Notes from the university
- The Oldenburg entrepreneur Heinz Neumüller and the Frankfurt banker and former Chair of the University Society, Dr Christopher Pleister, have been appointed Honorary Senators by resolution of the University Senate for their special services to the University.
- Dean's spokesman Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Meyenberg described Prof. Dr. Michael Daxner, who celebrated his 10-year presidency on 1 October 1996, as a "visionary and a thorn". Daxner's great achievement was to constantly remind the university that it should not sit back and be complacent.
- The Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) has recommended that in future all civil servant positions at the Universities of Oldenburg and Clausthal as well as at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences should only be filled by salaried employees in order to achieve greater flexibility in personnel management.
- The two Oldenburg physicists Thorsten Ronnebaum and Nils Springer have won the 100,000 Mark Innovation Prize from the German Gründerfonds for their company idea, which creates sound designs for technical devices.
- The Department of Economics and Law at the University of Oldenburg has received a prize worth DM 75,000 from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Donors' Association for German Science) for the "profiling and differentiation of the Economics degree programme". Oldenburg is the only university in Lower Saxony among the ten prize winners.
- The Dutch Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs has made 3.6 million guilders available for cooperation between the University of Groningen and the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen. The money is to be used to develop joint degree programmes in order to make better use of the universities' human resources.
- The University Senate unanimously approved the establishment of the interdisciplinary degree programme "Women's and Gender Studies" as a Master's minor. If the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science agrees in time, the first students will be able to enrol on the new degree programme, which is based at Faculty 3 Social Sciences, as early as the 1997/98 winter semester.
