All Media News 2007

The tuition boycott in the winter semester of 2007/2008 at the University of Hamburg has also failed. After some 6000 students took part in the boycott last summer semester, there were, according to the boycott group, only 4517 this semester who transferred their tuition fees to a trust account by the December 17, 2007 deadline. The specified quorum of 9000 participants was not reached.  More...

In the competition for the title of "Professor of the Year 2007", Prof. Dr. Bernhard Pörksen from the Institute of Journalism and Communications at the University of Hamburg took second place in the category "Humanities, Social and Cultural Sciences". The jury recognized his work in linking academic education with practice- oriented qualification. The decision was made on the grounds that "he makes an outstanding committment to preparing his students for their profession". More...

Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Hamburg's Department of Physics and Director of Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics at the German Electron Synchrotron DESY, has been elected by the CERN Council to be the General Director of the European Center for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva. On January 1, 2009, he will succeed the French physicist Pobert Aymar who has been head of CERN since January 1, 2004. His term will be five years. More...

The Department of History war founded on December 11, 1907. Today it celebrates its 100th anniversary beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Lecture Hall D of the Philosophenturm, Von-Melle-Park 6. Around 200 guests from the University, city government, society and commerce are expected. More...

The Department of Chemistry and the Friends and Promoters of Chemistry of the University of Hamburg cordially invite you to an awards ceremony for the best vordiplomas, diplomas, exams and doctorates, with prizes totalling over 4500 euros on Friday, December 14, 2007, beginning at 4:15 p.m., in the Department of Chemistry, Hall B, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6. More...

The University of Hamburg will receive funds immediately from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to carry out the project "Women in Top-Level Research - Examining the Realization of Equal Opportunity for Men and Women in the Three Guiding Principles of the Federal and State Excellence Initiative". Almost one million euros will be made available for this comprehensive research project. It is set to run for 5 years and will begin its work in December 2007. The 17 research clusters, 18 graduate schools and 3 future concepts of the first round of the excellence initiative will be examined. More...

The Department of History celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. It was established 12 years before the University of Hamburg. On this occasion the Department will welcome guests from the University, city government, society and commerce at the festivities on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. (c.t.) in Hall D of the Philosophenturm, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg.  More...

After a two-year construction period, the redesigned main building of the Institute of Experimental Physics in Bahrenfeld will be dedicated. The ceremony will take place on Thursday, December 6, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, Building 62. More...

The University of Hamburg's new Center for the Study of Buddhism cordially invites you to the first lecture in its lecture and discussion series which will be given by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Brodbeck, Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt: „Greed or Compassion: A Buddhist View of the Global Economy“. More...

Guests from the University of Hamburg and the other Hamburg schools of higher education as well as from the community, organizations, politics and commerce are expected when the University of Hamburg bids farewell to Prof. Dr. Karl-Werner Hansmann as Vice-President of the University and welcomes Prof. Dr. H. Siegfried Stiehl und Prof. Dr. Gabriele Löschper into office. More...

The Hamburg schools of higher education have been successful in their bid for the Universiade 2015: Today, November 19, 2007, the plenary meeting of the General German University Association unanimously chose Hamburg as Germany's city to compete internationally for the Universiade 2015. Hamburg has great chances of becoming the international venue in 2015 for the second-largest sporting event in the world after the Olympics. More...

Around 1.5 billion people, economic growth with an annual increase of six - ten percent and continually growing energy needs: Industry and economy are developing rapidly but are polluting the environment. Economic boom, energy needs, environmental protection and changes in the language in the age of IT - these are the topics of this year's University of Hamburg Asia-Africa Institute's South Asian Day. More...

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Helmut Greve receives an honorary doctorate from the Department of Protestant Theology of the Faculty of Humanities.  More...

120 graduates of the Faculty of Law who passed their first state law exams in the past months will be celebrated at the university today. The head of the Justice Administration, Senator Carsten Ludwig Lüdemann, will welcome them. More...

What constitutes good humanities research? What new findings have been uncovered in philosophy, history, philology? Compared to the natural and technological sciences, it is much more difficult in the humanities to find a measuring stick to assess research findings. University President Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz will discuss with representatives from the sciences and politics the topic of quality in the humanities and pursue the question of how it can be measured.  More...

