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Alejandra Camelo Cruz

With Willpower and Passion – University scholarship recipient Alejandra Camelo Cruz discovered her enthusiasm for the intersection of technology and language in Potsdam

At the age of 28, Alejandra Camelo Cruz has already experienced a lot: After finishing high school, the Colombian wanted to become a priest and lived …
The US-American researcher Sudha Arunachalam

The Subtle Differences – Visiting researcher Sudha Arunachalam about linguistic research on infants

Linguist Sudha Arunachalam has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for her findings on …
Pupils sit in the classroom.

Room for Creative Solutions – Future primary school teachers support gifted third- and fourth-graders in the mathematics research workshop

Xaver and Rozalia are looking at a large sheet of white paper full of squares. Seriously and without getting stressed by the long to-do list, they are …
Lucia Steinmeyer teaches English to a fourth grade.

The Country Teacher – Graduate Lucia Steinmeyer teaches at a primary school in Zülichendorf, Brandenburg

She could have become a miller. As a child, Lucia Steinmeyer watched her grandparents in Luckenwalde grind grain into flour. For a long time, she …
Der Musikdozent Jan Gerdes erkundet mit seinen Studierenden afrikanische Klaviermusik des 20. Jahrhunderts.

A Sound Window With a View to the South – Pianist and music lecturer Jan Gerdes brings contemporary piano music from Africa to the lecture hall

“Let’s move on to Egypt!” Jan Gerdes carefully lets his fingers wander over the keyboard. “Soufiane,” composed by Halim El-Dabh is performed in the …
Physics didact Andreas Borowski

Professionally Competent and Qualified for the Job – How the University of Potsdam is training urgently needed teachers

There is a shortage of teachers at schools everywhere. In order to meet the great demand, the University of Potsdam, funded by the state of …
Students Mercy Ekua Grimmon-Thompson (left) and Diyorbek Toshniyozov (right) connect the cables for the geoelectric measurements together with Jens Tronicke.

Looking Beneath the Surface – Geophysicists and students from the University of Potsdam are searching for traces of a Jewish cemetery in Lenzen, Brandenburg

It is a summery September day in Lenzen, a small town on the Elbe river in the outer northwestern part of the state of Brandenburg, with a history of …
Symbolische Darstellung eines Netzwerks

“The Aim is to Increase the Competitiveness and Visibility of Young Universities” – The Young European Research Universities Network YERUN

The European Union has transformed a continent that was divided and even hostile for centuries into a community that exchanges ideas, makes joint …
A swallow starts out on one hand.

Infections with parasites affect the local flight behaviour of swallows

Swallows infected with parasites move less and in smaller ranges than healthy ones – with detrimental effects on their foraging success and their …
Ehizode Irefo (l.) and Hikmet Güler (r.)

Committed to Europe – “I am a big fan of the European Union and of Europe.”

Ehizode Irefo and Hikmet Güler have dedicated themselves to something that transcends university and even national borders. In the EDUC university …