| 1 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies admits 15 new candidates and offers 10 scholarships - [Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:27:00 -0000 ] Closing date for the winter term 2014 will be November 15, 2013
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| 2 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Up to six PhD scholarships for Moral Economies of Modern Societies - [Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:45:00 -0000 ] Highly motivated M. A. are encouraged to apply Application period: November 1st to December 1st, 2013
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 3 | 2016-05-02
3rd Week of Your Researcher - [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:16:15 -0000 ] Aviation and Space is Topic in Novosibirsk
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 4 | 2016-05-02
Autumn Call for short term scholarship GERSS. Apply now! - [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:28:00 -0000 ] Deadline for application:15 October 2013
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| 5 | 2016-05-02
New open positions for PhD and PostDoc - [Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:20:00 -0000 ] Four new open positions at FU Berlin were submitted to which candidates from the Brazilian scholarship program Science without Borders can apply. The new positions are from the subject areas of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. Details about the open positions can be find on the List of Open Positions.
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| 6 | 2016-05-02
New Open Positions for PhD and PostDoc at FU Berlin - [Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:20:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität is offering an extensive number of open PhD and postdoctoral positions for CsF candidates from priority areas in the fields of natural sciences and life sciences. Furthermore there are currently Calls for Applications for two structured doctoral programs in the humanities. Further information you find below.
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| 7 | 2016-05-02
New Open Positions for PhD and PostDoc at FU Berlin - [Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:20:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität is offering an extensive number of open PhD and postdoctoral positions for CsF candidates from priority areas in the fields of natural sciences and life sciences. Furthermore there are currently Calls for Applications for two structured doctoral programs in the humanities and from the International Mathematical Union Berlin and the Einstein Foundation Berlin for research stays ...
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| 8 | 2016-05-02
Research Stay Funding for Junior Researchers - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:25:00 -0000 ] PhD students and postdoctoral students with Research Alumni contacts at Freie Universität Berlin may still apply for research stay funding until September 30, 2013.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 9 | 2016-05-02
Tagesspiegel-Beilage: An Interview with the Speakers of the Focus Area DynAge [Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:34:00 -0000 ]
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| 10 | 2016-05-02
Literary Studies - [Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:30:00 -0000 ] The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School is the only graduate school focusing exclusively on literary studies that was successful in both phases of the national Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments.
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| 11 | 2016-05-02
Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2013-2014: Freie Universität Berlin among Four Best Universities in Germany - [Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:50:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin, according to the latest World University Rankings by the highly regarded journal, Times Higher Education (THE), is one of the four best universities in Germany. As announced by THE in London, Freie Universität ranked 86 in the overall world rankings, an improvement of 42 positions since the last such rankings. In the humanities subjects, LMU Munich at rank 21 and Freie Universität Berlin at rank 22 are the best German universities. In two additional subject groups, Freie ...
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| 12 | 2016-05-02
Platform for Plant Sciences - [Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:00:00 -0000 ] Plant scientists from different disciplines work closely together as part of the Focus Area “Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS).” Their research aims to contribute to a better understanding of plant diversity, as well as to preserve diversity while allowing for a sustainable use of plants.
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| 13 | 2016-05-02
Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2013-2014: Freie Universität Berlin among Four Best Universities in Germany - [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:42:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität at Rank 86 Worldwide
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| 14 | 2016-05-02
Dissertation Award for Brazilian Scientist from FU Berlin - [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:35:00 -0000 ] The Brazilian scientist Dr. Karine Fernanda dos Santos from the structural biochemistry working group of Freie Universität Berlin has been awarded with the Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Chemistry (GBM) in Frankfurt. The award prizes outstanding doctoral dissertations in biochemistry or molecular biology and is worth 1.500 Euros. Karine Santos received the award for her work on the structure and function of proteins that have an important role for the expression ...
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| 15 | 2016-05-02
New call of GE-SEED. Apply now ! - [Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:27:00 -0000 ] New call of the German Egyptian Mobility Program for Scientific Exchange and Excellence Development (formerly known as GESP). Deadline is:15.12.2013
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| 16 | 2016-05-02
Networks in Latin America - [Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:30:00 -0000 ] The Liaison Office in São Paulo, Brazil's financial and business center, aims to support academic collaboration between Freie Universität and the universities and research centers in Brazil. One of its goals is to develop cooperation instruments for student exchange.
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| 17 | 2016-05-02
Freedom Award of Freie Universität for Conductor Daniel Barenboim / Public Ceremony with Music on October 23, 7 p.m. - [Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:17:00 -0000 ] The world-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has been selected to receive the Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin. The award ceremony will take place on October 23, 2013, at 7 p.m. in the Max Kade Auditorium of Freie Universität. Daniel Barenboim will be accompanied by two long-standing members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which Barenboim founded in 1999 along with the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said: the violinist Guy Braunstein and the pianist Saleem Abboud ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 18 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Graduate School of East Asian Studies [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:35:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 19 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:37:00 -0000 ]
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| 20 | 2016-05-02
10 PhD- & 2 Postdoc-Stipends in Literary Studies [Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:00:00 -0000 ]
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| 21 | 2016-05-02
The new Call for Applications for the EU-METALIC II Scholarship Project is now open - [Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:14:42 -0000 ] This Call is open for undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral students and staff. Deadline: 17th January 2014
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| 22 | 2016-05-02
FU Berlin-CSC Joint PhD Program on Tour in China! [Thu, 24 Oct 2013 02:28:00 -0000 ]
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| 23 | 2016-05-02
Call for applications: Graduate School of East Asian Studies [Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:48:00 -0000 ]
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| 24 | 2016-05-02
BMS Call for Applications to the PhD Program [Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:32:00 -0000 ]
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| 25 | 2016-05-02
Statement for the Media [Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:52:00 -0000 ]
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| 26 | 2016-05-02
Generator of New Ideas - [Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:30:00 -0000 ] Humanities research at Freie Universität has a breadth and diversity unparalleled in Germany. The central hub of the many departments and activities is the Dahlem Humanities Center, which creates interdisciplinary networks and promotes the emergence of new research initiatives.
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| 27 | 2016-05-02
Excellence on Tour on Nov. 16 in Ahmedabad/India [Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:24:00 -0000 ]
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| 28 | 2016-05-02
Website under construction [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:32:00 -0000 ]
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| 29 | 2016-05-02
Call for applications: Graduate School of North American Studies [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:14:41 -0000 ]
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| 30 | 2016-05-02
Looking at East Asia - [Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:00:00 -0000 ] East Asia is currently undergoing far-reaching political, social, economic, and cultural change, without precedent in the history of the region. Freie Universität Berlin contributes to investigating these changes through its newly established Graduate School for East Asian Studies.
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| 31 | 2016-05-02
Networks in India - [Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:45:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität’s liaison office in New Delhi supports and facilitates academic exchange with its Indian partners. Its doors are open to students and scholars in India who are interested in the excellent teaching and research opportunities at Freie Universität.
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| 32 | 2016-05-02
INSPIRE Research Internship 2014: Apply Now! [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:14:00 -0000 ]
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| 33 | 2016-05-02
柏林自由大学2013年圣诞校友聚会 [Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:41:00 -0000 ]
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| 34 | 2016-05-02
From Philosophy to Film - [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:30:00 -0000 ] The Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Freie Universität focuses on the languages and literatures of Europe, the philosophy and culture of societies from antiquity to the present, and the academic study of theater, dance, music, and media.
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Naval Powers, Pirates, and Territorial Waters in Antiquity - [Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:29:00 -0000 ] Forms of naval supremacy in ancient cultures are the focus of an international conference that will be held by the Excellence Cluster Topoi from December 12th to 14th at Freie Universität Berlin. Participants will examine the strategies employed by naval powers such as Athens or Rome, the Mediterranean as a space, piracy as a defining moment in Naval Supremacy, and more. The goal is to develop a complex picture of ancient perception and organization of territorial waters. The conference is open to the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 36 | 2016-05-02
Join us for our Alumni Meeting on Dec. 1, 2013! [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:01:00 -0000 ]
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| 37 | 2016-05-02
The online application for summer semester starts Dec. 12 [Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:01:00 -0000 ]
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| 38 | 2016-05-02
Graduate School of North American Studies invites applications for 10 Doctoral Grants [Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:17:00 -0000 ]
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| 39 | 2016-05-02
Newest issue of alumni magazine WIR now available! [Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:29:00 -0000 ]
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| 40 | 2016-05-02
Human Rights under Pressure: 14 PhD & 2 PostDoc Fellowships [Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:38:56 -0000 ]
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Excellence Cluster Topoi Offers “Journalist in Residence” Fellowship - [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:29:00 -0000 ] The Excellence Cluster Topoi invites journalists specializing in ancient studies, archaeology, or history to apply for a one- to three-month guest residency. Topoi, a research association of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin devoted to ancient studies, offers applicants the opportunity to observe interdisciplinary research projects in action, to study how new technologies are being applied in ancient studies, to participate in conferences and seminars, and to conduct their own ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 42 | 2016-05-02
Human Rights under Pressure: 14 PhD & 2 PostDoc Fellowships [Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:01:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 43 | 2016-05-02
Apply now for the DWIH Science Slam in Kolkata! [Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:32:00 -0000 ]
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| 44 | 2016-05-02
FUB-CSC Postdoctoral Research Program 2014 [Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:03:00 -0000 ]
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| 45 | 2016-05-02
DRS Postdoc Fellowships - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:43:00 -0000 ] Renewed EU Funding for International Postdoc Program at Freie Universität Berlin: EU Co-financing in Amount of 3.5 Million Euros Allows Extension of Support for Young Researchers
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| 46 | 2016-05-02
How Guests Become Hosts - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:02:00 -0000 ] Researchers like to break new ground. But it can be useful to follow paths already trodden, as Freie Universität Research Alumni Program demonstrates. Set up in the spring of 2013, the program gives faculty at Freie Universität the chance to resume and strengthen collaborations with former visiting researchers. It focuses particularly on involving the young generation of academics in these existing international research networks.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 47 | 2016-05-02
Apply for the M.A. International Relations Online [Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:19:00 -0000 ]
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| 48 | 2016-05-02
Third Berlin Program Summer Workshop June 19-20, 2014 - [Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:42:00 -0000 ] Virtual Germans - Call for Papers In her travels through Eastern Europe in the 1990s, the writer Ruth Ellen Gruber noted that non-Jews were embracing, creating, and marketing an idea of Jewishness that had little to do with the Jews who had lived in the region before the Holocaust. Through practices and cultural products, these “virtual Jews” had come in dialog with “their own visions of Jews and Jewish matters, and themselves.” In recent years, the historian Winson Chu has adapted this concept ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 49 | 2016-05-02
Completion Grants at the Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe" [Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:20:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 50 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: the Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe" [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:44:29 -0000 ]
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| 51 | 2016-05-02
European Research Council Consolidator Grant Awarded to the Biochemist and Protein Crystallographer Professor Oliver Daumke - [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:05:00 -0000 ] Biochemist and protein crystallographer Professor Oliver Daumke of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Freie Universität Berlin has been awarded one of the highly sought-after European Research Council (ERC) grants. During the next five years he will receive funding through a Consolidator Grant endowed with 2 million euros, the ERC in Brussels announced. These grants are awarded to researchers in the physical, engineering and life sciences, humanities and social sciences ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 52 | 2016-05-02
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Martin Gersch and Prof. Dr. Frank Noé [Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:05:00 -0000 ]
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| 53 | 2016-05-02
Junior Professorship in Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin [Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:09:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 54 | 2016-05-02
Alumni Meeting Beijing [Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:17:48 -0000 ]
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| 55 | 2016-05-02
Computing with Silicon Neurons - [Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:36:00 -0000 ] Scientists from Berlin and Heidelberg use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data. Thus, they may recognize handwritten numbers, or distinguish plant species based on their flowers. A bakery assistant who takes the bread from the shelf just to give it to his boss who then hands it over to the customer? Rather unlikely. Instead, both work at the same time to sell the baked goods. Similarly, computer programs are more efficient if they process data in parallel rather than to calculate them ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 56 | 2016-05-02
Mirror-image Nucleic Acids as Molecular Scissors in Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine - [Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:33:00 -0000 ] The biochemist Professor Volker A. Erdmann at Freie Universität Berlin succeeded for the first time in creating mirror-image enzymes – so-called Spiegelzymes – out of nucleic acids. The Spiegelzymes can be used in living cells for the targeted cutting of natural nucleic acids. In an article published in PLOS ONE, a prestigious online journal issued by the Public Library of Science, Erdmann and his co-authors delineate how engineered Spiegelzymes have great potential for cutting up individual nucleic ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 57 | 2016-05-02
Networks in China - [Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:27:00 -0000 ] The work performed at the Beijing Office supports scholars and scientists at Freie Universität Berlin in initiating and developing new cooperative projects with universities and other educational and research institutions in the PRC.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 58 | 2016-05-02
Graduate Education Fair - [Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:45:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at the ‘Graduate Education Fair’ in Moscow
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Health and Aging - [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:20:00 -0000 ] The DynAge Focus Area aims to gain fundamental insights into the origin and development of acute and chronic diseases across the lifespan. Age-related disease processes are studied from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 60 | 2016-05-02
From Goethe to Elfriede Jelinek - [Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:48:00 -0000 ] A new two-semester lecture series on German literature will be launched on February 19, 2014, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin. The series is intended to give a new impetus to German studies at the Hebrew University. The lectures, to be held in English, will deal with the most important German-speaking writers. They will be given by prominent German studies professors from Freie Universität Berlin and other German and international universities. The Axel ...
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| 61 | 2016-05-02
Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology 2014-2016 [Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:53:00 -0000 ]
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New Qualification Program for Junior Researchers with a doctoral degree - [Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:20:00 -0000 ] The new qualification program for postdoctoral researchers is part of the career path model of Freie Universität Berlin: The Academic Profile Development Program is online now
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 63 | 2016-05-02
Economic and Business Education Fair - [Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:09:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at education fair in Moscow
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| 64 | 2016-05-02
4 Postdoctoral fellowships at the Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe" - [Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:06:00 -0000 ] 12 month fellowships starting October 2014. Deadline for Applications: 15 March 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Complex Numbers - [Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:00:00 -0000 ] Mathematics and computer science play a crucial role in solving complex problems in the sciences and engineering, in industry, and society. Freie Universität Berlin offers students a wide range of degree programs in mathematics, computer science, and bioinformatics.
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| 66 | 2016-05-02
QS Subject Ranking in 2014: Freie Universität Berlin among World's 200 Best Universities in 21 Subjects - [Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:14:00 -0000 ] The prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject places Freie Universität Berlin among the best 200 universities worldwide in 21 of 30 subjects considered – whereby four of the 30 subjects are in the fields of engineering, and they are not offered by Freie Universität. In a nationwide comparison, only ...
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| 67 | 2016-05-02
Call for Proposals: Joint Berlin-Jerusalem Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program [Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 68 | 2016-05-02
Invitation: Alumni Event in Saint Petersburg on March 27, 2014 [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:49:00 -0000 ]
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| 69 | 2016-05-02
Master Intercultural Education [Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:29:00 -0000 ]
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| 70 | 2016-05-02
Orientation events during the 2014 summer semester [Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:05:00 -0000 ]
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| 71 | 2016-05-02
Arabic Philologies between East and West - [Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:41:00 -0000 ] An international workshop to be held March 12 to 17, 2014, at Freie Universität Berlin will focus on Arabic philologies at the crossroads between the West and the Arab world. The 30 participants are a combination of highly regarded scholars as well as junior researchers from Europe, the Arabic world, and the United States. The workshop goal is to intensify the dialogue between Western and Arab academic cultures in teaching and research. Another objective is to promote the Arabic language as a language for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 72 | 2016-05-02
Spring call for the short term scholarship GERSS! - [Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:31:00 -0000 ] Deadline for application: 31. März 2014
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| 73 | 2016-05-02
German Ambassador bestows Order of Merit on Prof. Seyed Hasnain - [Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:14:00 -0000 ] Prof. Dr. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain für Verdienste um deutsch-indische Forschungsbeziehungen geehrt. Click here for the press release.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Networks in Russia - [Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:00:00 -0000 ] The liaison office in Moscow supports academic exchange and the development of partnerships with universities in Russia. It also recruits young investigators and students and informs individuals from the region about German and European funding opportunities.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:05:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #4 03.2014 online
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| 76 | 2016-05-02
Specialize in Competition Law and Regulation at the MBL-FU Master’s Program! [Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:45:00 -0000 ]
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| 77 | 2016-05-02
Comparing Visual Cultures - [Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:30:00 -0000 ] The Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Kosmos/Ornatus. Ornament in Persia and France c. 1400 in Comparison” examines the relationship between ornaments and figures in European and Middle Eastern visual cultures.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 78 | 2016-05-02
Silver Doctoral Jubilee Class of '89 [Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:03:00 -0000 ]
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Eastern Europe in Berlin - [Wed, 02 Apr 2014 08:41:00 -0000 ] The Institute for East European Studies focuses on the diverse processes of change in the eastern part of the continent. This heterogeneous, conflict-ridden region plays an important role, particularly in light of the enlargement of the European Union.
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Law Library - [Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:14:00 -0000 ] The Freie Universität Berlin Law Library has about 800,000 media items. It is a reference library and has a seating capacity of 520.
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Courses offered in the summer term of 2014 - [Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:00:00 -0000 ] Please find here the PDF overview of courses offered by CREES in the summer term of 2014 and the current semester plan of the CREES colloquium available for download.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Berlin Workshop on " Transition towards a low carbon Economy" : 14th-15th April 2014 [Mon, 07 Apr 2014 04:58:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications: MyoGrad - [Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:55:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 30 April 2014
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DIES-Training Course: Management of Internationalisation [Tue, 08 Apr 2014 07:02:00 -0000 ]
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| 85 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - International PhD Program in Muscle Science Berlin-Paris [Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:29:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications: DRS Incoming Postdoc Fellowships POINT-2015 [Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:53:00 -0000 ]
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FUBIS - Registration for term II and III 2014 is open! - [Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:28:03 -0000 ] New course for term II: 'How to improve the World - Business Engagement in Society'
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Call for application--International Network Professorships at FU Berlin [Thu, 17 Apr 2014 03:29:00 -0000 ]
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Applications invited for Junior Professorships position at Freie Universität Berlin [Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:30:00 -0000 ]
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:05:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #5 04.2014 online
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Call for Application - International Network Professorships at FU Berlin - [Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:41:00 -0000 ] In 2007, with its future development concept International Network University, Freie Universität Berlin succeeded in winning a major government funding award in the German Excellence Initiative. This award acknowledges special academic achievements, giving the title University of Excellence. Freie Universität Berlin was able to maintain its excellence status in 2012, one among only a few other select universities to do so. The second phase of this program focuses on the expansion of international and ...
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The Islamic World - [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ] What makes the “Islamic world” Islamic? What influence does Islam have on culture, law, and politics in societies we call “Muslim” or “Islamic”? This is the core issue studied at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies.
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New Alumni-Flyer! [Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:09:00 -0000 ]
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Freie Universität Berlin offers DRS Incoming Postdoc Fellowships POINT-2015 [Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:10:00 -0000 ]
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2014 SYSU International Summer Program [Wed, 07 May 2014 03:52:00 -0000 ]
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DRS Incoming Postdoc Fellowships POINT-2015 - [Wed, 07 May 2014 12:07:00 -0000 ] Call for applications, deadline July 4, 2014
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"Human Rights in Academia" - [Fri, 09 May 2014 08:44:00 -0000 ] The importance of human rights for academia will be addressed in a lecture series during the summer semester at Freie Universität. The lectures this year are being organized jointly with Professor Bernd Ladwig and are part of a Human Rights Lectures series organized annually by the Amnesty International university group at Freie Universität Berlin. This year’s contributions aim to provide an update and self-critical overview of the relationship between the production and ...
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BLACK MOUNTAIN RESEARCH - online now - [Mon, 12 May 2014 12:33:28 -0000 ] Website of the new research cooperation with the Hamburger Bahnhof
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Call for Applications: HONORS-Fellowships 2014-2 [Tue, 13 May 2014 14:33:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Application: International Relations Master's Program [Tue, 20 May 2014 09:56:00 -0000 ]
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Zur "Summer School" von Indien nach Deutschland [Thu, 22 May 2014 08:47:00 -0000 ]
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sat, 24 May 2014 16:05:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #6 05.2014 online
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Technology of the Future - [Wed, 28 May 2014 15:30:00 -0000 ] Within the NanoScale Focus Area researchers from the disciplines of biology, chemistry, pharmacy, and physics work together to investigate the special properties of nanostructures and how such structures can be used.
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New Double Degree Master's Program for Journalists - [Thu, 29 May 2014 12:44:00 -0000 ] Global Communication and International Journalism
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Double Degree Master's Program "Global Communication and International Journalism" starts this fall [Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:09:00 -0000 ]
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Networks in North America - [Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:30:00 -0000 ] The New York liaison office supports and fosters Freie Universität Berlin’s close ties to partner institutions in the U.S. and Canada. It promotes Freie Universität Berlin as an outstanding place to study and do research and an institution with a strong international network.
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Call for applications: SFB 1112 „Nanocarrier“ [Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:22:00 -0000 ]
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Final World Cup Game: Spain vs. Germany - [Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:02:00 -0000 ] The final game in the World Cup on July 13, as predicted in a forecast made by scientists of Freie Universität Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research, will probably be played by the teams from Germany and Spain. The sociologist Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gerhards at Freie Universität, the sports scientist Prof. Dr. Michael Mutz at the University of Gottingen, and the economist Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner at TU Berlin and at the German Institute for Economic Research, accumulated the market value of ...
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| 109 | 2016-05-02
Strategies against Cancer - [Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:30:00 -0000 ] The study of cancer and the development of new therapies is a prominent research focus of the Berlin School of Integrative Oncology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the joint medical school of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Final World Cup Game: Spain vs. Germany - [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:15:00 -0000 ] The final game in the World Cup on July 13, as predicted in a forecast made by scientists of Freie Universität Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research, will probably be played by the teams from Germany and Spain. The sociologist Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gerhards at Freie Universität, the sports scientist Prof. Dr. Michael Mutz at the University of Gottingen, and the economist Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner at TU Berlin and at the German Institute for Economic Research, accumulated the market value of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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China as a Partner in Trade - [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:40:00 -0000 ] An international workshop being held from June 12 to 14, 2014, in Hannover will focus on the role of China as a partner in trade during the past 200 years and on the interactions between companies in China and their foreign partners. The goal of the workshop initiated by Freie Universität and called 'Rethinking Business History in Modern China' is to gain new insights into the interaction of Chinese and foreign companies from the 19th century to the present. More than 30 historians from Taiwan, China, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Golden Doctoral Jubilee Class of '64 [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:25:00 -0000 ]
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It's Easy to Go Abroad - [Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:04:00 -0000 ] On Tuesday, June 24, there will be an information day at Freie Universität for students interested in going abroad for a semester or two. The Go Out Day is being organized by the International Student Mobility - Welcome Services. It is open to all interested parties. There will be short talks and information booths showcasing the various ERASMUS and direct exchange agreements as well as financing options for a stay abroad. Throughout the day, students who already participated in the programs will give ...
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Collegium Musicum Summer Concert - [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:40:00 -0000 ] The Collegium Musicum of Freie Universität and TU Berlin will be giving its traditional end-of-semester concert on Friday, June 27, 2014, in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. The symphony orchestra will be playing the Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Eighth Symphony by Antonin Dvorak. The symphony orchestra and the full choir will perform Gabriel Fauré's Requiem. The conductor will be Donka Miteva, who has recently won several awards. The solists will be Uta Krause, soprano, and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: Thematic Network “Principles of Cultural Dynamics” [Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:01:00 -0000 ]
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Indo - German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC): Call for Proposal 2014 [Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:33:00 -0000 ]
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Appel à candidatures: 8 contrats post-doctoraux à Paris (Labex CAP) [Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:31:00 -0000 ]
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| 118 | 2016-05-02
Research Alumni Program recognized again by Humboldt Foundation [Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:51:03 -0000 ]
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Pre-Departure-Seminar for the CSC-scholarship holders in Beijing, in preparation for the PhD research stay at FU Berlin (2014) [Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:23:00 -0000 ]
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PhD vacancies for Egyptian doctoral candidates. Apply now! [Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:07:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 121 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Scholarships for Doctoral Studies [Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:08:00 -0000 ]
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2 PhD scholarships at the BerGSAS - [Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:22:24 -0000 ] 2 doctoral scholarships to begin on October 1, 2015. Funded by DAAD. Deadline 1. October 2014
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Call for Applications: Scholarships for Doctoral Studies [Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:28:00 -0000 ]
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Ernst Reuter Scholarships 2014 awarded [Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:35:00 -0000 ]
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GERLS 2015. Apply now! - [Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:11:00 -0000 ] Deadline for application: 31 October 2014
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Regions of the World - [Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:00:00 -0000 ] The Center for Area Studies is a platform for research dealing with the various regions of the world and their multifaceted relations. It supports collaboration in the various fields of area studies at Freie Universität, in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, and worldwide.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Papers: Knowledge, Power and Prestige: Education in Modern and Contemporary China [Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:35:00 -0000 ]
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Literary Studies - [Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ] The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School is the only graduate school focusing exclusively on literary studies that was successful in both phases of the national Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments.
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Web-Project #NichtUnserKrieg launched - [Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:52:00 -0000 ] They come from Russia, Azerbaijan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine: During a journalistic workshop, 15 participants of the “Journalisten International” program at the Freie Universität Berlin launched the online-project #NichtUnserKrieg (“#NotOurWar”) dealing with the Ukraine crisis. It contains video messages calling for peace from the young journalists as well as personal stories and ...
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History and Cultures - [Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:27:00 -0000 ] The Department of History and Cultural Studies offers a research profile found nowhere else in Germany. It covers a wide range of different eras, from ancient times to the modern period, and a vast physical area, stretching from Europe and the Middle East to Asia and the Americas.
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Berlin Stay: Reports by Inspire students [Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:28:00 -0000 ]
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Networks in Latin America - [Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:30:00 -0000 ] The Liaison Office in São Paulo, Brazil's financial and business center, aims to support academic collaboration between Freie Universität and the universities and research centers in Brazil. One of its goals is to develop cooperation instruments for student exchange.
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Dr. Lauri Wessel gewinnt Dissertationspreis [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 06:44:00 -0000 ]
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#1 Among Foreign Colleagues - [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:32:00 -0000 ] Scientists and Students Choose Freie Universität Berlin
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Knowledge in Motion - [Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:49:00 -0000 ] Researchers involved in the Collaborative Research Center “Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period,” examine processes of knowledge change in European and in non-European pre-modern cultures.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Conflicts with Teachers Are Risk Factor for School Shootings - [Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:37:00 -0000 ] As part of the TARGET project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, researchers at Freie Universität Berlin conducted a systematic literature search of all the available studies dealing with school shootings. The aim of the analysis was to clarify which social dynamics in the social network of perpetrators can be observed in advance as playing an important role in school shootings. Up to now, researchers had assumed that bullying between peers and the social exclusion of the ...
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Skin Cancer from a Lab - [Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:40:00 -0000 ] To Christian Zoschke, being able to do some small part to help both people and animals is good reason to sit in the lab every day, even in fantastic summer weather. Besides that, the 26-year-old doctoral candidate deals daily with the dangerous consequences of getting too much sunshine: As part of his doctoral project at the Institute of Pharmacy at Freie Universität Berlin, he is working on growing skin cancer in the lab.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: PhD Scholarships in History [Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:21:00 -0000 ]
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Uwe Gellert Is New President of International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching - [Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:02:00 -0000 ] The International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching (CIEAEM) elected Uwe Gellert, a professor of mathematics education at Freie Universität Berlin, as its new president. He replaces Corinne Hahn of the École Supérieure ESCP Europe, Paris. The term of office is 3 years.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Looking at East Asia - [Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ] East Asia is currently undergoing far-reaching political, social, economic, and cultural change, without precedent in the history of the region. Freie Universität Berlin contributes to investigating these changes through its newly established Graduate School for East Asian Studies.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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PhD Fellowship: SFB 1112 "Nanocarrier" [Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Video recordings of the Workshop "Blackmountain - Models of Creativity" now online [Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:43:00 -0000 ]
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New continuing education master’s degree program: “German and European Business Law” - [Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:42:00 -0000 ] In cooperation with Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Freie Universität will begin offering a new continuing education master’s degree program titled “German and European Business Law (Private and Public Law)” in Moscow starting in the 2014/2015 winter semester. The one-year program is aimed at Russian university graduates ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Up to 10 PhD scholarships at BGSMCS. Apply now! - [Sun, 21 Sep 2014 08:18:00 -0000 ] Deadline is 15 November 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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PhD at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies [Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:45:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications: Berlin Mathematical School – Get Your Math PhD in Berlin [Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:34:00 -0000 ]
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| 147 | 2016-05-02
BMS Call For Applications to the PhD program [Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:23:00 -0000 ]
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Berlin Program Academic Orientation, Oct. 6, 2014 [Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ]
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Get Your Math PhD in Berlin! - [Sun, 28 Sep 2014 09:28:00 -0000 ] A fast-track doctoral program for talented students completing their Bachelor's degree or above offered by the Berlin Mathematical School
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EU-METALIC II: The 2nd Cohort for the EU-METALIC II Scholarship Project is now open! - [Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:29:00 -0000 ] The EU-METALIC II Programme offers scholarships for undergraduate and staff. Deadline: 27th November 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Permanent announcement for the summer & winter term 2014/15 [Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:10:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications: 2 PhD Scholarships in Plant Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin [Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:50:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: BMS Dirichlet Postdoc Fellowship [Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:19:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: Plant Sciences [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:33:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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BMS Call for Dirichlet Postdoc Fellowship [Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:17:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Our new flyer is now available! [Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:53:00 -0000 ]
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Networks in China - [Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:00:00 -0000 ] The work performed at the Beijing Office supports scholars and scientists at Freie Universität Berlin in initiating and developing new cooperative projects with universities and other educational and research institutions in the PRC.
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Research fellowship at Berliner Antike Kolleg [Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:12:00 -0000 ]
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Inaugural Lecture by Translator from Hebrew to German on October 27, 2014 - [Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:41:00 -0000 ] On Monday, October 27, 2014, Anne Birkenhauer will give her inaugural lecture as the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professor of the Poetics of Translation. Birkenhauer, who lives in Jerusalem, will speak about the presence of ancient texts in modern Ivrit, the Modern Hebrew spoken today in Israel. The lecture will be held in the Academy of the Jewish Museum. The event is open to the public, and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for applications: Visiting Research Fellowships at the Berliner Antike-Kolleg [Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:31:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Carla Del Ponte Calls for Greater Involvement of International Community in Syria Conflict - [Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:10:00 -0000 ] The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte, has called on the international community to become more involved in the Syria conflict. The Swiss lawyer who, on behalf of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been investigating crimes in the Syrian civil war since 2011, recalled on Monday in Berlin on the occasion of the conferral of the Freedom Award of Freie Universität, the many victims who have already been called for in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Through Space and Time - [Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:00:00 -0000 ] In the Topoi Excellence Cluster researchers investigate the systematic connection between space and knowledge structures in the cultures of the Near East and Mediterranean, from early civilizations to late antiquity and the early medieval period.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Pursue your PhD on global politics at FU Berlin and a renowned Chinese partner University [Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:36:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for applications: Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School [Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:25:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Education and Career Fair in Moscow - [Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at Education and Career Fair in Moscow from November 7 - 9
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Regenerative Therapies - [Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:00:00 -0000 ] The Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies offers innovative research opportunities in the field of regenerative medicine for outstanding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers with a background in the biological, engineering, or clinical disciplines.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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PhD in Global Politics at FU Berlin and a renowned Chinese partner university - [Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:05:00 -0000 ] The Graduate School of Global Politics (GSGP) is inviting outstanding students to apply for an innovative 3-year PhD program at Freie Universität Berlin and one of its renowned Chinese partner universities. These are Fudan University (Shanghai), Jinan University (Guangzhou), Renmin University (Beijing) and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 168 | 2016-05-02
Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:08:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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PhD Fellowships: SFB 1112 "Nanocarrier" [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Everyday Life of Muslims - [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:17:00 -0000 ] An exhibition to open on November 18, 2014, at Freie Universität Berlin will depict ordinary and sometimes underrepresented situations from the everyday life of Muslims in various countries. The diversity of life experiences of Muslims around the world will be demonstrated with photographs, objects, and excerpts from articles by members of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS). The aim is to expand the often one-sided impressions of Islam as extremely religious, male-dominated, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Visiting Professor at Freie Universität Recipient of Voss Translation Prize - [Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:38:00 -0000 ] Anne Birkenhauer is being awarded the 2015 Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Literary Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros. Birkenhauer, who lives in Israel, is currently the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professor for the Poetics of Translation at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2014/2015 fall/winter semester.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Reading Comics in the Institute Library - [Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:59:00 -0000 ] The greatly expanded collection of comics in the library of Freie Universität Berlin's John F. Kennedy Institute (JFKI) will be opened on November 25, 2014, with a presentation of current cartoons by the popular American cartoonist, Keith Knight. The expansion of the collection of American graphic novels and historical and current comics was made possible by the chair of the prestigious researcher of North American studies, Frank Kelleter. The collection is being added to continuously, thanks to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Graduate School of North American Studies invites Applications for 10 Doctoral Grants and 4 Postdoctoral Positions [Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Scholarships at the Graduate School of North American Studies for PhD and Postdoc [Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:29:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Looking at East Asia - [Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:00:00 -0000 ] East Asia is currently undergoing far-reaching political, social, economic, and cultural change, without precedent in the history of the region. Freie Universität Berlin contributes to investigating these changes through its newly established Graduate School for East Asian Studies.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Understanding and Connecting - [Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ] The Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg (ZJS) brings together the existing, diverse range of Jewish Studies in the region, facilitates the training of young scholars, and contributes to internationalizing the research and teaching done in Greater Berlin in the field of Jewish Studies.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Visit Us at Education Abroad 2015! - [Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:01:00 -0000 ] International Education Fair in Jekaterinburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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PhD & PostDoc opportunities at the Graduate School of North American Studies - [Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:42:00 -0000 ] 10 Doctoral Grants & 4 Postdoctoral Positions. Deadline: January 31st, 2015 for doctoral grants, February 28th, 2015 for postdoctoral positions
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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New Announcements from FU Berlin for 2015 [Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:42:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Joint PostDoc Fellowships 2015/2016 [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:13:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: DRS HONORS Fellowships 2015-1 [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 182 | 2016-05-02
PhD Fellowships: GRK 2046 "Parasite Infections" [Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 183 | 2016-05-02
One Year Full Scholarship Peking University [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:58:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Junior Research Group [Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:06:00 -0000 ]
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Frohe Weihnachten! 圣诞快乐！ [Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:13:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Expertise on North America - [Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:00:00 -0000 ] The Graduate School of North American Studies offers doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers a wide range of topics, e.g., the polarization of the U.S. political system, religious movements, foreign policy challenges, cultural identities, the crisis of the economy, or recent developments in literature, film, and art in North America.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Berlin Program Summer Workshop [Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:45:00 -0000 ]
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Sports Hall at Freie Universität in Dahlem Being Set Up as Temporary Refugee Camp - [Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:33:00 -0000 ] The Sports Hall of Freie Universität at Dahlem Dorf is currently not available for sports. It is expected that it will be closed to classes through the middle of February. The closure is necessary because the hall is required by the State of Berlin for the accommodation of newly arrived refugees who could get no more space in the existing shelters in the city on such short notice. In such cases the 'General Law on the Protection of Public Safety and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: PhD Programme in Transnational Studies - [Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:58:00 -0000 ] 3 year full-time PhD programme starting September 2015. A limited number of doctoral stipends is available. Deadline for Applications: 31 January 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: INSPIRE Research Internship 2015 [Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:24:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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M.A. International Relations Online [Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:56:07 -0000 ]
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FUBiS: Registration for term II and III 2015 is open! [Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:35:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: “Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“ [Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:48:00 -0000 ]
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Research Alumni Program: New Call for Applications is now open - [Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:34:00 -0000 ] With its Research Alumni Program, Freie Universität has intensified its outreach to former guest researchers in order to strengthen international research networks. Research Alumni are international researchers who have previously worked at Freie Universität as guest researchers and are now continuing their career in academia abroad.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Journalists Are Invited to a Special Press Availability: As Israel and Germany Mark Fifty Years of Diplomatic Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin Expand Strategic Cooperation - [Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:34:00 -0000 ] Marking 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, on February 10 the presidents of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin will sign a joint doctoral program agreement. It is the first of its kind between German and Israeli institutions of higher learning, and is open to all disciplines at the two universities. The Joint PhD will create a cadre of gr
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Hebrew University and Freie Universität Berlin Sign Agreement for Joint Doctoral Program - [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:36:00 -0000 ] On the 50thanniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, the presidents of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin further expanded the two universities' extensive strategic partnership by signing a a joint doctoral program agreement. The Joint PhD, which is open to all disciplines at the two universities, is the first of its kind between German and Israeli institutions of higher learning. Alternate periods of research will take place at Freie ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Hebrew University and Freie Universität Berlin Sign Agreement for Joint Doctoral Program - [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:36:00 -0000 ] On the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, the presidents of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin further expanded the two universities' extensive strategic partnership by signing a a joint doctoral program agreement. The Joint PhD, which is open to all disciplines at the two universities, is the first of its kind between German and Israeli institutions of higher learning. Alternate periods of research will take place at ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Spring call for the short term scholarship GERSS! - [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:30:00 -0000 ] Deadline for application is 31st March
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Fellowships with the Berlin Research Group "The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?" - [Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:43:39 -0000 ] The Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?“ invites applications for three Fellowships from 1 October 2015.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Olga Martynova Awarded 2015 Berlin Literature Prize - [Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:50:00 -0000 ] The Preußische Seehandlung Foundation awarded the 2015 Berlin Literature Prize to the writer Olga Martynova. She received the award on Wednesday night from Mayor Michael Müller at the Berlin City Hall. The president of Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, appointed Martynova the Heiner Müller Visiting Professor of Literature for the 2015 summer semester. The prize money amounts to 30,000 euros.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Neue Ausschreibung im Forscher-Alumni-Programm [Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:52:00 -0000 ]
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“An Assembly Line for Medications” - [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:49:00 -0000 ] Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) and Freie Universität Berlin have succeeded in developing better methods of producing APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients). As a result, Efavirenz, one of the preferred agents for treating HIV in combination therapies, can now be produced using a concise continuous flow method. This process may fundamentally change the way APIs are produced.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Silver Doctoral Jubilee 1990 - 2015 [Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Postdoc Fellowships: DRS Incoming Fellowships [Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:33:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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University Alliance for Sustainability - [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:16:00 -0000 ] Strategic Partnership Development Program of Freie Universität Berlin
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sat, 28 Feb 2015 03:56:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #14. 02.2015 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Veterinarian virologist Prof. Osterrieder in Botucatu/São Paulo [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:39:04 -0000 ]
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13 PhD grants: The International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1571/2 ‘Between Spaces. Move-ments, Actors and Representations of Globalisation’ [Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:20:00 -0000 ]
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International Graduate Fair - [Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:47:00 -0000 ] “International Graduate Fair” in Moscow and Saint Petersburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Completion Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Research College "Transformative Power of Europe" [Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:10:00 -0000 ]
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German Malaria Researchers Win International “Humanity in Science” Award - [Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:33:00 -0000 ] Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger, a director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and a professor of chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and a professor of chemical engineering at the Otto-von Guericke-University in Magdeburg, won the Humanity in Science prize for their groundbreaking work in developing new production methods for ...
