Interviews

20 December 2017|Im Fokus

University president Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen and Hamburg's first mayor Olaf Scholz discuss

Universitätspräsident Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen im Gespräch mit dem Ersten Bürgermeister der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Olaf Scholz

In his 70-minute-long keynote address last November, Hamburg's first mayor Olaf Scholz professed his commitment to Hamburg as a center of science. University president Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen took the opportunity to probe a little deeper. During the discussion, Mr. Scholz emphasized the importance...

4 December 2017|Campus

University at 16? Yes, it’s doable!

Photo: UHH/Wendt

With one year less of Gymnasium, German high school students are now younger on average when starting university. According to the Federal Statistics Office, more and more first-year students are minors when they begin their studies. Alissa D., however, is probably one of the youngest. At 16, she is...

30 November 2017|Im Fokus

Commitment to Hamburg as center of science and scholarship. Speech by first mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz

On 28 November, the first mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, gave the keynote address to the Übersee-Club in Hamburg, in which he presented the aims of the Hamburg Senate in the area of science and scholarship. His speech was a clear commitment to Hamburg as a center of science and scholarship. In...

29 November 2017|Pressemitteilung

New Hamburg Foundation of Natural History

Photo: Christian Schnabel

The new Hamburg Foundation of Natural History under the aegis of the University lays the cornerstone for the management of a new natural history museum in the city. Founding members of this trust foundation are the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des Zoologischen Museums Hamburg (society of...

28 November 2017|Interviews

The North-Korea Conflict is Like the Cuban Crisis in Slow Motion: An interview with peace researcher Prof. Götz Neuneck

Photo: IFSH

Tensions continue to grow between North Korea and the United States and there is no resolution in sight. In this interview, physicist and peace researcher Prof. Dr. Götz Neuneck talks about the dangers of and potential solutions to the conflict with North Korea.

27 November 2017|Forschung

PS: It is war. Student research project on letters to and from the front

Photo: UHH/Dingler

How does love function in war? To find this out, 10 students examined a trove of letters between a husband at the front and his wife at home during the First World War. The student-led seminar project earned its organizers more than just credit points.

15 November 2017|In focus

UN Climate Change Conference: Island states can also do something to mitigate the effects of climate change

Photo: UHH/Schöttmer

This year Fiji presided over the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23). The island nation is already struggling with the effects of climate change: for example, 45 villages have had to be resettled due to rising sea levels. Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter researches the ways island nations adapt to climate...

14 November 2017|In focus

UN Climate Change Conference: Lower emissions on our roads and fields more effective than phasing out coal

Photo: UHH/RRZ/MCC/Mentz

Delegates from all over the world have convened in Bonn to agree on common goals to combat climate change and to develop a system that allows us to measure the contributions made by individual states. Once upon a time, Germany was regarded internationally as a leader in combating climate change. Now...

7 November 2017|In focus

UN Climate Change Conference has started: “It won’t work without tangible sanctions”

Photo: Franziska Glück

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) began Monday in Bonn. Thousands of delegates from over 170 countries will negotiate climate goals at the 23rd annual conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The conference runs until 17 November, marking the first...

24 October 2017|Campus

Cornelia Funke and Alexander Gerst appointed honorary senators of Universität Hamburg

Bestseller-Autorin Cornelia Funke und Astronaut Alexander Gerst

Photo: Dressler/Joerg Schwalfenberg; ESA/P. Sebirot

Two alumni of Universität Hamburg, best-selling author Cornelia Funke and astronaut and geophysicist Alexander Gerst, have been appointed honorary senators of Universität Hamburg. This distinction recognizes their special relationship to the University.

19 October 2017|Press release

CeNak als Kooperationspartner der Ausstellung „TIERE“ im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

„Auch der Mensch ist nur ein Tier.“ Diese nüchterne zoologische Betrachtung ist nur eine Perspektive in der Ausstellung „TIERE. Respekt/Harmonie/Unterwerfung“, die vom 3. November 2017 bis zum 4. März 2018 im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) gezeigt wird. Das Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak)...

19 October 2017|Forschung

Particle showers from far-off galaxies

Pierre Auger-Observatorium in Argentinien

Photo: www.auger.org/ Guillermo E. Sierra

Radiation from outer space continuously reaches Earth in the form of electrically charged particles. While many hail from the sun, there are also extremely energy-rich particles whose origins have remained unexplained since their discovery in the 1960s. Over 400 researchers from 18 countries are...

18 October 2017|Pressemitteilung

Code of Conduct for Religious Expression at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Dingler

“The University is an institution for research, teaching, and education. It is secular and committed to ideological pluralism together with scientific methods and standards in research and teaching.” Thus reads the initial and simultaneously seminal sentence of the Code of Conduct for Religious...

16 October 2017|Campus

New perspectives on Aby Warburg: Carlo Ginzburg reads in honor of Martin Warnke

Prof. Dr. Martin Warnke im Lesesaal des Warburg-Hauses

Photo: UHH/Dingler

A number of great names in the field of art history have taught and worked at Universität Hamburg: Aby Warburg (1866–1929), Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968), and Martin Warnke (born 1937), to name a few. Warnke, emeritus professor at our University since 2003, turned 80 on 12 October and to mark this...

12 October 2017|Campus

2017 matriculation celebration on the meaning of life

Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, Katrin Greve und Michel Abdollahi

Photo: Christian Stelling

Starting university is a big step—all the better one marks the occasion together with parents, friends and future study companions. Around 1,400 first-semester students and their families gathered yesterday in the Audimax to take part in the 2017 matriculation ceremony, which addressed the...

10 October 2017|Pressemitteilung

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference: For Germans, the intensive media coverage had a calming, not a mobilizing effect

Photo: Hajue Staudt/WikiCommons

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference was accompanied by extensive media coverage. Though the content managed to reach much of Germany’s populace, it did little to change their attitudes. This was a main finding of a study just released in the journal Nature Climate Change by Professor Michael...

10 October 2017|Campus

Establishing sustainability at universities: the Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit 2017

Dr. Claudia Schmitt auf dem Podium der HSDS

Photo: Markus Scholz/scholzfoto.de

Networking, learning from one another, questioning conventions—it takes small steps off the beaten path to establish sustainability in a large institution like a university, but more and more universities around the world are ready to embark on the journey. The Center for a Sustainable University...

9 October 2017|Campus

15 years of curiosity: The Children's University celebrates its anniversary

Photo: Kinder-Uni Hamburg

In 2003 the Children's University held its first lecture entitled—most appropriately for Hamburg—"Why does it rain?" The series of lectures, aimed at children between 8 and 12 years, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year. [Read on in German . . .]

6 October 2017|Pressemitteilung

Long radio waves: LOFAR radio telescope documents rejuvenation in space

Image of galaxy cluster Abell 1033 using the LOFAR telescope

Photo: LOFAR

Whilst observing galaxy clusters, an international research group led by scientists from Universität Hamburg has discovered a new class of cosmic radio waves. With the digital radio telescope Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), they recieved the longest radio waves capable of being measured on Earth. In...

6 October 2017|Research

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: structural biologist Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald on the importance of cryo-electron microscopy

Prof. Dr. KAy Grünewald vor einem Elektronenmikroskop

Photo: CSSB

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to three pioneers of cryo-electron microscopy, a path-breaking technology enabling us to examine native biological samples using high resolution at low temperatures. Structural biologist Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald researches in this field and explains to us why...