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Green cities of the future? Photo: Fotolia.com/Iakov Kalinin.

Understanding “Green Cities” – How the environmental effects of urbanization can be modeled – and how this model can be used

The world is a village? Not anymore. The world is now a city. 2008 marked the first year that more people lived in cities than in rural areas …
St. Nicholas' Church in Potsdam. Photo: Karla Fritze.

What to Believe In? – Non-Religiosity in East Germany

Between 2012 and 2015, Professor of Religious Studies Johann Ev. Hafner, his former colleague Professor Irene Becci, and their students visited …
Fontane in front of the Theodor-Fontane-Archiv. Photo: Thomas Roese.

Fontane.200 – How the City, State and University are Preparing for the Fontane Anniversary Year

The 200th anniversary of Theodor Fontane’s birth will occur in 2019. Experts, admirers and connoisseurs everywhere are already preparing for the …
Is doping part of sports? Photo: Fotolia/thanksforbuying.

Having the Lower Hand - Administrative investigate national anti-doping agencies

Sports supplements may be the “gateway”. When things get really bad, anabolic drugs and downers, blood boosting, or even gene doping can follow. In …
in the cardiac catheter lab. Photo: Karla Fritze

Palpitation – Stress in the cardiac catheter lab – and what can be done

Working on the “beating heart” with a conscious patient or performing exams and interventions without opening the thorax are possible thanks to …
The experiments investigate the movement of the tongue, among other things. Photo: Karla Fritze

The Sooner, the Better - Linguists Research Early Indicators of Developmental Language Disorders

Their vocabulary is small and expanding slowly, words are mispronounced, grammatical rules are not applied correctly – these and other symptoms in …
The App „Zirkus Empathico“ in use. Photo: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lucke.

Of Emotions, Foxes, and a Circus - How to adjust training programs to emotions

They are a part of our lives – we invariably face them every day: emotions. The older people get, however, the more difficult it often becomes for …

Besser vorbereitet ins Studium – Universitätskolleg wird am 11. November eröffnet

Studieninteressenten und Erstsemestern wird es an der Universität Potsdam künftig leichter gemacht, den passenden Studiengang zu wählen und den …
Lab mouse. Photo: Fotolia/Kirill Kurashov.

Mouse-free is the way to be – Nutritional scientists develop a method to replace animal testing

It is one of the strongest neurotoxins known to man – and yet is also important for medicine. Botulinum toxin is also known as Botox and is used as an …

Pure Theory – From the fascination of mathematics without figures

When Marco Benini works, then the work that he does – even if he does it with his own hands – is pure theory. The Italian, who is currently a guest …