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In the Himalayas Photo: Bodo Bookhagen

Below the Surface - The University of Potsdam submits interdisciplinary application in earth, life, and climate sciences to the Excellence Strategy

The earth’s surface is the habitat of most plants, animals, and humans, providing the resources that even make life possible. Knowledge of how …

A Once-in-a-Century Event - PhD Students of the Research Training Group “NatRiskChange” Examine Braunsbach Flash Flood

According to climate experts, the summer of 2016 – from a global perspective – was the hottest summer since weather began being systematically …
Laboratory mouse. Photo: Karla Fritze.

Different Among Equals – Researchers study deviating behavior of laboratory mice in hopes of developing a skin model to replace animal experimentation

Since 2002, animal welfare has been included in the German constitution as an objective of the state. The sheer number of prizes awarded since then …
Photo: Pixabay.

Cosmopolitanisms in the Plural – The University of Potsdam Launches the Research Training Group “Minor Cosmopolitanisms“

The Enlightenment took place in 18th-century Europe – or did it? Prof. Lars Eckstein and Prof. Dirk Wiemann, Anglicists at the University of Potsdam, …
Photo: Karla Fritze.

Hasso Plattner Institute becomes University Faculty – First privately financed faculty at a public university

Minister of Science Martina Münch, together with Oliver Günther, President of the University of Potsdam, and Christoph Meinel, Director and Manager of …
MRT Scan from a brain. Photo: Fotolia.com/Nomad_Soul.

Multitasking in Old Age – A study researches the connection between balance and thinking

The University of Potsdam. Campus Am Neuen Palais. A bright 28°C. Today I’m going to be a test subject in a study on “the connection between movement …
Photo: Lydia Olaka.

Underway in the Andes – March, 14: Conclusion

Travel Journal: Doctoral Students on an Excursion in Western Argentina

The „StRATEGy“ Fieldschool 2017 into the fold-and-thrust belt of the southern central Andes and the Neuquén basin was very important for us - in many …
Three geologists in their natural habitat. Foto: Sibiao Liu.

Underway in the Andes – March, 13: Encounter of the Third Kind

Travel Journal: Doctoral Students on an Excursion in Western Argentina

On todays agenda is another round trip: from Cutral Có via Zapala, Las Coloradas, "Laguna Blanco" and back to Cutral Có. After a brief overview of …
Crossing the Neuquén River. Photo: Henry Wichura.

Underway in the Andes – March, 12: The unconformity

Travel Journal: Doctoral Students on an Excursion in Western Argentina

We continue southwards within the fold-and-thrust belt of the Neuquén Basin. We find a striking layer of gypsum within the “Huitrin” Formation of the …
A landscape that is known as in movies about the wild west. Photo: Henry Wichura.

Underway in the Andes – March, 11: In the Wild West

Travel Journal: Doctoral Students on an Excursion in Western Argentina

We are planning a 200 km round trip around the “Cordillera del Viento” (the cordillere of the winds) and  through the geology in Mapuche territory. …