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Making the climb hard
Working-class children who reach the top in academia – that’s the exception in Germany. The experiences of one who managed.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Why should we listen to women when it comes to fighting climate change, Ms Molefe?
Extreme aridity and drought; and when it does rain, it rains so heavily that everywhere is flooded – this is the reality of climate change in Botswana.
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The hot topic
The Earth is getting warmer, the virus is rife and, more than ever before, science is expected to provide explanations and solutions. When relationships are complex, answers uncertain and concerns great, good science communication is called for – and yet so difficult. Why this is and what can be done about it.
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“It's not enough simply to say, it is as it is!”
Excellence and diversity are not a contradiction in terms, according to Hans-Christian Pape. A conversation about the power of positive incentives and diversity in the Humboldt Network.
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On no account a monoculture
In the German science system, opportunities are not fairly distributed. It is time for change. By Jan-Martin Wiarda
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In the USA, nobody asks where I come from
Dr Serge Alain Fobofou Tanemossu earned his doctorate in chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
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How did you become Ethiopia’s first female Professor, Ms Mekonnen?
When I went to Germany in 1988 to do my dissertation, that was totally unusual for a woman from Ethiopia.
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Ms Ombaka, what’s it like being a single parent and a researcher?
My story begins four years ago. Three things happened in my life all at once: I was offered a new job at my university in Kenya, I was granted a fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation and I discovered I was pregnant. What to do?
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Mr Mole, how do queer people fare in exile?
Even as a child I used to ask myself how people in different societies lived together and why things in other countries were so different from what I was used to in the UK.
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No need of words to understand each other
I work on the Philipp Schwartz Initiative that offers at-risk researchers a safe haven at German universities. I manage the programme.
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