Professor Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Ontario), will give the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Lectures this year. The topic will be „In The Defense of Time“. The opening lecture,  „The Role of Time in the Completion of Einstein's Revolution“, will take place on Monday, November 19, 2007, from 6:15-8:00 p.m. in the Main Building of the University of Hamburg, Agathe Lasch Lecture Hall (B). More...

The University of Hamburg invites all upper-level high school students from Hamburg and environs and other interested parties to inform themselves about the study process and to get to know the university. Visitors may choose from more than 280 presentations. More...

Campus-SEED offers counselling and support
Autonomy is the core of academic work, but many students lack information about the opportunities and the risks involved in having independent careers. The initiative Campus-SEED would like to help. More...

Top-class speakers from academia and practice look at the taxation of public resources and the related question of standardizing the public budget and accounting system. More...

On invitation by the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg, the Burma expert Dr. Hans-Bernd Zöllner will give a lecture on the topic: Burma in Difficulties: Current Information from a Beleaguered Country “. More...

 Beginning this winter semester, the interdisciplinary master course of studies "European Studies" is also being offered at the Akdeniz University in Antalya in Turkey.  More...

Two months ago the new year began in Ethiopia - the year 2000, according to the Ethiopian calendar. The new millenium festivities in the capitol Addis Abeba have attracted prominent people from around the world - among them, Angela Merkel. The University of Hamburg would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to a public lecture series by the leading Ethiopian historian Professor Shiferaw Bekele, University of Addis Abeba. More...

The history of history recording is experiencing a remarkable revival at the moment. Having been dormant for years, historiography and the biographies of historians are being rediscovered.  More...

The University of Hamburg's Department of History celebrates its 100th birthday this year. It was established 12 years before the University of Hamburg was founded. The celebration will include a wide-ranging program open to members of the university and the interested public in the Hamburg metropolitan region.  More...

The course of study "Performance Studies" at the University of Hamburg engages international guest instructors every semester for the classes it offers. This winter semester, the performance artist Eszter Salamon has been invited. She will introduce herself by presenting a lecture demonstration to students and the public on Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 7:15 p.m. on the Studio Stage of the University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 8, 20146 Hamburg. More...

Hamburg's junior scholars are in demand: On October 1, 2007 Dr. Franziska Völckner (30) will assume her first chair for business management at the University of Cologne. She is the youngest qualified prorfessor for economic sciences in Germany. More ...

Around 1000 botanists from 15 countries will discuss the newest findings in the botanical sciences at the Annual Convention of the German Botanical Society from September 3-7, 2007 at the University of Hamburg. More ...

The new joint job center of the University of Hamburg, AStA of the University of Hamburg and the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg is online. Starting now at www.stellenwerk-hamburg.de students and graduates can search for current job offers as well as practical experience and diploma work positions. More ...

Translating legal texts for various national legal systems, compiling special subject dictionaries, analyzing special subject communication between busniess partners, special subject communication in the age of multimedia - these are just a few of the current topics which will be presented and discussed in six parallel meetings at the  international symposium „Language for Special Purposes – Special Language in Global Communication“. More ...

The University of Hamburg und the „Office of Chinese Language Council International“ (Hanban) will establish a Confucius Institute. Today, August 6, the President of the University of Hamburg, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, and the embassy counselor of the People's Republic of China, Dr. Liu Jinghui, will sign the framework agreement. More ...

There is continued interest in studying at the University of Hamburg. There were 23,978 applications to study at the University for winter semester 2007/08. The previous winter semester there were 22,782 applicants. Available study places number 4,656. More ...

Fourteen days still remain to pay tuition fees. More ...

In the scope of the international polar year, scientists of the University of Hamburg will, embark on an expedition to the Arctic on board the research vessel "Polarstern" on July 28, 2007. Using the University's unique radar equipment  „Multi³Scat“, they plan to observe thin ocean ice and melting pools on the ice on location. The results of these measurements will considerably improve ocean ice forecasts by means of existing and future satellites. More ...

With a donation of 10 000 euros, the JOM Jäschke Operational Media GmbH will pay  tuition fees for several students. More ...

A team of students from the double-degree program „Master/MBA International Business and Economics (MIBE) – China Focus“ of the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) of the University of Hamburg and Fudan University in Shanghai have received the „Most Innovative Team“ Award in the first „Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance (YICGG)“. More ...

