Notes from the university
- The states of Bremen and Lower Saxony intend to transform the universities in the north-west into a cross-state research region. To this end, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Science, Thomas Oppermann, and Bremen’s Senator for Science, Bringfriede Kahrs, signed a joint declaration in July.
- The university’s second endowed professorship will be dedicated to the work of one of this century’s greatest thinkers, the political scientist and philosopher Hannah Ahrendt (1906–1975). This has been made possible by the Lower Saxony Foundation. The Körber Foundation (Hamburg) is providing a substantial sum to enable the estate, which is held at the Library of Congress (Washington), to be copied for a Hannah Ahrendt centre in Oldenburg.
- Günter Scholz, a lawyer and currently Chancellor of Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences, was elected as the new Chancellor by the University Senate on 8 July and will take up his post on 1 December.
- From the coming winter semester, Faculty 4 (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 take up the university’s first endowed professorship in “Business Informatics”. The professorship was made possible by EWE, OLB and the Economic Association/Kleiner Kreis.
- The Department of Computing Science took stock of its achievements on the occasion of its tenth anniversary at a celebratory colloquium on 22 April 1998 in the new lecture theatre building. In 1991, the affiliated institute OFFIS emerged from the department, which now comprises 13 professorships.
- For the first time, the university has signed cooperation agreements with the Japanese universities of Hosei (Tokyo) and Osaka.
- The psychologist Dr Adele Diederich has been awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for her work; this is the highest honour for early-career researchers.
- As part of this year’s Karl Jaspers lectures, the social theorist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has nominated the Frankfurt-based philosopher Dr Lutz Wingert for the Karl Jaspers Encouragement Prize, worth 10,000 marks, awarded by the Lower Saxony Foundation.
