Notes from the university
Notes from the university
- Minister President Gerhard Schröder's cancellation of the engineering degree programme was met with disappointment and indignation. The provisional decision jeopardises the development of the entire university, which has invested heavily in planning the degree programme over the past five years, explained President Prof. Dr. Michael Daxner. The university will stick to its plans and make the establishment of the faculty a touchstone for the credibility of the state government.
- State Parliament President and Oldenburg MP Horst Milde has been named the University's third honorary citizen after Rosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm and Erwin Fritsche. According to the University Senate's citation, Milde has made extraordinary contributions to the region and has been particularly committed to the ICBM and the OFFIS computer science institute.
- The lecture theatre centre on Uhlhornsweg should be available for lectures as early as spring 1998. Following the official award of the contract by the university, work began on the 20.2 million mark building project at the beginning of May. President Daxner emphasised at the signing of the contracts that the lecture hall centre would not only provide relief for teaching operations, but would also increase Oldenburg's attractiveness as a congress centre.
- The University has a new affiliated institute: the Hearing Centre, a limited company, was founded on the initiative of the head of the Medical Physics working group, Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier, and the head physician at the Protestant Hospital, Dr. Rüdiger Schönfeldt-Hohmann, and assigned to Faculty 8 Physics following a decision by the Senate. The Institute aims to work primarily in the field of applied hearing aid research, patient care in special cases and in training, further education and training.
- Rowohlt-Verlag has announced the publication of the Oldenburg Complete Edition of Kurt Tucholsky's works with the publication of a volume of marginalia, thus emphasising the importance of this major literary project. The first two of a total of 15 volumes of texts and six volumes of letters will appear at the Frankfurt Book Fair in autumn. The publication of Tucholsky's life's work will be completed in 2003 with the publication of the index volume. The DFG-funded project is being realised by the Tucholsky Research Centre under the direction of the literary scholar Prof. Dr Dirk Grathoff and the political scientist Prof. Dr Gerhard Kraiker.
- The University Senate has decided by a large majority to establish the postgraduate programme "Cultural Gender Studies" at Faculty 2 Communication/Aesthetics. Following the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities on the restructuring of doctoral training and support, the aim of the degree programme is to increase the proportion of women, particularly in the subjects of art and textile science.
