Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
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
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
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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The Humboldt Professor Anke Hoeffler studies the causes of violence – whether in civil wars or people’s own homes – and what it eventually costs.
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In the German science system, opportunities are not fairly distributed. It is time for change. By Jan-Martin Wiarda
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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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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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Where we lived was completely cut off from the outside world. There was no electricity and no transport connections.
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Recently, it was the 30th anniversary of my accident. I have now been in a wheelchair for almost twice as long as I was able to walk.
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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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Why science needs more diversity
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