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German Studies Association

DWIH New York at the GSA Conference 2022

Our Head of Programs Jan Lüdert and Director Benedikt Brisch participated at the annual German Studies Association conference from September 15 to 18, this year in Houston, Texas.

News from UA Ruhr

Protection for digital contracts

Anyone who uses digital contracts – also called smart contracts – should be careful about hacker attacks. Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi from University of Duisburg-Essen’s Institute of Software Technology paluno is developing a solution to find and fix security gaps in the contracts during programming and later in use. For this, he received a starting grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERCA).

Research at University of Cologne

No More Binge Eating: Signal Pathway in the Brain That Controls Food Intake Discovered

The brain controls our body’s lysophospholipids, which in turn control a programme that activates nutritional intake / specific inhibitors of lipid synthesis could serve as new obesity therapies / publication in ‘Nature Metabolism’. Signal Pathway in the Brain That Controls Food Intake Discovered by Group of Researchers Led by Professors from the University of Cologne, University of Münster and Yale School of Medicine.

DWIH New York meets

DAAD Research Ambassador Workshop 2022

On August 12, Jan Lüdert met the DAAD USA Research Ambassadors during their workshop in New York to exchange ideas and display the work of the DWIH New York.

Meet the FUTURE FORUM speakers

5 Questions with Anne-Marie Sust

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Anne-Marie Sust, one of the speakers of the FUTURE FORUM: Fabricating the Future on October 7. Anne-Marie is a Sustainable Fashion Designer and Graduate of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (UAS). Bielefeld UAS is Member of Campus OWL, a network of five higher education institutions in OstWestfalenLippe (OWL), Germany, with a liaison office in New York and main supporter of DWIH New York.

News from Campus OWL

A Circular Economy for More Sustainable Product Development – Project “ZirkuPro”

Manufacturing mechatronic products is associated with high energy demand, critical raw materials, and complex manufacturing conditions. One way to solve this problem is through a circular economy, which makes it possible to conserve resources and ensure sustainable development. Researchers from Paderborn University and the Fraunhofer Institutes IEM (Paderborn) and IZM (Berlin) are currently working to extend this principle to an integrated circular product development process for intelligent technical systems.

Prof. de Meaux and Prof. von Korff Schmising

University of Cologne Wins Funding for a New Collaborative Research Centre in Plant Sciences

Around 10 million euros over four years for research into the genetic foundations and key mechanisms with which plants adapt to changes in their environment.