Street children in Brasil, war orphans in Southern Europe, neglected children in big German cities: The topic "Children and Youth in Risky Life Situations" is timely. Children and youth have always been exposed to special risks in all cultural contexts. Which situations are considered dangerous, how societies come to feel threatened by children and youth, and what historically is seen and defined as a risk will be analyzed by around 200 congress participants from 37 countries at the 29th International Standing Conference for the History of Education „Children and Youth at Risk“.  More ...

The Society of Ancient Philosophy is expecting 250 experts from here and abroad to participate in their second convention "Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy" from July 18-21, 2007 at the University of Hamburg. More ...

Starting today, twelve students of the Institute of Soil Science in the Department of Earth Sciences will visit the Yamal Lowlands in Russia for two weeks with the Vice-Dean of Studies and Teaching, Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. More ...

On July 20, 2007, the 14th Dalai Lama will speak at the "1st International Congress on Buddhist Women“. Council of State Dr. Roland Salchow and University President Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz will greet the Dalai Lama at 10:00 a.m. in the University's Auditorium Maximum. More ...

After renovating the west wing of its library, the Department of hemistry will re-open it as the Wolf Walter Reading Room on Friday, July 13, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. in the Department of Chemistry library, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6. More ...

At the close of the lecture series "Hamburg Humanities Today" in what the Federal Ministry for Education and Research has pronounced the "Year of the Humanities", the last lecture by Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte (Institute für Theater, Free University Berlin) will take place: „Which Stage are We Playing on? Humanities,  the Public and Politics.“ More ...

The Unviersity of Hamburg's Women's Promotion Award which will be conferred for eleventh time, will this year go to the Women's Career Center. Christiane Eiche, Frauke Narjes and Anne Kadisch will accept the award. The 10 000-euro prize is given for outstanding and ongoing commitment to promoting women at the University of Hamburg. More ...

Hamburg software company will support outstanding students in the area of data bases/information systems with a two-year scholarship. More ...

The Department of Chemistry and the Friends and Support Association of Chemistry of the University of Hamburg e.V. heartily welcome you to an event celebrating the awarding of prizes totalling over 4000 euros for the best Vordiplome, Diplome, exams and doctorates. More ...

The Karl H. Ditze Foundation will award the Karl H. Ditze Prize for outstanding theses and dissertations in the humanities for the sixth time. This time four works from the subject areas history and archeology will be honored. More ...

The physisist Professor Dr. Klaus Sengstock, Managing Director of the Institute of Laser Physics and head of the research group „Quantum Gases and Spectroscopy“ will stay at the University of Hamburg. Sengstock, who was offered a position in Heidelberg, has renegotiated his contract with the university and academic authorities, starting July 1, 2007.  More ...

After today's report on the topic of a "university pact", University President, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, is keen to note that the situation between the Science Ministry and the university has not come to a head.  More ...

The University of Hamburg and HAW Hamburg offer the joint university course of study economic engineering (HWI) as a bachelor-master degree program. More ...

The University Society Hamburg has assured the university its support in the public debate on the future of the university. The University Society plans to strengthen the use of its network to promote the university's cause and a "fruitful dialogue" in the Hanseatic City. This was prompted by a speech by President Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz on "Setting a Course for Our University" held before members of the University Society and numerous guests on Tuesday evening, June 26, 2007.  More ...

The choir and orchestra of the university, together with their director Professor Bruno de Greeve, invite you to this year's summer concert featuring works by Joseph Haydn (Der Sturm), Ludwig van Beethoven (Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt), Antonin Dvorak (In der Natur), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (from: Die erste Walpurgisnacht) and Richard Strauss (Wandrers Sturmlied).  More ...

The Hamburg path to "Religious Instruction for Everyone" offers high school students, regardless of their religious affiliation, room to learn from each other. Religious division does not take place in Hamburg - unlike most other states. This concept has been tested for many years and is well-received by students and teachers. There is also the mayor's contending suggestion of February 2006 to introduce Islamic religious instruction into Hamburg's schools. As a result, a discussion began in the Hanseatic City which has not yet ended. More ...

The Hamburg Dryland Research Centre at the University of Hamburg, in cooperation with European DesertNet, a scientific network for global research on land desolation in arid regions, will establish a scientific forum. This program will have as its topic potentials and risks of using natural resources (water, soil, vergetation) in dry areas. Hamburg scientists will meet with a high-ranking delegation from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo/Syria. The aim of the forum is to discuss possibilities for future cooperation between the University of Hamburg and ICARDA. The ICARDA delegation will visit the Foreign Ministry in Berlin the day before. The program will take place on June 27, 2007 from 8:30 -12:15 in the BioCenter Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, small lecture room, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22926 Hamburg. More ...