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CfA: Global Humanities Campus: July 20-August 2, 2015 - [Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:52:00 -0000 ] Call for Applications – addressed to MA and PhD Students from Freie Universitaet Berlin
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39th Annual PEWS Conference at the Institute for Latin American Studies of Freie Universität [Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:35:00 -0000 ]
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#51-60! THE World Reputation Ranking 2015 - [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:54:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin among Top 60 Universities in the World
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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PhD Grants at International Research Training Group "Between Spaces" [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:49:00 -0000 ]
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Welcome Day for international doctoral candidates [Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:32:00 -0000 ]
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Fundamental Research - [Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:02:00 -0000 ] As one of the classic basic sciences, physics is a core subject among the natural sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. The Department of Physics is divided into the areas of Experimental Physics, Theoretical Physics, and Physics Education.
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The DWZ releases its first publication of the Egyptian German Science Monitor [Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:23:32 -0000 ]
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Generator of New Ideas - [Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:50:00 -0000 ] Humanities research at Freie Universität has a breadth and diversity unparalleled in Germany. Founded in 2007 with a mission to create interdisciplinary networks, the Dahlem Humanities Center is the central hub of the many departments and activities.
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Global History. German-Russian Perspectives on Regional Studies - [Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:27:00 -0000 ] 4th Week of the Young Researcher in Saint Petersburg
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:56:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #15. 03.2015 online
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Networks in Russia - [Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:00:00 -0000 ] The liaison office in Moscow supports academic exchange and the development of partnerships with universities in Russia. It also recruits young investigators and students and informs individuals from the region about German and European funding opportunities.
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Double Degree Master in Global Communication & International Journalism [Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:09:00 -0000 ]
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EXTENDED DEADLINE! Postdoctoral fellowships at the Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe" - [Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:19:00 -0000 ] 12 month fellowships starting October 2015. Deadline for Applications: 12 April 2015
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Call for Visiting Fellowship Applications [Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:31:00 -0000 ]
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Teaching about Latin America - [Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:00:00 -0000 ] The Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität is the largest of its kind in Germany, and it is also one of the largest such institutes in Europe. It has a reputation for combining specialized disciplines with regional studies.
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A Sweet Kind of Control - [Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:32:00 -0000 ] What does a specific nucleotide sugar transporter have to do with plant hormones? Plant researchers at the Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS) at Freie Universität asked themselves this question as part of their studies of the plant hormone cytokinin.
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PhD & PostDoc vacancies at Freie Universität Berlin! [Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:40:00 -0000 ]
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Welcome Berlin Tour for International Doctoral Candidates [Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:59:00 -0000 ]
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E-Learning Förderung "FoL 2.0" mit Bezug zu DynAge [Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:49:00 -0000 ]
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Global Communication and International Journalism - Double Degree Master's Program - [Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:19:57 -0000 ] The academic degree will be provided from Freie Universität Berlin and Saint Petersburg State University upon graduation. Deadline for application is June 15, 2015.
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Inivtation for PhD and Post doc Positions [Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:13:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications Bioeconomy 2015 - [Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:06:26 -0000 ] For the third time, the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH opens an international call for proposals on Bioeconomy. The projects, as is detailed on the website of the program, shall contribute to one of the fields of action of the National Research Strategy Bioeconomy 2030.
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University Alliance for Sustainability [Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:34:00 -0000 ]
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The 5th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin [Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:02:00 -0000 ]
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Comparing Media beyond the Nation State - [Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:20:00 -0000 ] A German-Russian Workshop on Diversity, Migration and Journalism
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Mathematics in Berlin - [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:00:00 -0000 ] Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. Its doctoral program attracts outstanding graduate students from around the world.
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:16:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #16. 04.2015 online
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The 5th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin [Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:06:00 -0000 ]
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Seminar "Brazil in Dialogue" at the Institute of Art History at FU Berlin - [Tue, 05 May 2015 19:05:00 -0000 ] The seminar “Brazil in Dialogue” aims to share current research on Brazilian art with the public at Freie Universität’s Institute of Art History. Papers will be presented by young researchers who are part of, or connected with, the Institute’s research group “Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of ...
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Welcome Berlin Tour for International Doctoral Candidates [Fri, 08 May 2015 09:21:00 -0000 ]
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“在自由大学读博、博后”讲座@大连 [Mon, 11 May 2015 02:52:00 -0000 ]
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DAAD programs PROBRAL and UNIBRAL: Call 2015 - [Mon, 11 May 2015 16:28:00 -0000 ] In 2015 the DAAD offers again instruments for bilateral coolaboration between Brazilian and German universities within its programs PROBRAL, PROBRAL II, UNIBRAL and UNIBRAL II. The call is conducted in cooperation with the Brazilian funding agency CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior).
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FUBright for International Doctoral Candidates - [Tue, 12 May 2015 12:31:00 -0000 ] FUBright for International Doctoral Candidates is a new program coordinated by Dahlem Research School (Center for Junior Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin) and promoted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Council.
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2015年4月9日柏林自由大学校友聚会 [Thu, 14 May 2015 07:07:00 -0000 ]
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“Reinsurance for Life” - [Wed, 20 May 2015 06:55:00 -0000 ] The Dahlem Seed Bank houses about 7,000 different seed samples, many of them from rare or endangered plant species. The collection functions as a kind of plant archive, and it is an important partner in dialogue and exchange with botanical gardens around the world. Last week, the new building to house the prestigious institution was officially opened by the German Federal Environment Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks, the seed bank’s patron.
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Conference: “Brasilidades. Jewish Belonging in Brazilian Literature” - publication of results - [Fri, 22 May 2015 11:44:00 -0000 ] The results of the international conference 'Brasilidades. Jewish Belonging in Brazilian Literature', hosted on May 5 and 6 of 2014 at Goethe-Institut São Paulo, have been published in the 'Cadernos de Língua e Literatura Hebraica' at Universidade de São Paulo.
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test news [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:20:00 +0200 ]
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Berlin Program GSA Distinguished Lecture - [Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:08:00 +0200 ] Joy H. Calico, Vanderbilt University/German Studies Association gives this year's Distinguished Lecture and will talk about: Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Musical Remigration and Holocaust Commemoration in the Germanys on June 30, 2015, 6-8 p.m. followed by a reception. Read more
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Summer 2015 issue of alumni magazine WIR now available! [Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200 ]
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International Education Fair - [Sun, 14 Jun 2015 08:45:00 +0200 ] Freie Universität Berlin at Education Fair in Yekaterinburg
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Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 18-19, 2015 - [Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:30:00 +0200 ] Violence, Oppression, and Civil Disobedience: From the Cold War Past to the Neoliberal Present
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International Week 2015 in Berlin - [Tue, 23 Jun 2015 08:57:00 +0200 ] 6 days – 5 continents – 4 you!
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Workshop: "How Jews Know. Epistemologies of Jewish Knowledge" [Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:58:00 +0200 ]
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FURUSINFO #18. 06.2015 [Fri, 26 Jun 2015 06:28:00 +0200 ]
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Call for Applications: Mobility Programme of the University Alliance for Sustainability [Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:19:00 +0200 ]
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Stellenausschreibung: Wiss. Koordination - [Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:36:00 +0200 ] Bewerbungsfrist 13. Juli 2015
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Berlin Program Orientation Meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2015, 10.00 - 16.00 [Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:35:00 +0200 ]
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German Language Course for International Doctoral Candidates [Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:39:00 +0200 ]
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University Alliance for Sustainability: First Network Board Meeting in Berlin [Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:33:00 +0200 ]
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International Project Funding [Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:45:00 +0200 ]
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Volkswagenstiftung: Postdoctoral Fellowships - [Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:09:00 +0200 ] Deadline for applications: October 8, 2015.
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Human Rights - [Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:20:00 +0200 ] 'Human Rights under Pressure' (HR-UP) is an international doctoral and postdoctoral study and research training group under the joint auspices of Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Register for one of the few remaining course spots in our Pre-Semester German Language Courses (August 31 – October 10, 2015)! [Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:13:00 +0200 ]
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The Global Young Academy – 2015 Call for New Members [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:01:00 +0200 ]
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4th Call for Applications [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:35:00 +0200 ]
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: DRS HONORS Fellowships 2015-2: please apply by 31 August 2015! [Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:33:00 +0200 ]
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Golden Doctoral Jubilee Class of '65 [Sat, 01 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0200 ]
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Invitation Campus Tour [Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:28:00 +0200 ]
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DynAge-Broschüre [Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:18:00 +0200 ]
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Grants for the Translation of Brazilian Literature [Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:09:37 +0200 ]
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The new call for Long-Term Scholarship (GERLS)! - [Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:03:00 +0200 ] Deadline for application: 31 October 2015
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Welcome Week for International Doctoral Candidates [Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:32:00 +0200 ]
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Stellenausschreibung: Projektmitarbeiter/in im Beijing Office der FUB [Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:54:51 +0200 ]
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22 Scholarships for FUBiS Term I 2016 - register now [Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:48:00 +0200 ]
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Welcome Week for International Doctoral Candidates [Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:17:00 +0200 ]
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Freie Universität Berlin and Moscow Higher School of Economics Increase Their Cooperation in Internationalizing Higher Education - [Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:44:00 +0200 ] More Exchange Opportunities for Students, Researchers, and Staff
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Autumn Call for short term scholarship GERSS - [Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:09:00 +0200 ] Deadline for application:15 October 2015
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FU-Pharmacologist Prof. Monika Schäfer-Korting in Ribeirão Preto [Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:35:17 +0200 ]
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Important Witnesses to Climate Change - [Mon, 07 Sep 2015 09:41:00 +0200 ] They tell us about the past, and they hold important information for our future. The mighty baobab trees of tropical Africa can offer insight into how the climate has developed. Frank Riedel, a paleobiologist at the Department of Earth Sciences, studies the giant trees with a group of colleagues.
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:46:00 +0200 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #19. 09.2015 online
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Apply now for a PhD at the Berlin Mathematical School [Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:05:00 +0200 ]
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QS Ranking 2015: Freie Universität Berlin Is One of the Top Five Universities in Germany - [Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:02:00 +0200 ] University Moves Up to Rank 119 Worldwide
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Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) – Get Your Math PhD in Berlin [Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:11:26 +0200 ]
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Heisenberg Group has started its work [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:29:00 +0200 ]
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QS Ranking 2015: Freie Universität Berlin Is One of the Top Five Universities in Germany - [Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:38:00 +0200 ] Freie Universität Berlin Moves Up to Rank 119 Worldwide
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Call for Applications - GEAS-DAAD scholarships (GSSP) [Tue, 29 Sep 2015 03:27:00 +0200 ]
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Meet You at the International Education Fair! - [Wed, 30 Sep 2015 04:00:00 +0200 ] Freie Universität Berlin at 'International Education Fair' in Moscow and Saint Petersburg
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Career Transition Day: Transition into the German Labor Market [Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:00:00 +0200 ]
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New call of GE-SEED - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:57:00 +0200 ] Deadline is:08.12.2015
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:46:00 +0200 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #20. 10.2015 online
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Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies - PhD Program 2016 - Call for Applications [Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:09:00 +0200 ]
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Indo-German Dialogue on Excellence in Research and Education, New Delhi [Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:15:00 +0200 ]
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New Information in the FUB-CSC Postdoc Program [Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:27:00 +0200 ]
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Gastvortrag Michael Barrett (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) [Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:24:00 +0200 ]
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DRS Award for Excellent Supervision 2015: Call for Nominations [Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:09:00 +0200 ]
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CfA: Fellowships for Research Stays Abroad 2016 (MA, PhD, PostDoc) - [Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:53:00 +0200 ] Deadline: November 30, 2015
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New project offers in the FUB-CSC PhD Program 2016 [Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:47:00 +0200 ]
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Freie Universität Berlin Makes It Easier for Refugees to Gain Access to Study Programs - [Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:53:00 +0200 ] Freie Universität Berlin has launched an extensive academic program to make it easier for refugees to gain access to study programs.
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Guest lecture at FU Berlin by Dr. André Martins Biancarelli (UNICAMP) [Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:56:00 +0200 ]
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Call for application 2016: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies [Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:48:00 +0200 ]
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German Language Classes - [Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:14:00 +0200 ] Registration Deadline is Thursday, October 29, 2015
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:46:00 +0100 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #21. 10.2015 online
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Call for Applications: Graduate School of East Asian Studies [Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:00:00 +0100 ]
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Call for Applications - Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies - [Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:39:00 +0100 ] Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies admits 15 new candidates and offers 10 scholarships. Closing date for the winter term 2016 will be November 15, 2015
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DWIH Proposal Writing and Grant Management Workshop: New Delhi, 25th-26th November 2015 [Fri, 06 Nov 2015 07:03:00 +0100 ]
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Adriana Altaras liest aus "Doitscha" - [Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:46:00 +0100 ] Lesung und Gespräch, 25.11.2015, 18-20 Uhr, Raum 009, Ehrenbergstr. 26/28
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Our Newsletter is now online! [Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:02:00 +0100 ]
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Call for Applications: HONORS-Fellowships 2016-1 [Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:33:00 +0100 ]
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Get-Together: Christmas Survival Training [Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:00:00 +0100 ]
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FICCI Higher Education Summit 2015 - Expert views by Mr. Ulrich Podewils on summit [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:51:00 +0100 ]
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The Shirt from the Other End of the World - [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:47:00 +0100 ] On April 24, 2013, the nine-story Rana Plaza textile factory in the Bangladeshi city of Savar collapsed. The operator had ignored life-threatening structural defects. More than 1,100 people were killed and 2,400 were injured. It was the worst accident in the history of the textile and apparel industry.
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Ice-cold Mechanics - [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:51:00 +0100 ] If you run your finger along the rim of an empty wine glass, it makes a noise. The cause of the noise is vibration. The vibrations arise because the glass expands and contracts minimally as a result of the touch during this period.
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Scholarships of Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School - [Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:36:00 +0100 ] Up to 10 doctoral and 2 post-doctoral scholarships. The application deadline is 31st December 2015
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10 Doctoral Grants at the Graduate School of North American Studies - [Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:33:31 +0100 ] The Graduate School of North American Studies invites applications for 10 Doctoral Grants starting October 1, 2016. The application deadline is January 31st.
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Call for Applications-International Max Planck Research School [Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:44:47 +0100 ]
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Current Calls and Scholarships of the Dahlem Research School PhD/ PostDoc Programs - [Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:00:00 +0100 ] Calls and Scholarships of 10 different PhD/ PostDoc Programs. Please note that there are different application deadlines.
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Doctoral Program at Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences - Call for Applications [Thu, 26 Nov 2015 05:58:00 +0100 ]
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Get Ready to Study for Refugees - [Tue, 01 Dec 2015 13:58:00 +0100 ] German Federal Employment Agency Offers MOOC Course for Refugees Interested in Studying
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Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies - Doctoral Scholarships and Post-doctoral Scholarships - Call for Applications [Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:20:00 +0100 ]
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International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing - PhD Program - Call for Applications [Thu, 03 Dec 2015 07:37:58 +0100 ]
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WIR Winter 2015/2016 now available! - [Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:19:00 +0100 ] Alumni Magazine reports on students' study abroad experiences
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Frohe Weihnachten! Merry Christmas! 圣诞快乐！ [Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:17:00 +0100 ]
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Traces in Stone - [Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:41:00 +0100 ] They can’t talk, but they do offer answers: Geophysicist Serge Shapiro uses seismic waves to coax the secrets out of deep layers of stone. Thanks to his invention, it will not be necessary to drill as much to explore underground reservoirs in the future.
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Call for Application: IMPRS Multiscale Bio-Systems [Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:04:00 +0100 ]
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China-Europe Executive Master of Business Marketing - Part Time Master Program - School of Business & Economics [Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:51:00 +0100 ]
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International Colloquium with Claude Lanzmann: available on campus.leben online [Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:07:00 +0100 ]
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Christmas Holidays 2015/16 [Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:01:00 +0100 ]
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Calls & Opportunities [Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:39:00 +0100 ]
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German Workshops - [Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:49:51 +0100 ] Workshops offered by the Independant Language Learning Center for a quick start into daily life “auf Deutsch”
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Apply Now: Joint Berlin-Jerusalem PostDoc Fellowships [Fri, 18 Dec 2015 18:58:00 +0100 ]
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Research for Reduced Animal Testing - [Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:47:00 +0100 ] Berlin’s first university professorship dedicated to research on alternatives to animal testing is being established at Freie Universität Berlin. The goal is to develop disease models based on human tissue cells and human organs reconstructed from those cells.
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Conferment of an Honorary Degree to Dan Diner [Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:58:00 +0100 ]
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Call for Application: EUI Doctoral Programs [Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
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Now online: Sound recording of the Global Humanities Distinguished Lecture with Philippe Descola [Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:00:00 +0100 ]
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Call for Papers for our 5th Summer Workshop [Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:03:00 +0100 ]
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DynAge projects of the 4th funding period have started their work [Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:02:00 +0100 ]
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Relaunch of University Library Website - [Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:59:00 +0100 ] Newly Organized in the Freie Universität Berlin CMS
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Return of Nazi-Looted Books to the Latvian Republic's Parlament Library [Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:45:00 +0100 ]
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International Summer Program of Sun Yat-sen University 2016 - Call for Applications [Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:05:00 +0100 ]
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Career Day for doctoral candidates on February 23rd [Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:38:00 +0100 ]
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Peer Mentoring Group - registration open now [Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:11:00 +0100 ]
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Neuer Vorstand am Dahlem Humanities Center [Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:02:00 +0100 ]
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MA in Visual and Media Anthropology - [Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:10:00 +0100 ] The Application process is now open for the Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology. Deadline: April 30th, 2016
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Call for application: PhD scholarships [Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:41:00 +0100 ]
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New Call for Applications for Research Stays [Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:41:00 +0100 ]
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Call for Applications für die 8. internationale Summer School - [Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:11:00 +0200 ] Die Bewerbung ist bis zum 20. Mai 2016 möglich
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Alumni Campus Tour April 2016 [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:28:00 +0100 ]
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Global History - Master Program [Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:28:39 +0100 ]
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A Lab in the Cradle of Humanity - [Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:10:00 +0100 ] When Kai Hartmann and Frank Riedel set off for the areas where they do research, the trip often involves traveling to the very origins of humanity. Starting from Berlin, where they work at Freie Universität – Hartmann as a geographer and Riedel as a paleontologist – they travel more than 10,000 kilometers by plane and car to reach the Kalahari Desert, in Botswana, and specifically the Tsodilo Hills, northwest of the Okavango Delta.
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Information Session: Date Change - [Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:18:00 +0100 ] Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 10 a.m. – 12 noon, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Hörsaal 2 (Lecture Hall 2)
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FUBiS International Summer and Winter University - Registration for Summer Terms 2016 [Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:58:00 +0100 ]
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Newsletter 1|2016 [Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:56:00 +0100 ]
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Vortrag von David Sassoon am 4. März 2016 [Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:18:00 +0100 ]
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Exhibition of Korean Calligraphy and Ink Wash Painting [Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:35:00 +0100 ]
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FURUSINFO #24. 02.2016 [Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:28:00 +0100 ]
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:17:00 +0100 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #24. 02.2016 online
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5th Call for Applications [Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:39:00 +0100 ]
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Call for Applications - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:59:00 +0100 ] The Research Alumni Program at Freie Universität offers doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from abroad grants for research stays at Freie Universität.
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Inspire Student at FU Berlin: A Summer Sojourn for Science in Berlin! By Jayjit Das [Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:25:00 +0100 ]
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Scholarship for M.A. - [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:11:00 +0100 ] The M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology is offering one scholarship as part of the 'Welcome to Freie Universität Berlin” initiative for refugees.
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Welcome and Information Day for International Doctoral Candidates [Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:00:00 +0100 ]
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Working Paper 01/2016 released [Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:30:00 +0100 ]
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Beatrice Gründler elected president of the American Oriental Society [Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:20:00 +0100 ]
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QS Subject Ranking 2016: Freie Universität Berlin among Top 200 in 25 Subjects - [Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:51:00 +0100 ] Among Best in Germany in Six Subjects
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State an Opinion in the UN Security Council - [Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:34:00 +0100 ] Model United Nations for Students of Freie Universität and Refugees in the Welcome to Freie Universität Berlin Program / Application Deadline: April 7, 2016
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QS Subject Ranking 2016: Freie Universität Berlin among Top 200 in 25 Subjects - [Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:50:00 +0200 ] Among Best in Germany in Six Subjects
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BMS Summer School 2016: "Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science" [Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:31:00 +0200 ]
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Bitter Diagnosis, Sweet Therapy? - [Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:06:00 +0200 ] Nowadays, there are very effective treatments for many serious illnesses. But there is still no sign of an effective treatment, let alone a cure, for dementia – especially Alzheimer’s disease. And how could there be, when even the experts don’t agree on the cause? Defective tau proteins, some say, while others believe the blame lies with a type of protein called amyloid beta that has clumped together into ...
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Lecture: Dimitri Gutas [Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:42:00 +0200 ]
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MA Global History - [Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:54:37 +0200 ] Applications are accepted April 15 to May 31, 2016.
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Call for Applications: Dahlem Junior Host Program 2016 [Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:08:00 +0200 ]
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MA Global History - [Fri, 08 Apr 2016 08:47:00 +0200 ] Applications are accepted April 15 to May 31, 2016.
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Promotion - Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (BSIO) [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 06:01:00 +0200 ]
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FUBiS: Summer Courses Term II 2016 [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 03:57:00 +0200 ]
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Cooperation with European Universities in Siberia: Problems and Solutions - [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:52:00 +0200 ] International Conference to Celebrate the Visit of Charles de Gaulle to Novosibirsk
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FURUSINFO #26. 04.2016 [Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:28:00 +0200 ]
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M.A. - Global Communication and International Journalism [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 05:30:00 +0200 ]
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5 Postdoc Fellowships at EUME in Berlin - [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:56:00 +0200 ] The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for five postdoctoral fellowships. Closing Date: May 9, 2016
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M.A. Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights - FH Potsdam [Tue, 26 Apr 2016 03:44:00 +0200 ]
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Sustainability Campus Days 2016 [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:59:00 +0200 ]
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Call for Applications: Berlin School for Muslim Cultures and Societies [Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:16:00 -0000 ]
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Freedom Award of Freie Universität for Conductor Daniel Barenboim - [Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:37:00 -0000 ] The world-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has been selected to receive the Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin. University officials stated that Barenboim was chosen for this accolade in recognition of his commitment to dialogue in the Middle East. In particular, in the belief that art can overcome barriers, Barenboim, along with the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Founded in 1999, the orchestra brings together young musicians ...
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The FU Berlin-CSC Joint PhD Program 2014 is now online! [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:26:00 -0000 ]
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Internship at the New York Office [Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:42:00 -0000 ]
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All of Europe in Two Months - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:45:00 -0000 ] Rupali Chawla, a student at a science institute in Mohali, and Kaustubh Chaharia, who is enrolled at a technical university in Kanpur, are two of the six Indian junior scientists enrolled in a research internship at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2013 summer semester.
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New Qualification Program Online! [Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:26:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications: Berlin School for Muslim Cultures and Societies [Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:19:00 -0000 ]
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Courses offered in the winter term of 2013/14 - [Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:00:00 -0000 ] Download
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Registration for PhD Workshop China 2013 is now online [Mon, 14 Oct 2013 04:31:00 -0000 ]
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"What Money Can't Buy" - [Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:32:00 -0000 ] The renowned American moral philosopher Michael J. Sandel will hold a lecture on Thursday, October 17, at Freie Universität Berlin. The title of the lecture is 'What Money Can’t Buy.' Sandel, a professor at Harvard University, addresses one of the most important ethical and social issues of our time: How can we prevent the market from dominating fields where it should not be involved? What are its moral limits? How can we preserve the achievements of civilization, which do not interest the market and ...
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Call for Applications: Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:28:00 -0000 ]
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Call for applications: Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:25:00 -0000 ]
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Veterinary Education - [Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:19:00 -0000 ] The Department of Veterinary Medicine at Freie Universität Berlin is one of five institutions in Germany offering training for veterinarians. It is an internationally renowned center for veterinary services as well as for veterinary research.
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Call for BMS Dirichlet Postdoctoral Fellowship - [Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:19:00 -0000 ] A two-year position for promising young mathematicians holding a PhD
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Musician Daniel Barenboim Honored with Freedom Award of Freie Universität - [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:30:00 -0000 ] On Wednesday the renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim was honored with the Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin. With this award, the university recognized Barenboim’s commitment to dialogue in the Middle East. In the belief that art can overcome barriers, Barenboim, along with the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Founded in 1999, the orchestra brings together young musicians from Israel, the Palestinian territories, and Arab ...
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Movies in the Lecture Halls - [Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:58:00 -0000 ] The 8th International Film Festival at Freie Universität Berlin from November 4 to 8, 2013, will focus on cultural diversity in cinema. Under the motto 'cross-roads, cross borders, cross-minds' films from different regions of the world including Serbia, Norway, Israel, Germany, and the USA will be shown. The organizers of the International Film Festival that is held annually early in the winter semester want to facilitate contact between German and foreign students and contribute to understanding between ...
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FUBiS: Registration for term I 2014 is open! [Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:26:00 -0000 ]
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Call for Applications - 20th New Faces Conference - [Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:13:21 -0000 ] 20th New Faces Conference: “Citizenship and Political Participation in the Mediterranean Region” in Istanbul, 27 February - 2 March 2014. Application Deadline is 1 December 2013.
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Call for applications: Text and Event in Early Modern Europe [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:04:00 -0000 ]
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New Graduate School in Cooperation with MPI for Human Development - [Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:44:00 -0000 ] An inauguration ceremony marked the start of the PhD program of the IMPRS Moral Economies on Wednesday evening at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. The first cohort of six PhD students joined the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies (IMPRS Moral Economies) this fall. The research school is a joint international PhD program in History in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, ...
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Call for Applications - 10 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the research program EUME - [Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:21:07 -0000 ] The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to ten postdoctoral fellowships for the research program Europe in the Middle East — The Middle East in Europe (EUME). Closing Date: 15 January 2014
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Looking for a Special Gift? - [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:38:00 -0000 ] The meteorologists of Freie Universität Berlin can help with what might otherwise become a feverish search for a unique Christmas present. They are currently selling naming rights for the high and low pressure systems in 2014, when the highs will be given male names and the lows female names. To name a high pressure system costs 299 euros and a low pressure system 199 euros, plus the value added tax of 19 percent. The names are widely used in weather reports by the media. A certificate is issued for each ...
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Presenting the DRS Awards for Excellent Supervision [Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:00:00 -0000 ]
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Tagesspiegel supplement - New Delhi Office [Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:54:00 -0000 ]
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Human Rights under Pressure: 14 PhD- & 2 PostDoc-Fellowships [Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:30:00 -0000 ]
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Understanding Mechanisms - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:00:00 -0000 ] Gaining a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying neurological and psychiatric disorders is the goal of the scientists involved in the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence at Charité, the medical school operated jointly by Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität.
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The Smallest Things Arrive in a Big Way - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:38:00 -0000 ] In the past, science was often very lonely work. Nowadays real teamwork is required. When chemistry professor Rainer Haag wants to test whether his nanotransporter, which is invisible to the human eye, is really transferring active medical ingredients into the lower layers of the human skin, he depends on the support of colleagues working in pharmacy and physics.
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Postdoctoral fellowships at the Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe" [Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:11:00 -0000 ]
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Academic Legal Training - [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:00:00 -0000 ] The Department of Law at Freie Universität provides an outstanding education, preparing students for careers as judges, attourneys, or other legal professionals. Special focus is placed on the Europeanization of law and international networking.
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Learning in Latin America - [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:05:00 -0000 ] Researchers within the MISEAL project, which is funded by the European Union, investigate and develop measures and instruments intended to facilitate the participation of individuals from different social groups in higher education in Latin American countries. MISEAL stands for 'Medidas para la inclusión social y equidad en Instituciones de Educación Superior en América Latina.'
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Martin Luther King’s 1964 Visit to Berlin - [Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:26:00 -0000 ] Fifty years ago the American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King visited Berlin. To mark this occasion, on January 20, 2014, which is Martin Luther King Day in the United States, the former State Senator of Alabama Dr. h c mult. Charles Steele Jr. will give a lecture at Freie Universität. Steele, Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Atlanta, Georgia) will speak on 'Race and Economic Opportunity: Challenges Before Us and the Scope for Political Action.' The public ...
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Expertise on North America - [Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:00:00 -0000 ] The Graduate School of North American Studies offers doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers a wide range of topics, e.g., the polarization of the U.S. political system, religious movements, cultural identities, foreign policy challenges, the crisis of the economy, or recent developments in literature and art in North America.
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Junior Professorship in Theater Studies (W1) [Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:54:00 -0000 ]
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Robots with Insect Brains - [Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:56:00 -0000 ] Researchers of Freie Universität Berlin, of the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, and of the Bernstein Center Berlin and have developed a robot that perceives environmental stimuli and learns to react to them. The scientists used the relatively simple nervous system of the honeybee as a model for its working principles. To this end, they installed a camera on a small robotic vehicle and connected it to a computer. The computer program replicated in a simplified way the sensorimotor network of ...
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Exhibition on China's Cities in Transition - [Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:49:00 -0000 ] A new exhibition at the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin will depict recent economic, urban, and cultural developments in China’s metropolises. It will be opened with a vernissage on February 12, 2014, at 6 p.m. It marks the 20th anniversary of the partnership between Beijing and Berlin. Numerous posters, maps, and charts demonstrate these developments. Besides individual portraits of cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin, the exhibition will focus on creative urban spaces in ...
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FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:05:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Ausgabe #2 02.2014 online
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Icy Death - [Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:10:00 -0000 ] In the latest issue of the Journal of Glaciology, mathematician Guillaume Jouvet from Freie Universität Berlin and glaciologist Martin Funk from ETH Zurich published their findings about the circumstances of the deaths of four young men in the Alps in 1926. One day in March 1926 four young men, three of whom were brothers, did not return from a ski tour on the Great Aletsch Glacier. The remains of the three brothers were found 86 years later by two British mountaineers. On the basis of where the bones ...
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German-Israeli Exchange Project Won Teaching Award of Freie Universität - [Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:33:00 -0000 ] How is the history of the Holocaust described in history books in Israel and in Germany? How do the cultures of memory in the two countries differ in dealing with the genocide? These and similar questions will be addressed within a research-focused exchange program for education students majoring in history and ethics at Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The transnational project, which was developed by the historian Prof. Dr. Martin Lücke, won the Teaching Award of Freie ...
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Up to 4 doctoral stipends at the Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe" - [Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:45:00 -0000 ] Completion Grants at the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' - startig October 2014 Deadline for Applications: 15 March 2014
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BSRT International Summer School - [Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:55:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 1st April 2014
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ADUC Prize for Sebastian Seiffert - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:00:00 -0000 ] The Working Group of German University Chemistry Professors (ADUC/Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Universitätsprofessoren und –Professorinnen für Chemie) has awarded its 2013 prize for instructors completing their professorial credentials to Dr. habil. Sebastian Seiffert. Seiffert heads a group of junior scientists at the HZB Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials, as well as teaching at Freie Universität Berlin as an adjunct professor. He will be assuming an associate professorship for ...
