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6 April 2017|Pressemitteilung

President of Unviersität Hamburg elected to Landeshochschulkonference (LHK)

LHK Logo

Photo: LHK

Professor Dr. Dieter Lenzen, president of Universität Hamburg, has been elected to chair of the Landeshochschulekonferenz (LHK). In line with a rotation principle, he will succeed Dr.-Ing.Walter Pelka from the HafenCity University.
4 April 2017|Press release

Yellow slug turns up in Hamburg's Red Light District!

Exemplar der Nacktschnecken-Art „Bierschnegel“.

Photo: UHH/Neiber

A yellow slug in the middle of the Red Light District! For the past eighty years, researchers have been unable to prove the existence of yellow slugs in Hamburg. In the current Red List of Endangered Species for Hamburg's land snails, the yellow slug has been deemed extinct or lost. Now the slug has...
4 April 2017|Pressemitteilung

On the colonial trail in the African collections of the Übersee-Museum Bremen

Metallskulptur „Looking vor Grace“ der nigerianischen Bildhauerin Sokari Douglas Camp.

Photo: Matthias Haase

An ornate stool from Cameroon, a wooden figure of a man from Tanzania, or an Herero necklace from Namibia: these were the kind of objects that found their way into the collections of the Übersee-Museum during Germany's colonial era.
3 April 2017|Pressemitteilung

Jan Philipp Albrecht speaks about the new EU General Data Protection Regulation

Jan Philipp Albrecht

Photo: Fritz Schumann

In May 2016 following four years of negotiations, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) came into force. From 2018 onwards, it will regulate all data protection within the European Union as the regulation will apply directly to all EU member states. This means that some states will...
30 March 2017|Pressemitteilung

General Lecture Series commences in April with 27 public lecture series

The new program brochure of the AWW

Photo: AWW

In the summer semester Universität Hamburg is once again offering a comprehensive program of public lectures. With a great variety of topics covered in around 300 individual lectures, the General Lecture Series takes listeners on a journey through current questions in science, research, and society...
29 March 2017|Pressemitteilung

Universität Hamburg applies for first-line funding in the Excellence Initiative

Flagge der Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Schell

Outstanding research is the name of the game in the first phase of the Federal and State Excellence Initiative (the successor to the Excellence Initiative). The first hurdle in this important competition has been cleared: on 3 April 2017, grant proposals for the funding of clusters of excellence...
27 March 2017|Pressemitteilung

Science Sundays

Installation of a measuring system to analyze water economy in plants

Photo: Dr. Christoph Reisdorff

The Biocenter Klein Flottbek at Universität Hamburg presents a new scientific outreach event in Loki Schmidt House—Museum for Useful Plants: Science Sundays. Come along and find out all about current research on plants at the Biocenter as well as the work of the Museum.
22 March 2017|Pressemitteilung

„Wahnsinn trifft Methode“ am 23. März zum „Zwirn“

"Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn" und fliegender Engel

Photo: UHH

The talkshow Wahnsinn trifft Method ("madness meets method") jointly hosted by Universität Hamburg and Thalia Theater is set to continue on Thursday, 23 March. The evening is dedicated to yarn, a topic the audience can wrap itself in.
8 March 2017|Pressemitteilung

Kessler's goby fish inhabit the Elbe!

Kessler-Grundel

Photo: UHH/Ralf Thiel

A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Ralf Thiel from the Center of Natural History at Universität Hamburg has confirmed that, for the first time, Kessler's goby fish (Ponticola kessleri) have been found in the Elbe. This is the northernmost sighting thus far. The researchers have published their...
1 March 2017|Pressemitteilung

Digital newspaper stores devour traditional publishers

Prof. Michel Clement und Petra Schulz

Photo: UHH/Wohlfahrt

Digital store apps can negatively affect subscriptions for publishers offering their goods on the Internet. This is the finding of a new study conducted at Universität Hamburg and Groningen University. The research project "Competing with Free: Flatrates in the Publishing Industry" looked for the...
23 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

Invitation to opening of exhibition in Loki Schmidt House

Das Werk „Blumenkranz“ von Elfi Ekhoff.

Photo: Elfi Ekhoff

The collection at Loki Schmidt House has grown in size by more than 100 drawings and aquarelles by artist Elfi Eckhoff from her series "Plants and Animals of the Bible." The latest special exhibition provides insight into these works. Interested members of the public and the media are warmly invited...
14 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

Does the Renewable Energy Act really protect the climate?

Aufnahme einer Landschaft mit Fabrikschloten im goldenen Abendlicht.

Photo: Rabe/pixabay.com

In 2017, the amended Renewable Energy Act (EEG) went into effect. The EEG is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the climate. Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino and Dr. Johannes Jarke from the Department of Socioeconomics at Universität Hamburg investigated just how effectively this...
13 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

"Girls go math 2017"—Math Day for female high school students

Mathematische Operatoren auf einer Schultafel

Photo: pixabay.com

For the tenth year, the Department of Mathematics at Universität Hamburg invites female upper-level high school pupils to a math day on Saturday, 18 February 2017 from 1 to 6 pm at the Gemomatikum, Lecture Hall 4, Bundesstraße 55. Participants will discover aspects of math rarely encountered at...
9 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

Long Night of Postponed Papers

Studierende an Schreibtischen während Langen Nacht der aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten in der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.

Photo: UHH/Dingler

For Universität Hamburg and HafenCity University students who prefer to work in the wee hours, it's once again time to get cracking, keep your nose to the grindstone—and finish! There are various types of writing help available at the 6th Long Night of Postponed Papers.
7 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

Analysis in outer space

Internationale Raumstation (ISS)

Photo: NASA

On 8 February, a transport rocket will head off to the ISS space station. On board: samples from a research group under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Betzel from Universität Hamburg. The group will analyze what happens to the samples at zero gravity.
6 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

Business Administration takes up residence in beautifully restored building

Haus der Betriebswirtschaft

Photo: UHH/ Schell

The old build at Moorweidenstrasse 18 (opposite the Grand Elysée Hotel) is one of Hamburg-Rotherbaum's architectural pearls. Following extensive restoration financed by University funds, the building is now home to Business Administration.
6 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

675,000 euros für digital humanities projects

Links: Dr. Timo Baumann, rechts: Dr. Cristina Vertan

Photo: privat

Two projects at Universität Hamburg have been awarded 450,000 and 225,000 euros respectively as part of the call for funding applications in the area of interactions between qualitative-hermaneutic processes and the digital humanities / mixed methods in the humanities.
1 February 2017|Pressemitteilung

Cluster project on biodiversity in the alluvial forests of the Elbe to receive €4.3 million

Hochwasser in der Auenlandschaft an der Mittelelbe

Photo: Claudia Mählmann

Hardwood alluvial forests play a major role in the natural flood areas of river landscapes (flood retention). In order to better understand the ecology and the spatial and temporal manifestations of alluvial forest activity, researchers will investigate alluvial forest biodiverstiy on the Elbe, a...
26 January 2017|Pressemitteilung

University winter concert: destiny

Universitätsorchester

Photo: G2 Baraniak

The University orchestra and choir as well as the alumni choir cordially invite the public to its winter concert on Sunday, 5 February 2017 at 8 pm (introduction at 7 pm) in the large auditiorium of the Laeiszhalle.
23 January 2017|Pressemitteilung

German Council of Science and Humanities confirms Universität Hamburg is on right path!

German Council of Science and Humanities logo

Photo: Wissenschaftsrat

An overall joyous result for the humanities and the social sciences at Universität Hamburg: the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), the most important academic-political advisory body for the German federal and state governments, has confirmed in its report—published...