Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
That’s me on the climbing wall at the 2018 Paraclimbing World Championships in Innsbruck. For the second time in succession, I took the world title in the AL-2 category. This stands for “athletes with an amputated leg or leg deficiency”.
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German-Iranian university cooperation jeopardised
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Santiago de Chile cfeijoo[at]unab.cl China, PR Lu, Prof. Dr. Wenjing (Toxicology and Occupational Medicine) Tsinghua University, Beijing luwenjing[at]mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Dong, Prof. Dr. Zhi-Bing (Organic
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Colonialism was all-embracing and it was violent. It re-organised the world, led to the circulation of knowledge as well as to war, displacement, slavery, oppression and exploitation. The colonial era made deep inroads into identities – and has a huge impact to this day, not least on science and research.
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Her research spotlights contemporary religious phenomena, focussing on issues such as religion and medicine, women and religion, and Christianity today. Applying methods deriving from ethnology, for example [...] an eminent researcher with an international reputation for his work on the history of science and medicine under National Socialism. Since the end of the 1980s, the British historian has produced fundamental [...] London and the University of Oxford. Weindling’s expertise in matters relating to the history of medicine and science under National Socialism is in great demand, amongst others at the Max Planck Society
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Germany has a highly efficient health service but is not in the international vanguard according to health system research. Ariel Dora Stern, one of the few researchers with a global reputation in the field, is now invited to Potsdam to drive this highly relevant and promising field of research, which has been underrepresented in Germany to date.
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Georg Forster Research Awards, each valued at €60,000.
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At the University of Cologne, Bart Thomma is to continue his research on soil organisms and their interactions with plants. He is expected to head a new Centre for Microbial Interactomics that is due to be established and within which he will focus on evolutionary microbiology. He will also cooperate with human biologists. After all, if we understand more about the genetics and interactions of microorganisms in the soil, this could be of use to medicine, too – in improving antibiotics, for instance.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
The brothers Professor Dr Karl Sebastian Lang and Professor Dr Philipp Lang were both granted the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award.
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