News

Visitors from Germany

Omid Nouripour, Chairman German Green Party

On September 12, Omid Nouripour, Chairman from the German Green Party (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN) met Jan Lüdert at the DWIH office in New York.

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.

DWIH New York meets

Transatlantic Ruhr Fellowship 2022

On August 10, our Head of Programs Jan Lüdert had the opportunity to present the Center’s work to the Transatlantic Ruhr Fellows Cohort of 2022 from the University Alliance Ruhr, one of the main supporters 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.