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ADUC Prize for Sebastian Seiffert - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:00:00 -0000 ] The Working Group of German University Chemistry Professors (ADUC/Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Universitätsprofessoren und –Professorinnen für Chemie) has awarded its 2013 prize for instructors completing their professorial credentials to Dr. habil. Sebastian Seiffert. Seiffert heads a group of junior scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials, as well as teaching at Freie Universität Berlin as an adjunct professor. ...
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THE World Reputation Ranking in 2014: Freie Universität Again among First 100 Universities Worldwide - [Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:48:00 -0000 ] In its latest World Reputation Rankings, the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine again includes Freie Universität among the 100 most highly regarded universities of the world. The university improved its position again this year, reaching the 81-90 group. It is also again one of the five most respected German universities. A spin-off of the annual THE World University Rankings, the reputation ...
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Registering via Campus Management in the 2014 summer semester [Sat, 08 Mar 2014 23:00:00 -0000 ]
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The first Falling Walls Lab Cairo. Share your ideas and get a scholarship! - [Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:36:15 -0000 ] SHARE YOUR INNOVATIVE IDEA AT THE FALLING WALLS LAB, WIN A SCHOLARSHIP AND TRAVEL TO THE FINALE IN BERLIN!
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CfA M.A. program International Relations (IR) Online - [Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:43:00 -0000 ] The innovative blended learning program promotes flexible learning, analytical skills and offers excellent guidance. IR Online enhances career prospects and connects students to a global network of alumni and IR experts. International Relations Online offers: A degree from a German university of Excellence A Program taught in English In-house classes: meet your peers and explore Berlin twice a year Supervision by dedicated scholars from around the world Your own learning path via our study tracks in ...
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FURUSINFO #4. 03.2014 [Sun, 23 Mar 2014 05:28:00 -0000 ]
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DFG Leibniz Lecture and Alumni Reception - [Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:17:00 -0000 ] Prof. Ziegler helds Lecture on 'Sugar cubes, soap bubbles, a revolution and a star: Some stellar images between Mathematics and Physics' in St. Petersburg
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The Militarization of Space - [Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:33:00 -0000 ] The Emmy Noether Research Group “The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century” is organizing an international, transdisciplinary conference to be held April 10 to 12, 2014. The conference deals with the military dimensions of outer space during the twentieth century. More than 20 lectures will be devoted to outer space as a location for utopian border crossing and the history of outer space as a battlefield of the future. The event is public, but ...
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21st New Faces Conference. Apply now! - [Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:06:00 -0000 ] 21st New Faces Conference: 'People Moving – Implications of Migration for Societies and States in North Africa' in Tunis, 19 – 23 June 2014. Application deadline is 20 April 2014
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4 Dahlem International Network Professorships [Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:06:00 -0000 ]
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International PhD Program in Muscle Sciences Berlin-Paris - [Sun, 13 Apr 2014 08:39:00 -0000 ] Apply now for MyoGrad PhD stipends. Deadline for applications is April 30, 2014
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Call for Applications: DRS Incoming Postdoc Fellowships POINT-2015 - [Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:44:00 -0000 ] The DRS Postdoc Fellowship program offers 20 fellowships for 18 months starting in January 2015
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FURUSINFO #5. 04.2014 [Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:28:00 -0000 ]
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Selection of New Fellows 2014/15 [Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:46:00 -0000 ]
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Job Offers for Professorships and Junior Professorships at Freie Universität Berlin - [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:51:00 -0000 ] 4 Dahlem International Network Professorships & 3 Dahlem International Network Junior Professorships
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Networks in the Middle East - [Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:00:00 -0000 ] The liaison office in Cairo aims to increase academic cooperation between Freie Universität and universities and research centers in Egypt and the Middle East. It highlights the university’s outstanding research in many fields including Middle Eastern Studies.
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Mathematics in Berlin - [Tue, 06 May 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ] Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. Its doctoral program attracts outstanding graduate students from around the world.
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Syrian History in Shards - [Wed, 07 May 2014 09:20:00 -0000 ] A chance find in a child’s hands, decades of excavation work, thousands of artifacts – and, finally, the civil war. After about 35 years, archaeologist Hartmut Kühne’s research project at the Tell Sheikh Hamad site in Syria will draw to a close this year. He and his team have reconstructed how people in the area lived 3,000 years ago, down to the smallest details. How severely the war has affected the excavation site in the meantime is ...
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Teaching Award of Freie Universität Presented for First Time - [Wed, 07 May 2014 13:39:00 -0000 ] A German-Israeli exchange project that is devoted to Holocaust education for education students from both countries was honored on Tuesday evening with the Teaching Award of Freie Universität Berlin. In the project, which is headed by Prof. Dr. Martin Lücke, students at Freie Universität and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem first learn about the historiographic and didactic research on the Holocaust and then jointly create teaching and learning materials. The 10,000-euro award for outstanding ...
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BSRT Call for applications - [Sun, 11 May 2014 06:58:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 30 June 2014
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The Chemistry Is Right - [Tue, 13 May 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ] At the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy special emphasis is put on the life sciences. Its three institutes are linked with numerous non-university research facilities and offer excellent training and career opportunities.
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FURUSINFO #6. 05.2014 [Sat, 24 May 2014 04:28:00 -0000 ]
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Get your PhD in Germany - [Wed, 28 May 2014 11:42:34 -0000 ] Special Counselling Event for Egyptian PhD Candidates
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Double Degree Master's Program "Global Communication and International Journalism" starts this fall [Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:38:00 -0000 ]
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Double Degree Master's Program "Global Communication and International Journalism" [Tue, 03 Jun 2014 06:37:00 -0000 ]
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And the winner is … - [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:53:00 -0000 ] It is still a few days until the FIFA World Cup starts … if you are tired of waiting, you can get involved immediately. Computer scientists David Dormagen and Raul Rojas from the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Group at Freie Universität Berlin developed software that lets you host the World Cup on your computer at home. The simulator is readily accessible via the Internet. Users can set or modify the simulation parameters, providing their own estimation of which are the appropriate indicators for ...
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Preventing Violence in Schools - [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:20:00 -0000 ] 'Each week, at least one in ten secondary school students experiences bullying, either as a perpetrator or a victim,' according to Professor Herbert Scheithauer from Freie Universität Berlin. The Division of Developmental Science and Applied Developmental Psychology at Freie Universität, headed by Scheithauer, developed an antibullying program called Fairplayer.Manual for use in schools. In 2011 it was awarded the ...
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New double degree master’s program in Global Communication and International Journalism - [Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:09:00 -0000 ] Starting in September 2014, Freie Universität Berlin and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Saint Petersburg State University are teaming up to offer a new double degree master’s program in Global Communication and International Journalism. The language of the program is English.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: Summer School and Workshop 2014 [Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:01:00 -0000 ]
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Newsletter Abteilung VI: Announcement for Research funding projects [Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:30:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: 2 Scholarships for Doctoral Studies at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies [Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:17:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 454 | 2016-05-02
Leila Papoli Yazdi Appointed International Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin - [Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:49:00 -0000 ] As of the winter semester 2014/15, Prof. Dr. Leila Papoli Yazdi, an Iranian archaeologist, will be the Dahlem International Network Professor for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In her research, Yazdi, 36, focuses on Iranian gender history and body history from antiquity to the present day as well as art historical themes. She publishes her findings in conventional academic journals and also presents them through performances or exhibitions with political and humanitarian objectives. When more ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 455 | 2016-05-02
Selection of 7 interdisciplinary research groups [Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:04:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 456 | 2016-05-02
INNO INDIGO Joint Call 2014 - Clean Water and Health [Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:26:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 457 | 2016-05-02
A Monumental Tomb under Trees in Prignitz - [Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:37:00 -0000 ] After it was built, nearly 3,000 years ago, the monumental tomb located amid the gently rolling hills of the Prignitz district must have been visible from several kilometers away: a gigantic Bronze Age structure, a dome-shaped hill covered with rocks or a thin layer of grass, ten meters tall and 62 meters in diameter. Today, the tomb – which was discovered in 1899 during quarrying work for road construction near the village of Seddin, in the Prignitz district – lies tucked away ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 458 | 2016-05-02
Now online: Video recording of the Opening Ceremony [Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:50:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 459 | 2016-05-02
Malaria Medications from Waste - [Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:55:00 -0000 ] All of the best currently available pharmaceuticals against malaria can now be produced in pure form using a single process, even from the waste of the plant-extraction. The method which has been developed allows for the complete production of anti-malaria medicines, in a continuous fashion, utilizing one reactor at one location. The process can also utilize both artemisinin and the plant waste product to produce these medicines, allowing for more material to be used and medicines produced without having ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 460 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Fri, 12 Sep 2014 06:00:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #9. 09.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 461 | 2016-05-02
The Men Who Stare at Bees - [Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:32:00 -0000 ] The Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) program launched by the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology awards five research internships a year to outstanding scholars. One of them is Rolish Singh, from Delhi. He has been a scholarship recipient at Freie Universität Berlin since July, working as part of the research group headed by neurobiology professor Randolf Menzel.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 462 | 2016-05-02
Call for Application: The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies [Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:20:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 463 | 2016-05-02
International Education Fair - [Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:00:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at 'International Education Fair' in Moscow and Saint Petersburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 464 | 2016-05-02
Chinese-Latin American Relations - [Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:46:00 -0000 ] An international conference to be held at Freie Universität Berlin will deal with current relations between China and Latin America. Participants at the conference to be held on October 24 and 25 will take a look at the various actors in the fields of environment, society, and international relations. The specific topics include Chinese investment, agriculture, resource degradation, infrastructure projects, and the role of semi-public Chinese organizations. Fifteen scholars from the People's Republic of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 465 | 2016-05-02
Political Systems, Media, and Communication - [Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:30:00 -0000 ] The Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität includes the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, the Institute of Sociology, the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 466 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:24:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 467 | 2016-05-02
DRS Award for Excellent Supervision 2014: Call for Nominations [Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 468 | 2016-05-02
New call of GE-SEED. Apply now! - [Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:38:00 -0000 ] New call of the German Egyptian Mobility Program for Scientific Exchange and Excellence Development (formerly known as GESP). Deadline is:15.12.2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 469 | 2016-05-02
BMS Call for Dirichlet Postdoc Fellowship [Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 470 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität among Top Five in Germany and 28th in Europe - [Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:17:00 -0000 ] Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2014–2015: Freie Universität Berlin Moves Up Five Places to Rank 81
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 471 | 2016-05-02
From the Nibelungenlied to Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann - [Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:39:00 -0000 ] The two-semester lecture series on German literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that is being held in Jerusalem in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin is being continued during the 2014/15 fall/winter semester. The topics of the lectures will cover literature during the period from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The lectures will be given by prominent experts on each author and period. With this series, the two universities aim to give a new impetus to German studies at the Hebrew ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 472 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Graduate School of Global Politics [Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:16:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 473 | 2016-05-02
Berliner Antike-Kolleg: Visiting Research Fellowships - [Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:12:42 -0000 ] Three Visiting Research Fellowships in 2015. Deadline: 30. November 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 474 | 2016-05-02
Brazil Following the Presidential Elections - [Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:38:00 -0000 ] The Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin is hosting a panel discussion on November 10, 2014, devoted to the impact the re-election of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil's President. The participants will discuss the impact on the policy and economy of the country as well as the reasons for the close election results. The discussion will be moderated by sociologist Renata Motta, a researcher at LAI. The discussants will include Sérgio Costa, a professor of the sociology of Latin ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 475 | 2016-05-02
Green “Power Plants” - [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:34:00 -0000 ] Plants can adapt to changing light conditions. This is made possible by photoreceptors that sense light at different wavelengths and translate it into signals – the language of cells. A group of biologists from Freie Universität Berlin and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf have jointly studied how the light signals affect the green “power plants” in the plant cells, the chloroplasts.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 476 | 2016-05-02
British Computer Society Honors Computer Science Professor Raúl Rojas - [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:25:00 -0000 ] Computer science professor Raúl Rojas from Freie Universität Berlin has been recognized by the British Computer Conservation Society. The Society – a joint association of the British Computer Society and the Science Museum in London – honored Rojas with the 2014 Tony Sale Award. The award ceremony took place in London. The award was given for Rojas's outstanding contributions to the history of computer science, in particular with regard to the technical and theoretical reconstruction of major ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 477 | 2016-05-02
High and Low - [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:44:00 -0000 ] The Earth sciences are devoted to the study of Earth system processes. How these processes influence each other, what influence they have on climate and the environment, and what role in these processes is played by humans are all topics that are being investigated at Freie Universität in Berlin-Lankwitz.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 478 | 2016-05-02
Facilitate Understanding - [Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:14:00 -0000 ] The Center for Modern Greek Studies (CeMoG) at Freie Universität Berlin is holding a conference on December 15, 2014, that is devoted to the promotion of, translation, and translatability of a peripheral literature, its language, and culture in Germany. The participants will include literary historians, individuals engaged in the cultural sector, journalists, and editors, as well as agents, publishers, authors, and translators. In lectures and panel discussions they will discuss important aspects of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 479 | 2016-05-02
History and Cultures - [Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:10:00 -0000 ] The Department of History and Cultural Studies offers a research profile found nowhere else in Germany. It covers a wide range of different eras, from ancient times to the modern period, and a vast physical area, stretching from Europe and the Middle East to Asia and the Americas.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 480 | 2016-05-02
Selection of 2 interdisciplinary research groups [Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:27:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 481 | 2016-05-02
10 doctoral and 2 post- doctoral Scholarship at Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:58:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 482 | 2016-05-02
DRS HONORS Fellowships 2015-1 [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 483 | 2016-05-02
Four Doctoral Dissertations Win Ernst Reuter Prizes in 2014 [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:42:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 484 | 2016-05-02
Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2014–2015: Freie Universität Berlin Moves Up Five Places to Rank 81 - [Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:47:00 -0000 ] According to the new ranking by the prestigious magazine Times Higher Education (THE), Freie Universität has improved by world standards and is currently ranked 81st among universities. As announced by THE in London, the university moved up four places since last year, and it is one of the five best universities in Germany. Europe-wide it is ranked 28.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 485 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: “Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“ [Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:48:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 486 | 2016-05-02
9 PhD fellowships at “Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“ - [Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:07:00 -0000 ] Application deadline is April 30, 2015.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 487 | 2016-05-02
International Education Fair - [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:55:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at Education Fair in Saint Petersburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 488 | 2016-05-02
New International Sustainability Network [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:13:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 489 | 2016-05-02
Dangerous Inflammation - [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:52:00 -0000 ] According to figures provided by Deutsche Alzheimer-Gesellschaft, there are about one million Germans currently living with Alzheimer’s disease. And the number is rising. After all, with demographic change in progress, there is also an increase in the number of those at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a particular form of dementia in which patients’ nerve tissue is systematically destroyed.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 490 | 2016-05-02
PhD Grants: IRTG "Between Spaces ‘Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation’ [Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:15:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 491 | 2016-05-02
New International Sustainability Network [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:13:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 492 | 2016-05-02
PhD Positions at Berlin Mathematical School [Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:06:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 493 | 2016-05-02
4 PostDoc & 4 PhD grants at KFG "The Transformative Power of Europe" [Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 494 | 2016-05-02
The Big Cleanup - [Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:11:00 -0000 ] Everyone knows, but no one does anything about it. Huge amounts of plastic waste are piling up at certain points in the ocean, carried there by currents. Five of these “garbage patches” have formed in the world’s oceans. There is talk of there being tens of thousands of tons of plastic trash involved: “That’s just a rough estimate of the amount,” says computer scientist Tim Landgraf of Freie Universität Berlin. “But what’s really impressive, though, is the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 495 | 2016-05-02
Fund for International Research Workshops [Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:03:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 496 | 2016-05-02
Postdoc Fellowship Program of the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:47:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 497 | 2016-05-02
The Islamic World - [Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:30:00 -0000 ] What makes the “Islamic world” Islamic? What influence does Islam have on culture, law, and politics in societies we call “Muslim” or “Islamic”? These are the key issues investigated at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 498 | 2016-05-02
Lehrangebot „Entrepreneurship Education II“ - noch freie Plätze! [Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:52:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 499 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #15. 03.2015 [Sat, 28 Mar 2015 05:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 500 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Program Alumni Roundtable "Writing Histories of Germans Abroad" accepted - [Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:48:00 -0000 ] for the GSA Annual Conference, Oct. 1-4, 2015 in Washington D.C. Writing Histories of Germans Abroad: Approaches and Methodologies to German Sources on Africa and the Middle East
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 501 | 2016-05-02
Alumni Meeting in China [Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:57:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 502 | 2016-05-02
5 postdoctoral fellowships for the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) - [Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:43:00 -0000 ] The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for five postdoctoral for the Academic Year 2015/16. Closing Date: 24 April 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 503 | 2016-05-02
Cooperation with Israel - [Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:04:00 -0000 ] In teaching, research, and professional development, Freie Universität works closely with universities in Israel, especially with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The cooperation covers all the disciplines offered at Freie Universität.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 504 | 2016-05-02
An Underestimated Risk - [Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:30:00 -0000 ] Each year 740,000 people in Germany contract some form of pneumonia outside a hospital. About one-third of them become so sick that they require inpatient treatment. Even with medical attention, twelve percent do not survive the infection.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 505 | 2016-05-02
Courses offered in the summer term of 2015 - [Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:00:00 -0000 ] The current semester plan of the CREES colloquium is now available for download.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 506 | 2016-05-02
Nobel Prize Winner Herta Müller to Read in Jerusalem - [Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:02:00 -0000 ] A year-long lecture series on German literature from the Middle Ages to the present that is being held jointly by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin is being concluded with an event devoted to the work of Herta Müller. On April 29, Herta Müller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature will be reading excerpts from her work that have not yet been published in Hebrew. The text passages will be read in both German and Hebrew. Following the reading, Dr. Jürgen Brokoff, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 507 | 2016-05-02
Herta Müller in Jerusalem - [Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:08:00 -0000 ] A year-long lecture series on German literature from the Middle Ages to the present that is being held jointly by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin is being concluded with an event devoted to the work of Herta Müller. On April 29, Herta Müller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature will be reading excerpts from her work that have not yet been published in Hebrew. The text passages will be read in both German and Hebrew. Following the reading, Dr. Jürgen Brokoff, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 508 | 2016-05-02
Kung Fu Show with Lion Dance, Chinese Tea Ceremony, and Tai Chi - [Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:46:00 -0000 ] The Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin will celebrate its nine-year anniversary with an open house on April 25, 2015. There will be a fun and interesting program. The highlights include a Kung Fu show with lion dance, an introduction to China's traditional tea ceremonies, and demonstrations of easy movements in China's traditional Number 1 health sport – Tai Chi – with possibilities to try them out. Visitors will also be able to try Chinese origami and paper cutting and participate in a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 509 | 2016-05-02
Medizin für Ältere braucht neue Technologien - DynAge Auftritt auf der Informationsplattform Medizintechnologie.de [Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:27:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 510 | 2016-05-02
Subjects Taught at Freie Universität Berlin Ranked High in Latest CHE University Ranking - [Tue, 05 May 2015 08:52:00 -0000 ] In the most recent university ranking of the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE), subjects at Freie Universität Berlin were again ranked very high. New achievements were recorded, particularly in the field of physics. The university also ranked in the top group in mathematics, geography, pharmacy, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 511 | 2016-05-02
Teaching about North America - [Mon, 11 May 2015 14:00:00 -0000 ] The John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies offers students an excellent academic education with a specialization on the United States and Canada. Courses and programs are offered in six disciplines: culture, literature, history, politics, sociology, and economics.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 512 | 2016-05-02
DAAD programs PROBRAL and UNIBRAL: Call 2015 - [Mon, 11 May 2015 16:28:00 -0000 ] In 2015 the DAAD again offers instruments for bilateral collaboration between Brazilian and German universities within its programs PROBRAL, PROBRAL II, UNIBRAL and UNIBRAL II. The call is conducted in cooperation with the Brazilian funding agency CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior).
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 513 | 2016-05-02
Autonomous in Zurich - [Tue, 12 May 2015 13:53:00 -0000 ] The autonomous vehicle MadeInGermany developed at Freie Universität Berlin is the first such vehicle to be allowed to drive on the streets in Switzerland. It received an exemption from the Swiss Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy, and Communications, and this week it is driving autonomously in downtown Zurich. The exemption was made possible through the commitment of the Swiss company, Swisscom AG. Within this context policy makers and representatives from industry are at a meeting in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 514 | 2016-05-02
An Asian Perspective on the European Union - [Wed, 20 May 2015 06:53:00 -0000 ] Taken together, these two countries account for nearly 40 percent of the global population. They are emerging economies and have been strategic partners of the European Union for years: India, “the world’s largest democracy,” and China, with its one-party socialist system. What role does the European Union play in these Asian countries, and what factors affect the perception of the EU “from outside”? And how does this image affect cooperation? The junior research group “Asian Perceptions of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 515 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: HONORS Fellowships 2015-2 [Wed, 20 May 2015 14:33:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 516 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Summer School on Oral History Archives, August 23-29, 2015, at Freie Universität Berlin - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:47:00 +0200 ] For international alumni Freie Universität Berlin is holding a summer school as an introduction to the interdisciplinary scholarly work with the oral history archives dealing with National Socialism. The main focus is on the end of the war in 1945.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 517 | 2016-05-02
Welcome Day for international doctoral candidates [Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:32:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 518 | 2016-05-02
5 Years Cairo Office in Cairo [Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:12:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 519 | 2016-05-02
Welcome Berlin Tour for International Doctoral Candidates [Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:21:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 520 | 2016-05-02
Stellenausschreibung: Wiss. Koordination - [Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:36:00 +0200 ] Bewerbungsfrist 13. Juli 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 521 | 2016-05-02
A Virtual Journey into Antiquity - [Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:28:00 +0200 ] Countless treasures are tucked away in the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection) in Berlin. Some of the pieces are on display in the museum’s exhibits. But many precious items are still waiting to be “unlocked”: The inscriptions on many papyri that were brought to Berlin in crates long ago have remained a mystery even to scholars. Some of them have been rolled up or folded together for millennia, so the experts only dare ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 522 | 2016-05-02
The Global Young Academy – 2015 Call for New Members [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:19:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 523 | 2016-05-02
The Global Young Academy - Call for Members 2015 [Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 524 | 2016-05-02
Letting People Speak - [Mon, 07 Sep 2015 09:25:00 +0200 ] When it comes to studying the language of specific age groups, most scholars focus on the language used by young people. Annette Gerstenberg, a scholar of Romance linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin, is dedicated to a different generation: She studies language in advanced age.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 525 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #19. 09.2015 [Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:28:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 526 | 2016-05-02
Heisenberg-Gruppe nimmt ihre Arbeit auf [Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:55:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 527 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - Fellowship East Asia Security EVF [Tue, 29 Sep 2015 03:22:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 528 | 2016-05-02
Open Door Talk: Who will pay my pension some day? [Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 529 | 2016-05-02
UNILEAD-University Leadership and Management Training Programme - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:32:00 +0200 ] A Blended-Learning programme for young University Leaders within the field of Higher Education Management.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 530 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) – Get Your Math PhD in Berlin [Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:55:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 531 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - Mobility Program 2016 [Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:57:20 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 532 | 2016-05-02
Smart im Alter - [Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:20:00 +0200 ] Ein Interview mit Psychiatrieprofessorin Isabella Heuser über die Herausforderungen in der Altersmedizin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 533 | 2016-05-02
Graduate School of East Asian Studies PhD Fellowships 2016 - Call for Applications [Tue, 20 Oct 2015 05:53:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 534 | 2016-05-02
Apply now for a PhD at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies [Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:16:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 535 | 2016-05-02
Berlin and German Studies for Refugees - [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:25:00 +0100 ] Two courses will start on November 10 and 12.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 536 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies - [Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:20:00 +0100 ] The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit a maximum of fifteen new students to its next doctoral programme, which begins on 1 October 2016. Up to ten of these students will receive a grant.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 537 | 2016-05-02
Adriana Altaras liest aus "Doitscha" [Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:46:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 538 | 2016-05-02
Doctoral Fellowships in Ancient Philosophy - [Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:17:00 +0100 ] Apply by 15 December 2015 for the three-year doctoral program in Ancient Philosophy and Science to begin in October 2016.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 539 | 2016-05-02
Ice-cold Mechanics - [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:31:00 +0100 ] If you run your finger along the rim of an empty wine glass, it makes a noise. The cause of the noise is vibration. The vibrations arise because the glass expands and contracts minimally as a result of the touch during this period.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 540 | 2016-05-02
New Call of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies - [Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:09:00 +0100 ] The final deadline for complete applications is January 31, 2016.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 541 | 2016-05-02
Supervisor Award 2015 winners selected [Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 542 | 2016-05-02
Apply Now: 10 Doctoral Grants at the Graduate School for North American Studies [Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:03:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 543 | 2016-05-02
Free German Language Courses in Spring 2016 [Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 544 | 2016-05-02
Doctoral Grants - Graduate School of North American Studies [Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:25:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 545 | 2016-05-02
It’s All in Your Head - [Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:37:00 +0100 ] What role do feelings play when we make decisions? Why do the Harry Potter novels carry us off into faraway worlds? Can people perceive a rubber hand as part of their own body?
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 546 | 2016-05-02
Participation in Research Projects - [Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:08:00 +0100 ] DFG to Facilitate Participation by Refugee Scientists and Academics
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 547 | 2016-05-02
Visual and Media Anthropology - Master Program - Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology [Thu, 21 Jan 2016 07:19:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 548 | 2016-05-02
2016/17 Dahlem International Network Professorship for Gender Studies [Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:57:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 549 | 2016-05-02
Peer Mentoring Group - registration open now [Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 550 | 2016-05-02
New board and new Director at the Dahlem Humanities Center [Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:02:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 551 | 2016-05-02
Focusing on Issues of Gender and Health - [Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:04:00 +0100 ] How do unemployed men and women deal with aging? Why do women in Romania know so little about hepatitis? Irina Catrinel Crăciun’s research projects focus closely on the lived experiences of many people.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 552 | 2016-05-02
DFG- DST Call for Collaborative Activity in Chemistry and Physics [Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:25:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 553 | 2016-05-02
Meet You at the Education Fairs! - [Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:41:00 +0100 ] 'Grad & MBA Fair' in Moskau, Saint Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 554 | 2016-05-02
DRS Pro Business - Call for Applications [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 555 | 2016-05-02
Mexico: Between Yesterday and Today - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:44:00 +0100 ] The two scholars agree that the atmosphere here is perfect for dedicating yourself to research. Both scholars are using this semester-long visit to make great progress in their respective projects.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 556 | 2016-05-02
Spring Campus - [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ] The first Spring Campus of the University Alliance for Sustainability on the topic “Connecting Communities for Sustainability: Do Universities Matter?” will take place from April 11-15, 2016 at Freie Universität Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 557 | 2016-05-02
PKU Delegation visits Schools@University - [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:06:00 +0100 ] Engaging school children with head, heart and hand in Education for Sustainable Development is a concept that sparks international interest.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 558 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #25. 03.2016 [Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:28:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 559 | 2016-05-02
Between Two Worlds at the End of Life - [Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:55:00 +0200 ] There are about four million immigrants from Russian-speaking countries living in Germany. “They make use of palliative care institutions, such as hospices or specialized outpatient services, less often than the majority of German society – although they die, too, of course, and could use the care,” says Uwe Flick, an education scholar at Freie Universität. He is the head of the PALQUALSUM: Palliative Quality of Life – Service Utilization by Migrants from Russian Speaking Countries project, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 560 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Mobility Allowance for Research Stays [Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:09:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 561 | 2016-05-02
Eleven PhD Fellowships - Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 05:39:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 562 | 2016-05-02
Master of Business Law - European and International Business, Competition, and Regulatory Law [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:56:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 563 | 2016-05-02
Sports for Refugees [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:39:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 564 | 2016-05-02
WDR5 Interview with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lauri Wessel [Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:11:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 565 | 2016-05-02
Sustainability Campus Days 2016 [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:59:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 566 | 2016-05-02
The new call for longterm Scholarship GERLS! - [Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:15:22 -0000 ] Deadline for application: 31 October 2013
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 567 | 2016-05-02
Call for applications: PhD Scholarships at International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:23:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 568 | 2016-05-02
Naming the Weather - [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:57:00 -0000 ] As of Wednesday, September 25, 2013, the meteorologists at Freie Universität Berlin will be taking orders to assign names to the weather highs and lows for the coming year. In 2014 the highs will be given male names and the lows female names. The prices are still 299 euros for highs and 199 euros for lows. However, as of 2014 the value added tax (VAT), currently 19 percent, must be added. The proceeds will be used to fund the continuous weather observation by students at the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 569 | 2016-05-02
Administering Natural Substance Stopped Dementia - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:20:00 -0000 ] This was found in a recent study conducted by Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist from Freie Universität Berlin and the Neurocure Cluster of Excellence and Prof. Dr. Frank Madeo from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 570 | 2016-05-02
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 - [Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:16:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin, according to the latest World University Rankings by the highly regarded journal, Times Higher Education (THE), is one of the four best universities in Germany. As announced by THE in London, Freie Universität ranked 86 in the overall world rankings, an improvement of 42 positions since the last such rankings. In the humanities subjects, LMU Munich at rank 21 and Freie Universität Berlin at rank 22 are the best German universities. In two additional subject groups, Freie ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 571 | 2016-05-02
Courses offered in the winter term of 2013/14 - [Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:00:00 -0000 ] Please find here the PDF overview of courses offered by CREES in the winter term of 2013/14 and the current semester plan of the CREES colloquium available for download.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 572 | 2016-05-02
DRS Award for Excellent Supervision 2013: Call for Nominations [Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:09:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 573 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Graduate School of North American Studies [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:30:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 574 | 2016-05-02
Poetry from Another Universe - [Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:35:00 -0000 ] Ancient Chinese poetry is the topic of the inaugural lecture to be given by the poet and translator David Hinton on December 12, 2013, at Freie Universität Berlin. Hinton, a native of the United States, is the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature during the 2013/2014 winter semester. He is teaching a class in English on Another Universe: Wilderness Thought in Ancient Chinese and Modern American Poetry. The inaugural lecture entitled Reading ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 575 | 2016-05-02
Research That Gets under Your Skin - [Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:37:00 -0000 ] “It’s really not that simple to penetrate through the skin,” says Professor Eckart Rühl, of the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Freie Universität Berlin. Rühl should know; he studies nanoparticles that overcome the barrier formed by the upper layers of the skin and can release active medical ingredients in deeper layers.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 576 | 2016-05-02
Renewed Funding for DFG Research Training Group "Fluorine as a Key Element" - [Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:01:00 -0000 ] The graduate research training group 'Fluorine as a Key Element' at Freie Universität Berlin’s Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy will continue to be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The involved scientists from Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have an additional four and a half years to jointly continue researching new concepts of synthesis. The group focuses on the synthesis and characterization of fluorinated compounds and their applications in catalysis, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 577 | 2016-05-02
Regenerative Therapies - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:30:00 -0000 ] The Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies offers innovative research opportunities in the field of regenerative medicine for outstanding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers with a background in the biological, engineering, or clinical disciplines.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 578 | 2016-05-02
7 Dahlem International Network Junior Research Groups [Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:40:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 579 | 2016-05-02
German Federal Cross of Merit for Cooperation Partner of Freie Universität - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:27:00 -0000 ] The microbiologist Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, who is closely associated with Freie Universität, was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in a ceremony in the German Embassy in New Delhi. The award was presented by Michael Steiner, the German Ambassador to India. Seyed Hasnain was selected for this special honor in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 580 | 2016-05-02
When Bees Can’t Find Their Way Home - [Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:45:00 -0000 ] Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin have shown that pesticides interfere with the orientation of honeybees and other pollinating insects. Even small amounts of pesticides had undesirable effects on the nervous systems of both wild bees and bumblebees as well, as found by the neurobiologist Professor Randolf Menzel and his group at Freie Universität. Their results were published on Wednesday in the prestigious online journal PLOS ONE.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 581 | 2016-05-02
Toxic or Beneficial? - [Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:10:00 -0000 ] The role that reactive oxygen species play in sexual reproduction in plants has been discovered by researchers in the working group headed by biology professor Tina Romeis at the Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, together with cooperation partners at the University of Würzburg and the University of Amsterdam.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 582 | 2016-05-02
3 Dahlem International Network Junior Professorships [Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:43:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 583 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - International PhD Program in Muscle Science Berlin-Paris - [Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:56:00 -0000 ] MyoGrad – the International Research Training Group for Myology - announces a new call for applications for Doctoral candidates. Partner institutions are the Freie Universität Berlin, the Medical Faculty Charité in Berlin and University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (Paris VI).
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 584 | 2016-05-02
Apply now for the 18th DGAP International Summer School! - [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:00:00 -0000 ] “Constructive versus Destructive Engagement - Drivers and Implications of External Actors’ Policies for North Africa” Berlin, 11 – 22 August 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 585 | 2016-05-02
New Alliance between Vancouver and Berlin - [Tue, 06 May 2014 07:57:00 -0000 ] On May 2, a new strategic cooperation agreement was signed between Freie Universität Berlin and the University of British Columbia (UBC). It is the first strategic alliance between a German and a Canadian university in which both institutions set out to use synergies systematically and to foster cooperation in research and teaching between Berlin and Vancouver.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 586 | 2016-05-02
Dying to be Skinny - [Wed, 07 May 2014 09:10:00 -0000 ] In his last Facebook post, Sarmad Alladin left no doubt about it – he was proud of his body. And he wasn’t nicknamed “Mr. Muscle” for nothing. A snapshot shows the 18-year-old, a student in England, flexing his biceps. A few hours after the post, he was dead. According to experts, the cause of death was a diet pill called “DNP Burn.” He had probably bought it on the Internet.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 587 | 2016-05-02
And the winner is … - [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:52:00 -0000 ] Computer Scientists at Freie Universität Develop Simulator for Soccer World Cup
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 588 | 2016-05-02
Education and the Future - [Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:00:00 -0000 ] The Department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin includes the discipline of psychology as well as those of education and elementary education. The university's Center for Teacher Education is also part of this department.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 589 | 2016-05-02
Satellites Show High Productivity in the U.S. Corn Belt - [Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:22:00 -0000 ] According to a study and analysis of satellite data by scientists at the U.S. space agency NASA and researchers at Freie Universität Berlin, the Midwest of the United States has higher photosynthetic activity than any other region in the world.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 590 | 2016-05-02
Remembering Nazi Forced Labor - [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:48:00 -0000 ] For the sixth time, Freie Universität Berlin is holding a summer school for junior researchers from abroad to introduce them to its oral history archives devoted to National Socialism. This year, from August 17 to 23, participants will be given an introduction to the academic analysis of oral history sources using the Nazi forced labor archive as a starting point. Participation in the summer school is free, and applications are being accepted through June 30, 2014. Oral history is a field of historical ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 591 | 2016-05-02
Centre Marc Bloch: Stipendien für Promovierende und WissenschaftlerInnen [Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:45:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 592 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:00:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #8. 07.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 593 | 2016-05-02
In Retrospect: Workshop "Circular and Vectorial Trends in Cultural Developments" [Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:36:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 594 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin Most Popular Destination in Germany for Leading Researchers and Outstanding Young Scholars from Abroad - [Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:11:00 -0000 ] According to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Freie Universität Berlin is still the most popular destination in Germany for leading researchers and young scholars from abroad. As the foundation announced in Bonn on Monday, Freie Universität reached first place by a wide margin in a comparison of the number of visits. In the Humboldt Ranking, which bases its calculations on the number of professors hosting visiting researchers, Freie Universität defended its top spot in the recent compariso
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 595 | 2016-05-02
GPS with an Insect Brain - [Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:35:00 -0000 ] It buzzes, and it flies – at first glance, that’s all the “NeuroCopter” has in common with a bee. And yet, the busy insect was the role model for the most important part in this approximately 90-centimeter flying robot: the control center. Researchers from Freie Universität are working on developing a “brain” for the robot that is as complex as that of a bee – so the robot can learn for itself how to get around. The results of this fundamental research could help with things like enhancing ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 596 | 2016-05-02
Now online: Video recording of the Opening Ceremony of the PCD-Network [Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:50:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 597 | 2016-05-02
Edward Snowden Is Honorary Member of Freie Universität Berlin - [Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:43:00 -0000 ] The former employee of the U.S. intelligence agencies NSA and CIA, Edward Snowden, is an honorary member of Freie Universität Berlin. Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, the president of Freie Universität Berlin, informed the members of the Academic Senate that Snowden had accepted the offer of honorary membership extended to him.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 598 | 2016-05-02
New Edition of the Newsletter is now available! [Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:34:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 599 | 2016-05-02
Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin Goes to Former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte - [Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:00:00 -0000 ] The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte, is being awarded the Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin. Speakers for the university said the award is being given in recognition of Del Ponte's courageous and persistent advocacy for the punishment of crimes against humanity. Carla Del Ponte helped make the victims’ voices be heard and rendered outstanding services to justice and the
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 600 | 2016-05-02
Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2014–2015: Freie Universität Berlin Moves Up Five Places to Rank 81 - [Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:24:00 -0000 ] According to the new ranking by the prestigious magazine Times Higher Education (THE), Freie Universität has improved by world standards and is currently ranked 81st among universities. As announced by THE in London, the university moved up four places since last year, and it is one of the five best universities in Germany. Europe-wide it is ranked 28. In the humanities subjects, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München at rank 22 and Freie Universität Berlin at rank 24 are still the best German ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 601 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #10. 10.2014 [Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 602 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:00:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #10. 10.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 603 | 2016-05-02
The Youngest Victim Was Six Months Old - [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:48:00 -0000 ] The daily report issued by the East German border police on March 14, 1953, reported that a soldier named Hans-Joachim S., from the town of Ballenstedt, had deserted across the border strip to West Germany at about 7:00 p.m. the previous day, taking his weapon with him. The document says the flight “could not be prevented by the patrol commander using his firearm.”
