Category Archives: Education

Russian Schools Ban Foreign Songs for Graduation Waltz Under Language Law

Graduates are being prohibited from performing their traditional waltz to foreign songs.

Students from a school in the Ryazan region chose Sting’s “Shape of My Heart” back in January for their dance. They paid a choreographer (5,000 rubles per person ($66), 50,000 in total ($660)) and spent several months preparing. However, the school administration shut down the idea and banned the track. (more…)

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Ob mit 17 oder 65: Studieren an der Universität Freiburg kennt kein Alter

Direkt nach dem Abitur oder erst nach einem langen Berufsleben: An der Universität Freiburg studieren Menschen in ganz verschiedenen Lebensphasen. Zwei Erstsemester des Wintersemester 2025/26 – 17 und 65 Jahre alt – erzählen von ihrem Weg an die Universität und was sie am Studium besonders begeistert. (more…)

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Senior Thesis Spotlight: A ‘high-risk, but well-defined’ idea to advance quantum computing

Thomas Verrill has always been good with machinery; in high school he led a group that built an automatic windshield dimmer to cut road glare. But the first time Verrill suited up for the clean room at Princeton’s Micro/Nano Fabrication Center, his hands trembled, and his stomach fluttered. (more…)

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Die (Re)Politisierung von Klimawandeldiskursen und multimaterialer 3D-Druck

Solveig Degen und Stefan Conrad erhalten den Erasmus Prize 2024 des University College Freiburg

Das University College Freiburg (UCF) der Universität Freiburg hat die Liberal Arts and Sciences Absolventin Solveig Degen und den Physiker Stefan Conrad mit dem „Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences“ 2024 ausgezeichnet. (more…)

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