Two Oldenburg university lecturers were confirmed in office in the regular elections for the seven-member board of the International Hölderlin Society: German scholar Prof Dr Sabine Doering and philosopher Prof Dr Johann Kreuzer.

Hunting instead of cooking, searching instead of shopping, swapping instead of buying - for a year, author Greta Taubert led a self-sufficient life far removed from Western consumer culture.

Oldenburg historian Prof Dr Hans Henning Hahn has been awarded the highest Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. He received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from Polish President Bronisław Komorowski during a ceremony at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

She is the granddaughter of folk icon Woody Guthrie: Sarah Lee Guthrie. His great-uncle is the American Nobel Prize winner for literature John Steinbeck: Johnny Irion. The couple tour the world together and give concerts. The folk duo will be performing at the University Library on 28 April.

The University of Oldenburg bid farewell to its President Prof Dr Babette Simon at an academic matinée. Numerous guests came to the Audimax of the lecture hall centre, including Lower Saxony's Science Minister Dr Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić.

The Oldenburg economist and sustainability researcher Prof Dr Niko Paech has been awarded the ZEIT WISSEN Courage for Sustainability Prize in the "Knowledge" category. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Management together with four Vice Presidents

Richard-Balthasar von Busse took over the management of Schlaues Haus gGmbh on 1 February.

Prof Dr Babette Simon, President of the University Medicine Oldenburg since 2010, is taking over the role of Medical Director and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Mainz University Medical Centre. The Supervisory Board decided to appoint the physician with effect from 1 April.

The winners of the University of Oldenburg's 13th Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize have been announced. This year's prize was awarded for compositions for wind ensembles. The five-member jury, headed by Oldenburg composer and university lecturer Prof Violeta Dinescu, received 55 works from 14…

The new "Teacher of the Year for Science Subjects" comes from Hamburg: Kerstin Gleine received the €15,000 Klaus von Klitzing Prize, which was awarded for the ninth time by the University of Oldenburg and the EWE Foundation.

Fritz Stern researched Germany's difficult path to modernity - and subjected the national-conservative resentment against the Weimar Republic to in-depth criticism. The University of Oldenburg has now awarded the important German-American scholar an honorary doctorate.

Morgens um 7.00 Uhr geht es für Sandra Karp in ihrem Nebenjob los. Dann prüft sie im Wechsel mit ihren KollegInnen der Medientechnik die technischen Geräte in den Seminarräumen der Universität – damit der Lehrbetrieb reibungslos abläuft.

Prof Dr Babette Simon, President of the University, is a new member of the Supervisory Board of Düsseldorf University Hospital. The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia appointed Simon for a four-year term as an external expert from the field of medical…

Prof Dr Babette Simon, President of the University, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Private Excellence Initiative Johanna Quandt". The Advisory Board is to support the scientific work of the new "Berlin Institute of Health (BIG)/Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)", an…

With the Höffmann Science Prize, the University of Vechta honours academics who have published outstanding and pioneering work on intercultural competence. In mid-January, Prof Dr Paul Mecheril, Professor of Intercultural Pedagogy at the university, received the prize, which is endowed with 10,000…

Vierkind is an Oldenburg start-up that develops innovative Internet projects. Coached by the Start-up and Innovation Centre, Vierkind has now received its first award - for a test report network designed to provide orientation in the multimedia product jungle.

Prof. pens. Dr Dr h.c. Wilfried Wackernagel, geneticist at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, has been reappointed by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection to the "Central Commission for Biological Safety" (ZKBS) of the Federal Republic of Germany for a…

Prof Dr Niklas Nilius, previously head of the "Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy" working group in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, is the new Professor of Experimental Physics at the University's Institute of Physics.