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 604 | 2016-05-02
Workshops for inter/national students - [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:00:00 -0000 ] Online application starts Oktober 13, 2014!
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 605 | 2016-05-02
Two scholarships in Plant Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin - [Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:33:35 -0000 ] In cooperation with the Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) of the DAAD. The deadline for application is November 30, 2014.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 606 | 2016-05-02
Two scholarships in Plant Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. Apply now! [Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 607 | 2016-05-02
Das Emotionsparadox - Interview mit Prof. Dr. von Scheve [Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:11:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 608 | 2016-05-02
Students in the Role of Diplomats - [Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:02:00 -0000 ] The National Model United Nations (NMUN) gives students enrolled in any discipline an opportunity to try being an ambassador by participating in various committees. The students are able to gain first-hand impressions about multinational diplomacy. The next conference will be held in the Sheraton and Hilton hotels in New York City in March/April 2015. The voting procedures and closing ceremony will be held in the headquarters of the United Nations. The application ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 609 | 2016-05-02
5th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop: Call for Contributions [Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:52:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 610 | 2016-05-02
Karin Gludovatz Elected New Member of Academia Europaea - [Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:58:00 -0000 ] Karin Gludovatz, a professor of art history at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in the field of fine arts. The Academia Europaea is a nongovernmental academic society with members from all parts of Europe. New members are nominated by a committee.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 611 | 2016-05-02
Award from Japanese Center of Excellence - [Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:18:00 -0000 ] Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, a professor of literature and cultural studies at Freie Universität, has been selected to receive the NIHU Prize in Japanese Studies. Awarded by the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), a research institute corporation in Japan, the NIHU Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding scholars of Japanese studies from overseas. Hijiya-Kirschnereit was selected for the prize because she is one of the most important figures among international researchers on Japan. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 612 | 2016-05-02
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and NASA Measure Photosynthesis Activity - [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:29:00 -0000 ] This is no longer a vague vision of the future, but instead a practical method developed by researchers at Freie Universität and scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In one study, they used the method to show that the U.S. Midwest has the highest photosynthetic activity of any region on Earth.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 613 | 2016-05-02
Getting at Parasites - [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:00:00 -0000 ] A new Research Training Group to study parasitic infections in humans and animals is being set up at Freie Universität Berlin. On Monday the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved funding for the Research Training Group 'Parasite Infections: From Experimental Models to Natural Systems.' Within this group doctoral researchers will analyze the interactions of selected parasites with their hosts. Specific examples are the causative agents of malaria, toxoplasma, giardia, and various other worm infections. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 614 | 2016-05-02
Help Name the Weather - [Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:24:00 -0000 ] The meteorologists at Freie Universität can help in the search for a unique Christmas present: As in previous years, the institute is selling naming rights to high and low pressure areas for the coming year. In 2015 highs will be given female names, and lows male names. Naming a high costs 299 euros, a low only 199 euros; in both cases 19 percent VAT is added. The names of the high and low pressure systems are used by many media in their weather reports. Whoever purchases naming rights, receives a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 615 | 2016-05-02
Zwischen Wiege und Wissenschaft - Promovieren mit Kind [Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 616 | 2016-05-02
A Warming World May Spell Bad News for Honey Bees - [Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:59:00 -0000 ] Researchers have found that the spread of an exotic honey bee parasite –now found worldwide – is linked not only to its superior competitive ability, but also to climate, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The team of researchers, including Myrsini Natsopoulou from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, who co-led the research alongside Prof. Dr. Dino McMahon from Freie Universität Berlin and the German Federal Institute for Materials Research ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 617 | 2016-05-02
PhD & Post Doc opportunities at the Graduate School of North American Studies [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:36:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 618 | 2016-05-02
Greetings from the Phonograph - [Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ] A uniform whoosh and a slight crackle are heard. The next moment, an energetic young male voice speaks: “Dear Lina, it’s Josi!” Is it the start of a letter? Or a phone conversation?
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 619 | 2016-05-02
New Online Encyclopedia Devoted to World War I Is Now Accessible - [Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:24:00 -0000 ] A comprehensive, English-language, open access encyclopedia of the “Great War” is online. It combines the latest historical research with the advantages of the Semantic Web. The encyclopedia was written and compiled by some 1,000 experts from 54 countries, and it is continuously being updated and expanded.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 620 | 2016-05-02
FUB program MA "Visual and Media Anthropology" 2015-2017 - [Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:13:00 -0000 ] The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Department of Political and Social Sciences) at the Freie Universität Berlin, is offering an innovative continuing education Master's (M.A.) program in Visual and Media Anthropology.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 621 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: “Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“ [Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:45:29 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 622 | 2016-05-02
International Education Fair - [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:45:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at Education Fair in Moscow
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 623 | 2016-05-02
How Plants React to Stress - [Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:36:00 -0000 ] Stress responses of plants, fungi, and bacteria will be discussed at a symposium on February 18 to 20, 2015, at Freie Universität Berlin. The meeting is being organized by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 973 'Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress.' Renowned experts from Europe, the United States, and Mexico will discuss which strategies plants and other life forms use when confronted with stress factors such as heat, drought, cold, pathogens, and insect infestation. They will also ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 624 | 2016-05-02
Fellowships with the Berlin Research Group "The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?" [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:54:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 625 | 2016-05-02
More than Just Decoration - [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:33:00 -0000 ] Louis XIV is a powerful man. Left hand on his hip, a jewel-encrusted sword hanging at his belt, surrounded by marble and royal purple drapes. That, at least, is how the French “Sun King” had himself immortalized on canvas, around 1700.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 626 | 2016-05-02
PhD Grants: IRTG "Between Spaces ‘Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation’ [Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:15:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 627 | 2016-05-02
PhD Grants: IRTG ‘Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation’ [Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:15:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 628 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #14. 02.2015 [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 629 | 2016-05-02
13 PhD grants at the IRTG „Between Spaces“ [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:56:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 630 | 2016-05-02
Postdoc Scholarships at Research Group The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? [Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:57:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 631 | 2016-05-02
Following in Robert Koch’s Footsteps - [Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:06:00 -0000 ] The first sign is that the animals develop a fever. They grow weak and lose the desire to eat. Then, after two to three weeks of suffering, most of the cattle die – dead of a disease caused by tiny single-celled organisms. Theileria is the name of the genus of parasites that claim the lives of thousands of cattle in northern and eastern Africa every year.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 632 | 2016-05-02
Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Research College "Transformative Power of Europe" [Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:23:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 633 | 2016-05-02
Doctorate Scholarships at Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:44:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 634 | 2016-05-02
Horse Whisperer to Visit Freie Universität Berlin on Easter Monday - [Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:44:00 -0000 ] Monty Roberts, the man who speaks with horses, along with his certified instructors will be in the Equine Veterinary Center in Bad Saarow on April 6, 2015, to demonstrate the training concept Join-Up® that he developed for dealing with rough and traumatized horses. During the event, Monty Roberts will analyze and comment on horses. During breaks he will be available to answer questions. The event will be held in English and will be simultaneously translated into German. The entrance fee is 44 euros for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 635 | 2016-05-02
Fellow Nominations 2015/16 [Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 636 | 2016-05-02
Where Even the Gods Were Powerless - [Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:21:00 -0000 ] Chemical waste, vehicle exhaust, soil poisoned by fracking: Nowadays, industrial progress since the 19th century is considered the main cause of pollution. But were people 1,000 or 2,000 years ago more environmentally conscious in their actions because there was no industry in the modern sense? Did they live in harmony with nature, as idyllic depictions in ancient and medieval literature would seem to suggest?
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 637 | 2016-05-02
Stipendienausschreibung SoSe 2015 [Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:03:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 638 | 2016-05-02
Joint Programs [Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 639 | 2016-05-02
South African Performance Artist Teaches at Freie Universität - [Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:30:00 -0000 ] The South African choreographer Robyn Orlin will be working with students in the master's program in dance studies at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2015 summer semester. In the opening event on April 29, 2015, to take place in the Academy of Arts, the artist will give an impression of her work and will present her film, 'Beautées, cachées, sales histoire.' As the Valeska Gert Visiting Professor during the summer semester, Orlin will explore her artistic endeavors with different cultural concepts. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 640 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #16. 04.2015 [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 04:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 641 | 2016-05-02
Ofer Waldman - [Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:17:00 -0000 ] “Music is for the heart – academia is for the mind,” says Ofer Waldman when he is asked why he has placed his career as an orchestral musician on hold. “I ordered a break for myself out of respect for music,” he says.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 642 | 2016-05-02
The Feminine View - [Mon, 04 May 2015 13:50:00 -0000 ] 'The Feminine View' is the theme of an exhibition to be opened on May 6, 2015, at the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität. Two Chinese women artists, Wang Lan and Yu Simiao, who both have been living in Germany for several years, will be displaying a random selection of recent works. With regard to a specifically feminine approach in their work (female ideals of beauty and identity), the two artists have very different artistic concepts and each has her own creative identity. The exhibition will run ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 643 | 2016-05-02
A Useless Fiction - [Mon, 11 May 2015 13:40:00 -0000 ] The film A Useless Fiction by Cheong Kin Man, a graduate of Freie Universität Berlin, won the 2015 Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival. It will be shown at the Cannes International Film Festival from May 13 to 24 in the Short Film Corner category. Cheong Kin Man, a translator and interpreter from Macau, studied at Freie Universität from 2012 to 2014 in the Visual and Media Anthropology master’s program. The film is his final project; it was graded with a German 1.3, which ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 644 | 2016-05-02
Watch out – Risk! - [Wed, 20 May 2015 06:52:00 -0000 ] Peter Mohr has dedicated his life to risk. Mohr, a junior professor of neuroeconomics at the School of Business and Economics at Freie Universität, studies how people experience and process risky economic situations, assess risks and react to them, and how the prospects of profits and losses affect their behavior.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 645 | 2016-05-02
New International Sustainability Network - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:20:00 +0200 ] The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will support Freie Universität Berlin in further developing its strategic partnership network with roughly one million euros until 2018. Within the framework of the new “University Alliance for Sustainability,” Freie Universität Berlin, together with its four strategic partners, will focus on sustainability as a comprehensive topic for collaborating in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 646 | 2016-05-02
Welcome Berlin Tour for International Doctoral Candidates [Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:21:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 647 | 2016-05-02
Stellenausschreibung: Studentische Hilfskraft - [Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:35:00 +0200 ] Bewerbungsfrist 20. Juli 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 648 | 2016-05-02
Exploring a Vast Territory - [Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:26:00 +0200 ] The region whose prehistory Elke Kaiser studies is an inhospitable one. Kaiser, an archaeologist who studies how the inhabitants of the Eurasian steppe lived more than 5,000 years ago, says, “We still know very little about it.” Starting this year, Kaiser holds Germany’s only professorship in the archaeology of Eurasia, a position established with funding from the Topoi cluster of excellence at Freie Universität.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 649 | 2016-05-02
“There is always a political aspect to research on the Quran.” - [Mon, 07 Sep 2015 09:19:00 +0200 ] Every year, the University of Tübingen awards its Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize in recognition of achievement in the fields of theology, intellectual history, historical research, and philosophy. The award, which comes with 50,000 euros in prize money, was endowed by consul general Franz D. Lucas in 1972 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of his father, the Jewish scholar and rabbi Dr. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 650 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) [Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:24:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 651 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) – Get Your Math PhD in Berlin [Tue, 29 Sep 2015 03:14:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 652 | 2016-05-02
THE and QS Rankings: Freie Universität among Top Five in Germany - [Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:59:00 +0200 ] According to the new ranking by the prestigious magazine Times Higher Education (THE), Freie Universität has improved by world standards and is currently ranked at 72 among universities.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 653 | 2016-05-02
3 Funding Programmes for International Scientists - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:25:00 +0200 ] Stiftung Charité sponsors research stays in Berlin for scientists working in the field of the life sciences.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 654 | 2016-05-02
QS Ranking 2015: Freie Universität Berlin Is One of the Top Five Universities in Germany [Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:49:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 655 | 2016-05-02
Energy Experts Conference "Re-Thinking Energy: Scientific Input – Social Output" [Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:39:15 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 656 | 2016-05-02
Graduate Students Support Refugees - [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:08:00 +0100 ] Doctoral students at BGSMCS work to make everyday life easier for refugees
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 657 | 2016-05-02
"Introduction to Living and Studying in Berlin" courses for refugees - [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:25:00 +0100 ] Two courses will start on November 10 and 12.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 658 | 2016-05-02
Egyptian Media between Change and Continuity - [Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:18:00 +0100 ] Distinguished media scholars and experts are invited from around the world from 12.-14. November in Berlin to the international conference “Egyptian Media & Journalism between Change and Continuity”.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 659 | 2016-05-02
Language Tutors - [Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:26:00 +0100 ] Workshops on Friday, December 4, and Saturday, December 12, 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 660 | 2016-05-02
Tracing the History of Germany’s Oldest Mosque - [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:22:00 +0100 ] The first mosque in Germany was built a hundred years ago, about 40 kilometers south of Berlin, in the town of Wünsdorf – but the wooden building only stood for fifteen years. In cooperation with the Brandenburg State Office of Historical Preservation, Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and their team from the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology spent the last few weeks searching for the remnants of the mosque.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 661 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications-Graduate School of Global Politics - [Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:55:00 +0100 ] Pursue your PhD on Global Politics at FU Berlin and a renowned Chinese partner university. Application deadline is January 16, 2016
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 662 | 2016-05-02
PostDoc video complements range of information for junior researchers [Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:36:06 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 663 | 2016-05-02
Apply Now: 6 PhD Grants at the IMPRS Moral Economies of Modern Societies [Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:25:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 664 | 2016-05-02
Computational Biology - PhD Program - International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing [Thu, 03 Dec 2015 07:37:58 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 665 | 2016-05-02
Does It Depend on the Melting Point? - [Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:33:00 +0100 ] Pandemic preparedness plans, lack of vaccines, indoor confinement for poultry – bird flu dominated the headlines for a while. For a year now, the disease that was once perceived as so threatening has seemed no longer to be a threat. But looks can be deceiving. Animals in Europe have contracted bird flu viruses this year, too. But how dangerous are these viruses to people?
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 666 | 2016-05-02
Free German Language Courses in Spring 2016 [Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 667 | 2016-05-02
It’s All in Your Head - [Thu, 17 Dec 2015 22:20:00 +0100 ] What role do feelings play when we make decisions? Why do the Harry Potter novels carry us off into faraway worlds? Can people perceive a rubber hand as part of their own body? These are just a few of the many questions the researchers at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin (CCNB) are trying to answer.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 668 | 2016-05-02
Research to Reduce Animal Testing - [Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:50:00 +0100 ] Berlin’s first university professorship dedicated to research on alternatives to animal testing is being established at Freie Universität Berlin. The goal is to develop disease models based on human tissue cells and human organs reconstructed from those cells.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 669 | 2016-05-02
Digital Assistance for Refugees - [Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ] Two new digital offerings facilitate arrival and settling in Germany
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 670 | 2016-05-02
SGG in Fribourg am 28./29.1.2016 [Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:42:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 671 | 2016-05-02
Research Alumni Program: New Call for Applications is now open [Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:15:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 672 | 2016-05-02
Getting Back to the Roots - [Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:02:00 +0100 ] The Botanic Garden in Berlin’s Dahlem district is known for its rare and exotic plants, such as titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), the world’s largest flower, which blooms only every couple of years, with a meters-tall inflorescence – and a distinctive odor of carrion, which has also earned it the name “corpse flower.” Less well known is the fact that the Königin-Luise-Straße entrance is home to just as rare a jewel: the Botanical ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 673 | 2016-05-02
MA in Visual and Media Anthropology. Apply now! [Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:17:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 674 | 2016-05-02
DynAge Newsletter 1|2016 [Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:56:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 675 | 2016-05-02
DRS Pro Business [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 676 | 2016-05-02
Storing Information at the Molecular Level - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:12:00 +0100 ] Imagine storing a thousand times more information on your hard disk: Miniaturization of devices is an important goal in contemporary science and technology. Data storage devices form the cornerstone of the technologically advanced world that we live in. In current data storage devices information is currently stored at the macroscopic level, but the ultimate aim is to be able to store information in individual molecules. So far this vision ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 677 | 2016-05-02
Workshop: How to Write a Competitive Proposal under Horizon 2020 - [Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:54:00 +0100 ] The EU Liaison Office of Freie Universität Berlin is organizing a Horizon 2020 - Workshop with the renowned trainer Dr. Seán McCarthy on May 11th 2016.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 678 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:17:00 +0100 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #25. 03.2016 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 679 | 2016-05-02
Interwoven Images and Sounds - [Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:47:00 +0200 ] Harry Potter runs. He has snuck into the Ministry of Magic and stolen a medallion. The evil wizard Yaxley hurries after him with an angry look on his face. He fires magical bolts at the boy. They strike like lightning, but miss their target. The balls of light hit the walls and explode with a roar. Dramatic music accompanies the scene.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 680 | 2016-05-02
Doctoral program Languages and Cultures of the Silk Road [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 05:01:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 681 | 2016-05-02
German Chancellor Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:03:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 682 | 2016-05-02
30th anniversary of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:24:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 683 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: IMPRS Moral Economies [Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:49:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 684 | 2016-05-02
EU-METALIC II: The 2nd Call of the EU-METALIC Scholarship Project is now open! - [Sun, 22 Sep 2013 09:27:00 -0000 ] This Call is open for undergraduate, post-doctoral, academic and administrative staff. Deadline: 25th October 2013
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 685 | 2016-05-02
Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin Excavated Roman Soldier’s Chain Mail - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:37:00 -0000 ] While exploring the area near Kalefeld in the Northeim district north of Göttingen, the researchers, headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer, found the chain mail of a Roman soldier from the Third Century AD.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 686 | 2016-05-02
BSRT PhD Student Award - [Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:58:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 31 October 2013
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 687 | 2016-05-02
Current call of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School - [Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:44:00 -0000 ] Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule offers up to 10 doctoral scholarships and 2 post-doctoral scholarships
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 688 | 2016-05-02
Emancipation in Times of Capitalism - [Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:24:00 -0000 ] Emancipation under conditions of neoliberal capitalism is the theme to be addressed in the inaugural lecture of the Canadian political scientist Prof. Dr. Verónica Schild at Freie Universität Berlin. This winter semester Verónica Schild was appointed to the Dahlem International Network Professorship for Gender Studies, a position newly created with funds for implementation of the development concept in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative. Schild is one of the leading experts in the field ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 689 | 2016-05-02
Babylonian Formulas, Arcane Lore, and the Song of Science - [Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:02:00 -0000 ] “Knowledge” is the main theme of this year’s annual conference organized by the Excellence Cluster Topoi of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. On November 14 and 15, scholars from the interdisciplinary research association will present results from their ancient studies research projects. Topics range from Babylonian formulas, writs, and omens to arcane lore and expert knowledge to knowledge transfer in antiquity. Author Bas Böttcher, known primarily for his recitations ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 690 | 2016-05-02
International Workshop: Freedom, Justice, and Dignity in the Arab Spring - [Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:31:00 -0000 ] An international workshop entitled 'Invitation to Discourse - Normative Concepts in Transformation in the Arab Spring and Beyond' will focus on the upheavals in the countries of the Arab Spring. The workshop will take place from November 16 to 24 at Freie Universität Berlin. Well-known experts together with German and Egyptian early-career researchers will examine what role the values freedom, justice, and dignity played in the Arab Spring. During the workshop, on November 19, there will be a public ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 691 | 2016-05-02
Current call of the Graduate School of North American Studies - [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:07:00 -0000 ] 10 Doctoral Grants. Deadline is January 31, 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 692 | 2016-05-02
European Research Council Supports Project to Study Ancient Babylonian Medicine - [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:04:00 -0000 ] The European Research Council (ERC) is sponsoring a project of the orientalist and Jewish studies scholar, Professor Mark Geller, at Freie Universität Berlin for the study of medicine in ancient Mesopotamia. Geller was awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant amounting to 2.25 million euros over a five-year period until 2018. The project 'Babylonian Medicine' (BabMed) represents the first ever comprehensive study of ancient Babylonian medical science since the decipherment of cuneiform, comprising the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 693 | 2016-05-02
"Journalist in Residence"-Fellowship des Exzellenzclusters Topoi [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 694 | 2016-05-02
Anneliese Maier Research Award in 2014 for Visiting Researcher - [Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:46:00 -0000 ] The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has granted the highly regarded Spanish Islam historian Dr. Maribel Fierro the coveted Anneliese Maier Research Award for a collaborative project at the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. Dr. Fierro’s host at Freie Universität is the scholar of Islamic Studies, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke, as announced by the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn. It is anticipated that Maribel Fierro ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 695 | 2016-05-02
The Internet Is Making History - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:20:00 -0000 ] It was a conflict on the edge of Europe that started it all: In Sarajevo, then the capital of Bosnia, a student named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on June 28, 1914. His wife, Sophie, was also killed. Mere weeks later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting a catastrophic chain reaction.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 696 | 2016-05-02
Recruiting the Best and Brightest for Berlin - [Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:30:00 -0000 ] They have already spent time at Harvard, Cambridge, and other elite universities. The Postdoc Fellowship Program at the Dahlem Research School (DRS) offers funding for highly qualified postdocs from other countries to work at Freie Universität for up to 24 months.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 697 | 2016-05-02
Well Selected and Properly Dosed - [Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:46:00 -0000 ] Two patients suffer from infections in the chest area following a bypass operation, and the doctor prescribes the same medication for both. It works for one, but not the other. Could this have been foreseen? Pharmacists and mathematicians at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Potsdam are working together on drug recommendations that are better tailored to individual patients or groups of patients.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 698 | 2016-05-02
German Federal Cross of Merit for Scholar at Freie Universität - [Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:12:00 -0000 ] Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Sung-Jo Park, an economist who worked for decades at Freie Universität Berlin, will be awarded a German Federal Order of Merit Cross on Ribbon. He was nominated for this award by the German Minister of Foreign Affairs. The award ceremony will take place on February 13 at Seoul National University (SNU), a partner university of Freie Universität in South Korea. The South Korean Prime Minister Chung Ho-Young has announced that he will attend the ceremony. Sung-Jo Park will receive ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 699 | 2016-05-02
2nd Call for Applications [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:05:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 700 | 2016-05-02
5 Dahlem International Network Professorships [Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:43:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 701 | 2016-05-02
A “Film Dinosaur” on the Wrong Track - [Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:05:00 -0000 ] What do department store chain Karstadt, Nokia, and Kodak have in common? All three have faced accusations of failing to respond in time to changing market conditions or new technologies. Long-standing camera manufacturer Leica also belongs on this list – it nearly missed the path to digital technology.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 702 | 2016-05-02
Soccer Robots of Freie Universität Win German Open - [Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:12:00 -0000 ] The soccer robots of Freie Universität Berlin reached first place in this year’s German Open RoboCup in Magdeburg. The Berlin United - Fumanoids won in the humanoid kid-size league for humanoid robots up to 60 centimeters. In the thrilling finals, with a goal in the last minute of the game, they beat the British Bold Hearts from the University of Hertfordshire 2 to 1. The FUmanoids won all their games in the German Open.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 703 | 2016-05-02
Freiflug nach Berlin [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:39:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 704 | 2016-05-02
Freiflug nach Berlin: Interview mit Charnita Arora, FU Alumna [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:39:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 705 | 2016-05-02
20 Incoming Postdoc Fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin: Call for Applications 2015 [Mon, 28 Apr 2014 05:06:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 706 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: International Relations Master's Program [Tue, 06 May 2014 07:37:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 707 | 2016-05-02
For Short Distances and Clean Air - [Wed, 07 May 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ] It is a cloudy evening in Hanoi. The air is clammy, cool, and humid. Night is falling, and people want to get home. They have put on their facemasks and donned brightly colored helmets. On scooters by the thousand, they sputter along past the shops of the city’s historic center and sidewalk food vendors.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 708 | 2016-05-02
In Retrospect: Black Mountain - Models of Creativity [Thu, 08 May 2014 11:42:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 709 | 2016-05-02
Final World Cup Game: Spain vs. Germany [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:32:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 710 | 2016-05-02
And the winner is … - [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:52:00 -0000 ] Computer scientists David Dormagen and Raul Rojas from the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Group at Freie Universität Berlin developed software that lets you host the World Cup on your computer at home. The simulator is readily accessible via the Internet.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 711 | 2016-05-02
5th BSRT Symposium: What to learn from cancer and development for regeneration [Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:30:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 712 | 2016-05-02
The Crisis in Ukraine and Gas from Russia - [Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:22:00 -0000 ] On July 7, 2014, Professor Jonathan P. Stern will give a lecture at Freie Universität Berlin. He will analyze the effects that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine will have on Russian gas deliveries to the European Union. The chairman of the Gas Research Programme of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Stern will speak on The Russian Gas Matrix - how markets are driving change. The event is being organized by the Centre for Caspian Region Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. The lecture will be held in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 713 | 2016-05-02
Vets with Horsepower - [Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:11:00 -0000 ] The Vets with Horsepower, the motorcycle-crazy veterinarians led by Prof. Derek C. Knottenbelt from the universities of Liverpool and Glasgow, will be stopping at Freie Universität Berlin on July 5, 2014. At the Department of Veterinary Medicine they will give talks on the latest findings in equine internal medicine, orthopedics, neurology, treating colic, surgery, and equine influenza. Their fourth charity trip starts July 2, 2014, in London. A total of twelve renowned horse specialists will travel about ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 714 | 2016-05-02
Edward Snowden Is Honorary Member of Freie Universität Berlin - [Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:15:00 -0000 ] The former employee of the U.S. intelligence agencies NSA and CIA, Edward Snowden, is an honorary member of Freie Universität Berlin. On Wednesday Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, the president of Freie Universität Berlin, informed the members of the Academic Senate that Snowden had accepted the offer of honorary membership extended to him the previous week. Alt said that Snowden has not yet responded to an ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 715 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #8. 07.2014 [Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 716 | 2016-05-02
In Retrospect: Workshop "Circular and Vectorial Trends in Cultural Developments" [Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:36:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 717 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Stay: Reports by INSPIRE students [Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 718 | 2016-05-02
Stefan Keppler-Tasaki and Richard Samuels Are New Einstein Visiting Fellows at Freie Universität - [Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:00:00 -0000 ] The literary scholar Prof. Dr. Stefan Keppler-Tasaki from the University of Tokyo and the political scientist Prof. Dr. Richard Samuels from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are new Einstein Visiting Fellows doing research at Freie Universität Berlin. The funding from the Einstein Foundation in Berlin between 2015 and 2017 will give them an opportunity to create an overarching research group between their respective ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 719 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #9. 09.2014 [Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 720 | 2016-05-02
Leila Papoli Yazdi Appointed International Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin - [Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:18:00 -0000 ] As of the winter semester 2014/15, Prof. Dr. Leila Papoli Yazdi, an Iranian archaeologist, will be the Dahlem International Network Professor for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In her research, Yazdi, 36, focuses on Iranian gender history and body history from antiquity to the present day as well as art historical themes.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 721 | 2016-05-02
Open Access Online Encyclopedia of World War I - [Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:45:00 -0000 ] A comprehensive, English-language, open access encyclopedia of the “Great War” will be presented and released on October 8, 2014, in Brussels. The project “1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is coordinated at Freie Universität Berlin and funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). It contains the latest historical research from 54 countries. The presentation of the online encyclopedia will take place during an international ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 722 | 2016-05-02
The Memory of Trees - [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:46:00 -0000 ] As witnesses to centuries of climate history, very old trees supply geoscience researchers with insight into the weather during bygone eras. Mandy Freund, a graduate of Freie Universität, used tree rings to reconstruct the European climate of the past in her master’s thesis.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 723 | 2016-05-02
30 Years of Cooperation between Sciences Po and Freie Universität Berlin - [Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:27:00 -0000 ] On October 17, Freie Universität Berlin will hold a ceremony in the Henry Ford Building in recognition of the 30 years of cooperation between Freie Universität and the Paris Institute of Political and Social Sciences (Sciences Po). Professor Alfred Grosser, a well-known expert on French-German relations, will give a talk on the 30-year cooperation between the two universities. Other speakers will include the French Ambassador, Philippe Etienne, the director of Sciences Po, Frédéric Mion, the president ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 724 | 2016-05-02
A Particular View of Berlin - [Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:17:00 -0000 ] From October 18 to December 15, 2014, the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture will be exhibiting humorous drawings by the French artist Paul Giraud. Following the tradition of French cartoonists and illustrators, Paul Giraud and his partner slip into the role of Berliners, as people out for a walk, as observers, victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and of course, as fellow citizens. Entitled “Bilderliner,” which is a pun made up of Bilder (pictures) and Berliner, the exhibition takes a look at Berlin, at ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 725 | 2016-05-02
Children Out-of-Place and Human Rights - [Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:53:00 -0000 ] A symposium to be held on October 27 and 28, 2014, at Freie Universität will be devoted to the importance of human rights for children in living in vulnerable and marginalized situations. Experts from Germany and abroad will give lectures and participate in discussions. Graduates of the Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights (MACR) degree program at Freie Universität Berlin will present their research. The symposium is public. The registration fee is 40 euros and for students 15 euros. To participate, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 726 | 2016-05-02
Recognition for Outstanding Achievements in Life Sciences - [Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:06:00 -0000 ] One of the most respected chemists of the present day, Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi from the University of California at Berkeley, will be granted an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. With this degree, the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy of Freie Universität is recognizing Bertozzi's achievements in the life sciences. She introduced highly selective, so-called bio-orthogonal reactions, for marking and manipulating biomolecules in living cells ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 727 | 2016-05-02
Graduate School of East Asian Studies [Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:38:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 728 | 2016-05-02
When Facebook Makes People Happy - [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:47:00 -0000 ] Abbreviations like “LOL” and “HDL” (for hab’ dich lieb, or “love ya”) and the Like button – all of them are things that Anna Metzler has seen for several hours a day recently. Metzler, a psychologist, is doing research on the behavior of teens and young people on the social network for her dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin under the working title You and Facebook, and that includes using Internet jargon and abbreviations like LOL ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 729 | 2016-05-02
Computer Science Professor Raúl Rojas at Freie Universität Berlin Is University Teacher of the Year - [Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:30:00 -0000 ] The computer scientist Dr. Raúl Rojas at Freie Universität Berlin was named 'University Teacher of the Year' by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband, in short DHV). The president of the DHV, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kempen, said Rojas, who is a professor of intelligent systems and robotics, is an eminent authority and exemplary model for combining research and teaching. The award is worth 10,000 euros ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 730 | 2016-05-02
10 December: Joint Lecture Series - The Scienitfic Career [Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 731 | 2016-05-02
Fit for Europe? - [Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:21:00 -0000 ] It was a subject of debate among scholars, politicians, and economists: the eastward expansion of the European Union (EU) ten years ago. The enlargement, which encompassed ten new Member States, including Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Baltic states, was dubbed the “Big Bang.”
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 732 | 2016-05-02
New Collaborative Research Center for Prediction of Geological and Meteorological Phenomena - [Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:33:00 -0000 ] A new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) was set up at Freie Universität Berlin to study so-called scaling cascades in complex systems. The project is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) project. Meteorologists, geologists, mathematicians, physicists, and biochemists will work together to develop modeling and simulation techniques for the prediction of geological and meteorological phenomena such as earthquakes or rainfall. In the 'Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems' CRC, the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 733 | 2016-05-02
Computer Science Professor Raúl Rojas at Freie Universität Berlin Is University Teacher of the Year - [Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:05:00 -0000 ] The computer scientist Dr. Raúl Rojas at Freie Universität Berlin was named 'University Teacher of the Year' by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers. Professor Rojas first drew attention through international successes that his research teams won with their FU-Fighters and FUmanoids in the Soccer World Cup competitions for robots.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 734 | 2016-05-02
DRS Incoming Postdoc Fellowships POINT-2016 [Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:20:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 735 | 2016-05-02
New International Sustainability Network - [Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:53:00 -0000 ] The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will support Freie Universität Berlin in further developing its strategic partnership network with roughly one million euros until 2018. Within the framework of the new “University Alliance for Sustainability,” Freie Universität Berlin, together with its four strategic partners, will focus on sustainability as a comprehensive topic for collaborating in research, teaching, and campus management. Freie Universität’s strategic partners are the Hebrew ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 736 | 2016-05-02
PhD Study in Research Project: “East Asian Impacts on the Globalization of Knowledge: Marine Resources during the Cold War” [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:48:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 737 | 2016-05-02
Bargaining for Billions - [Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:48:00 -0000 ] The elections in Greece and the renewed considerations surrounding allowing the country to leave the euro have given Susanne Lütz’s research project a timeliness she had not expected.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 738 | 2016-05-02
New call of the German Egyptian Research Fund (GERF) - [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:40:59 -0000 ] Joint Announcement of the Science and Technology Development Funds (STDF) of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of the Federal Republic of Germany of regulations governing the funding of joint research projects in the field of the social sciences and humanities through the “German- Egyptian Research Fund” (GERF).
