Notes from the university
- The states of Bremen and Lower Saxony intend to transform the universities in the north-west into a cross-state science region. Lower Saxony's Science Minister Thomas Oppermann and Bremen's Science Senator Bringfriede Kahrs signed a joint declaration to this effect in July.
- The university's second endowed professorship will be dedicated to the work of one of the greatest thinkers of this century, the political scientist and philosopher Hannah Ahrendt (1906-1975). It was made possible by the Foundation of Lower Saxony. The Körber Foundation (Hamburg) is providing a large sum so that the estate, which is stored in the Library of Congress (Washington), can be copied for a Hannah Ahrendt Centre in Oldenburg.
- Günter Scholz, a lawyer and current Chancellor of Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences, elected as the new Chancellor by the University Senate on 8 July, takes office on 1 December.
- From the coming winter semester, Faculty 4 of Business, Economics and Law will offer the interdisciplinary specialisations "Economics with an Ecological Focus" and "Computing Science".
- Dr Stephanie Teufel, a private lecturer from Zurich, will hold the University's first endowed professorship in "Business Informatics". The professorship was made possible by EWE, OLB and the Wirtschaftliche Vereinigung/Kleiner Kreis.
- On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Department of Computing Science gave a positive review at a celebratory colloquium on 22 April 1998 in the new lecture hall building. In 1991, the OFFIS Institute emerged from the department, which now has 13 professorships.
- For the first time, the university concluded co-operation agreements with the Japanese universities of Hosei/Tokyo and Osaka.
- Psychologist Dr Adele Diederich was awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship, the highest award for young researchers, by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for her work.
- As part of this year's Karl Jaspers Lectures, social theorist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas nominated Frankfurt philosopher Dr Lutz Wingert for the Karl Jaspers Prize of the Lower Saxony Foundation, which is endowed with 10,000 marks.
