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Owen Mundy - DAAD Research Stay Award Winner

Owen Mundy is a professor of Digital Studies, currently working on his research in Berlin with the support of a DAAD Research Stay grant. His work investigates public space, information privacy, and big data. One of his many notable projects involved the mapping of one million images tagged with #cat using the locations users unknowingly uploaded in their metadata.

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Postdoctoral Researchers' Networking Tour 2017

Germany offers a broad spectrum of career options for young scientists at universities, research institutions and in industry. Through its Postdoctoral Researchers’ Networking Tour, DAAD offers a new format to provide postdoctoral researchers with an insight into German science and the job market for highly qualified postdoctoral researchers.

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Career Day San Francisco

DAAD's Information Center in San Francisco, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and partners in the Bay Area will showcase excellent opportunities for German speakers in Germany as well as in the U.S.

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Research Ambassador - Dana Weber

Meet our DAAD network and the people who make it what it is. Dana Weber is an Assistant Professor of German at Florida State University. Her research interests center on performance, theater, and festival in contemporary German culture. As a DAAD Research Ambassador, she helps advise students and fellow researchers on going abroad to Germany.

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Yasemin Yildiz - DAAD Prize Winner

Meet our DAAD network and the people who make it what it is. Dr. Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Through her research, she frequently engages with contemporary issues, and publishes on Islam, gender, migration, and minority discourses.

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Alumni Competition

Teaching the Global Goals

The Hands-On Project 2017 will deal with the topics “2030 Agenda” and “Sustainable Development Goals” (see the Alumniportal pages for further information on these topics). The challenge for the participants is to develop information or education materials which can contribute in innovative ways to make various social target groups aware of the 2030 Agenda and to raise their sensitivity for the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Research Ambassador - Carol Anne Costabile-Heming

Meet our DAAD network and the people who make it what it is. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming is one of our dedicated DAAD Research Ambassadors and a professor of German at the University of North Texas, Denton. Her research focuses on German literature and culture, as well as German film and memory studies.

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Webinar Series

Research in Germany

Join our webinar series from June 12-16 with experts from German research institutions and testimonials from all over the world giving you insight into the German research landscape, funding opportunities and much more…The event is open to anyone interested in doing research in Germany. It is free of charge and will be conducted in English.

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Falling Walls / Jansch

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Falling Walls Lab

Together with DAAD, the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) New York will host the Falling Walls Lab, a global forum for innovators to pitch their research and business ideas on September 14, 2017. Entrepreneurs, innovators, and researchers will present their ground-breaking projects, business plans, entrepreneurial and social initiatives in three-minute pitches.

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Meet us in Person!

DAAD at NAFSA in Los Angeles

Are you attending the NAFSA Conference for International Educators in Los Angeles from May 29th - June 2nd? If so, be sure to stop by the Expo Hall and visit DAAD and over 50 other German institutions at the Germany Pavilion, Booth #1307.

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