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 739 | 2016-05-02
Strategies for Major Emergencies - [Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:02:00 -0000 ] A storm is moving in. There is a crack of thunder and a flash of lightning – and smoke suddenly starts to rise from the local chemical plant. Researchers from the Research Forum on Public Safety and Security at Freie Universität are now gathering ideas for possible ways to respond in this and other crisis situations. About 20 team members are working on developing the results of safety and security research for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 740 | 2016-05-02
THE World Reputation Ranking in 2015: Freie Universität Berlin among Top 60 Universities in the World - [Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:04:00 -0000 ] In the latest ranking by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine, Freie Universität is one of the 60 most highly regarded universities in the world. As announced by THE in London, Freie Universität's reputation improved markedly during the past year, bringing the university up to group 51–60. It is now ranked as one of the four most prestigious universities in Germany and 18th in Europe. The THE World Reputation Ranking is an offshoot of the annually published THE World ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 741 | 2016-05-02
Research Alumni Program at Freie Universität Berlin [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:34:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 742 | 2016-05-02
Start-up Mynigma Wins Prize at CeBIT Computer Trade Fair - [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:30:00 -0000 ] On Monday at the CeBIT computer trade fair in Hanover, the spin-off Mynigma of Freie Universität Berlin won the CeBIT Innovation Award second prize along with 30,000 euros. Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the email app 'M' encrypts messages between its users almost automatically. Mynigma was founded with support from profund, the start-up support service of Freie Universität.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 743 | 2016-05-02
Students Performed Well Representing Israel - [Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:58:00 -0000 ] A student delegation from Freie Universität Berlin performed well in representing the State of Israel at the recent conference simulation of the United Nations in New York. The 14 students from various disciplines won three awards for their efforts: two were for position papers and one for their active participation in the negotiations. The delegates took on the role of Israeli diplomats, particularly appropriate this year, which marks the 50-year anniversary of diplomatic relations between Israel and the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 744 | 2016-05-02
BSRT Postdoc Fellowships: deadline 20 April 2015 [Thu, 02 Apr 2015 06:59:36 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 745 | 2016-05-02
Small Differences, Big Effect - [Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:58:00 -0000 ] From the time humans began discovering and conquering new continents, they also started transporting animals and plants around the world and releasing them in locations where they had never been before. Most of these alien species died out quickly, but many established populations and some even multiplied and became invasive, causing tremendous economic and environmental harm. In a recently published article in the journal “The American Naturalist,” scientists from Spain, Switzerland, and Germany argue ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 746 | 2016-05-02
With Heart and Mind - [Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:17:00 -0000 ] “Music is for the heart – academia is for the mind,” says Ofer Waldman when he is asked why he has placed his career as an orchestral musician on hold. “I ordered a break for myself out of respect for music,” he says.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 747 | 2016-05-02
Worldwide Alliances - [Mon, 04 May 2015 13:21:00 -0000 ] This year's annual conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin will deal with the past, present, and future of forming alliances. Experts from Europe and the USA will discuss the global power shifts that result when alliances are formed or ended. The focus will be on geopolitical or global economic processes as well as socio-economic and ecological issues that affect culture and everyday life. The conference language will be English. The event is entitled ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 748 | 2016-05-02
CHE University Ranking 2015 - [Mon, 11 May 2015 08:51:00 -0000 ] Geography, Earth Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics, Pharmacy, and Physics Were Reassessed
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 749 | 2016-05-02
Watch out – Risk! - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:58:00 +0200 ] Peter Mohr has dedicated his life to risk. Mohr, a junior professor of neuroeconomics at the School of Business and Economics at Freie Universität, studies how people experience and process risky economic situations, assess risks and react to them, and how the prospects of profits and losses affect their behavior.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 750 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:46:00 +0200 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #18. 06.2015 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 751 | 2016-05-02
All Green, or What? - [Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:24:00 +0200 ] The poker game surrounding the costs of Germany’s nuclear phase-out has entered a new round. Energy providers E.ON, RWE, EnBW, and Vattenfall have filed a flurry of lawsuits against the German government. They want damages for the country’s abandonment of nuclear energy.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 752 | 2016-05-02
Welcome Pot Luck Lunch for International Doctoral Candidates [Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:50:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 753 | 2016-05-02
Simply Turn Off a Virus - [Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:54:00 +0200 ] Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Strasbourg (France) have developed a new method for studying the function of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that provides more detailed results, is more cost-effective, as well as easier to work with than previous methods.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 754 | 2016-05-02
The new call for German Egyptian Research Long-Term Scholarship (GERLS) - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:17:00 +0200 ] The programme targets young researchers who would like to do their PhD in Germany.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 755 | 2016-05-02
Dahlem Research School Pro Gründung International [Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:11:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 756 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - Mobility Program 2016 - [Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:57:20 +0200 ] Deadline: November 30, 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 757 | 2016-05-02
10th December 2015: 3rd DynAge Workshop [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:27:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 758 | 2016-05-02
The Role of Universities in Forstering Social Innovation - [Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:15:00 +0100 ] DAAD, Freie Universität Berlin and Orient Institute Berlin start a new series of dialogues on social innovation. On 10th of November 2015 at DAAD Cairo Office. Dr. Daniele Cantini and Prof. Amal Hamada will discuss recent changes to the university and its role in shaping social innovation.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 759 | 2016-05-02
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Excellence Cluster Topoi - [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:51:00 +0100 ] Two Doctoral fellowships and two Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi, starting April 1, 2016, are now open to applicants.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 760 | 2016-05-02
Now online: Video recording of the Joint Workshop 2015 [Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:44:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 761 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Wed, 02 Dec 2015 10:46:00 +0100 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #22. 12.2015 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 762 | 2016-05-02
Literary Studies - PhD & Postdoc Scholarships - Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies [Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:20:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 763 | 2016-05-02
IMPRS LIFE Newsletter - [Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:57:00 +0100 ] The International Max Planck Research School LIFE introduces the Focus Area DynAge in the latest LIFE Newsletter.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 764 | 2016-05-02
“I just want to lead a normal life” - [Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:08:00 +0100 ] They met in refugee housing in Berlin’s Charlottenburg neighborhood: Amin, who is from Syria, and Murad, from Iraq. They came to Dahlem together today to join about a hundred other refugees in learning about the “Welcome to Freie Universität berlin” academic program.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 765 | 2016-05-02
Overhaul of Circulation Desk and Information Center Area [Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 766 | 2016-05-02
Living among Stones - [Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:40:00 +0100 ] Jointly, they are tracking down the microorganisms that attack stones, monuments, and facades and form soils. Recently at a workshop in Dahlem, Berlin-based mineralogists and geomicrobiologists – as well as soil scientists and biologists from Saint Petersburg – got together to pool their insights.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 767 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:17:00 +0100 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #23. 01.2016 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 768 | 2016-05-02
Spring Campus Registration Form is now online available [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 769 | 2016-05-02
Traces in Stone - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:04:00 +0100 ] They can’t talk, but they do offer answers: Geophysicist Serge Shapiro uses seismic waves to coax the secrets out of deep layers of stone. Thanks to his invention, it will not be necessary to drill as much to explore underground reservoirs in the future.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 770 | 2016-05-02
Information Session on Horizon 2020 - [Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:26:00 +0100 ] The Research Division of FU Berlin is holding an event on EU research and innovation funding on April 18th 2016 from 13:00 to 16:30 at the Seminar Center.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 771 | 2016-05-02
QS Subject Ranking 2016: Freie Universität Berlin among Top 200 in 25 Subjects - [Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:38:00 +0200 ] Among Best in Germany in Six Subjects
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 772 | 2016-05-02
Spring Campus Guide 2016 [Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 773 | 2016-05-02
Talking about Sustainability [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 774 | 2016-05-02
30th anniversary of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:24:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 775 | 2016-05-02
6 PhD Scholarships - Call for Applications: IMPRS Moral Economies [Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 776 | 2016-05-02
Taking a Moment to Save the World - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:22:00 -0000 ] In 2011, when Reinhold Leinfelder wrote a report on the climate at the request of the German federal government, he wanted the news of the Earth’s poor condition to spread to more than just politicians – instead, he wanted to reach the entire German public.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 777 | 2016-05-02
Munching for Health - [Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:11:00 -0000 ] Sometimes it’s tiny spheres, but more often it comes in the form of a matte, whitish powder. Neither one looks particularly spectacular. And yet, it is supposed to work minor miracles – at least on the farm. What is it? Probiotics: living microorganisms such as Lactobacillales (an order of bacteria found in lactic acid) or yeast that is added to animal feed – and are then supposed to boost a pig’s health from inside its intestine.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 778 | 2016-05-02
Minimum-Wage Study: Nationwide Minimum Wage of 8.50 Euros in Germany Not Effective - [Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:28:00 -0000 ] According to a study done by researchers at Freie Universität Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the introduction of a nationwide minimum wage of 8.50 euros currently being discussed in the coalition negotiations in Germany, would not have the positive effects on household income of low-income earners expected by proponents of the measure. The study’s authors, Viktor Steiner of Freie Universität Berlin and Kai-Uwe Müller of DIW Berlin, calculated that the hourly wages ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 779 | 2016-05-02
CRC 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" to Continue Its Work - [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:13:00 -0000 ] The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that it will extend its funding of the Collaborative Research Center 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood' (CRC 700) through 2017. Within the project, 40 researchers including professors and academic staff address the issues of how and under what conditions governance services in the areas of power, safety, and welfare are provided in areas with limited statehood and which problems occur. During the new funding period the researchers aim to work out ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 780 | 2016-05-02
Renewed EU Funding for International Postdoc Program at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:29:00 -0000 ] The European Commission has renewed its funding for a fellowship program at Freie Universität Berlin to support outstanding young researchers with international research experience. The program can now be expanded to give selected postdocs an opportunity to spend up to two years doing research within a Focus Area at Freie Universität or within one of the collaborative research projects funded within the German Excellence Initiative and based at Freie Universität. The resources available for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 781 | 2016-05-02
Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2013-2014: Freie Universität Berlin among Best Universities - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:16:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin, according to the latest World University Rankings by the highly regarded journal, Times Higher Education (THE), is one of the four best universities in Germany. As announced by THE in London, Freie Universität ranked 86 in the overall world rankings, an improvement of 42 positions since the last such rankings.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 782 | 2016-05-02
The Great Widening of Inequality - [Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:25:00 -0000 ] The gap between rich and poor: It is a major topic, and not only during election season. Depending on your political outlook, it has widened to a greater or lesser degree, and the government should take increasing or less robust action to close it.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 783 | 2016-05-02
Physicist at Freie Universität Wins Substantial Grant - [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:02:00 -0000 ] The physics professor Katharina Franke of Freie Universität Berlin has been awarded a substantial grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC Consolidator Grant is roughly two million euros over a five-year period. Katharina Franke was awarded the grant for her project on the interaction of individual magnetic atoms with superconductors, and she will use it to explore the fundamentals of new concepts for the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 784 | 2016-05-02
Watching Europe Grow Together - [Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:56:00 -0000 ] Flight routes at Berlin’s new airport, the Erasmus exchange program, the European Union’s free trade agreements – topics like these are reflected in the theses and dissertations of many students at Freie Universität. They are supported in this process by the European Documentation Centre (EDC) located on the second floor of the University Library.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 785 | 2016-05-02
Researcher at Freie Universität Appointed Member of acatech - [Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:30:00 -0000 ] The highly regarded psychologist Prof. Dr. Bettina Hannover from Freie Universität is a new member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech. 'Professor Hannover was accepted as a member of the academy by virtue of her outstanding achievements and high reputation,' said a spokesperson for the academy. Acatech has more than 400 members, who represent the interests of the German scientific and technology communities at home and abroad and who support policymakers and society by ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 786 | 2016-05-02
Axel Springer Lecture Series on German Literature [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:37:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 787 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:05:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #2 02.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 788 | 2016-05-02
Newsletter 01/2014 [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:04:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 789 | 2016-05-02
Urban Planning to Beat the Heat - [Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ] Cairo, Istanbul, and Nairobi – each of these three megacities has an official population of up to 16 million, with even more uncounted residents in the swelling settlements on the outskirts of town. Traffic chaos is the norm, and during the summer, the heat in the city is almost unbearable. Climate change will further exacerbate the issues faced by booming urban centers over the next few decades. But how can the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 790 | 2016-05-02
Translating between Germany and Israel - [Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:21:00 -0000 ] Anne Birkenhauer, a translator who lives in Jerusalem, will be the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professor of Poetics of Translation during the 2014/2015 fall/winter semester at Freie Universität Berlin. On October 27, 2014, she will give her inaugural lecture in the Academy of the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 791 | 2016-05-02
New Forms for Commemorating Nazi Occupation - [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:05:00 -0000 ] A seminar devoted to new forms of memorialization in Berlin, Falstad (Norway), and Rome will be held on April 30, 2014, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Felleshus in the Nordic Embassies in Berlin. Entitled 'Beyond Memorialisation. Design for Conflict Heritage,' the English-language seminar will launch an exhibition with the same title. The exhibition, showing design proposals for monuments in Falstad and Rome that will draw attention to the Nazi occupation during World War II, will be on display at the Nordic ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 792 | 2016-05-02
Awards for Diplomatic Skills - [Fri, 02 May 2014 10:34:00 -0000 ] A delegation from Freie Universität Berlin won several awards at the most recent Model United Nations simulation. The National Model United Nations (NMUN) gives college and university students an opportunity to slip into the role of ambassadors of different countries, participate in various committees, and gain first-hand impressions of multinational diplomacy. During the 2014 NMUN meeting in New York, 16 students from Freie Universität represented Montenegro in eight of 23 committees. Altogether they ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 793 | 2016-05-02
ERASMUS International Week in 2014 at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 30 May 2014 12:31:00 -0000 ] Internationalization and sports at universities is the theme of this year's ERASMUS International Week taking place at Freie Universität Berlin from June 3 to 7, 2014. Through various kinds of group work, discussions, and lectures, the participants will learn about the latest developments in the areas of internationalization and sports at universities. During this year's ERASMUS International Week, staff members at Freie Universität Berlin's European partner universities who work in the areas of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 794 | 2016-05-02
Informatiker der Freien Universität entwickeln Simulator für die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft [Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:23:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 795 | 2016-05-02
New Alliance between Vancouver and Berlin - [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:35:00 -0000 ] It is the first strategic alliance between a German and a Canadian university in which both institutions set out to use synergies systematically and to foster cooperation in research and teaching between Berlin and Vancouver.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 796 | 2016-05-02
Anti-Semitism in Greece - [Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:55:00 -0000 ] The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the TU Berlin, along with the Center for Modern Greece at Freie Universität Berlin and the Greek National Center for Social Research, is organizing a two-day conference on the religious, political, economic, and social manifestations of anti-Semitism in Greece. The conference, Anti-Semitism in Greece – Past and Present Trajectories, will be held in English. It is public, and admission is free.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 797 | 2016-05-02
Research Oriented and Regional: Freie Universität Calls for Proposals for Teaching Award - [Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:25:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin is calling for proposals for a Teaching Award in 2014. It will be awarded for project proposals that incorporate members of partner institutions from the Berlin-Brandenburg research hub. The Teaching Award, which is being given for the second time, aims to express esteem for outstanding commitment in the field of research-oriented teaching. The goal is to more firmly integrate cutting-edge research into teaching at Freie ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 798 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Group within TARGET Project at Freie Universität Berlin Presents Findings / Researchers Evaluated 126 Attacks Worldwide - [Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:12:00 -0000 ] Up to now, researchers had assumed that bullying between peers and the social exclusion of the perpetrators were the most prominent factors in school shootings. This study shows, however, that in many cases conflicts with teachers seemed to be a decisive factor in the school shooting cases investigated.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 799 | 2016-05-02
Experimentation with the Frog Prince - [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:07:00 -0000 ] Clad in white lab coats, with protective goggles over their eyes, a group of seventh graders watch eagerly as a shelled egg slowly squeezes through an opening in a bottle, as if propelled by magic, after they have cooled the vessel with ice water. The potential junior scientists engage in lively discussion of what physical effect could be behind this.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 800 | 2016-05-02
African Religions and Modern Choreography - [Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:32:00 -0000 ] The dancer and choreographer Koffi Kôkô, a native of Benin, is the new Valeska Gert Visiting Professor at the Institute of Theater Studies at Freie Universität during the 2014/2015 fall/winter semester. His first lecture will be given on October 14, 2014, at the Berlin Academy of Arts. Kôkô will offer insights into his current work. The lecture will be public, and there is no charge for admission. During the fall/winter semester Kôkô will develop a performance with students in the master's program ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 801 | 2016-05-02
Literature and History in the Work of Octavio Paz - [Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:40:00 -0000 ] Marking the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Octavio Paz (1914-1998), a conference on literature and history in the work of Octavio Paz will be held at Freie Universität Berlin on November 27 and 28, 2014. Literary scholars based at European, Mexican, and North American universities will discuss the work of the Mexican Nobel laureate. Beginning with a historical approach to his texts, they will then address the timeliness of his works. They will also consider the extent to which Paz's writings ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 802 | 2016-05-02
Key Protein Decrypted - [Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:42:00 -0000 ] Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Tubingen, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) provide a new 3D model of the protein Bax, a key regulator of cell death. When active, Bax forms pores in the membranes of mitochondria, causing the release of proteins from the intermembrane space into the cytoplasm. This in turn triggers a series of operations ending in cell death, which are often impaired in cancer cells. Using Double Electron-Electron Resonance ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 803 | 2016-05-02
Getting a Closer Look at Protein Molecules - [Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:56:00 -0000 ] Scientists working in Jörg Rademann's Medicinal Chemistry Group have gained new insights into so-called pockets of proteins. Rademann is a professor of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at both Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Leipzig. The recesses and trenches on the surface of protein molecules are responsible for their correct functioning. Drugs function by binding to these cracks and crevices, thereby turning off disease-relevant protein molecules. The new findings help to better ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 804 | 2016-05-02
The New Silk Road? - [Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:24:00 -0000 ] According to PD Dr. Lutz Mez from the Berlin Centre for Caspian Region Studies, Freie Universität, transportation by rail between Europe and Asia holds enormous economic potential for the future, in particular for Central Asia itself. Mez stressed that since the summer of 2014, containers are being transported by freight train in both directions between Germany and China within 15 days, twice as fast as by ship. The rail link is part of a more than 10,000-kilometer so-called New Silk Road, and it plays a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 805 | 2016-05-02
Looking for a Little Improvement? - [Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:05:00 -0000 ] Early morning, eyelids still drooping, under cloudy gray November skies. On days like this, it is a blessing if the bus comes on time and there is a place to sit without having to fight through the crowd.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 806 | 2016-05-02
The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective - [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:31:00 -0000 ] The Frankish kingdom of the Merovingians and its external relations are the subject of an international conference to be held December 17 to 20 at Freie Universität Berlin. Researchers from Germany, Israel, Europe, and the United States will analyze the trading relations the Merovingian Frankish Empire (481–751) maintained with the Mediterranean region. It is expected that a new image will emerge of the transitional period between antiquity and the Middle Ages. The conference is being sponsored by the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 807 | 2016-05-02
Thinking in Moving Pictures - [Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:35:00 -0000 ] Movies, TV news, Youtube - audiovisual images are everywhere. A new research center for advanced studies at Freie Universität Berlin investigates the impact these images have on how people perceive the world around them. Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff at the Film Studies division of the Institute of Theater Studies, Freie Universität, are looking into the thesis that media are not merely the means for communicating facts, but rather technical enhancements of perception. They change the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 808 | 2016-05-02
Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin for Carla Del Ponte - [Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:07:00 -0000 ] On October 20, 2014, the Swiss lawyer Carla Del Ponte received a Freedom Award from Freie Universität Berlin. By the 1980s, as a public prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte already became known for her resolute and uncompromising commitment against crime.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 809 | 2016-05-02
European Journalism-Fellowships - [Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:58:00 -0000 ] Deadline for applications is February 28, 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 810 | 2016-05-02
PhD Grants: IRTG "Between Spaces ‘Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation’ - [Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:37:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 30 April 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 811 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications - [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:55:00 -0000 ] The Research Alumni Program at Freie Universität offers doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from abroad grants for research stays at Freie Universität.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 812 | 2016-05-02
PhD Fellowships of TOPOI – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations [Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:29:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 813 | 2016-05-02
Cultural Studies Scholar and Koran Expert Angelika Neuwirth Honored by University of Tübingen with 2015 Leopold Lucas Prize - [Tue, 12 May 2015 13:59:00 -0000 ] The cultural studies scholar Angelika Neuwirth from Freie Universität Berlin was honored on Tuesday at the University of Tübingen with this year's Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize. The Protestant Faculty of the university selected her for this award because of her outstanding international reputation and her active contributions to the dialogue between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. For several years Neuwirth was a professor of Arabic at Freie Universität Berlin. She also worked in various central locations ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 814 | 2016-05-02
An Asian Perspective on the European Union - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:51:00 +0200 ] Taken together, these two countries account for nearly 40 percent of the global population. They are emerging economies and have been strategic partners of the European Union for years: India, “the world’s largest democracy,” and China, with its one-party socialist system. What role does the European Union play in these Asian countries, and what factors affect the perception of the EU “from outside”?
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 815 | 2016-05-02
Health and Aging - [Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:20:00 +0200 ] The DynAge Focus Area aims to gain fundamental insights into the origin and development of acute and chronic diseases across the lifespan. Age-related disease processes are studied from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 816 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin and Moscow Higher School of Economics Increase Their Cooperation in Internationalizing Higher Education - [Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:21:00 +0200 ] Freie Universität Berlin and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (HSE) are increasing their cooperation in research and teaching. The president of Freie Universität Professor Peter-André Alt, and the rector of HSE, Yaroslav Kuzminov, signed an agreement of cooperation that will facilitate ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 817 | 2016-05-02
New call of GE-SEED (formerly known as GESP) - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:05:00 +0200 ] The Program supports the exchange of scientific visits between Egyptian and German research teams.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 818 | 2016-05-02
International Graduate Fair - [Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:47:00 +0200 ] “International Graduate Fair” in Moscow and Saint Petersburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 819 | 2016-05-02
Information Session - [Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:18:00 +0200 ] Thursday, October 22, 2015, 10 a.m., Henry Ford Building
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 820 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #21. 10.2015 [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:28:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 821 | 2016-05-02
Energy Experts Conference "Re-thinking Energy: Scientific Input - Social Output" - [Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:07:00 +0100 ] Prof. Miranda Schreurs, director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin holds the keynote speech on 'Driving Renewable Energies: Experiences from Europe'.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 822 | 2016-05-02
One Scholarship for Doctoral Studies in the "Ancient Objects and Visual Studies" [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:09:54 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 823 | 2016-05-02
Call for Application: IMPRS Moral Economies [Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:04:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 824 | 2016-05-02
North American Studies - PhD Scholarships - Graduate School of North American Studies [Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:25:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 825 | 2016-05-02
Digital Science Match 2015 - [Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:21:00 +0100 ] Professorin Petra Knaus auf dem vom Tagesspiegel veranstalteten Digital Science Match 2015.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 826 | 2016-05-02
The Shirt from the Other End of the World - [Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:58:00 +0100 ] On April 24, 2013, the nine-story Rana Plaza textile factory in the Bangladeshi city of Savar collapsed. The operator had ignored life-threatening structural defects. More than 1,100 people were killed and 2,400 were injured. It was the worst accident in the history of the textile and apparel industry.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 827 | 2016-05-02
“Suddenly everything was different” - [Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:35:00 +0100 ] It’s just a word, but for Peter Szondi it made all the difference: The institute to be founded in December 1965 at Freie Universität would not be called merely the “Seminar for Comparative Literature” but rather the “Seminar for General and Comparative Literature.”
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 828 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #23. 01.2016 [Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:28:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 829 | 2016-05-02
UAS Flyer [Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 830 | 2016-05-02
“Suddenly everything was different” - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:49:00 +0100 ] It’s just a word, but for Peter Szondi it made all the difference: The institute to be founded in December 1965 at Freie Universität would not be called merely the “Seminar for Comparative Literature” but rather the “Seminar for General and Comparative Literature.”
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 831 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Mobility Allowance for Conference Trips [Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:09:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 832 | 2016-05-02
Doctoral program of the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT) [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:49:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 833 | 2016-05-02
Second funding period granted by DAAD [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:25:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 834 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies [Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 835 | 2016-05-02
First International Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:33:00 -0000 ] The Canadian political scientist Prof. Dr. Verónica Schild is the first international visiting professor of gender studies ('Dahlem International Network Professorship for Gender Studies') at Freie Universität Berlin. Verónica Schild teaches and conducts research at Western University London, Ontario.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 836 | 2016-05-02
Solving Problems through Acting - [Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:44:00 -0000 ] Art and functionality – it’s not generally considered a fortunate combination. The demand for aesthetic autonomy, which first became popular around 1800, still exerts a huge influence on artists and audiences.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 837 | 2016-05-02
Anthropology in the Age of Globalization. A European Perspective - [Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:06:00 -0000 ] Public Science Lecture of Prof. Wulf of Freie Universität Berlin in Moscow
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 838 | 2016-05-02
From Colonialism to Nazi Ideology - [Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:40:00 -0000 ] An exhibition by students of Freie Universität Berlin dealing with the history of the building at Ihnestrasse 22 in Berlin-Dahlem and its relation to German colonialism will be officially opened on Monday, November 4, 2013, at 6 p.m. The building is currently in use by the Institute of Political Science of Freie Universität. Previously it was the seat of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, from 1927 until the wartime relocation of the institute in 1943. The ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 839 | 2016-05-02
Recognition for Research on Smart Microgel Particles - [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:20:00 -0000 ] The chemist Dr. Sebastian Seiffert from Freie Universität Berlin has been chosen to receive the prestigious Reimund Stadler Award for his work in polymer science. Seiffert does research at Freie Universität and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on “smart” microgel particles. The selection board on behalf of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) recognized Seiffert’s achievements in this field of research and also praised the interdisciplinary synergy between the university ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 840 | 2016-05-02
"China-Mode, China-Chic" - [Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:21:00 -0000 ] How has clothing in China been influenced by Western fashion and the changing times? A new exhibition in the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin entitled 'China-Mode, China-Chic' addresses this question. It opened Wednesday.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 841 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität and China Scholarship Council Increasing Cooperation - [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:46:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) – the Chinese equivalent of the German Academic Exchange Service – are increasing their cooperation. They signed an agreement in Beijing to establish a jointly organized postdoctoral research program. Within this program professors and research group leaders at Freie Universität offer open postdoctoral research positions only available for Chinese Ph.D. graduates from a Chinese university or research institution. The process is similar ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 842 | 2016-05-02
International Exchange in Ancient Studies - [Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:55:00 -0000 ] The Research Center of Ancient Studies of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg (BAK) is calling for applications for three Visiting Research Fellowships in 2014. Applicants should have a doctoral degree and have achieved scholarly distinction in any of the fields relevant to the BAK. They should submit proposals for projects that refer specifically to the institutional and human resources concentrated in the BAK. The duration of the research period can be between one and three months. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 843 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Research Award for Education Sociologist Heike Solga - [Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:30:00 -0000 ] Education sociologist Prof. Dr. Heike Solga from the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Freie Universität was awarded this year’s Berlin Research Award from the Governing Mayor of Berlin. The research award, amounting to 40,000 euros was presented to Solga, a director at WZB and professor at Freie Universität’s Institute of Sociology, in a ceremony on Wednesday evening at the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) in Berlin. Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit praised Solga for her outstanding ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 844 | 2016-05-02
Looking for the Difference - [Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:02:00 -0000 ] Sometimes all it takes is a mosquito bite to make a person sick, or a neighbor on the bus coughing. While transmission of illnesses such as malaria and tuberculosis has already been researched exhaustively, other aspects are still puzzling to researchers.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 845 | 2016-05-02
International Education Fair - [Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:45:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at education fair in St. Petersburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 846 | 2016-05-02
Board of Trustees of Freie Universität Berlin Nominates Professor Peter-André Alt for New Term as President - [Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:21:00 -0000 ] On Friday the Board of Trustees of Freie Universität Berlin unanimously nominated two candidates for the office of president and executive vice president of the university. The current incumbents will face re-election, Professor Peter-André Alt as a candidate for president, and Professor Monika Schäfer-Korting as a candidate for executive vice president.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 847 | 2016-05-02
Mobile Apps Conquering Research Labs - [Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:40:00 -0000 ] The Berlin-based labfolder GmbH released its free mobile app which allows scientists to use their iPhones, smartphones, tablets, and iPads as digital lab notebooks, making it easier to record research data from mobile devices. The new application fits easily into the highly regulated environment of laboratories. Research data can be more easily recorded and evaluated, saving time and expense. The scientist-entrepreneurs from Berlin complemented their web application by native apps for mobile devices ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 848 | 2016-05-02
QS Subject Ranking in 2014: Freie Universität Berlin among World's 200 Best Universities in 21 Subjects - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:01:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität among Top 50 Universities in Four Disciplines
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 849 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin among Best Universities Worldwide - [Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:14:00 -0000 ] In its latest World Reputation Rankings, the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine again includes Freie Universität among the 100 most highly regarded universities of the world, and the recent prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject places Freie Universität Berlin among the best 200 universities worldwide in 21 of 30 subjects considered.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 850 | 2016-05-02
Law Library - [Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:14:00 -0000 ] The Freie Universität Berlin Law Library contains 800,000 volumes of literature in print. It is a reference library and has a seating capacity of 520.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 851 | 2016-05-02
Toward a European Islam - [Tue, 27 May 2014 14:05:00 -0000 ] How has Europe been shaped by Islam? This issue is being addressed in a lecture series of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, which is hosted by Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität. The lecture series is being held in cooperation with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). The series aims to change patterns of thinking that consider the Muslim presence in Europe as a problem. Muslim life needs to be seen as an integral part of European history and identity. In the series, Muslim ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 852 | 2016-05-02
A Free Flight to Berlin - [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:57:00 -0000 ] With a presentation on the effects of Facebook on everyday life in India, Charnita Arora, a former student of Freie Universität, won over the jury for a science slam held in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Arora, now 26, won the grand prize, a three-month stay in Germany, which will bring her back to Berlin – and even back to Dahlem.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 853 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:00:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #6 05.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 854 | 2016-05-02
Where to Go with Radioactive Waste? - [Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:29:00 -0000 ] In 1955, physician and Nobel laureate Werner Karl Heisenberg proposed that nuclear waste simply be packed up and sunk in the ocean far off the coast. His colleague Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, later a critic of nuclear power, was still certain in 1969 that the newly discovered energy source was a clean one, and disposal would be no problem.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 855 | 2016-05-02
Web-Project #NichtUnserKrieg launched - [Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:52:00 -0000 ] They come from Russia, Azerbaijan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine: During a journalistic workshop, 15 participants of the “Journalisten International” program at Freie Universität Berlin launched the online-project #NichtUnserKrieg (“#NotOurWar”) dealing with the Ukraine crisis. It contains video messages calling for peace from the young journalists as well as personal stories and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 856 | 2016-05-02
In Retrospect: Summer School "Commonalities and Differences: The Bronze Age, the Ancient High Civilizations, and Industrial Modernity" [Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:33:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 857 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Wins 2014 Research Alumni Strategies Competition - [Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:04:00 -0000 ] The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation once again recognized Freie Universität Berlin's efforts in dealing with its international research alumni. The foundation praised the university's adroit incentive system, which is aimed at integrating its research alumni in the existing activities and structures of the university.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 858 | 2016-05-02
Plant Flowers and Protect Wild Bees - [Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:06:00 -0000 ] TThe sustainability initiative SUSTAIN IT! at Freie Universität, the Studentenwerk Berlin, and the 'Berlin summt' initiative are organizing flower bulb planting days at Freie Universität. Students and other members of Freie Universität as well as anyone from the neighborhood is invited to come on November 12 and 13 to plant bulbs next to the terrace of the Vegetarian Dining Hall (Mensa) on Van’t-Hoff-Straße in Dahlem. Bulbs of early bloomers such as tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, and blue stars will be ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 859 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin First Choice for Students in United States - [Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:38:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin is by far the most popular location in Germany for students from the United States to get a college degree in Germany, according to Open Doors, a report published in 2014 in Washington, D.C., by the Institute of International Education (IIE) as well as statistics by the German Federal Statistical Office. Of the 2376 American students working toward a degree in Germany, 408 students or more than 17 percent are enrolled at Freie Universität. This is followed by ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 860 | 2016-05-02
Virology Professor Benedikt Kaufer Won Two Science Awards - [Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:07:00 -0000 ] Benedikt Kaufer, a junior professor of molecular tumor virology at Freie Universität, has received two awards for his research on the origin of virus-associated tumors. The Robert Koch Foundation awarded him the Robert Koch Postdoctoral Prize in the field of virology. Kaufer also won an award for the promotion of young researchers from the German Veterinary Medical Society (DVG).
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 861 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:00:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #12. 12.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 862 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin First Choice for Students in United States - [Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:27:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin is by far the most popular location in Germany for students from the United States to get a college degree in Germany, according to Open Doors, a report published in 2014 in Washington, D.C., by the Institute of International Education (IIE) as well as statistics by the German Federal Statistical Office.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 863 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications PhD East Asia Security [Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:48:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 864 | 2016-05-02
BMS Summer School 2015 - [Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:55:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 13 March 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 865 | 2016-05-02
PhD Grants: IRTG ‘Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation’ - [Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:37:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 30 April 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 866 | 2016-05-02
International Media and Communication: German-Russian Degree Program Calls for Applications - [Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:00:00 -0000 ] For the second time Freie Universität Berlin and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU) are offering a double degree master’s program in Global Communication and International Journalism. The four-semester program is taught in English and was designed to attract students from any country who are seeking a career in journalism or academia, work in the communications department of international organizations, media consulting, political education, or ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 867 | 2016-05-02
PhD Fellowships: SFB 1112 "Nanocarrier" [Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 868 | 2016-05-02
Following in Robert Koch’s Footsteps - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:46:00 +0200 ] The first sign is that the animals develop a fever. They grow weak and lose the desire to eat. Then, after two to three weeks of suffering, most of the cattle die – dead of a disease caused by tiny single-celled organisms. Theileria is the name of the genus of parasites that claim the lives of thousands of cattle in northern and eastern Africa every year.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 869 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Program GSA Distinguished Lecture - [Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:08:00 +0200 ] Joy H. Calico, Vanderbilt University/German Studies Association gives this year's Distinguished Lecture and will talk about: Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Musical Remigration and Holocaust Commemoration in the Germanys on June 30, 2015, 6-8 p.m. followed by a reception. Read the interview with Joy Calico.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 870 | 2016-05-02
Alumni Meeting in Shanghai [Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:50:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 871 | 2016-05-02
"I like it when there is a systematic approach." - [Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:15:00 +0200 ] School years in Saint Petersburg, bachelor studies in Moscow, a semester in Berlin, another one in Cadiz in Southern Spain, and now back to Berlin again – Irina Bakhareva, the winner of the 2015 Deutscholympiade has certainly experienced a number of educational practices and approaches.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 872 | 2016-05-02
"Limited Mobility / Forced Migration" - [Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:00:00 +0100 ] Dr. Florian Kohstall, head of the Freie Universität Berlin Cairo Office, gives a talk on Challenges for Higher Education Cooperation in the Mediterranean on 5th November 6 p.m. at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 873 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #22. 12.2015 [Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:28:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 874 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: HONORS-Fellowships 2016-1 [Sat, 05 Dec 2015 16:33:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 875 | 2016-05-02
Raising Awareness - [Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:09:00 +0100 ] What benefits can groups gain from telling their shared traumatic stories? How do people talk in literary form about things that lie hidden in public life? Two doctoral candidates, Imad Alsoos and Katarzyna Lisowska, ask big questions.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 876 | 2016-05-02
Getting Back to the Roots - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:37:00 +0100 ] The Botanic Garden in Berlin’s Dahlem district is known for its rare and exotic plants, such as titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), the world’s largest flower, which blooms only every couple of years, with a meters-tall inflorescence – and a distinctive odor of carrion, which has also earned it the name “corpse flower.”