The Department of Informatics of the University of Hamburg invites you to a lecture given by the Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia, S.E. Dr. Clyde Kull on the topic of „Economic Growth through IT, the Estonian Example“ on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:15 p.m., in the Academic Senate Hall of the university, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg.
The lecture is part of the Informatics Colloquium. The interested public is welcome.  More ...

10th Event Day at the University of Hamburg's Department of Human Movement

The Department of Human Movement, in cooperation with HIS e.V.,invites the public to its 10th event day "Fit after 50? - Fit to 100", with the topic: "Avoiding Falls through Balance Therapy", on Sunday, June 24, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Turmweg 2.
Admission is free to the more than 20 presentations on "balance". Balance and agility training, Tai Chi, inline skating, Nordic walking, dancing, back exercises and much more will demonstrate ways of finding outer and inner balance. More ...

The tuition boycott at the University of Hamburg has failed. Despite the deadline extension, only about 15 percent of the University of Hamburg students took part in the boycott and transferred their tuition fees to a trust account. The organizers' quorum of 10 000 participants was not reached. More ...

The Department of Near East Studies Die Abteilung für Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients (Turkish Studies) of the Asia-Africa Institut of the University of Hamburg, in cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for Euro-Asiatic Studies e.V., will host a congress on the topic of "Bioethical and Health Challenges for the Islamic World: AIDS, Drugs and Reproductive Medicine" on Friday, June 22, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Asia-Africa Institute, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, East Wing, Room 22.
Drug consumption, AIDS and modern reproductive medicine constitute global challenges in the 21st century which are not restricted to certain regions or cultures. While this for years has been intensively and controversially discussed in Germany and the Western World, we still know little about how other religions and cultures deal with spreading epidemics or the consequences of technological development. The focus of the congress will be on ethical and legal assessments of global health problems and medical development in the Islamic World. Phenomena such as biotechnology, drug consumption and AIDS have in common that they, to a great extent, collide with Islam's view of man. These are challenges for the societies involved which can be just as defining for their future as political and military conflicts. More ...

The University of Hamburg invites you to the opening of the new transfer area of the special research area "Multilingualism" on June 13, 2007, 11:00 a.m. at the University of Hamburg's Guest House, Rothenbaumchaussee 34, 20148 Hamburg. More ...

The Consulat Général de France and the Institute of International and Intercultural Comparative Education of the University of Hamburg invite you to a lecture: Prof. Dr. Agnès van Zanten, Paris, La fin de la méritocratie: les choix éducatifs des classes moyennes (The End of Social Climbing: The Education of the Middle and Upper Classes) The lecture will be in French with translation by Didier Gammelin. More ...

Hamburg high school students in grades 10 -13 will again have a chance to work and experiment in the area of physics.  More ...

The University Players will perform the classic play by Oscar Wilde in English from June 12 - 15 and June 17 - 23, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Hamburg's Audimax, Von-Melle-Park 4. More ...

Winter semester 2007/08 the Institute of Criminological Social Research of the University of Hamburg will offer for the first time the new continuing education master course of study Criminology. Those working in pertinent areas of criminology can earn the title Master of Arts (M.A.) in the two-semester, work-parallel course of study (includes writing a thesis). Thirty students will be admitted to the course of study annually. More ...

The Department of Education of the University of Hamburg invites you to a lecture by Konrad Paul Liessmann, author of the recent book  „Theorie der Unbildung“ and professor for philosophy at the University of Vienna. More ...

The University of Hamburg and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg invite you to a lecture More ...

The Faculty of Law and Law School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong are hosting joint summer academies More ...

How the baby phone has affected everyday family life, how internet communication has influenced desire and intimacy, how a wind power plant is talked about in a village, if instructions for product use facilitate successful communication today or what movements and feelings music-making women-machines created in the late 18th century - such interesting questions and many more will be answered by 45 scientists from the most diverse fields at the second international „Congress of Cultural Technology Research“ More ...

With its UniversitätsColleg, the University of Hamburg offers high school graduates who have not chosen to settle on a degree program the opportunity to start their studies in several subjects. More ...

