique PhD Agreement

Photo: UHH/Wohlfahrt

Universität Hamburg has just signed a trilateral joint PhD agreement with Macquarie University (MQ) from Sydney, Australia, and Fudan University (FU)...
29 August 2018|Research

Bacteria—nature’s trash collector for plastics?

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit

Photo: UHH/MIN/Latos

Could microorganisms devour and rid the world of microplastics? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit and his team in the Department of Biology at Universität...
3 July 2018|Research

How extremes can help: improved accuracy for 10-year forecasts

Leonard Borchert

Photo: CC3.0 B.Abis, MPI-M

Leonard Borchert’s goal is to make weather forecasts for the next 10 years more accurate. To do so, he has observed the North Atlantic, which strongly...
21 June 2018|Campus

From “Hopeless” to Harvard

Portrait von Mahmut Yüksel

Photo: UHH/Wendt

Poor grades in elementary school almost put an early end to this young man’s pursuits. Now Mahmut Yüksel is working towards a double degree in...
7 June 2018|Campus

From Hamburg to the Horizon: Alexander Gerst returns to command the ISS

Alexander Gerst wearing Universität Hamburg hoody

Photo: UHH/CEN/Aus­ser­ho­fer

Alexander Gerst (42) is not only the most famous astronaut from the Federal Republic of Germany, and, from October, the first German commander of the...
23 May 2018|Research

Inflammatory reactions of the immune system: New collaborative research center on the role of molecules produced in the body

Prof. Dr. Chris Meier from the Department of Chemistry

Photo: UHH/Schober

Scientists in the Faculty of Medicine and the Departments of Chemistry and Biology at Universität Hamburg investigate the role of signaling molecules...
22 May 2018|Video

“UHH global” for iOS and Android

Werbescreen für die App UHH global der Universität Hamburg für iOS und Android
The Universität Hamburg “UHH global app” is now available for free download from the App Store and Google Play Store. The English-language app is...
11 May 2018|Research

The search for radio galaxies in the vast universe

Filmstill aus dem Video "Die Jagd nach Radiogalaxien in den Weiten des Universums"
The Low Frequency Array, also known as LOFAR, is an innovative digital radio telescope based in The Netherlands and spanning 6 European countries...
9 May 2018|Research

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for legal researcher Anne van Aaken

Alexander von Humboldt-Professur

Photo: Humboldt-Stiftung/ Svea Pietschmann

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken from Universität Hamburg with the renowned Alexander von Humboldt...
16 April 2018|Research

Emissions trading: “A powerful tool that’s become much too complicated”

Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino

Photo: UHH/RRZ/MCC/Mentz

The EU has once again reformed its emissions trading system—even though the previous reform had yet to go into effect. Grischa Perino, professor of...
28 March 2018|Campus

Help us celebrate our anniversary!

Hauptgebäude Universität Hamburg durch Linse

Photo: UHH/Wohlfahrt

In 2019 the University will be celebrating its 100th anniversary. On 28 March 1919 Hamburg Parliament resolved to establish the Hamburgische...
28 March 2018|Campus

28 March 1919 marks the founding of Universität Hamburg

Auszug aus dem Protokoll der Dritten Sitzung der Bürgerschaft der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg vom 28. März 1919

Photo: Auszug aus dem Protokoll der Dritten Sitzung der Bürgerschaft der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg vom 28. März 1919

One year from today, on 28 March 2019, Universität Hamburg will be celebrating its 100th anniversary! On 28 March 1919 a new democratically elected...
27 February 2018|Campus

Three international summer school programs begin in July

Studierende am Elbstrand

Photo: UHH/Dingler

Following last year's successful Particles, Strings and Cosmology summer school pilot program, 3 new international programs on climate change, health...
26 February 2018|Research

Online now: Sustainability Research Map

Forschungslandkarte der Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Sukhina

More than 400 research projects currently involving about 240 scientists and scholars at Universität Hamburg have a connection to the topic of...
23 February 2018|Research

Doctoral candidates want to improve healthcare

Angela Meggiolaro

Photo: UHH/HCHE/Phillips

As part of the EU-funded Improving Quality of Care in Europe (IQCE) European Training Network, a total of 15 doctoral candidates from all over the...
21 February 2018|Research

First professorship for provenance research

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Gesa Jeuthe

Photo: UHH/Dingler

Where does an artwork come from? Who traded or plundered it, or who might have destroyed it? And to whom does it rightfully belong? Provenance...
14 February 2018|International Affairs

From Hanoi to Johannesburg via Hamburg—one student’s truly international journey

Internationaler Studierender an der Universität Hamburg aus Vietnam

Photo: UHH/Wendt

According to the Student Statistics Office 1,555 international students were enrolled in Winter Semester 2017/2018. During the same period the total...
26 January 2018|News

New spider species named after Bob Marley

Spinnenforscher Danilo Harms

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

The Desis bobmarleyi is a new species of spider discovered in the corals of Australia. The spider has now been described for the first time in...
10 January 2018|Campus

How do mangroves protect our climate? Students of Universität Hamburg conducting research on the Fiji Islands.

Mangroven-Inventur auf Fidschi

Photo: Brielmaier/Reimer

Mangroves, salt-water tolerant trees with characteristically high root systems, grow all along the coast of the South Pacific island of Fiji. Yet the...