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 877 | 2016-05-02
Master of Arts - Sociology - European Societies [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:06:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 878 | 2016-05-02
Information Event: Pension Rights for Internationally Mobile Researchers [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:09:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 879 | 2016-05-02
CfA: Participation in Summer School 2016 - [Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:58:00 +0200 ] Deadline: May 30, 2016
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 880 | 2016-05-02
Selection of 12 interdisciplinary research groups [Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:04:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 881 | 2016-05-02
“Degenerate Art” Research Center Starts New Studies on Involvement of Art Dealers during Nazi Period - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:21:00 -0000 ] During the first ten years, researchers from the “Degenerate Art” Research Center at the Art History Department at Freie Universität Berlin have tracked down about 10,000 of the sculptures, paintings, and drawings that were categorized as “degenerate art” and confiscated from museums in Germany during the Nazi period by a commission of the Ministry of Propaganda.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 882 | 2016-05-02
Artificial Skin as an Alternative to Animal Testing - [Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:40:00 -0000 ] It is supposed to respond to drugs and help reduce animal testing – artificial skin created in a lab. Pharmacology professor Günther Weindl and his working group at the Institute of Pharmacy at Freie Universität Berlin are working on developing skin models as the basis for drug tests, thereby simulating inflammatory skin diseases.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 883 | 2016-05-02
“People Who Understand Asia Better Can Make Wiser Decisions” - [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:15:00 -0000 ] Nowadays there is too much academic specialization, and there are not enough comprehensively educated experts on the region, complained the American expert on East Asia, Ezra Vogel, in his keynote address opening the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 884 | 2016-05-02
5752 Plant Species Grow in Greece - [Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:00:00 -0000 ] According to an international study, Greece boasts the highest diversity of plant species anywhere in Europe. Over a three-year period, eight botanists from Greece, Germany, and Denmark determined that there are 5752 plant species and 1893 subspecies. For the first time in a century, the diversity of species has now been documented in a book. The monograph lists all the known plant species from the Cretan date palm to the Greek mullein that are native to the region or were naturalized there. It was ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 885 | 2016-05-02
White Christmas Unlikely in Germany - [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:55:00 -0000 ] A white Christmas is unlikely in most of Germany this year, according to a forecast by Freie Universität’s Institute of Meteorology. At the beginning of the second decade in December, Germany’s weather is being influenced by the high-pressure zones Varnia and Wanda, said meteorologist Petra Gebauer from the Berlin Weather Service on Thursday. It does not appear that these stable weather conditions with fog and intermittent drizzle will change, so freezing temperatures and thus the possibility of snow ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 886 | 2016-05-02
Open Access at Freie Universität Berlin - [Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:21:00 -0000 ] The various open access activities at Freie Universität Berlin will be the focus of a meeting at the university’s Clubhaus on January 24. Involved staff from the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) and the University Library (UB) will delineate which services are available at the university. Best-practice examples will be presented. The meeting is for members of Freie Universität and other interested persons. There are no fees, however, due to limited seating, please register in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 887 | 2016-05-02
Commemorating Arno Schmidt’s 100th Birthday - [Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:05:00 -0000 ] The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin has put together an exhibition in commemoration of the 100th birthday of the writer and journalist Arno Schmidt (1914–1979) on January 18. From Friday, January 17 through April 25, Schmidt’s published work will be on display. The presentation will include early first editions and illustrated editions as typescript facsimiles and translations as well as secondary literature and other materials. The displayed items are from the holdings of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 888 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #2. 02.2014 [Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 889 | 2016-05-02
MA in Visual and Media Anthropology - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:11:48 -0000 ] The Application process is now open for the Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology 2014-2016 Deadline: April 30th, 2014
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 890 | 2016-05-02
Dutch Minister of Education Dr. Mariëtte Bussemaker Visits Freie Universität - [Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:55:00 -0000 ] On Tuesday the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, Dr. Mariëtte Bussemaker, was a guest at Freie Universität Berlin. Members of the Dutch delegation and Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, the president of Freie Universität Berlin, took a look at the implementation of several projects at Freie Universität that are funded through the German national Excellence Initiative. They also discussed instruments suitable for facilitating research as well as ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 891 | 2016-05-02
Challenges for Political Journalism between the Neva and Spree Rivers - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:10:00 -0000 ] How is political journalism shaped by economic, legal, ethical, political, and cultural dimensions in Russia and Germany? These were the subjects of discussion for students of journalism from Saint Petersburg State University and students from the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität, in a joint graduate seminar.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 892 | 2016-05-02
Three Scientists at Freie Universität Elected to Prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization - [Thu, 08 May 2014 10:29:00 -0000 ] Three scientists from Freie Universität were elected to the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). A total of 106 new members from 17 different countries were elected. They include Prof. Dr. Markus Wahl, a professor of structural biochemistry, the neurobiologist Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel, and Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 893 | 2016-05-02
Europe in Crisis - [Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:50:00 -0000 ] On June 12 the prominent French philosopher Prof. Dr. Etienne Balibar will give a lecture at Freie Universität Berlin as part of the French-German Colloquium. Balibar will address the current crisis in the European Union. Roughly two weeks after the European elections, Balibar will take various historical cycles into consideration to analyze the current crisis in the European Union, considering what factors come together in the crisis and affect European awareness of the political situation. The lecture ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 894 | 2016-05-02
German-Israeli Exchange Project Won Teaching Award of Freie Universität - [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:33:10 -0000 ] Education students from Israel and Germany are working together to develop instructional concepts on the topic of the Holocaust and using this as a basis for developing new materials – this unusual project initiated by the historian, Professor Martin Lücke, has won the first Teaching Award of Freie Universität Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 895 | 2016-05-02
Tracking Jet Lag to the Source - [Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:19:00 -0000 ] A team of researchers headed by biochemistry professor Florian Heyd of Freie Universität Berlin has succeeded in controlling the circadian clock – the body’s internal sense of time – in mice in such a way that the animals adjust more quickly to different time zones. The members of the RNA biochemistry research group were able to show that the “alternative” splicing of a certain gene controls how the lab animals ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 896 | 2016-05-02
In Retrospect: Summer School "Commonalities and Differences: The Bronze Age, the Ancient High Civilizations, and Industrial Modernity" [Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:33:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 897 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin Most Popular Destination in Germany for Leading Researchers and Outstanding Young Scholars from Abroad - [Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:04:00 -0000 ] According to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Freie Universität Berlin is still the most popular destination in Germany for leading researchers and young scholars from abroad. As the foundation announced, Freie Universität reached first place by a wide margin in a comparison of the number of visits.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 898 | 2016-05-02
Knowledge, Power, and Prestige: Education in Modern and Contemporary China - [Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:14:00 -0000 ] A workshop and a conference to be held on October 10 and 11, 2014, at Freie Universität will focus on knowledge, power, and prestige with regard to education in modern and contemporary China. The two events are being held as part of the strategic partnership between Freie Universität Berlin, Peking University, and the State University of St. Petersburg. The interdisciplinary meetings will focus on the role of education in China during the 20th and 21st centuries. The events will take place in English. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 899 | 2016-05-02
A Particular View of Berlin - [Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:17:00 -0000 ] From October 18 to December 15, 2014, the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture will be exhibiting humorous drawings by the French artist Paul Giraud. Following the tradition of French caricaturists and illustrators, Paul Giraud and his friend slip into the role of Berliners, as people out for a walk, as observers, victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and of course, as fellow citizens. Entitled “Bilderliner,” which is a pun made up of Bilder (pictures) and Berliner, the exhibition takes a look at Berlin, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 900 | 2016-05-02
Political Scientist Lucio R. Rennó Junior from Brazil to Be Visiting Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin - [Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:41:00 -0000 ] Lucio R. Rennó Junior from the highly regarded Universidade de Brasília will be a Visiting Professor at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2014/2015 fall/winter semester. The professorship will be funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Rennó, who is from Brazil and an expert on comparative politics and research institutions, will do research and teach for a semester at the Brazil Research Center at the Institute for Latin American Studies. This position ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 901 | 2016-05-02
Stefan Müller Elected New Member of Academia Europaea - [Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:45:00 -0000 ] Stefan Müller, a professor of German grammar and general linguistics at the Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. The Academia Europaea is a nongovernmental academic society with members from all parts of Europe. New members are nominated by a committee.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 902 | 2016-05-02
More than Just a Financial Crisis - [Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:35:00 -0000 ] How has the financial crisis promoted economic, ecological, and political developments? How can we achieve a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding of the current crisis? These issues will be addressed at a conference concluding the term of Einstein Visiting Fellow Nancy Fraser on November 4 and 5 in Berlin. The conference participants will be a distinguished group of international scholars. The meeting marks the end of four years of research by the American political scientist at Freie ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 903 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #11. 11.2014 [Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 904 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #12. 12.2014 [Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 905 | 2016-05-02
War Fever and Pacifism - [Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:19:00 -0000 ] The attitude of German Jews to the outbreak of World War I is the topic of a conference to be held December 4 to 6, 2014, at Freie Universität Berlin. From historical, cultural, and literary critical perspectives, experts will address the widespread idea that in 1914 an overwhelming majority of German Jews joined in the “general war fever” in an attempt to prove themselves good German patriots to the many citizens with anti-Semitic sentiments. In the view of the participating scholars, this image of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 906 | 2016-05-02
Four Doctoral Candidates Win Ernst Reuter Prizes in 2014 - [Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:09:00 -0000 ] The winners of this year's Ernst Reuter Prizes of Freie Universität Berlin have been announced: On December 4, the anniversary of Freie Universität's founding day, Karim Adiprasito, Jens Elze, Tobias Koch, and David Schweinfurth will be officially commended by the Ernst Reuter Society of Friends, Supporters, and Alumni of Freie Universität Berlin (ERG) for their dissertations. The Ernst Reuter Prize is awarded annually in four different subject groups for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 907 | 2016-05-02
FU Research Alumni Program is now inviting applications [Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:24:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 908 | 2016-05-02
Call for application to the BSRT Postdoc Program - [Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:58:00 -0000 ] Deadline: 20 April 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 909 | 2016-05-02
Successful German-Russian Cooperation: Renewed Funding Approval for German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center - [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:43:00 -0000 ] Following a positive evaluation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has committed further funding for the German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center (G-RISC), a Center of Excellence organized jointly by Freie Universität Berlin and St. Petersburg State University. The funding is now scheduled to run through 2019.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 910 | 2016-05-02
FUmanoids Win RoboCup German Open - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:31:00 +0200 ] The FUmanoids, the soccer robots of Freie Universität, defended their championship title at the RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg. They won the final game 1:0 against the Russian team Photon. They also won the 2015 HARTING Open Source Prize. The designers and robots will utilize the time until the world championships in late July in Hefei, China, to incorporate further improvements.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 911 | 2016-05-02
Ernst Reuter Scholarships 2015 awarded [Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:28:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 912 | 2016-05-02
European Prize in Combinatorics for Alumnus of Freie Universität Berlin - [Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:54:00 +0200 ] An alumnus of Freie Universität is making rapid progress in his career: Karim Adiprasito, 27, is one of three young men to be awarded the European Prize in Combinatorics at the Eurocomb conference in Bergen, Norway. These prestigious prizes are awarded every two years and include a monetary award of 2,500 euros.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 913 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin at the Study Information Day for German Schools - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:36:00 +0200 ] Freie Universität Berlin hold an information session at the Deutsche Evangelischen Oberschule (DEO) in Dokki for German schools students in Egypt.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 914 | 2016-05-02
Save the Date: UAS Spring Campus - [Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:19:00 +0100 ] Freie Universität Berlin will host the first spring campus event in April 2016
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 915 | 2016-05-02
A New Life and an Old Dream - [Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:29:00 +0100 ] Talking in coherent sentences about experiences, hopes, and goals – according to the European framework of reference for languages, language learners have to be able to do this at a certain level of learning. Muhammed’s German language skills are not yet quite up to the task; he still feels more comfortable in English at this point.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 916 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: Mobility Allowance for Conference Trips [Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:09:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 917 | 2016-05-02
Research Alumni call for applications open until September 30 [Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 918 | 2016-05-02
First International Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:53:00 -0000 ] The Canadian political scientist Prof. Dr. Verónica Schild is the first international visiting professor of gender studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Verónica Schild teaches and conducts research at Western University London, Ontario. An expert on Latin America, Shield’s main fields of research include democratization processes, contemporary political theory, and theory of the state, all with a particular focus on gender aspects. The Dahlem International Network Professorship for Gender Studies was ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 919 | 2016-05-02
Rediscovered Riches - [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:15:00 -0000 ] Greece is home to vast botanical riches. Viewed according to the number of plant species by area, Greece even boasts the highest diversity of species anywhere in Europe. The recently published book Vascular Plants of Greece: An Annotated Checklist delivers impressive proof.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 920 | 2016-05-02
Nobel Laureate in Medicine Thomas Südhof to Talk about Communication between Nerve Cells - [Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:17:00 -0000 ] One of the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013, Professor Thomas Südhoff, will be speaking at Freie Universität Berlin on January 29, 2014. Südhoff is a neuroscientist at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. His lecture is entitled 'Mein Weg nach Stockholm: A Molecular Approach to Understanding how Neurons Communicate at Synapses.' The presentation is being organized by Freie Universität Berlin, Stanford University in Berlin, and the Will Foundation for Stanford ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 921 | 2016-05-02
Making Literature on Linguistics Available for Free - [Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:56:00 -0000 ] The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding amounting to more than 575,000 euros for a publication project headed by the linguist Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller at Freie Universität Berlin and Martin Haspelmath at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. With their project, the Language Science Press, they aim to make more than 100 books covering various fields of linguistics, available to the academic community by 2016. The project is supported by a community of nearly 400 ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 922 | 2016-05-02
New Flyer of the Focus Area DynAge [Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:31:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 923 | 2016-05-02
International Education Fair - [Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:45:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at education fair in Moscow
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 924 | 2016-05-02
Board of Trustees of Freie Universität Berlin Nominates Professor Peter-André Alt for New Term as President - [Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:21:00 -0000 ] On Friday the Board of Trustees of Freie Universität Berlin unanimously nominated two candidates for the offices of president and executive vice president of the university. The current incumbents will face re-election, Professor Peter-André Alt as a candidate for president, and Professor Monika Schäfer-Korting as a candidate for executive vice president.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 925 | 2016-05-02
Visitors Made of Felt - [Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:47:00 -0000 ] Some additions were made to the sculptures in the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture at Freie Universität Berlin, but not ones made of marble or plaster. Recently, the artist Dorothea Fischbeck began staging figures made of felt among the casts of ancient statues. The felt figures are placed strategically as viewers of individual sculptures and thus draw the attention of visitors to particular statues. The felt visitors will be on display until March 16, 2014, from Thursdays to Sundays, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 926 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:05:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #3 03.2014 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 927 | 2016-05-02
Connectivity in Everyday Life - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:07:00 -0000 ] The heater can be turned up even before you get home, your TV becomes a communication center, and supply chains automatically coordinate with each other. In the “Internet of Things” (IoT), objects communicate intelligently with people, plus they increasingly control themselves. But the flow of information is still slow and prone to errors.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 928 | 2016-05-02
Mobile Apps Conquering Research Labs - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:45:00 -0000 ] The Berlin-based labfolder GmbH released its free mobile app which allows scientists to use their iPhones, smartphones, tablets, and iPads as digital lab notebooks, making it easier to record research data from mobile devices. Worldwide 1,500 scientists are using the cloud-based digital lab book, labfolder, in the beta version to document their research.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 929 | 2016-05-02
Learning from a Writer - [Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ] The Columbian writer, translator, and journalist Héctor Abad will be teaching literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2014 spring/summer semester 2014. He is the 31st Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature and will be teaching a seminar entitled 'Literatura y Violencia' (Literature and Violence).
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 930 | 2016-05-02
Satellites Show High Productivity in the U.S. Corn Belt - [Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:30:00 -0000 ] According to a study and analysis of satellite data by scientists at the U.S. space agency NASA and researchers at Freie Universität Berlin, the Midwest of the United States has higher photosynthetic activity than any other region in the world. Through photosynthesis, healthy plants transform light into chemical energy. In the process the chlorophyll emits part of the absorbed radiation as a fluorescent glow that is invisible to the human eye. The magnitude of the glow is an excellent indicator of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 931 | 2016-05-02
Be a Scientist for a Night! - [Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:27:00 -0000 ] During the 14th Long Night of Science on May 10, 2014, there will be a widely varied program at Freie Universität. More than 500 individual events in 35 buildings will be open to visitors. In addition, there will be numerous events at the Benjamin Franklin Campus of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Zuse Institute Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. The open house event will start at 5 p.m. and end at midnight. Tickets may be purchased online as of April 9, 2014. Here is a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 932 | 2016-05-02
Be a Scientist for a Night! - [Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:27:00 -0000 ] During the 14th Long Night of Science on May 10, 2014, there will be a widely varied program at Freie Universität. More than 500 individual events in 35 buildings will be open to visitors. In addition, there will be numerous other events in Dahlem and Steglitz at the Benjamin Franklin Campus of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Zuse Institute Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. The open house event will start at 5 p.m. and end at midnight. Tickets may be purchased online ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 933 | 2016-05-02
Do Your Research Where the Nightingales Sing - [Thu, 08 May 2014 08:40:00 -0000 ] Members of the Biocommunication Group at Freie Universität Berlin recently published their findings about nightingale song in two different papers. Just in time for this year’s breeding season, scientists in the group of Silke Kipper, assistant professor of biology, were able to contribute to a better understanding of how songbirds encode messages and how their communication functions. In the study published as 'Singing onstage: Female and male common nightingales eavesdrop on song type matching' in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 934 | 2016-05-02
Calls for Greater Fairness - [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:20:00 -0000 ] How social inequalities in Brazil and other Latin American countries are affected by global conditions is something scholars and scientists at Freie Universität Berlin have been studying since 2009 as part of the network desiguALdades.net.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 935 | 2016-05-02
Europe Must Prepare for Storms and Heat Waves - [Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:10:00 -0000 ] Flooding in June, hail storms in August, hurricane-force winds in December: 2013 brought various weather extremes for Germany, all within a few months. Insurers paid about seven billion euros to cover the damage. Experts warn that in the future, costly cleanup work could be needed even more often.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 936 | 2016-05-02
The Sound of the Ancient World - [Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:10:00 -0000 ] A summer school on September 7 and 8 in Berlin will focus on musical instruments from the Stone Age to ancient Rome. As part of a two-day workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, experienced researchers from Germany, Great Britain, and the United States will give an introduction to this rapidly growing field of research. In addition, replicas of the ancient instruments will be demonstrated, including how they sound when played. The summer school is being organized by the Berliner Antike-Kolleg in cooperation ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 937 | 2016-05-02
Cheers to You! - [Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:24:00 -0000 ] The meteorologists of Freie Universität Berlin will begin awarding weather sponsorships for 2015 on Wednesday, September 24, at 0:00. The high pressure zones will be given female names in 2015, and the low pressure zones male names. This alternates each year. The prices remain unchanged at 299 euros for highs and 199 euros for lows, plus 19 percent sales tax (VAT). The income is used to finance weather observations made by students at the Berlin-Dahlem ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 938 | 2016-05-02
New Online Encyclopedia Devoted to World War I Is Now Accessible - [Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:01:00 -0000 ] A comprehensive, English-language, open access encyclopedia of the “Great War” was introduced and released on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, in Brussels. The project “1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is managed by researchers at Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). It combines the latest historical research with the advantages of the Semantic ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 939 | 2016-05-02
British Computer Conservation Society Honors Computer Science Professor Rojas - [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:25:00 -0000 ] Computer science professor Raúl Rojas from Freie Universität Berlin has been recognized by the British Computer Conservation Society. The Society – a joint association of the British Computer Society and the Science Museum in London – honored Rojas with the 2014 Tony Sale Award. The award ceremony took place in London. The award was given for Rojas's outstanding contributions to the history of computer science, in particular with regard to the technical and theoretical reconstruction of major ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 940 | 2016-05-02
DRS Award for Excellent Supervision 2014 [Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 941 | 2016-05-02
Four Doctoral Dissertations Win Ernst Reuter Prizes in 2014 - [Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:09:00 -0000 ] The winners of this year's Ernst Reuter Prizes of Freie Universität Berlin have been announced: On December 4, the anniversary of Freie Universität's founding day, Karim Adiprasito, Jens Elze, Tobias Koch, and David Schweinfurth will be officially commended by the Ernst Reuter Society of Friends, Supporters, and Alumni of Freie Universität Berlin (ERG) for their dissertations. The Ernst Reuter Prize is awarded annually in four different subject groups for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 942 | 2016-05-02
university-wide holiday close-down 22.12.14-02.01.15 [Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:53:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 943 | 2016-05-02
Dutch Medieval Historian Mayke de Jong Receives Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:22:00 -0000 ] The renowned Dutch medieval historian Mayke de Jong has been granted a Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to do research in 2015 and 2016 at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of Freie Universität. She will be hosted by the historian Prof. Dr. Stefan Esders, who heads the research division devoted to the History of Late ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 944 | 2016-05-02
Little Chance of a White Christmas - [Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:52:00 -0000 ] The chances of a white Christmas in Germany are slim, according to a forecast by the Berlin weather map e. V. at Freie Universität. The mild but rainy winter weather is expected to continue, said meteorologist Petra Gebauer on Wednesday in Berlin. Between the low pressure area “Engel” near Iceland and a strong Azores high, there is a strong westerly current that continues to direct relatively mild air masses to Germany. 'The mild air is bringing a lot of humidity with it, but at low altitudes the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 945 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:56:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #13. 01.2015 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 946 | 2016-05-02
Honorary Doctorate for Physicist Wolfgang Junge - [Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:32:00 -0000 ] The Department of Physics at Freie Universität Berlin is granting an honorary doctorate to Wolfgang Junge in recognition of his outstanding achievements in biophysics. The award ceremony will take place on February 9, 2015. The speakers during the special colloquium include Professor Menachem Gutman (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) and Professor Ernst Bamberg (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt). The ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 947 | 2016-05-02
Will Trade Lab for Field Experience - [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:36:00 -0000 ] “When I applied to work with the organization Gorilla Doctors, I thought I wouldn’t see a single gorilla during my stay,” says Jessica Magenwirth. A graduate of the veterinary medicine program at Freie Universität, Magenwirth had developed a particular interest in wildlife during her studies, and she also wanted to deal in greater detail with virology and infectious diseases.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 948 | 2016-05-02
New Master's in Eastern European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin - [Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:52:00 -0000 ] The Center for Global Politics (CGP) at Freie Universität Berlin has created a new English-language master's program entitled 'Leadership in Eastern Europe.' The one-year executive master's degree program provides professional and entrepreneurial skills that are needed to manage an office or a project in Eastern Europe. The CGP works closely with partners from industry and non-governmental organizations. It cooperates, for example, with the International Chamber of Commerce in Germany and Media in ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 949 | 2016-05-02
"THE ART OF PROTEST" - [Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:15:00 -0000 ] A public lecture series being held during the 2015 summer semester is devoted to the art of protest. The series is part of the Open Lecture series at Freie Universität Berlin and deals with the new aesthetics of protest and the associated political forms. In their presentations the participants will address the mutual influence of art and politics that occurs in global protest movements. The series was designed by Dr. Sarah Dornhof and Dr. Frauke Surmann at the international Research Training Group ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 950 | 2016-05-02
Ambitious Construction Project Completed - [Mon, 01 Jun 2015 07:52:00 +0200 ] The largest construction project that Freie Universität Berlin has implemented itself, the new building housing numerous small academic departments was completed on time for the beginning of the summer semester, only two and a half years after the foundation stone was laid. It is an extension of the university's largest complex up to now for housing the social sciences and humanities subjects.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 951 | 2016-05-02
A Virtual Journey into Antiquity - [Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:44:00 +0200 ] Countless treasures are tucked away in the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection) in Berlin. Some of the pieces are on display in the museum’s exhibits. But many precious items are still waiting to be “unlocked”.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 952 | 2016-05-02
Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) – Get Your Math PhD in Berlin - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:08:56 +0200 ] BMS offers an excellent doctoral program taught in English in a broad and active research environment together with mentoring programs, language courses, soft-skills seminars, funding for summer schools and conferences, a buddy program and funding for students with children.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 953 | 2016-05-02
Free German Language Courses in Spring 2016 [Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:48:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 954 | 2016-05-02
Conference on " Europe's Role for Security in a Multipolar World: The views from India and China", New Delhi 26th and 27th September [Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:02:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 955 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications (PhD): Berlin School for Muslim Cultures and Societies [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:43:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 956 | 2016-05-02
Movies in the Lecture Halls - [Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:58:00 -0000 ] The 8th International Film Festival at Freie Universität Berlin from November 4 to 8, 2013, will focus on cultural diversity in cinema. Under the motto 'cross roads, cross borders, cross minds' films from different regions of the world including Serbia, Norway, Israel, Germany, and the USA will be shown. The organizers of the International Film Festival that is held annually early in the winter semester want to facilitate contact between German and foreign students and contribute to understanding between ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 957 | 2016-05-02
“Once the conflict has eased, the real work will start” - [Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:15:00 -0000 ] The Syrian civil war has cost an estimated 100,000 lives or more to date. According to United Nations estimates, there are nearly two million refugees seeking protection in neighboring countries. All of them have had terrible experiences, and many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Doctors from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the joint medical school of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität, are now scheduled to travel to the Jordanian capital, Amman, to train ten ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 958 | 2016-05-02
Renaissance in the Muslim East - [Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:04:00 -0000 ] The Intellectual History of the Islamicate World Research Unit at Freie Universität Berlin was granted a 750,000-euro Reinhart Koselleck Research Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project entitled 'The Other Renaissance: Greek Philosophy under the Safavids (16th-18th centuries CE).' Under the direction of the professor of Islamic studies Sabine Schmidtke, the researchers will explore the emergence of a new philosophical trend among Muslim thinkers of the 16th to 18th centuries that ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 959 | 2016-05-02
Argentinian Science Historian to Conduct Research at Freie Universität - [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:17:00 -0000 ] The Argentinian science historian Irina Podgorny from Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Buenos Aires has been awarded a Georg Forster Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is earmarked for a project that Podgorny will carry out at Freie Universität’s Institute for Latin American Studies following an invitation extended by the historian Stefan Rinke. Podgorny’s research focuses on the history of science, with a special emphasis on the history of archaeology and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 960 | 2016-05-02
The Internet Is Making History - [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:15:00 -0000 ] It was a conflict on the edge of Europe that started it all: In Sarajevo, then the capital of Bosnia, a student named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on June 28, 1914. His wife, Sophie, was also killed. Mere weeks later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting a catastrophic chain reaction. Within just a short time, many nations around the world were enmeshed in the war.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 961 | 2016-05-02
Humboldt Research Award for Stephen P. Cramer to Do Research in Berlin - [Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:09:00 -0000 ] Professor Stephen P. Cramer of the University of California-Davis Department of Chemistry, an expert in synchrotron spectroscopy, has received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and may now spend up to one year cooperating closely with a team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Freie Universität Berlin. Cramer was nominated by Professor Emad Aziz, who heads a Joint Lab for “Ultrafast Dynamics in Solution and at Interfaces” at HZB and Freie Universität. Cramer is ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 962 | 2016-05-02
Political Power Relations in France and Germany Ahead of the European Elections - [Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:00:00 -0000 ] On January 15, 2014, in a public lecture at Freie Universität Berlin, the highly regarded sociologist Pascal Perrineau will analyze the political balance of power in France and Germany before the European elections. Perrineau, a professor and director of the Centre de Recherches Politiques (CEVIPOF) at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, will draw particular attention to the development in France, where according to polls, the extreme right Front National could become the strongest ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 963 | 2016-05-02
Probiotic Feed Additive Reduced Number of Escherichia Coli Bacteria in Pigs - [Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:01:00 -0000 ] According to new insights by scientists at Freie Universität Berlin, the use of antibiotics against Escherichia coli bacteria (E. coli) in raising pigs for pork production can be reduced or avoided by the addition of probiotics to the diet. A research group headed by Prof. Lothar Wieler from the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics pointed out after extensive testing that by adding the probiotic Enterococcus faecium to the feed, the number of E. coli bacteria that infect the intestinal mucosa is ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 964 | 2016-05-02
Theatre and Art as Intervention - [Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:05:00 -0000 ] A conference to be held January 31 and February 1, 2014, at the Institute of Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin will address the political dimensions of theatre and the arts. Experts from different European countries including Chantal Mouffe, Guglielmo Schininà, and Wolfgang Schneider will discuss the potential of the performing arts for intervention, whereby artists or facilitators intervene in a situation to scrutinize problems and act as catalyzers to change conditions. Moreover, the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 965 | 2016-05-02
Hands Up, and Get That Language Out! - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:15:00 -0000 ] First the good news: The human brain is omnivorous – “it actually learns incessantly,” says didactics professor Michaela Sambanis. The part of the brain that is constantly on the lookout for new and interesting stimuli is called the hippocampus, also known as the brain’s “novelty detector.” Of the many stimuli to which we are exposed on a constant basis, it filters out only some of them to be linked within the brain.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 966 | 2016-05-02
Challenges for Political Journalism between the Neva and Spree Rivers - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:10:00 -0000 ] How is political journalism shaped by economic, legal, ethical, political, and cultural dimensions in Russia and Germany? Students of journalism from Saint Petersburg State University and students from the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität addressed these issues in a joint graduate seminar.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 967 | 2016-05-02
Knut Reinert Appointed Max Planck Fellow - [Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:14:00 -0000 ] Knut Reinert, a professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin, has been appointed a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG), effective as of July 1, 2014. This gives him an opportunity to conduct research independently for five years as the head of a Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. The Max Planck Society appoints exceptionally successful university professors as ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 968 | 2016-05-02
A Tapestry of Sound from Interwoven Strings - [Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:43:00 -0000 ] The International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures« at Freie Universität is organizing a concert entitled 'Interweaving Strings' to be performed April 24 in the Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin-Neukölln. Composer and electric guitarist Amos Elkana, sitar player Hindol Deb, cellist Dan Weinstein, and flutist Roy Amotz will play together, partly free improvisation and partly compositions Elkana created for this concert. Amos Elkana is currently a fellow at the International Research ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 969 | 2016-05-02
Is It Possible to Remove the Camouflage from Cancer Cells? - [Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:18:00 -0000 ] Researchers led by Professor Jörg Rademann at the Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, have succeeded in inhibiting the development of a protective layer of cancer cells. Cancer cells have sophisticated strategies for making themselves invisible to the human immune system. One of these strategies is to build a protective layer of special sugar molecules, the sialic acids, which allows the cells to virtually hide from the immune cells. With the help of this 'camouflage,' the cancer cells ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 970 | 2016-05-02
Choreography in an Exhibition - [Fri, 02 May 2014 12:39:00 -0000 ] The French dancer and composer Xavier Le Roy is a visiting professor of dance and performance at Freie Universität Berlin during the current summer semester. In an initial event on May 7, 2014, at 6 p.m., in the lecture hall of the Institute of Theater Studies, the artist will give a first impression of his current work and discuss it with the professor of theater studies, Gabriele Brandstetter. Xavier Le Roy will be working with students in the master's degree program in dance studies at Freie ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 971 | 2016-05-02
Subjects Taught at Freie Universität Berlin Did Well in Latest CHE University Ranking - [Mon, 05 May 2014 13:57:00 -0000 ] In the most recent CHE University Ranking, subjects at Freie Universität Berlin were again rated very well. New achievements were recorded, particularly in the field of business administration. The university also reached the top group in economics and law, as in the last assessment of these subjects in 2011.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Islam in Europe - [Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:54:00 -0000 ] A public panel discussion as part of the Blankensee Colloquium at the Academy of the Jewish Museum on June 19, 2014, will address the contemporary controversies and the genealogical continuities of Islam in Europe. The event is being organized jointly by the Academy of the Jewish Museum, Freie Universität Berlin, the Catholic University of Leuven, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. The discussion will be in English. The event is open to the public, and admission is free. RSVP by phone, +49 ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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FURUSINFO #7. 06.2014 [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Carla del Ponte - [Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:10:00 -0000 ] On October 20, 2014, the Swiss lawyer Carla Del Ponte will receive a Freedom Award from Freie Universität Berlin. By the 1980s, as a public prosecutor, Carla del Ponte already became known for her resolute and uncompromising commitment against crime.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Views of an Iranian Archaeologist Abroad - [Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:33:00 -0000 ] On October 21, 2014, Professor Leila Yazdi Papoli will give her inaugural lecture as the Dahlem International Network Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität during the 2014/2015 fall/winter semester. Yazdi, an archaeologist from Iran, aims in her presentation to correct the image of women in Iran. According to her, both in the West and in Iran itself, the prevailing view about women in the region is very limited. In her lecture, Yazdi will trace the social and political transition processes that ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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WE-Heraeus Senior Professorship for Physics Professor at Freie Universität - [Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:11:00 -0000 ] The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation awarded a physics professor at Freie Universität, Ludger Wöste, a senior professorship for innovative training concepts in physics. The senior professorship is intended to enable scientists who retired from active service to continue to be involved in teaching at the university. The professorship was extended for three years.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Representations of Climate in Literature - [Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:00:00 -0000 ] The French writer and translator Cécile Wajsbrot is the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2014/15 winter semester. She is holding a seminar entitled 'Climat,' which deals with the description and analysis of climatic representations in various literary texts. She will be giving an inaugural lecture, which will be open to the public. It will be given in German on December 11. Admission is free. The title is ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Veterinarian at Freie Universität Berlin Chosen as New President of Robert Koch Institute - [Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:54:00 -0000 ] Professor Dr. Lothar H. Wieler, the managing director of the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics at Freie Universität and a professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, will be the new president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The German Federal Cabinet approved the nomination made by the German Federal Minister Hermann Gröhe on Wednesday. The decision was forwarded to President Joachim Gauck to sign. Wieler is to assume ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Africa: Revolution – Urban Areas – Elections - [Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:54:00 -0000 ] A new lecture series at the Otto Suhr Institute of Freie Universität Berlin will focus on the political, economic, and personal opportunities for action in various African societies. Experts from Africa, Europe, and the United States will address the elections in Kenya (2013), South Africa (2014), and Nigeria (2015) from various perspectives. They will discuss the importance of elections for Africans and investigate the impact of increasing urbanization on the course of elections and results. On November ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Fit for Europe? - [Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:20:00 -0000 ] Ten years ago it was a subject of debate among scholars, politicians, and economists: the eastward expansion of the European Union (EU). Many of the fears that circulated at the time have turned out to be unfounded, as Professor Tanja Börzel, head of the Center for European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, points out.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Funding Opportunities Within the Research Alumni Program [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:20:26 -0000 ]
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Is This Culture? - [Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:19:00 -0000 ] Raising the visibility of customs and traditions and preserving them – this is the goal of a convention by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on intangible cultural heritage. In Germany, 27 traditions and forms of knowledge have now been listed as cultural heritage for the first time, including Germany’s culture surrounding bread and Carnival along the Rhine.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 983 | 2016-05-02
