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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.

27 December 2023|Excellence Strategy

Students Learn to Perform Minimally Invasive Operations

Photo of the student research group in front of the UKE

Photo: Private

Minimally invasive operation techniques are increasingly replacing more conventional operation procedures. Yet for operating doctors, these internal...
21 December 2023|Research

Puberty: Positive Communication Experiences Increase Self-Esteem

Group of adolescents with skateboards

Photo: pexels/Olia Danilevich

They all think I’m an idiot— don’t they? The project SNAP—Social Interaction and Adolescent Personality headed by Prof. Dr. Jenny Wagner and Eva...
14 December 2023|Campus

Universität Hamburg Students Awarded in the iGEM Competition 2023

Sebastian Federle, Junsoo Im, Jule Krawietz, Lisa Siemers, Maren Hinz, Joel Senador, Jonas Westphal, Lennert Weber, Andrea Köthe, Melina Baar, Fanny Ott, Timon Warschau, Amelie Geuer, Malcolm Rose

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Federle

More and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. A team of 15 students at Universität Hamburg has found an innovative alternative way to...
13 December 2023|Campus

Opening hours for libraries and cafeterias

Philturm library

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Many of the libraries and cafeterias will be closed over the break. University Sports and the University Museum will also be taking a break. Here is...
13 December 2023|In focus

Assistance programs UHHhilft and the Hamburg Programme for Scholars at Risk Assistance Programs Extended

University’s president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren at the press conference at the University Museum

Photo: Universität Hamburg

Universität Hamburg’s assistance programs UHHhilft and the Hamburg Programme for Scholars at Risk offer rapid and unbureaucratic help to researchers...
12 December 2023|Campus

“I try to get socially involved everywhere I go.”

Sadequle Islam and Hauke Heekeren

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Sadequle Islam graduated from the Faculty of Education and is this year’s winner of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Prize. The prize is...
12 December 2023|Campus

2023 in pictures

It's half-time for the Excellence Strategy. Numerous guests visit Universität Hamburg and new events and activities enrich exchange here and with the...
8 December 2023|Research

Coping with Catastrophes—€9 million for New Project

Storm surge crashing onto benches

Photo: pixabay/Wickedgood

The interdisciplinary research project Rescue Mate should prepare Hamburg for challenges posed by extreme weather events. The federally funded project...
6 December 2023|Excellence Strategy

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reach New Record High

Smoking industrial smokestack

Photo: pixabay/jwvein

The new report by the Global Carbon Project shows that fossil CO2 emissions will reach a record high in 2023. If emissions remain that high, according...
5 December 2023|Research

Less cost, Less carbon dioxide: Reducing Packages in Online Trade

Packages on a conveyor belt in a warehouse

Photo: iStock/alvarez

More and more is being bought online, and that is leading to ever more packages. Often, individual articles in the same order are sent separately...
5 December 2023|Excellence Strategy

Blickwechsel. An African-European Exchange

Key visual of the event Blickwechsel. An African-European Exchange

Photo: HIAS

How can we decolonize the world? And what does that precisely mean for Africa and Europe? The artist Tsitsi Dangarembga and the political scientist...
1 December 2023|Research

How an Enzyme Uses Sunlight to Repair DNA

The image shows the construction at X-ray free electron laser at SwissFEL, which generates the ultrashort X-ray pulse required for the analysis of the DNA repair mechanism.

Photo: DESY/Pateras

Damage to DNA causes aging, cell-death, and even cancer. Therefore, repairing damaged DNA is vital for all organisms. An international research team...
17 November 2023|Excellence Strategy

How Orchards in Altes Land Could Slow Down Climate Change

In 2023, Universität Hamburg funded 13 research projects from the Knowledge Exchange Fund. This year’s application call focused especially on projects...
15 November 2023|In Focus

Universität Hamburg Delegation Visits US Strategic Partner Universities

Universität Hamburg delegation’s US trip

Photo: Private

President Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren and a delegation from the University visited strategic partner universities in the United States from 6 to 10...
14 November 2023|Forschung

The Power of Ancestry in Early Modern Asia, Europe, and Middle East

Part of the family tree of the Auerspergs, an Austrian aristocratic family

Photo: Markus Friedrich

Social, political, or religious privileges are often derived from imaginary or real lineages. Researchers are now scrutinizing the role of ancestry in...
13 November 2023|Internal

On 13 November, he celebrated his 80th birthday.

Eckart Krause at the Hamburg Library of University History

Photo: UHH/AfUG

Dr. h.c. Eckart Krause has long been considered the “memory” of the University of Hamburg. On 13 November, he celebrated his 80th birthday.
9 November 2023|In Focus

Never Again is Now—Universität Hamburg Rejects All Forms of Anti-Semitism

The Main Building at dusk

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Denstorf

Today, Universität Hamburg is commemorating the Jewish victims of the progrom on 9 November 1938. Injustice, violent destruction, the revocation of...
7 November 2023|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Eckart David Schmidt strengthens the humanities.

Prof. Dr. Eckart David Schmidt

Photo: UHH/Röttger

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

Video introduces EU research project into paid parental leave

Key visual from CA21150

Photo: CA21150

The EU funded Parental Leave Policies and Social Sustainability project, led at Universität Hamburg by social scientist Dr. Thordis Reimer, addresses...
2 November 2023|Excellence Strategy

How do we secure biodiversity? Senate Reception for Hamburger Horizonte Series

Senate Reception for Hamburger Horizonte Series

Photo: Claudia Höhne/Körber-Stiftung

Environmental harm caused by humans, need for land, and many other factors are leading to a dramatic decrease in species diversity. Experts have been...