After a one-and-a-half-year construction period, the new Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center of the University of Hamburg (INCH) is now finished and offers more than 1,300 m² of space for the most modern facilities in which 40-45 nanoscientists from the areas of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and informatics can do joint research. The nanosciences concern themselves with the production, characterization and use of structures with a size under 100 nanometers. (A nanometer is a millionth part of a millimeter). The International Nanoscience Symposium" will take place in the new facility from May 30 - June 1, 2001. More ...

From May 30 - June 2, 2007, the world's largest conference on bilingualism will take place at the University of Hamburg's Audimax. The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB) will be hosted by the special research area Multilingualism, a research center financed by the German Research Association, in which 18 projects on bilingual language acquisition, language development and multilingual communication are being examined. More ...

It's a big day for particle physics in Germany: Today the senate of the Association of German Research Centers appropriated 25 million euros for the next five years for the project recommendation  „Helmholtz Alliance – Physics at the Teraskala“. Under the leadership of he German Electron Synchrotron DESY, 17 universities, the Karlsruhe Research Center and the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Munich will participate. More ...

The prize given by Sun Microsystems for the best Vordiplom of 2006 in informatics was received by Marc Päpper on May 11, 2007. The Sun Company and its MCS sales department with their generous donation of 8000 euros, have shown their bond with the university for the sixteenth time. Vice President Fischer values this cooperation highly: "With this award we can reward outstanding performance early and give our students motivation for efficient and ambitious studies." More...

The first of three university lectures in the series nachgedacht (reflection) will take place on May 14. More...

No other university in Germany offers such a diverse and comprehensive spectrum of languages, literature and culture as the University of Hamburg. The Faculty of Humanities, home of almost 100 language and cultural sciences, presents an impressive program in the "Year of the Humanities" to make its work visible to the public. More...

Die Stiftung Lesen hat gestern das Modellprogramm „Förderung von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund – FÖRMIG“ mit einem der sechs renommierten AusLese-Preise der Stiftung in der Kategorie „Herausragende Initiativen“ ausgezeichnet. Mehr...

Durch die Kooperation der Universität Hamburg, des Hochschulsports Hamburg und des Hamburger Hockeyverbands konnte das neue Landesleistungszentrum Hockey im Sportpark Rothenbaum realisiert werden. Mehr...

Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Konrad Zuse, der Erfinder des Computers, war auch ein Künstler. Die Hamburger Informatik zeigt ab dem 23. April eine wenig bekannte Seite des Autodidakten: Mehr...

Die RespectResearchGroup, eine interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe an der Universität Hamburg, wurde als „Ort im Land der Ideen 2007“ von der gleichnamigen Standortinitiative der Bundesregierung und der deutschen Wirtschaft ausgewählt. Mehr...

Der Akademische Senat der Universität Hamburg hat in seiner Sitzung am 19. April 2007 die gemäß Hamburgischem Hochschulgesetz von Universitätspräsidentin Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz vorgeschlagenen neuen Mitglieder des Universitätspräsidiums bestätigt. Mehr...

Die Universität Hamburg baut Brücken für ein künftiges Europa: Ab dem Wintersemester wird der Masterstudiengang für Europastudien der Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Akdeniz Universität im türkischen Antalya angeboten. Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) fördert diesen Export mit 400.000 Euro. Mehr...

Eröffnung des neuen Landesleistungszentrums Hockey im Sportpark der Universität Hamburg Mehr...

Der Mathematik-Frauenförderungsausschuss des Departments Mathematik und engagierte Studentinnen und Studenten laden ein zum ersten „girls-go-math“-Tag an der Universität Hamburg für alle Schülerinnen der 11. bis 13. Klasse Mehr...

Im Rahmen der Exzellenzinitiative des Bundes und der Länder reicht die Universität Hamburg zum 13. April 2007 den Antrag für das Exzellenzcluster „Integrated Climate System Analysis und Prediction“ (CliSAP) bei der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ein. Mehr...

Der Alumni-Verein Hamburger Soziologinnen und Soziologen e.V. und die Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Hamburg laden ein zu einem Gastvortrag von Dr. Erich Behrendt, Vorsitzender des Berufsverbandes Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen (BDS), über „Schlüsselqualifikationen von Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlern – ihre Bedeutung für den Arbeitsmarkt und ihre Vermittlung in der Lehre“ Mehr...

Das International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) der Universität Hamburg lädt ein zum Masterprogramm-Informationstag mit Unternehmensbörse Mehr...

Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich, Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Hamburg, wurde wegen seiner hervorragenden Leistungen im Bereich der Atmosphären- und Klimadynamik vom Präsidenten der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), Prof. Dr. Peter Gruss, zum Max-Planck-Fellow am Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (MPI-M) ernannt. Mehr...

Wissenschaftler des Instituts für Meereskunde (IfM) der Universität Hamburg haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass in naher Zukunft Satelliten für Strömungsmessungen in Küstengewässern und Flüssen eingesetzt werden können. Schon seit 1993 befasst sich die Fernerkundungsgruppe des IfM mit einem innovativen Radarverfahren, dem „Along-Track InSAR“, das Bilder von Strömungsfeldern liefert. Nach umfangreichen Vorarbeiten erhoffen sich die Hamburger erste quasi-routinemäßige Strömungsmessungen vom deutschen Satelliten TerraSAR-X, dessen Start im April erwartet wird. Mehr...

Die Präsidentin der Universität Hamburg, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, hat heute morgen die Studienanfängerinnen und -anfänger des Sommersemesters 2007 im Agathe-Lasch-Hörsaal (Hörsaal B) der Universität begrüßt. Mehr...

Für alle Studienanfängerinnen und Studienfänger gibt es auch in diesem Sommersemester wieder die traditionelle Begrüßung der Erstsemester, am Montag, dem 26. März 2007, Mehr...

Der Abschluss-Bericht einer Studie an der Universität Hamburg über Einstellungen zu Videoüberwachung und räumliche Wahrnehmung liegt jetzt vor Mehr...

Der Dokumentarfilm „Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work“ wird erstmals in Hamburg öffentlich aufgeführt. Auf Einladung von HIForum e.V. und des Departments Informatik findet die Filmvorführung im Beisein des heute 84-jährigen Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Joseph Weizenbaum statt Mehr...

Die Universität Hamburg hat heute, am 14. März 2007, ihr Konzept zur Verbesserung der Studienbedingungen vorgestellt. Die Maßnahmen waren von Universitätsleitung und Fakultäten gemeinsam erarbeitet worden. Konkret sollen bereits im Sommersemester Projekte mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 7 Millionen Euro umgesetzt werden. Mehr...

Vortrag der Präsidentin im ZONTA-Club anlässlich des Weltfrauentages Mehr...

Mit Beginn des Wintersemesters startet der neue LL.M.-Studiengang Versicherungsrecht (Master in Insurance Law) an der Universität Hamburg. Mehr...

Unter dem Einfluss der Globalisierung, der fortschreitenden EU-Integration und neuer Diskussionen über die Legitimität staatlicher Ausgaben hat sich die nationalstaatliche Sozialpolitik in europäischen Gesellschaften gewandelt. Mehr...

Im Rahmen einer Festveranstaltung im Warburg-Haus Hamburg hat die Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Hamburg dem Germanisten Prof. Dr. Klaus Weimar von der Universität Zürich heute die Würde eines Doktors der Philosophie ehrenhalber verliehen. Mehr...

Bei dem von der European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) organisierten „Deutschland-Moot Court Wettbewerb“ verhandeln Jura-Studenten aus bis zu 42 deutschen Universitäten einen fiktiven Fall vor Gericht. Erstmals erreicht ein Team der Universität Hamburg das Finale. Mehr...

Sprachwissenschaftler der Universität Hamburg erhalten eine Förderung von rund 1 Million Euro für den Transferbereich des „Sonderforschungsbereichs 538: Mehrsprachigkeit“. Transferbereiche dienen dazu, Ergebnisse der Grundlagenforschung in praktische Anwendungen umzusetzen. Der neue Transferbereich entwickelt praxisrelevante Anwendungen auf der Grundlage der im SFB seit 1999 erzielten Forschungsergebnisse. Die Transfervorhaben sind in den Bereichen der Bildung, Aus- und Weiterbildung bzw. Qualifizierung angesiedelt. Bei den konzipierten Produkten handelt es sich um Lehr- bzw. Lernmaterialien, Qualifizierungsmodule und Beratungsmodule. Mehr...

Zum Gedenken an das Leben und Wirken von Dr. Joseph Carlebach (1883-1942), bis zu seiner Deportation 1941 nach Riga der letzte Oberrabbiner der Gemeinden Altona (1926-1936) und Hamburg (1936-1941), verleiht die Universität Hamburg für herausragende wissenschaftliche Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte, Religion und Kultur zum zweiten Mal den Joseph Carlebach-Preis. Mehr...