Start-up Company volatiles Wins IKT Innovative Prize at CeBIT Computer Fair - [Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:42:00 -0000 ] volatiles, a spin-off of Freie Universität Berlin, was a winner in the IKT Innovative competition of the German Federal Ministry or Economic Affairs and Energy for founding companies. The team consisting of Fabian Metzeler, René Schulz, and Janos Kutscherauer received 6000 euros at the CeBIT computer fair for an intelligent lighting system they developed. Using LED technology, it is possible to replace light bulbs with luminous surfaces that can be controlled via the Internet, but this potential is ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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The Internet and the Peeroskop - [Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:17:00 -0000 ] At this year's CeBIT computer fair, computer scientists from Freie Universität Berlin are presenting tools that can be used to better understand and protect the Internet, which in recent years has evolved into one of the most important global infrastructures – and is still vulnerable. For data packets on the Internet to reach their destinations correctly, the paths must be correct, but the 'direction signs' change frequently, making it easy to capture the data and misuse them for criminal attacks. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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"THE ART OF PROTEST" - [Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:15:00 -0000 ] A public lecture series being held during the 2015 summer semester is devoted to the art of protest. The series is part of the Open Lecture series at Freie Universität Berlin and deals with the new aesthetics of protest and the associated political forms. In their presentations the participants will address the mutual influence between art and politics that occurs in global protest movements. The series was designed by Dr. Sarah Dornhof and Dr. Frauke Surmann at the international Research Training Group ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Memories of the Genocide in Armenia in 1915 - [Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:18:00 -0000 ] As of Friday, April 24, it will be possible to explore the genocide of the Armenians 100 years ago using interviews in the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation accessible at Freie Universität Berlin. The collection of the Armenian Film Foundation is being integrated into the Visual History Archive. To this day the systematic deportation and extermination of about 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire is not recognized as genocide by the Turkish government. Little is known about the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Alumni Meeting in New York [Thu, 28 May 2015 13:41:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Important Witnesses to Climate Change - [Mon, 07 Sep 2015 09:22:00 +0200 ] They tell us about the past, and they hold important information for our future. The mighty baobab trees of tropical Africa can offer insight into how the climate has developed. Frank Riedel, a paleobiologist at the Department of Earth Sciences, studies the giant trees with a group of colleagues.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 989 | 2016-05-02
Important Witnesses to Climate Change - [Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:55:00 +0200 ] They tell us about the past, and they hold important information for our future. The mighty baobab trees of tropical Africa can offer insight into how the climate has developed.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 990 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität in international Rankings - [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:06:43 +0200 ] Different rankings place Freie Universität among the five best universities in Germany and among the 100 best worldwide
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Ice-cold Mechanics - [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:40:00 +0100 ] If you run your finger along the rim of an empty wine glass, it makes a noise. The cause of the noise is vibration. The vibrations arise because the glass expands and contracts minimally as a result of the touch during this period.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Call for Applications: Mobility Programme 2016 of the University Alliance for Sustainability [Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:33:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Wearing a Freie Universität T-shirt at Preschool - [Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:49:00 +0100 ] Eleven years ago, Benjamin van Well and Liu Lingshan met at Freie Universität, during a seminar on Lessing’s dramas. Instead of a bourgeois tragedy, the two of them were soon destined for great love. The German-Chinese couple has now been married for six years.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Freie Universität Strengthens Ties to China with New Degree Program - [Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:19:00 -0000 ] Beginning in April 2014, Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Guanghua School of Management of the highly regarded Peking University will be offering a part-time executive master’s degree program, the China-Europe Executive Master of Business Marketing (China-Europe EMBM). The 16-month program, to be taught in English, aims to equip young European and Chinese executives and junior managers with skills that are necessary for the marketing of products and services to clients in both countries: ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 995 | 2016-05-02
Happy Birthday, DNA! - [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 07:46:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin is hosting a Life Science Day on October 24, 2013. Highly regarded experts in health care and the health care industry will report on recent research findings and the latest developments in their fields. The third Life Science Day will take place under the aegis of the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit and as part of the Year of DNA. The 17th Leibniz Conference of Advanced Science will also take place at the same time. The conference will focus on important anniversaries ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 996 | 2016-05-02
Brandenburg’s Oldest Archaeological Site - [Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:11:00 -0000 ] An ice-age archaeological site at the Jänschwalde surface mining complex, near the city of Cottbus, has yielded the oldest evidence of human life in the state of Brandenburg. The excavations were organized by the Brandenburg State Office of Historical Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum, in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and the energy company Vattenfall. In strata of soil about 20 meters deep, geologically dated to the end of the second-to-last ice age – during the Wolstonian ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 997 | 2016-05-02
Structural Biologist Stefan Raunser Appointed Einstein Professor at Freie Universität Berlin - [Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:40:00 -0000 ] Stefan Raunser was appointed the new Einstein Professor of Membrane Biochemistry at Freie Universität Berlin as of January 1, 2014. Raunser is a young scientist who studies macromolecules using cryoelectron microscopy and is one of the world’s leading structural biologists. 'The appointment in this promising area of research is a great asset ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Early Christmas Present for Animal Lovers - [Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:10:00 -0000 ] The Small Animal Clinic of Freie Universität Berlin is to receive 100,000 euros annually to cover the costs of care for wild animals, according to the budget passed by the Berlin House of Representatives on December 12. So far, the funds have been approved for 2014 and 2015. The money will be used to cover the costs of materials and services for veterinary care as well as sheltering and feeding the 1,200 to 1,500 injured wild animals that are brought in annually by the police, the fire brigade, the nature ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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FURUSINFO #3. 03.2014 [Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:28:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Staging the Leipzig Trade Fair - [Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:07:00 -0000 ] “Building bridges between East and West” is one of the areas of focus on the agenda for this year’s Leipzig Book Fair, which is traditionally held just before the start of spring. The fact that the title also resonates with the recent past of the historic trade fair grounds is probably known to only a few attendees, though. In the 40 years of East German history, the Leipzig Trade Fair played an important role in how the socialist country presented itself to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1001 | 2016-05-02
Urban Planning to Beat the Heat - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:54:00 -0000 ] Cairo, Istanbul, and Nairobi – each of these three megacities has an official population of up to 16 million, with even more uncounted residents in the swelling settlements on the outskirts of town. Traffic chaos is the norm, and during the summer, the heat in the city is almost unbearable. Climate change will further exacerbate the issues faced by booming urban centers over the next few decades. But how can the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1002 | 2016-05-02
Neo-avantgarde as a Model for Research and Teaching - [Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:22:00 -0000 ] Beginning in May 2014, the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC), the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, and the Institute of Computer Science, all based at Freie Universität Berlin, will be cooperating with the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art to present various events and exhibitions, organize workshops and conferences, and issue digital publications. The Black Mountain – Teaching and Learning as Performative Arts project is dedicated to the American school of arts called Black Mountain ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1003 | 2016-05-02
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Holds Annual Meeting at Freie Universität Berlin - [Tue, 27 May 2014 13:49:00 -0000 ] On June 4 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is again holding its traditional festive gathering at Freie Universität Berlin in the Henry Ford Building. The keynote speaker will be Roald Hoffmann, a Humboldtian and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Hoffmann is internationally renowned, not only as a chemist. For years Hoffmann has also focused on issues involving the ethics of science ‒ as a playwright and as a speaker. More than 570 international researchers who are currently guests at a German ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1004 | 2016-05-02
Persecuted Sinologists – the Missing Generation - [Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:41:00 -0000 ] An exhibition depicting the persecution of sinologists during the time of National Socialism in Germany will open Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 6:15 p.m. at the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. The exhibition was conceived by the sinologist Mechthild Leutner from the East Asian Seminar of Freie Universität, who will introduce the topic at the opening ceremony. Roberto Liebenthal, a grandson of the internationally recognized German specialist in Chinese Buddhism, Walter Liebenthal ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1005 | 2016-05-02
Out and About with Book Pirates - [Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:47:00 -0000 ] Pirates enter, conquer, and take possession. Book pirates enter foreign books. More and more authors are using the literary tradition in this sense: works of world literature are being written down, abridged, sorted alphabetically, or simply copied and published under a person's own name. These forms of appropriation will be addressed at a meeting on December 6, 2014, at 5 p.m. in the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin. 'In the meantime, the number of pirate editions has exceeded the critical mass,' says Annette ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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European Olympic Laurel Award for Professor Gudrun Doll-Tepper - [Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:19:00 -0000 ] Gudrun Doll-Tepper, a professor of education at Freie Universität Berlin, was presented with a European Olympic Laurel Award by the European National Olympic Committee (NOC). She received the award in recognition of her extraordinary commitment in the fields of sports development and sports science, said the president of the European Olympic Committee (EOC), Patrick Hickey. As chair of the German Olympic Academy (DOA) since 2007, Gudrun Doll-Tepper threw herself body and soul into the promotion of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1007 | 2016-05-02
Green “Power Plants” - [Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:04:00 -0000 ] Plants can adapt to changing light conditions. This is made possible by photoreceptors that sense light at different wavelengths and translate it into signals – the language of cells.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1008 | 2016-05-02
SUSTAIN IT! as best practice case in the ISCN report 2015 [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:44:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1009 | 2016-05-02
Can Physics Be Reduced to a Single Formula? - [Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:14:00 -0000 ] Prof. Dr. Hermann Nicolai from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) will hold the 14th Einstein Lecture Dahlem at Freie Universität on February 19, 2015. The lecture, entitled 'Symmetrie und Vereinheitlichung – lässt sich die Physik auf eine Formel reduzieren?' will deal with the significance of the concept of symmetry for the established laws of physics and for more recent approaches. Prof. Dr. Nicolai will be referring to the unresolved questions of physics ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1010 | 2016-05-02
The Big Cleanup - [Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:15:00 -0000 ] Everyone knows, but no one does anything about it. Huge amounts of plastic waste are piling up at certain points in the ocean, carried there by currents. Five of these “garbage patches” have formed in the world’s oceans. There is talk of there being tens of thousands of tons of plastic trash involved: “That’s just a rough estimate of the amount,” says computer scientist Tim Landgraf of Freie Universität Berlin. “But what’s really impressive, though, is the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1011 | 2016-05-02
New Building for Small Departments - [Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:00:00 -0000 ] The largest construction project that Freie Universität Berlin has implemented itself, the new building housing numerous small academic departments was completed on time for the beginning of the summer semester, only two and a half years after the foundation stone was laid. It is an extension of the university's largest complex up to now for housing the social sciences and humanities subjects. Costing approximately 52 million euros, the new building houses 14 separate disciplines that are subdepartments ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1012 | 2016-05-02
Literary Scholar Eberhard Lämmert Passed Away - [Mon, 04 May 2015 17:17:00 -0000 ] The literary scholar and former president of Freie Universität, Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Eberhard Lämmert, passed away on Sunday at the age of 90 in Berlin. The president of Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, praised Lämmert as an outstanding representative of his discipline who was always a critical reformer and a pioneer of new trends. As the president of Freie Universität, he successfully guided the university through difficult times. 'He knew how to consolidate academic life ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1013 | 2016-05-02
Literary Scholar Eberhard Lämmert Passed Away - [Mon, 04 May 2015 17:17:00 -0000 ] The literary scholar and former president of Freie Universität, Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Eberhard Lämmert, passed away on Sunday at the age of 90 in Berlin. The current president of Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, praised Lämmert as an outstanding representative of his discipline who was always a critical reformer and a pioneer of new trends. As the president of Freie Universität, he successfully guided the university through difficult times. 'He knew how to consolidate academic ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1014 | 2016-05-02
Welcome Berlin Tour for International Doctoral Candidates - Kreuzberg [Thu, 28 May 2015 12:50:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1015 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #20. 10.2015 [Sun, 04 Oct 2015 06:28:00 +0200 ]
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“The World Is Looking for a New Order” - [Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:37:00 +0100 ] “To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” – that has been the main purpose of the United Nations ever since the organization was founded back in 1945. Now, in 2015, that goal seems to have moved out of reach in light of current global events: Is the world out of joint?
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Chinese Masters in Dahlem - [Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:11:00 -0000 ] The American writer and translator David Hinton is the 30th Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor of Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. During the 2013/14 fall/winter semester, he will be teaching a seminar at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature entitled 'Another Universe: Wilderness Thought in Ancient Chinese and Modern American Poetry.' Hinton is the first translator in almost a century who deals with the masterpieces of Chinese philosophy, including the work of Tao Te Ching, Chuang ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1018 | 2016-05-02
Detective Work on Behalf of Art - [Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:10:00 -0000 ] Wolfgang Wittrock would like to lay one myth to rest: The proceeds from sales of “degenerate” art did not significantly add to the Nazi regime’s war chest. “They couldn’t have bought more than two tanks with it,” says Wittrock, the founder of the “Degenerate Art” Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1019 | 2016-05-02
Icy Death - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:02:43 -0000 ] One day in March 1926 four young men, three of whom were brothers, did not return from a ski tour on the Great Aletsch Glacier. The remains of the three brothers were found 86 years later by two British mountaineers. On the basis of where the bones were found and using a computer model, mathematician Guillaume Jouvet from Freie Universität Berlin and glaciologist Martin Funk from ETH Zurich were able to retrack the path the bodies must have taken and localize the area where the men must have died and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1020 | 2016-05-02
Master Class in the New Synagogue - [Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:38:00 -0000 ] On July 9, 2014, students in the International Summer and Winter University of Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) will be performing in the concert hall of the New Synagogue at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be the conclusion of the six-week composition class taught this year for the tenth time during the FUBiS summer term. New compositions for voice and piano will be premiered under the theme 'New Songs – Neue Lieder.' The course is taught by the American composer and professor of composition, Samuel Adler, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1021 | 2016-05-02
Funding Approval for New Einstein Center for Ancient Studies - [Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:01:00 -0000 ] As of 2015 the Berlin Einstein Foundation will be financing the establishment of a new Einstein Center for Ancient Studies to be set up by the Berliner Antike-Kolleg. The initial funding will be for 900,000 euros over a three-year period beginning in January 2015. This move will help to secure the outstanding cross-institutional collaboration in ancient studies in Berlin over a longer term. The Berliner Antike-Kolleg was founded in 2011 by six large Berlin-based institutions dealing with ancient studies ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1022 | 2016-05-02
Commended for Equal Opportunity Policies - [Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:04:00 -0000 ] For the fifth time in a row, Freie Universität Berlin was granted a Total E-Quality award for its exemplary commitment to equality between women and men. Due to its continuing success in this area, the university will be given a sustainability award for its achievements in equal opportunities in addition to the Total E-Quality certificate at the awards ceremony in October. The selection committee said that receiving the award five consecutive times is evidence for the university's strong commitment to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1023 | 2016-05-02
Preliminary Program of the UGAF Workshop 2015 [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:59:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1024 | 2016-05-02
Internship FU Berlin's Liaison Office in Beijing [Thu, 28 May 2015 12:28:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1025 | 2016-05-02
"Introduction to Living and Studying in Berlin" courses for refugees - [Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:25:00 +0100 ] Two courses will start on November 17 and 19.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1026 | 2016-05-02
Spring Campus Registration Form is now available online [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1027 | 2016-05-02
Facts, Not Promises - [Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:28:00 -0000 ] The next German national elections will be on September 22, 2013. Lots of promises are made during election campaigns, but what unpleasant truths might be in store for citizens after the elections, from the perspective of researchers at Freie Universität? In the future, will financial aid packages for distressed European countries become a fixed item in the federal budget? What sacrifices will be required by the energy transition? Will anyone working in Germany soon need to hold down two or three jobs to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1028 | 2016-05-02
Kick-off of FUBiS International Summer and Winter University - [Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ] On Sunday, January 5, nearly 90 students from 16 countries started classes in the first term of the International Summer and Winter University of Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS). During the three-week term, they take courses to learn German as well as other subjects. For the first time one class is being taught in Spanish. Most of the students are from the United ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1029 | 2016-05-02
Cultural Anthropologist James Lorand Matory Is Visiting Researcher at Freie Universität's Latin America Institute - [Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:32:00 -0000 ] The prominent American cultural anthropologist James Lorand Matory has been granted a Humboldt Research Award, which he will use to spend a year doing research at the Latin America Institute (LAI) of Freie Universität Berlin. Matory, who is based at Duke University, will spend the coming months looking into museum practice and ethnological research in the German-speaking part of Central Europe with regard to the circulation of ritual objects from Africa and Afro-Latin America in the Atlantic region. On ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1030 | 2016-05-02
From Goethe to Elfriede Jelinek - [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:51:00 -0000 ] A new two-semester lecture series on German literature was launched on February 19, 2014, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin. The series is intended to give a new impetus to German studies at the Hebrew University.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1031 | 2016-05-02
Bringing Global Health Hazards under Control - [Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:30:00 -0000 ] Worldwide hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed annually with zoonoses, infections that are transmitted from animals. Scientists at the FAO Reference Center for Veterinary Public Health are working to mitigate these infections.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1032 | 2016-05-02
First Linnean Medal in 83 Years for a German Botanist - [Mon, 26 May 2014 10:40:00 -0000 ] Prof. Dr. H. Walter Lack, the head of the Department of Science Communication at the Botanic Garden and Botanic Museum in Berlin-Dahlem and a professor at Freie Universität Berlin, received the highest award of the Linnean Society of London in recognition of his lifelong scientific achievements. The Linnean Medal was awarded in London on May 23, 2014, the birthday of Carl von Linné. The award is of international significance. Since 1888 the Linnean Society of London has been presenting the Linnean Medal ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1033 | 2016-05-02
Maps in Their Heads - [Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:49:00 -0000 ] According to a recent study by researchers at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Auckland in New Zealand, bees orient themselves in a manner similar to mammals and birds. Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel at Freie Universität, Prof. Dr. James Cheeseman at the University of Auckland, and their colleagues found evidence that bees use a cognitive map similar to that used by mammals and birds. The findings were published in the current issue of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1034 | 2016-05-02
Sweet Words – Taste Metaphors Elicit More Emotion in Readers than Literal Expressions - [Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:07:00 -0000 ] When taste metaphors are used in a sentence, the reader is more affected emotionally than when reading a sentence with the same statement expressed literally. This was found in a study by two researchers at Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University. The neuroscientist Dr. Francesca Citron and the linguist Prof. Dr. Adele Goldberg found that silent reading of simple metaphorical sentences such as 'The separation was bitter for him' elicited enhanced activation in regions of the brain that have to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1035 | 2016-05-02
Recognition for Chemistry Professor Hans-Ulrich Reissig - [Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:25:00 -0000 ] The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society, GDCh) is recognizing Professor Hans-Ulrich Reissig from Freie Universität Berlin for his life's work. A spokesperson for the society in Frankfurt am Main announced that Reissig will be awarded a Liebig Medal for his outstanding research in organic synthesis chemistry as well as his involvement and achievements in science management. The Liebig Medal, which enjoys international prestige, was first awarded in 1903. Among the 66 award winners to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1036 | 2016-05-02
Neurobiologist and Dementia Researcher Is New Einstein Professor - [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:16:00 -0000 ] Stephan Sigrist, a professor of genetics at Freie Universität Berlin, is being supported by the Berlin Einstein Foundation, so that he can increase the size of his lab, where a multidisciplinary team of neuroscientists and geneticists does research together. Sigrist is one of the leading experts in the field of cellular and molecular organization of the nervous system. Recently his research has contributed to a better understanding of degenerative diseases of the central nervous system, particularly ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1037 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Tue, 04 Nov 2014 07:00:00 -0000 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #11. 11.2014 online
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| 1038 | 2016-05-02
Postdoc Fellowships: DAAD - P.R.I.M.E. 2015 [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1039 | 2016-05-02
"Don Quixote or the Quest for Fiction in Iberian Literature" - [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:01:00 -0000 ] The literary scholar Ruth Fine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will speak on February 3, 2015, about Don Quixote and the reflection of fiction in Spanish literature of the early modern period. The event is part of the lecture series Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures at Freie Universität. The lecture will be held in English. The event is public, and admission is free.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1040 | 2016-05-02
Now online: Video recording of the GHDL with François Hartog [Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:51:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1041 | 2016-05-02
Dangerous Inflammation - [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:10:00 -0000 ] At Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the joint medical school of Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, neuroscientists are working to track down the mechanism involved in the development of the disease. Their hypothesis is that the brain’s immune cells play a key role in Alzheimer’s disease.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1042 | 2016-05-02
"Writing as the Inhuman Revolution" - [Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:04:00 -0000 ] The Russian writer Victor Erofeyev is the 33rd Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2015 summer semester. He is teaching a seminar called 'Writing as the Inhuman Revolution.' The class is being held on Wednesdays, 2–4 p.m. It is taught in English. The first class will be on April 15.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1043 | 2016-05-02
Career Transition Day for International Doctoral Candidates [Thu, 28 May 2015 09:58:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1044 | 2016-05-02
Joint FUB-TAU Research Workshops [Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1045 | 2016-05-02
Registering via Campus Management in the 2015 winter semester [Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1046 | 2016-05-02
Welcome: Fellows 2016 [Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1047 | 2016-05-02
Understanding Theater through International Exchange - [Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:06:00 -0000 ] The International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures« at Freie Universität Berlin will be funded for another six years, as was announced by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This federal funding enables the Center to invite outstanding international researchers as Fellows to investigate phenomena in which different cultures meet in and through performance. The current directors, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, and Dr. ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1048 | 2016-05-02
Junior Professorship in Neuroeconomics (W1) [Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:36:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1049 | 2016-05-02
Exhibition: 300 Years of Chinese in Germany - [Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:06:00 -0000 ] An exhibition depicting the history of Chinese language and writing in Germany will open on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 6 p.m. at the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. It is part of the German-Chinese Language Year 2013/2014. The exhibition spans the first attempts of German scholars to study Chinese texts to the present teaching of Chinese at German universities and schools. Admission is free.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1050 | 2016-05-02
Chinese Music, Tea Ceremonies, and Kung-Fu - [Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:47:00 -0000 ] The Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin will celebrate its eighth anniversary with an open house on April 26, 2014. Visitors can expect a program with enough variety for the whole family. Special features will include a traditional guzheng concert and tea ceremonies, as well as guided tours of the exhibitions 'Rock, Scissors, Paper – Children’s Games and Rhymes' and 'China’s Metropolises in Transition.' Visitors will also have an opportunity to try Chinese origami, cutting silhouettes, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1051 | 2016-05-02
Award for Contributions toward Better Understanding of Peoples and Cultures - [Mon, 26 May 2014 11:02:00 -0000 ] The former director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Peter Shepherd, is the recipient of a Dr. Leopold Lucas Award. As stated by the awarding body, Shepherd's academic work constitutes an outstanding contribution to the study of the history, literature, and theology of ancient and early medieval Judaism. A scholar who works in the United States, Israel, and Germany, Schäfer makes personal contributions to better understanding among different peoples and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1052 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin Broadens Partnership with Saint Petersburg State University through New Study Program - [Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:35:00 -0000 ] Starting in September 2014, Freie Universität Berlin and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Saint Petersburg State University are teaming up to offer a new double degree master’s program in Global Communication and International Journalism. The four-semester program is designed to be interdisciplinary and research oriented. Students in the program will learn skills in transnational media development and international communication. The language of the program is English. The first and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1053 | 2016-05-02
Situating Global Art - [Mon, 29 Sep 2014 07:22:00 -0000 ] The InterArt International Research Training Group, based at Freie Universität Berlin, is organizing a conference dealing with the term “global art.” The conference will be held February 12 to 14, 2015. Researchers from Germany and abroad will be discussing the characteristics of global topics in local art forms, exhibition practices, and art criticism. The focus will be on the relationship between situated, local art and the processes of globalization of art. The event is open to the public, and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1054 | 2016-05-02
Postdoc Fellowships: DRS HONORS 2015-1 [Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1055 | 2016-05-02
Call for application: Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology 2015-2017 in Berlin (FUB) [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:57:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1056 | 2016-05-02
Recognition for Online Encylopedia on World War I - [Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:42:00 -0000 ] The online encyclopedia '1914-1918-online' was added to the Annual List of Best Historical Materials of the American Library Association (ALA). For the 11th time, the ALA has compiled projects and initiatives from all fields of historical research that evaluate historical sources about a particular topic particularly well and clearly and published them in its highly regarded Annual List of Best Historical Materials. The international research project '1914-1918-online' is based at Freie Universität ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1057 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin Can Expect Millions for New Building for Research into Supramolecular Functional Architectures at Biointerfaces - [Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:26:00 -0000 ] Following a recommendation by the German Council of Science and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin can count on the approval of a research building project for the exploration of functional supramolecular architectures at biointerfaces amounting to 37.6 million euros. As the Science Council announced on Monday in Bonn, the project will be included among eleven projects recommended for financing during the 2016 to 2020 funding period. The final decision will be made on June 19 by the Joi
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1058 | 2016-05-02
From Fragments to Books - [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:37:00 -0000 ] A Franco-German Summer School manuSciences'2015 will be held from September 6 to 12, 2015, on the island Frauenwörth in Chiemsee. It will deal with manuscripts as the origin of our culture and a documentation of its historical development. The application period is now open. The participants will take an interdisciplinary approach and analyze the manuscripts from various cultural and regional perspectives: in addition to historical, literary, and linguistic lectures, there will be introductions to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1059 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO - Information of the Moscow office - [Tue, 26 May 2015 22:16:00 +0200 ] 'FURUSINFO' - Issue #17. 05.2015 online
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1060 | 2016-05-02
Registering via Campus Management in the 2015 winter semester [Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1061 | 2016-05-02
Easier Access for Refugees to Study at FU - [Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:38:27 +0100 ] Freie Universität Berlin has launched an extensive academic program to make it easier for refugees to gain access to study programs.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1062 | 2016-05-02
Welcome benefits payment only until February 13, 2016 [Sun, 17 Jan 2016 13:52:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1063 | 2016-05-02
Student from Freie Universität Wins Gold Medal in South Korea - [Sat, 31 Aug 2013 08:55:00 -0000 ] Julia Richter, a student at Freie Universität Berlin, won a gold medal in the World Rowing Championships in South Korea. The 24-year-old and her teammates Annekatrin Thiele, Carina Baer, and Britta Oppelt won first place in the finals on Tangeum Lake at Chungju in South Korea. Teams from Canada and Poland won second and third places, respectively. Julia Richter ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1064 | 2016-05-02
Professorship in Educational Science and Psychology (W2, 5 years) [Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:24:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1065 | 2016-05-02
New Incentive: Freie Universität Invites Proposals for Teaching Award - [Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:47:23 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin is inviting proposals for its new Teaching Award, which aims to support teaching projects that integrate the findings of interdisciplinary top-level research into university teaching. The first call for proposals is currently open. A selection committee made up of members of the university as well as the International Council of Freie Universität will decide which of the submitted proposals can be supported. The projects are expected to be implemented during the 2014 summer ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1066 | 2016-05-02
Art History Helps in Remembering - [Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:40:00 -0000 ] More than 21,000 works of modern art were confiscated from museums and public collections in Germany during the Nazi period and referred to as 'degenerate.' Experts at the 'Degenerate Art' Research Center work in close cooperation with the museums to find out what became of the missing works of art.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1067 | 2016-05-02
Call for applications: 7 Junior professorships & 5 Professorships (W2) - [Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:46:00 -0000 ] In 2007, with its future development concept International Network University, Freie Universität Berlin succeeded in winning a major government funding award in the German Excellence Initiative. This award acknowledges special academic achievements, giving the title University of Excellence. Freie Universität Berlin was able to maintain its excellence status in 2012, one among only a few other select universities to do so. The second phase of this program focuses on the expansion of international and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1068 | 2016-05-02
President of Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt Appointed to Foundation Council of Einstein Foundation Berlin - [Tue, 20 May 2014 13:30:00 -0000 ] The president of Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, is a new member of the Foundation Council of the Berlin Einstein Foundation. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Jörg Steinbach, the former president of Technische Universität Berlin. Alt was nominated from the ranks of eligible institutions in the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1069 | 2016-05-02
International Summer and Winter University FUBiS of Freie Universität Berlin Welcomes Students for Second Term in 2014 - [Fri, 30 May 2014 13:25:00 -0000 ] The second term of the International Summer and Winter School FUBiS at Freie Universität Berlin started on Sunday with participants from 15 countries. A total of 139 students are registered for this six-week term. They will be taking German language classes and other classes such ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1070 | 2016-05-02
Two Anniversary Celebrations - [Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:57:00 -0000 ] The Institute of Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with two festive events. On June 16, 2014, the Italian pianist Roberto Prosseda will play pieces by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the Jewish Museum Berlin. The performance will include Songs without Words; Variations sérieuses, Op. 54; Children's Pieces, Op. 72; Waltz in D Major; Oh Happy Reunion; and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 as well as a Mendelssohn piece re-composed by Luca Lombardi (b. 1945) ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1071 | 2016-05-02
2014 Teaching Award of Freie Universität Berlin: Students Develop Ideas for Research Projects and Startups - [Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:58:00 -0000 ] This year’s Teaching Award of Freie Universität Berlin is going to a teaching project that aims to put master’s and doctoral students in the natural sciences in a position to independently develop and implement research ideas in cooperation with non-academic partner institutions of the university. The course 'Trans Pro Idea' ('Translation of Project Ideas in Research and Start-up Projects') was designed by Prof. Dr. Rainer Haag, a professor of chemistry at Freie Universität, and Leonhard Urner, a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1072 | 2016-05-02
Job Posting: Part-time Research Associate for Project FloodEvac [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:49:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1073 | 2016-05-02
Hebrew University and Freie Universität Berlin Sign Agreement for Joint Doctoral Program - [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:00:00 -0000 ] On the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, the presidents of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin further expanded the two universities' extensive strategic partnership by signing a a joint doctoral program agreement. The Joint PhD, which is open to all disciplines at the two ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1074 | 2016-05-02
Korean Studies Scholar at Freie Universität Advises German Federal Government - [Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:06:00 -0000 ] The German Federal Government has appointed the professor of Korean studies, Eun-Jeong Lee from Freie Universität, as a consultant on foreign policy issues related to reunification. As one of seven experts each from South Korea and Germany, Professor Lee will contribute to building trust between South and North Korea. The advisory body will analyze and discuss experiences from the period previous to, during, and following German reunification. Furthermore, the members will work out proposals for a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1075 | 2016-05-02
Greeks in the GDR - An Unexplored Chapter - [Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:28:00 -0000 ] The Center for Modern Greece (CeMoG) at Freie Universität Berlin is holding a conference on April 22 and 23, 2015, that will address 'German-Greek relations in the East German State Socialism, 1949-1989.' Experts will discuss the history of the so-called GDR-Greeks, Greek citizens who found themselves in the GDR in the aftermath of the civil war in their homeland in 1949. The aim of the conference is to explore this aspect of German-Greek relations, which up to now has been largely ignored. The conference ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1076 | 2016-05-02
Help Protect Syria's Culture! - [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:51:00 -0000 ] As part of the funding line of the German Federal Foreign Office for protecting cultural property against robbery and destruction in Syria, researchers in a new research project at Freie Universität are digitizing the inventory of the National Museum of Deir az-Zor in Syria. The inauguration of the museum in 1996 was preceded by a three-year joint project of the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Freie Universität with prominent support from the German Federal Foreign Office for the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1077 | 2016-05-02
Writing in Russia - [Mon, 04 May 2015 11:23:00 -0000 ] The Russian writer Victor Erofeyev will be holding his inaugural lecture at Freie Universität Berlin on May 20. His reflections will focus on the question of what it means to be a writer in Russia. Victor Erofeyev is the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the current summer semester. He is teaching a seminar called 'Writing as the Inhuman Revolution.' The inaugural lecture is public, and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1078 | 2016-05-02
FURUSINFO #17. 05.2015 [Mon, 25 May 2015 06:28:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1079 | 2016-05-02
Plant Sciences - PhD Scholarships - Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences [Thu, 26 Nov 2015 05:58:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1080 | 2016-05-02
Orientation events during the 2016 summer semester [Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:05:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1081 | 2016-05-02
Informative event for refugees [Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:48:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1082 | 2016-05-02
Administering Natural Substance Spermidin Stopped Dementia - [Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:04:00 -0000 ] --- Under embargo until September 1, 2013, 19:01 CET --- Age-induced memory impairment can be suppressed by administration of the natural substance spermidin. This was found in a recent study conducted by Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist from Freie Universität Berlin and the Neurocure Cluster of Excellence and Prof. Dr. Frank Madeo from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Both biologists, they were able to show that the endogenous substance spermidine triggers a cellular cleansing process, which is followed by an ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1083 | 2016-05-02
Business Scholar at Freie Universität Won Award for Research on Digital Communities - [Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:16:00 -0000 ] The junior professor of organization theory at Freie Universität Berlin Leonhard Dobusch has received the prestigious Carolyn Dexter Award for work in identifying strategies of digital communities. Dobusch was able to show how large groups of external stakeholders can be involved in strategy development processes by using digital technologies. The paper co-authored by the economist and his colleague Jakob Kapeller is entitled 'Open Strategy between Crowd and Community: Lessons from Wikimedia Commons and ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1084 | 2016-05-02
From India to Germany for Summer School - [Wed, 21 May 2014 13:18:00 -0000 ] Twelve graduate students in the Public Policy and Sustainable Development master's degree program offered at TERI University in New Dehli, India, will be traveling to Berlin for a six-week summer school at the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU), Freie Universität Berlin, from May 26 to July 4, 2014. In the course, they will learn more about policy-making processes in Germany. In addition, the participants will discuss the impact of national environmental and energy policies on the sustainable ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1085 | 2016-05-02
Fascism without Borders - [Fri, 23 May 2014 07:48:00 -0000 ] A conference from June 19 to 21 at Freie Universität will address the complexity and variety of fascism in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. The conference will bring together experts to explore the cross-border relationships and linkages between smaller fascist movements as well as the supranational influence of German Nazism and Italian Fascism. Considering these relations opens a new perspective on European fascism, in which it is seen as a whole, diverse, closely interlinked ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1086 | 2016-05-02
And the winner is … - [Mon, 26 May 2014 08:12:00 -0000 ] It is still a few days until the FIFA World Cup starts … if you are tired of waiting, you can get involved immediately. Computer scientists David Dormagen and Raul Rojas from the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Group at Freie Universität Berlin developed software that lets you host the World Cup on your computer at home. The simulator is readily accessible via the Internet. Users can set or modify the simulation parameters, providing their own estimation of which are the appropriate indicators for ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1087 | 2016-05-02
Hands-on Veterinary Medicine - [Tue, 27 May 2014 10:54:00 -0000 ] The Department of Veterinary Medicine of Freie Universität Berlin is holding an open house on June 14, 2014. Veterinarians, staff, and students will all contribute to a varied and intriguing program where visitors will be able to participate and learn about animals and veterinary medicine. Visitors to the campus in Düppel will gain various insights into the clinical work, the science, and the degree program in veterinary ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1088 | 2016-05-02
Singing and Directing Their Way to the Top - [Fri, 30 May 2014 12:58:00 -0000 ] The chamber choir of the Collegium Musicum of Freie Universität and TU Berlin won second place in the International May Choir Competition in Varna (Bulgaria). The conductor of the choir, Donka Miteva, received a special prize for the best choral conducting of the entire competition.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1089 | 2016-05-02
New Center for Resistance Research in Veterinary Medicine to Be Established at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:54:00 -0000 ] A veterinary center for resistance research is being set up at Freie Universität Berlin. Funding for the proposed new project was approved today as one of twelve major projects being supported by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the German federal and state governments. Freie Universität Berlin had applied for roughly 28.4 million ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1090 | 2016-05-02
20 Incoming Postdoc Fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin Call for Applications for 2016 [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:46:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1091 | 2016-05-02
