Notes from the university
- Heinz Neumüller, an entrepreneur from Oldenburg, and Dr Christopher Pleister, a banker from Frankfurt and former Chairman of the University Society, have been appointed honorary senators by resolution of the University Senate in recognition of their outstanding services to the university.
- The Dean’s spokesperson, Prof. Dr Rüdiger Meyenberg, described Prof. Dr Michael Daxner – who celebrated his 10th anniversary as President on 1 October 1996 – as a “visionary and a thorn in the side”. Daxner’s great achievement, it was said, was to constantly remind the university that it must not rest on its laurels.
- The Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) has recommended that, in future, all civil service posts at the Universities of Oldenburg and Clausthal, as well as at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, should be filled exclusively by contract staff in order to achieve greater flexibility in human resources management.
- The two Oldenburg physicists, Thorsten Ronnebaum and Nils Springer, have won the German Start-up Fund’s Innovation Prize, worth 100,000 marks, for their business idea, which involves creating sound designs for technical devices.
- For the “profiling and differentiation of the Economics degree programme”, the Faculty of Economics and Law at the University of Oldenburg has received a sponsorship award totalling 75,000 DM from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. Oldenburg is the only university in Lower Saxony among the ten prize winners.
- The Dutch Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs has allocated 3.6 million guilders to support collaboration between the University of Groningen and the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen. The funds are to be used to develop joint degree programmes with a view to making better use of the universities’ human resources.
- The University Senate has unanimously approved the establishment of the interdisciplinary degree programme “Women’s and Gender Studies” as a minor subject at Master’s level. Provided the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science gives its approval in good time, the first students will be able to enrol on the new degree programme – based in Faculty 3 (Social Sciences) – as early as the 1997/98 winter semester.