Das Projekt Elternuniversität am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft der Universität Hamburg veranstaltet ein öffentliches Seminar zum Thema "Geburt und Geburtsvorbereitung als pädagogische Kompetenzen" Mehr...

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schweigert, Mathematiker an der Universität Hamburg, ist vom französischen Minister für Bildung und Forschung, Gilles de Robien, für seine Verdienste um die französisch-deutsche Wissenschaftskooperation mit dem Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Forschungspreis ausgezeichnet worden. Mehr...

Hamburgs Schülerinnen und Schüler experimentieren Mehr...

8. Hamburger Sicherheitsgewerberechtstag der Forschungsstelle Sicherheitsgewerbe (FORSI) der Universität Hamburg. Mehr...

Fast 1200 Gäste aus der Universität Hamburg und den anderen Hamburger Hochschulen, aus Gesellschaft, Verbänden, Politik und Wirtschaft nahmen am Donnerstag, dem 1. Februar 2007, an der feierlichen Amtsantrittsveranstaltung der neuen Universitätspräsidentin, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter Kurtz, teil. Die gebürtige Stuttgarterin hatte ihr Amt am 1. November 2006 angetreten. Mehr...

Die Universitätsleitung hat die Aktion, bei der heute eine Büste im Foyer des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Hamburg zerstört wurde, scharf verurteilt. Mehr...

Chor und Orchester der Universität Hamburg laden gemeinsam mit ihrem Dirigenten Professor Bruno de Greeve herzlich ein zum diesjährigen Winterkonzert mit Werken von „Ernest W. Mulder: Symphonia Sacra“ und „Jan Koetsier: Symphonie No. 2“ Mehr...

Auf dem Gelände des Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotrons DESY in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld wurde heute das neue „Laboratorium für Strukturbiologie von Infektion und Entzündung“ eingeweiht. Mehr...

Für seine „Hervorragenden Beiträge zum Verständnis vieler ozeanischer Prozesse und geschickte Anwendung von Theorie, Beobachtung und numerischer Modellierung“ wurde der Ozeanograph Prof. Dr. Rolf Käse zum Fellow der American Geophysical Union (AGU) ernannt. Mehr...

Die Haspa Hamburg Stiftung spendet 50.000 Euro an die Studienstiftung der Universität Hamburg. 10.000 Euro werden als Gründungskapital für die von Studierenden initiierte Studienstiftung Universität Hamburg bereitgestellt, weitere 40.000 Euro stehen über vier Jahre verteilt für die Ehrung besonders guter Abschlüsse zur Verfügung. Mehr...

Deutschland braucht IT-Nachwuchs. Die Zahl der Informatik-Studierenden ist insgesamt zu niedrig. Frauen fehlen der IT-Branche generell. Mehr...

Die University Players zeigen Stella Feehilys „DUCK“ (in englischer Sprache) vom 23. bis 27. Januar und 29. Januar bis 3. Februar 2007, Mehr...

Anlässlich seines 150. Geburtstages ehrt die Universität Hamburg ihren ersten Rektor Karl Rathgen mit einer Akademischen Gedenkfeier. Mehr...

Ihr Buch „Medienmenschen“ ist soeben erschienen Mehr...

Universitätspräsidentin Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz gab am Dienstag, dem 16. Januar 2007, den Startschuss für ein spektakuläres Projekt: Mehr...

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Wissenschaftsrat haben heute am 12. Januar die Ergebnisse der Begutachtung der Antragsskizzen für die zweite Vergaberunde der Exzellenzinitiative des Bundes und der Länder bekannt gegeben. Mehr...

Unter der Schirmherrschaft des Instituts für Handel und Marketing der Universität Hamburg veranstalten zum ersten Mal die Hamburger Studenteninitiativen „MTP – Marketing zwischen Theorie und Praxis e.V.“, „AIESEC“, „Hanseatic Consulting“ und „Wi-Ing Aktiv“ einen der größten von Studenten organisierten Marketingkongresse Mehr...

Unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Christoph Schäfer haben Geschichtswissenschaftler der Universität Hamburg erstmals ein römisches Kriegsschiff in Originalgröße rekonstruiert. Vorlage dafür sind etwa 16 Meter lange römische Schiffe aus dem ersten und zweiten Jahrhundert nach Christus, Mehr...