Islamic Art in the 21st Century - [Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:07:00 -0000 ] The second annual lecture series of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin is devoted to Islamic art of the 21st century. Experts from the field of art, museum management, and art history will describe the relationships between Islam, Muslim culture, and modernity as they are reflected in contemporary art. The first event will be a performance by representatives of the artist collective 'Slavs and Tatars' entitled 'Contemporary Art and Engagement with Islamic ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1092 | 2016-05-02
Conference: “Brasilidades. Jewish Belonging in Brazilian Literature” - publication of results - [Fri, 22 May 2015 13:44:00 +0200 ] The results of the international conference 'Brasilidades. Jewish Belonging in Brazilian Literature', hosted on May 5 and 6 of 2014 at Goethe-Institut São Paulo, have been published in the 'Cadernos de Língua e Literatura Hebraica' at Universidade de São Paulo.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1093 | 2016-05-02
Exploring a Vast Territory - [Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:30:00 +0200 ] The region whose prehistory Elke Kaiser studies is an inhospitable one. Kaiser, an archaeologist who studies how the inhabitants of the Eurasian steppe lived more than 5,000 years ago, says, “We still know very little about it.” Starting this year, Kaiser holds Germany’s only professorship in the archaeology of Eurasia, a position established with funding from the Topoi cluster of excellence at Freie Universität.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1094 | 2016-05-02
Ernst Reuter Day 2015 [Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1095 | 2016-05-02
Alumni Campus Tour April 2016 - [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:28:00 +0100 ] Guided tour through 'the old and new Dahlem'
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1096 | 2016-05-02
“Degenerate Art” Research Center Starts New Studies on Involvement of Art Dealers during Nazi Period - [Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:45:00 -0000 ] During the first ten years, researchers from the “Degenerate Art” Research Center at the Art History Department at Freie Universität Berlin have tracked down about 10,000 of the sculptures, paintings, and drawings that were categorized as “degenerate art” and confiscated from museums in Germany during the Nazi period by a commission of the Ministry of Propaganda. According to Dr. h. c. Andreas Hüneke, an art historian at Freie Universität Berlin, that is about half of the roughly 21,000 ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1097 | 2016-05-02
Fun Scary Family Day for Young and Old in Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum - [Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:07:00 -0000 ] The Botanic Garden of Freie Universität invites young and old to a Halloween family day on Sunday, October 27. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. there will be a varied program with pumpkins, horrors, theater, and much more, all for the regular admission price. Admission is free for children up to six years. Family tickets cost between 7 and 12 euros, depending on the number of persons.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1098 | 2016-05-02
Subversive Publications: Edition Mariannenpresse - [Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:11:00 -0000 ] Books published by writers living in East Berlin before Germany was reunited, some of them written and published under subversive circumstances, will be on display in the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin as of Wednesday. The books are a selection of works published in the Edition Mariannenpresse series. The publishing company was founded in 1979 in the Bethanien printing company at Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The books will be on display until January 6, 2014, during the opening ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1099 | 2016-05-02
Conference "The Pleasure of Doubt in Art, Aesthetics, and Everyday Life" - [Wed, 21 May 2014 10:41:00 -0000 ] Doubt as a transformative force in art, aesthetics, and everyday life is the theme of a conference being held by the International Research Training Group 'InterArt' of Freie Universität Berlin from June 19 to 21, 2014. In contrast to modern philosophy and the humanities, where doubt is largely negative, the participants of this conference have a positive understanding of it. They view moments of doubt as possibilities for a creative transgression of one's intellectual and experiential horizon. The ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1100 | 2016-05-02
A Musical Journey and Two Concerts in Berlin - [Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:39:00 -0000 ] On June 19 the Collegium Musicum of Freie Universität and Technische Universität Berlin will start out on a concert tour to Prague. About 180 members of the large choir and the symphony orchestra will go on the tour. On June 21, at the Czech Museum of Music, they will perform the Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the 8th Symphony by Antonin Dvorak, and the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. They will present the same program on June 27 at the Berlin Philharmonic as their final concert of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1101 | 2016-05-02
Reduce, Improve, and Replace Animal Experiments - [Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:19:00 -0000 ] On July 4 a new research platform will be officially opened at Freie Universität. It aims to reduce and replace animal testing. The initiators of the Berlin-Brandenburg research platform BB3R are striving for the development of alternative methods to animal testing as well as more animal-friendly techniques. The research platform includes the graduate program 'Innovations in 3R Research – Genetic Engineering, Tissue Engineering, and Bioinformatics.' It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1102 | 2016-05-02
Early Childhood Education in Europe - [Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:32:00 -0000 ] Within the framework of the EU cooperation project CARE, the Early Childhood Education and Care Division at Freie Universität Berlin analyzed the quality of early childhood education in Europe and its impact. As part of the CARE project, in addition to the education scholars at Freie Universität Berlin, researchers from ten other European universities are investigating various aspects of preschool education and child care. The central goal of CARE is to develop an evidence-based and culture-sensitive ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1103 | 2016-05-02
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Colombian Anthropologist and Ethnolinguist Juan A. Echeverri - [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:35:00 -0000 ] The Colombian anthropologist and ethnolinguist Prof. Dr. Juan A. Echeverri is the recipient of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is endowed with 45,000 euros. Echeverri, who is based at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Campus Amazonia, was proposed jointly by the literary scholar Prof. Dr. Susanne Klengel of the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin, and Dr. Barbara Göbel, the director of
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1104 | 2016-05-02
Veterinarian at Freie Universität Berlin Is New President of Robert Koch Institute - [Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:01:00 -0000 ] The founding director, and up to now the managing director, of the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics at Freie Universität and a professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler, was presented as the new president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). He will take over leadership of the RKI on March 1, 2015. The current president, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Burger, is retiring. Professor Wieler will continue to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1105 | 2016-05-02
ALBA BERLIN and Freie Universität Team Up - [Mon, 04 May 2015 08:52:00 -0000 ] On Sunday the ALBA BERLIN basketball team and Freie Universität Berlin signed a cooperation agreement in the context of the ALBA home game against Bamberg. Through their cooperation ALBA BERLIN and Freie Universität Berlin want to inspire more university students to play basketball and to use sports as a means of encouraging intercultural exchange. The aim is to establish structures under which university sports can continue to expand in Germany. The agreement is valid for three years. Freie Universität ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1106 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: HONORS Fellowships 2015-2 [Wed, 20 May 2015 16:33:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1107 | 2016-05-02
Module Exams: Important regulations [Sat, 08 Aug 2015 11:55:00 +0200 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1108 | 2016-05-02
Living among Stones - [Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:52:00 +0100 ] Jointly, they are tracking down the microorganisms that attack stones, monuments, and facades and form soils. Recently at a workshop in Dahlem, Berlin-based mineralogists and geomicrobiologists – as well as soil scientists and biologists from Saint Petersburg – got together to pool their insights.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1109 | 2016-05-02
Get Connected: LinkedIn Group [Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1110 | 2016-05-02
Alumni Campus Tour April 2016 - [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:28:00 +0100 ] Guided tour through the old and new Dahlem
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1111 | 2016-05-02
3 Junior Professorships (W1) in Global History of Knowledge, Bioorganic Chemistry, Islamic Studies [Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:35:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1112 | 2016-05-02
Junges Wissenschaftsforum Dahlem: Workshops for Junior Researchers [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:09:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1113 | 2016-05-02
Research on Seriality in Media Continues - [Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:28:00 -0000 ] The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding amounting to 2.15 million euros over a three-year period for the second phase of the interdisciplinary Research Unit “Popular Seriality—Aesthetics and Practice.” The Initiator and speaker of the project is Professor Frank Kelleter from the John F. Kennedy Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. The other participating institutions are Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, and KIT in Karlsruhe. The researchers are ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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More Victims of GDR Border Regime than Previously Thought - [Fri, 08 Nov 2013 08:54:00 -0000 ] Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin have found that more people were victims of the GDR border regime than previously thought. The researchers involved in the research network Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat found documents showing that there were 43 more deaths at the inner-German border than had been previously acknowledged. The researchers have detailed biographical information about 408 of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Learning to Heal Bone Fractures in Horses - [Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:37:00 -0000 ] In collaboration with the AOVET network, the Equine Clinic of Freie Universität Berlin will be holding a practical course on the surgical treatment of bone fractures in horses from October 8 to 11, 2014. AOVET is a member of the Association for Study of Internal Fixation (AO), which for years has been dealing with the fixation of fractures using plates and screws in veterinary and human medicine. Horse surgeons from all over the world are expected to attend the course in the Progressum Veterinarium, a ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Times - [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:01:00 -0000 ] An international conference being held from October 16 to 18 in Berlin will focus on pollution and environmental awareness of people in the ancient world. The conference is being held by Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Topoi Excellence Cluster. It will deal with a topic that has been neglected so far. The participants will address the issue of whether a sensitivity to the environment existed in ancient times and of how pollution or the destruction of nature and the use of natural ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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9 December: Zwischen Wiege und Wissenschaft - Promovieren mit Kind [Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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International Education Fair - [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 07:45:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin at Education Fair in St. Petersburg
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Successful German-Russian Cooperation: Renewed Funding Approval for German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center - [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:15:00 -0000 ] Following a positive evaluation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has committed further funding for the German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center (G-RISC), a Center of Excellence organized jointly by Freie Universität Berlin and St. Petersburg State University. The funding is now scheduled to run through 2019. G-RISC supports outstanding interdisciplinary research conducted in collaboration between German and Russian universities in the fields of physics, geophysics, physical chemistry, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Secure Identity: Freie Universität Berlin Paves the Way for Establishing a Pioneering Academic Department - [Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:28:00 -0000 ] Since the beginning of the 2014/2015 fall/winter term at Freie Universität Berlin, Bundesdruckerei GmbH, has been funding a new visiting professorship in the area of identity management. The main priority of the visiting professorship is to further develop the specialized master's program with a focus on digital identity. Professor Marian Margraf has held this professorship since the beginning of the 2014/2015 fall/winter term. 'With this chair we aim to make a significant contribution to training ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Freie Universität One of Four Most Prestigious Universities in Germany - [Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:48:00 -0000 ] THE World Reputation Ranking in 2015: Freie Universität Berlin among Top 60 Universities in the World
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Dissolution of the State and Guarantee for Human Rights? - [Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:23:00 -0000 ] Migration is the topic to be discussed in the fourth panel discussion of the European Salon series on April 27, 2015, on the premises of the Representation of the Saarland. The planned panelists are the head of the German Federal Chancellery Peter Altmaier, the former Dutch Justice Minister Prof. Dr. Ernst Hirsch Ballin, and the managing director of PRO ASYL Günter Burkhardt. They will discuss, among other things, the issue of whether and to what extent the understanding of citizenship needs to be ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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FUmanoids Win RoboCup German Open - [Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:59:00 -0000 ] The FUmanoids, the soccer robots of Freie Universität, defended their championship title at the RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg. They won the final game 1:0 against the Russian team Photon. They also won the 2015 HARTING Open Source Prize. The team is now returning to Berlin, exhausted but happy. The designers and robots will utilize the time until the world championships in late July in Hefei, China, to incorporate further improvements. They will again demonstrate their skills and play in front of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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An Asian Perspective on the European Union - [Wed, 20 May 2015 08:56:00 +0200 ] Taken together, these two countries account for nearly 40 percent of the global population. They are emerging economies and have been strategic partners of the European Union for years: India, “the world’s largest democracy,” and China, with its one-party socialist system. What role does the European Union play in these Asian countries, and what factors affect the perception of the EU “from outside”? And how does this image affect cooperation? The junior research group “Asian Perceptions of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Study Shows that Intensity of Facebook Use Can Be Predicted by Reward-related Activity in the Brain - [Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:13:00 -0000 ] A person’s intensity of Facebook use can be predicted by activity in the nucleus accumbens, a reward-related area of the brain, according to a new study published by neuroscientists in the Languages of Emotion Cluster of Excellence at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr. Dar Meshi and his colleagues conducted this first ever study to relate brain activity (functional MRI) to social media use. The ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Follow-up Funding for International Latin America Research Network at Freie Universität - [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:17:00 -0000 ] The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the international interdisciplinary research network desiguALdades.net at Freie Universität Berlin in the second funding phase with the amount of 880,000 euros. The follow-up funding period will run through the end of April 2016. The main focus during the second phase will be on the discrepancies between the global production of social inequalities in Latin America and the possibilities for local, national, and/or regional actors to ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Recognition for Outstanding Achievements in Life Sciences - [Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:06:00 -0000 ] One of the most distinguished chemists of the present day, Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi from the University of California at Berkeley, will be granted an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. With this degree, the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy of Freie Universität is recognizing Bertozzi's achievements in the life sciences. She introduced highly selective, so-called bioorthogonal reactions, for manipulating and probing biomolecules in living ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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FURUSINFO #13. 01.2015 [Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:28:00 -0000 ]
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Mynigma Is One of Three Finalists for 2015 CeBIT Innovation Awards - [Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:40:00 -0000 ] Mynigma, a spin-off of Freie Universität Berlin is one of three finalists at the CeBIT computer fair in Hannover in March. Mynigma developed a secure e-mail application for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that encrypts messages almost automatically. The product won a 2015 CeBIT Innovation Award and will be on display at the product show from March 16 to 20 in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony in Germany. The developers, Roman Priebe and Lukas Neumann, will win at least 20,000 euros. They developed the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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“Reinsurance for Life” - [Wed, 20 May 2015 08:55:00 +0200 ] The Dahlem Seed Bank houses about 7,000 different seed samples, many of them from rare or endangered plant species. The collection functions as a kind of plant archive, and it is an important partner in dialogue and exchange with botanical gardens around the world. Last week, the new building to house the prestigious institution was officially opened by the German Federal Environment Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks, the seed bank’s patron.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Fighting Asthma with Whipworms - [Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:09:00 -0000 ] Worms that live in the human intestine or skin leave most people feeling nothing but disgust. But these parasites can also be useful: They are apparently able to keep the human immune system in check in an intelligent way. This property could help precisely those patients whose immune systems “go crazy,” attacking even the body’s own tissue and missing invasive pathogens.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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First International Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:53:00 -0000 ] The Canadian political scientist Prof. Dr. Verónica Schild is the first international visiting professor of gender studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Verónica Schild teaches and conducts research at Western University London, Ontario. An expert on Latin America, Shild’s main fields of research include democratization processes, contemporary political theory, and theory of the state, all with a particular focus on gender aspects. The Dahlem International Network Professorship for Gender Studies was ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Broad Agreement on How Society Feels - [Tue, 20 May 2014 08:26:00 -0000 ] A study by sociologists of the Cluster “Languages of Emotion” at Freie Universität Berlin provides evidence that evaluative social perceptions are widely shared within German society. Despite broad consensus, there are notable cultural and class-specific differences, according to the researchers Jens Ambrasat and Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve. The study is based on a large online survey with more than 2,800 participants who were asked to indicate what feelings were triggered by various terms from ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Mathematician at Freie Universität Granted Fellowship from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast - [Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:09:00 -0000 ] The professor of mathematics, Rupert Klein of Freie Universität, was appointed a Fellow of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF). The expert on computer simulations in Earth system analysis and climate impact research, along with the professor of mathematical statistics, Tilmann Gneiting of the University of Heidelberg, and the professor of climate physics, Tim Palmer from Oxford University, are the first three scientists to receive this Fellowship. During their three-year tenure, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1135 | 2016-05-02
Mathematician at Freie Universität Granted Fellowship from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast - [Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:09:00 -0000 ] Mathematics professor Rupert Klein of Freie Universität was appointed a Fellow of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF). An expert on computer simulations in Earth system analysis and climate impact research, Klein, along with the professor of mathematical statistics, Tilmann Gneiting of the University of Heidelberg, and the professor of climate physics, Tim Palmer from Oxford University, are the first three scientists to receive this Fellowship. During their three-year tenure, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Filmmaker Meets Film Scholar - [Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:43:00 -0000 ] The German filmmaker Andreas Dresen and the American film historian Randall Halle are this year's guests of honor of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. On February 2, 2015, in an event at Freie Universität, they will exchange views on Dresen’s diverse directorial work and the German film industry. This will be followed by a discussion with the audience. Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk of the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin will open the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Watch out – Risk! - [Wed, 20 May 2015 08:52:00 +0200 ] Peter Mohr has dedicated his life to risk. Mohr, a junior professor of neuroeconomics at the School of Business and Economics at Freie Universität, studies how people experience and process risky economic situations, assess risks and react to them, and how the prospects of profits and losses affect their behavior.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1138 | 2016-05-02
Golden Doctoral Jubilee - [Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:00:00 +0100 ] PhD Alumni '65 celebrated on campus
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Working toward Clean Air in Berlin - [Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:57:06 -0000 ] They measure sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, benzene, and particulate matter. Some of the things they record are odorless, while others have a distinctive unpleasant smell – and yet, the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment has given its air quality measurement network an evocative name: BLUME, German for “flower.”
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Emphasis on Species-appropriate Handling - [Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:37:00 -0000 ] The new Equine Center of Freie Universität Berlin was officially opened on Thursday in Bad Saarow with a formal ceremony and numerous demonstrations. The first of its kind in Europe, the new Equine Center will practice and teach reproductive medicine, horse breeding, and species-appropriate handling of horses. Starting with the coming fall/winter semester, parts of the new bachelor's degree program in equine science will be taught there. The director of the Equine Center is Johannes Handler, a professor ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1141 | 2016-05-02
Research Alumni Program: New Call for Applications is now open [Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:15:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1142 | 2016-05-02
Grant Money for Research on Influenza Virus - [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:31:00 -0000 ] Privatdozent (PD) Dr. Michael Veit at the Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, is investigating the adaptation mechanisms of the influenza virus including their spreading to and among humans by droplet infection. His work is part of an international research project that is being conducted in cooperation with scientists from the USA, Great Britain, and Singapore. The project received a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) amounting to 1.4 million dollars for a period of three ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1143 | 2016-05-02
2015年4月9日柏林自由大学校友聚会 [Thu, 14 May 2015 09:07:00 +0200 ]
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Information Session - [Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:18:00 +0100 ] Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 10 a.m. – 12 noon, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Hörsaal 2 (Lecture Hall 2)
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1145 | 2016-05-02
A Signal Chain from Cell to Cell - [Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:28:00 -0000 ] Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin have shown how stimuli are transmitted long distances in plants. Tina Romeis, a professor of biochemistry, and her team analyzed controlled attacks by bacteria on the plant Arabidopsis thaliana (mousear cress). They were able to show for the first time in an experiment that information spreads from cell to cell within a plant via a signal chain.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1146 | 2016-05-02
Research on Seriality in Media Continues - [Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:28:00 -0000 ] The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding amounting to 2.15 million euros over a three-year period for the second phase of the interdisciplinary Research Unit “Popular Seriality—Aesthetics and Practice.” The initiator and speaker of the project is Professor Frank Kelleter from the John F. Kennedy Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. The other participating institutions are Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, and KIT in Karlsruhe. The researchers are ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1147 | 2016-05-02
Research on Bee Mortality - [Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:59:00 -0000 ] A research project headed by the molecular microbiologist Elke Genersch that investigates the 'Molecular Pathogenesis of American Foulbrood in the Honeybee' is being supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with funds from the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft. A spokesperson for the DFG in Bonn said the project is particularly deserving of support because Genersch's research findings represent a breakthrough in bee pathology and will pave the way for an effective therapy. Elke Genersch is ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1148 | 2016-05-02
Director of University Sports Center at Freie Universität Running for Highest Decision-making Body of European University Sports Association - [Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:24:00 -0000 ] The director of the University Sports Center and professional sports commissioner of Freie Universität, Jörg Förster, is running for the Executive Committee of the European University Sports Association (EUSA). The Executive Committee is the highest decision-making body of EUSA, and the members will be newly elected in April 2016 as part of the EUSA General Assembly. Förster's candidacy for the upcoming legislative period from 2016 to 2020 is being supported by the German Universit
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1149 | 2016-05-02
Identification of Formal Oxidation Stage IX for Chemical Compound - [Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:39:00 -0000 ] Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin, Fudan University in Shanghai, and McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, discovered a chemical compound with a higher oxidation state than those previously known. The chemistry professor Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel from Freie Universität and an international group of researchers characterized a compound that reaches the formal oxidation number IX. Formal oxidation state − an important concept in chemistry − describes the number of electrons an atom loses or ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1150 | 2016-05-02
MA in Visual and Media Anthropology - [Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:20:00 -0000 ] The Application process is now open for the Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology. Deadline: April 30th, 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1151 | 2016-05-02
Education and the Future - [Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:21:00 -0000 ] The Department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin includes the discipline of psychology as well as those of education and elementary education. The university's Center for Teacher Education is also part of this department.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1152 | 2016-05-02
Work, Family, Religion, Dress: How Students in Tanzania Define Gender Roles - [Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:35:00 -0000 ] The anthropologist Annika Lehmann received the 2014 VAD Young Investigator Award from the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD e.V.) for her master's thesis 'Between Attributions and Self-presentation: Constructions of Gender Ideals and Hierarchies among Students at the University of Dar es Salaam.' In her thesis Lehmann examines the complex negotiations of gender roles in the university context using the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania as an example. The award was presented on June 13, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1153 | 2016-05-02
Honors for Chemist Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reißig - [Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:12:00 -0000 ] The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, the German Chemical Society (GDCh, honored Professor Hans-Ulrich Reißig from Freie Universität Berlin for his life's work. In an award ceremony on Monday in Mainz, Reißig was given a Liebig Medal in recognition of his outstanding research in organic synthesis chemistry. The GDCh honored both Reißig's commitment and his services in science management. The Liebig Medal, which enjoys international prestige, was first awarded in 1903. So far 66 medals have been awarded ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Out and About in World Literature - [Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:02:00 -0000 ] 'If you don't have to write – don't' is the title of a keynote address by the Russian author Vladimir Sorokin at the Study Days being held for the first time this year by the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School. At the meeting on October 8 to 11, researchers and doctoral students of the Graduate School of Literary Studies will provide insights into the work of this structured doctoral program. In a total of twelve discussion rounds, which were jointly developed by graduate students, postdocs, and their ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Master's Program in Visual and Media Anthropology 2015-2017 [Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:04:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Awards for Master's Theses - [Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:12:00 -0000 ] The anthropologist Anne-Sophie Weißenhorn and the archaeologist Elisabeth Anna Krüger from Freie Universität Berlin have received the Rudolf Virchow Award from the Berlin Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte (BGAEU). Both received the awards for their master's theses. Anne-Sophie Weißenhorn submitted her thesis entitled “C‘est la réalité sénégalaise!” in 2014. It deals with multiple healing worlds in the context of mental illness and is a medical anthropological study ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Strategies against Cancer - [Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:00:00 -0000 ] The study of cancer and the development of new therapies is a prominent research focus of the Berlin School of Integrative Oncology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the joint medical school of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1158 | 2016-05-02
Secure Emails for Everyone - [Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:02:00 -0000 ] Following revelations made by the former national intelligence agency employee Edward Snowden, private Internet users are also worrying that their email correspondence is not better protected than the text on the back of a postcard. Mynigma, a spin-off company from Freie Universität Berlin, now makes it possible for less experienced users to secure their messages and data encryption. The company founders Roman Priebe and Lukas Neumann developed an email program that does not treat encryption as an ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1159 | 2016-05-02
300,000 Euros for New Books - [Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:54:00 -0000 ] The Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung is donating 300,000 euros for the acquisition of new books at Freie Universität Berlin. The purchase will benefit the Philological Library, the library of the Art History Institute, and the new library that is currently under construction. Once completed, the new library on Fabeck Strasse in Dahlem will comprise the libraries of the Department of Education and Psychology, the natural sciences, and several smaller disciplines. The donation will enable the acquisition ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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New Drop-in Center for Students at Freie Universität - [Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:17:00 -0000 ] A new Student Service Center (SSC) opened on Tuesday at Freie Universität Berlin. The new building on Iltisstrasse 4 near the Dahlem-Dorf subway station houses all the essential services and information about studying at Freie Universität: the information desk about studying, the general student advising and psychological counseling service, the unit for international student mobility and student management, and the first point of contact for national and international application and admission at Freie ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1161 | 2016-05-02
In Commemoration of the Liberation of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp 70 Years Ago - [Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:40:00 -0000 ] On Tuesday, January 27, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp on January 27, 1945, a wreath will be placed at Freie Universität Berlin in front of the building formerly housing the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics at Ihnestrasse 22. A ceremony will be held in recognition of the victims of Nazi tyranny, and attention will be drawn to the ethical obligations of science. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1162 | 2016-05-02
Islamic Art in the 21st Century - [Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:07:00 -0000 ] The second annual lecture series of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin is devoted to Islamic art of the 21st century. Experts from the field of art, museum management, and art history will describe the relationships between Islam, Muslim culture, and modernity as they are reflected in contemporary art. The first event will be a discussion between representatives of the artist collective 'Slavs and Tatars' and Wendy Shaw, Professor for Art History of ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Invitation to Press Conference: “Degenerate Art” Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin Taking Stock - [Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:31:00 -0000 ] On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the “Degenerate Art” Research Center at the Art History Institute of Freie Universität Berlin is inviting media representatives to a press conference. The researchers will be providing information about their work so far in tracking down about half of the more than 21,000 sculptures, paintings, and drawings that were confiscated from museums during the Nazi era. The researchers also wish to inform members of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Prestigious Award for Art Historian - [Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:00:00 -0000 ] On Friday the highly regarded art historian Dr. h. c. Andreas Hüneke from Freie Universität Berlin was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit. The ceremony took place in Schloss Bellevue. Hüneke was selected for this award because of his achievements as a leading expert on Nazi art policy. For more than 30 years he has been investigating the 'Degenerate Art' campaign, with which the Nazis systematically ostracized and destroyed modern art. Furthermore, he has done important fundamental work on the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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“A Dynamic University with a Unique History” - [Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:06:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität held a ceremony to commemorate the ceremonial act of its founding 65 years ago. At the ceremony in the Henry Ford Building, held on the anniversary of its founding, also known as Ernst Reuter Day, university president Professor Dr. Peter-André Alt described the university as a “dynamic university with a unique history.” Professor Alt went on to state that 65 is “young for a university, so we are looking forward, not back, to the future which Freie Universität intends to shape ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Center for Modern Greece Opens Today at Freie Universität Berlin - [Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:32:00 -0000 ] The interdisciplinary Center for Modern Greece was inaugurated today at Freie Universität Berlin. The institution aims to promote cooperation between Germany and Greece in research and teaching and to advance European integration. The Center’s operation will be complementary to the university’s existing chair in Modern Greek Studies, enhancing its academic activities and promoting contemporary Greek thought and culture, as well as the productive exchange of ideas in a more systematic way, through ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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New address Iltisstr. 4 - [Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:54:00 -0000 ] Since September 2, 2014 at SSC, Iltisstr. 4
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Postdoc Fellowships: DRS HONORS 2015-1 [Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Research Training Group on Human Rights [Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:53:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Freie Universität Supports Nonprofit Organization Prominent in Open Source Software - [Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:50:00 -0000 ] Freie Universität Berlin and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), following an initiative of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, are cooperating in making servers available in the data processing center of the university's Institute of Computer Science. The ASF is a nonprofit organization that develops open-source software and makes it available to the public free of charge. Members of the ASF were in the past and are currently involved in the development of many essential standards, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Internationalization of Teaching at the Institute of Computer Science - [Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:30:00 -0000 ] Emmanuel Baccelli from INRIA, the internationally renowned French research institute focusing on computer science and applied mathematics, will be a visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin during the next two semesters. The position is being funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Originally from France, Dr. Baccelli is an expert in mobile Internet communication. For one academic year he will teach and research at the Institute of Computer Science. He will also ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1172 | 2016-05-02
Silke Christiansen Appointed Honorary Professor at South Korea's Chonbuk National University - [Fri, 16 May 2014 11:13:00 -0000 ] Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen, a physics professor at Freie Universität and researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, is an honorary professor at the South Korean Chonbuk National University. The president of the university, Suh Geo-Suk, announced her appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, stating that it was in recognition of her extraordinary scientific achievements in the field of renewable energies. The official document appointing Christiansen to a three-year ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Freie Universität Recognized Third Time in a Row for Family-friendly Policies - [Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:52:00 -0000 ] For the third time in a row, Freie Universität Berlin has been recognized for providing its employees and students with good conditions for a healthy balance between study, work, and family life. The award was presented on Tuesday by Caren Marks and Iris Gleicke, Parlamentary Secretaries of State in the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. Family-friendly measures in place at Freie Universität that were rated particularly positively include ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Recognition for Polymer Research on Switchable Microgel Particles - [Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:38:00 -0000 ] The Macromolecular Chemistry Section of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) is awarding the Reimund Stadler Prize to chemistry professor Sebastian Seiffert for his polymer research. Seiffert does research switchable microgel particles at Freie Universität Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Switchable microgel particles are finding increasing application in a variety of fields, such as medicine. The awards committee, consisting of representatives from industry and universities on behalf of the GDCh, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1175 | 2016-05-02
Personality Changes More in Old Age than Previously Thought - [Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:26:00 -0000 ] According to a German-American study, the personality of older people changes again at a similar rate as that in young adults. This is one of the key findings of a study based on two long-term studies, 'Socio-Economic Panel' (SOEP) and 'Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia' Survey (HILDA Survey). “Our study refutes the prevailing view among psychologists that personality increasingly stabilizes over the course of life,” says psychologist Jule Specht of Freie Universität Berlin, one of the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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20 Incoming Postdoc Fellowships! - [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:09:00 -0000 ] Dahlem Research School offers 20 Postdoc Fellowships. Deadline for applications: 13 March 2015
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1177 | 2016-05-02
Regions of the World - [Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:50:00 -0000 ] The Center for Area Studies is a platform for research dealing with the various regions of the world and their multifaceted relations. It supports collaboration in the various fields of area studies at Freie Universität, in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, and worldwide.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1178 | 2016-05-02
New Research Project on Military History - [Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:22:00 -0000 ] An international collaborative project on European military history under the direction of Professor Oliver Janz at Freie Universität Berlin was approved for funding by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), the European network of research funders for the humanities. The research project entitled 'Making War, Mapping Europe: Militarised Cultural Encounters, 1792–1920' is one of 18 projects selected from a total of 593 proposals submitted as part of the tender 'Cultural Encounters.' The ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1179 | 2016-05-02
Worldphilology: Forum Transregionale Studien and Freie Universitaet Berlin Agree Upon Cooperation for Zukunftsphilologie [Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:05:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1180 | 2016-05-02
Fifty Years of Diplomatic Relations between Germany and Israel: Freie Universität Berlin Participates in Anniversary Year - [Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:19:00 -0000 ] The anniversary year 'Fifty Years of Diplomatic Relations between Germany and Israel' is reflected in the current academic program of Freie Universität Berlin. In 1963 the first Institute of Jewish Studies in Germany was founded at Freie Universität. This year the university is hosting a variety of conferences and workshops for scholars and scientists in cooperation with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other Israeli universities. Efforts are underway to intensify the collaboration in research, ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1181 | 2016-05-02
Archaeologists Excavated Well Preserved Roman Soldier’s Chain Mail - [Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:39:00 -0000 ] Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin made a spectacular discovery in their excavations of a Roman-Germanic battlefield at the Harzhorn in Lower Saxony. While exploring the area near Kalefeld in the Northeim district north of Göttingen, the researchers, headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer, found the chain mail of a Roman soldier from the Third Century AD. It was the first time that such a well-preserved piece of body armor was excavated on a Roman-Germanic battlefield. This piece of equipment, worn ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1182 | 2016-05-02
Platform for Plant Sciences - [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:30:00 -0000 ] Plant scientists from different disciplines work closely together as part of the Focus Area “Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS).” Their research aims to contribute to a better understanding of plant diversity, as well as to preserve diversity while allowing for a sustainable use of plants.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1183 | 2016-05-02
Use of Nanomaterials to Deliver Medical Substances - [Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:49:00 -0000 ] The internationally recognized polymer chemist Professor Dr. Zhiyuan Zhong of Soochow University in China will give a public lecture on Friday, August 16, 2013, in which he will discuss the possibilities for using functional biodegradable polymers for the targeted delivery of drugs and proteins. The lecture by Zhiyuan Zhong, this year’s winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1184 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin offers DRS Incoming Postdoc Fellowships POINT-2016 - [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:00:00 -0000 ] The 'Postdoc International' POINT research fellowship program – co-financed by the German Excellence Initiative and the Marie Curie Program of the European Commission – provides funding for outstanding postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines to conduct their own research project at Freie Universität Berlin.
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1185 | 2016-05-02
Call for Applications: 3 Junior Professorships [Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:48:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1186 | 2016-05-02
Brandenburg’s Oldest Archaeological Site - [Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:43:00 -0000 ] An ice-age archaeological site at the Jänschwalde surface mining complex, near the city of Cottbus, has yielded the oldest evidence of human life in the state of Brandenburg. The excavations were organized by the Brandenburg State Office of Historical Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum, in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and the energy company Vattenfall. In strata of soil about 20 meters deep, geologically dated to the end of the second-to-last ice age – during the Wolstonian ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1187 | 2016-05-02
Technology Transfer Award for Computer Scientists at Freie Universität - [Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:20:00 -0000 ] The Software Engineering Group of the Institute of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin won the Ready-Set-Transfer (RST) competition of the International Conference on Software Development (ICSE) for creating a new method of software development. The competition, which was held for the first time, focused on software technologies that could soon be used in industry. The group led by the computer science professor Lutz Prechelt developed Agile Offshoring, which makes it easier for multiple ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1188 | 2016-05-02
Olga Martynova Recipient of Berlin Literature Prize for 2015 - [Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:57:00 -0000 ] The Preußische Seehandlung Foundation awarded the 2015 Berlin Literature Prize to the writer Olga Martynova. The prize money amounts to 30,000 euros and coincides with an appointment as the Heiner Müller Visiting Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the spring/summer semester of 2015. Each spring/summer semester since 2005, the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin has been inviting a writer to work for a semester with students as the ...
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1189 | 2016-05-02
Freie Universität Berlin, participates in ''Stuttgart meets Mumbai'' as DWIH consortium member [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:20:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 1190 | 2016-05-02
Fellow 2015/16 [Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:00:00 -0000 ]
Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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