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Bees find ample forage in the Petzow orchards at Schwielowsee lake. Picture: Karla Fritze

Under Stress – Ecological models to help protect endangered bees

Their industriousness is legendary. Without them there would be no fruit. Of all plants dependent on insects over 85% are pollinated by bees. Their …
Picture: Fotolia/Ermolaev Alexandr

Navigating through the Text – Researchers have studied the efficiency of reading strategies

Literary texts have a firm place in many people’s lives. It is impossible to imagine German school lessons without them. Can students, however, …
The assistant professor of computer chemistry is not one of those scientists who researches or teaches in a white lab coat with a test tube in hand. He develops new materials and technologies using mathematics, quantum physics, and modern high-performance computers. Picture: Karla Fritze

Chemistry without Experiments — Assistant Professor Dr. Thomas Körzdörfer conducts computer chemistry

“Chemistry bangs and stinks,” according to popular wisdom. Prof. Thomas Körzdörfer would argue that this saying hardly reflects the current state of …
Prof. Dr. Heiko Michael Möller in seinem Labor am NMR-Spektrometer (Karla Fritze)

Blick ins Molekül – Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Heiko Michael Möller

Die NMR-Spektroskopie (Kernspinresonanz) ist das Thema der Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Heiko Michael Möller am 21. Januar 2015 auf dem Campus …
Picture: Karla Fritze

Grassfielder’s Guide to the English Language – Working on a Dictionary of West African English

English is an international language; in most countries, you can get by with “world English”. However, in many regions of the world, English is no …
Katalin Tamási and Carolin Jekel in BabyLab. Picture: Thomas Hoelzel

Look Me in the Eye!

What the Pupil Tells Us about Language Acquisition

At the IDEALAB doctoral program, an international group of young academics study the relationship between language and brain. They conduct research on …

„Vertrackte Probleme“ für öffentliche Verwaltungen – 2. Internationale WIPCAD-Konferenz an der Universität Potsdam

„Vertrackte Probleme“ und die Frage, wie öffentliche Verwaltungen mit ihnen umgehen, stehen im Mittelpunkt einer Tagung, die vom 4. bis 6. Dezember …
Children of different age groups solved memory update tasks in a research project. Photo: Anna Trapp

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Why human working memory performance differs among people

Working memory is the intermediate storage device for the human brain. Its capacity is limited, even more so for people with learning disabilities …
Pic.: Hannelore Gensel

Reading

Pleasure for Some, Torment for Others

 

For the eyes, reading is a fine motor skill, jumping in quick jerks from one word to the next in just fractions of a second. Depending on one’s …

Learning vocabulary with movement and fantasy

Manfred Schewe, the father of drama in education, was a guest at the University of Potsdam

The students are listening to a text that is difficult to commit to memory. The sentences simply don’t make sense, like “I’m drinking a cup of bread,” …