The University today bid farewell to more than 130 graduates of School I - School of Educational and Social Sciences at a ceremony.

How did epidemics and infectious diseases shape the 20th century? An international conference organised by the Institute of History on 23 and 24 March will examine "Epidemics in the social and cultural history of the 20th century".

How did the Nazis stage the "Volksgemeinschaft" and how was it perceived and experienced by the "Volksgenossen"? At a conference, historians examine the concept of the Volksgemeinschaft - the Nazis' central propaganda tool.

It is the first part-time study programme of its kind in the world: applications for the Continuing Studies Programme Offshore Wind Energy are now open. The programme starts in October 2012.

So far, friends and sponsors have donated three million euros to the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) project. The university has now thanked them with an event. The EMS starts on 1 October this year.

The starting shot was fired around 15 years ago in the north of Oldenburg. The ball is now rolling all over Germany. We are talking about the integrative girls' football project "Mädchen kicken mit". Chancellor Angela Merkel has now honoured the project in person.

They disappear for hours into their workrooms in the university library. Sometimes they look serious, sometimes cheerful. They are packed full of books. Who are they and what do they do? We asked and visited six students in their study cubicles.

What do Count Anton Günther, kale and VFB Oldenburg have in common? Students went in search of places of remembrance for a book. They already knew one place of remembrance: the university.

Who inspires the audience and jury with their research topic? Who manages to present their complex subject matter in an unadorned way? The LzO Prize for Science Communication calls for comprehensible expression. Sounds simple - but it's not.

Heike Andermann, previously head of the three libraries of the School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, is the new deputy director of Oldenburg University Library.

Lord Mayor Gerd Schwandner visits the university's outpatient centre - and is impressed by the variety of services on offer. Among other things, the outpatient centre offers psychomotor support for children and training for young people with attention deficit disorder.

According to the European Commission, 17 per cent of all Europeans do not have enough money to meet their most basic needs. How to tackle the problem? A new research project at the University of Oldenburg is looking for solutions.

"Pop/Knowledge/Transfers" was the title of the conference, which examined the relationship between popular culture, science and society. Here is an interview with the organisers Prof. Dr Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer and Prof. Dr Martin Butler.

The University of Oldenburg is expanding: a new building for the Research Centres Neurosensory Science and Safety-Critical Systems is being built on the Wechloy campus. At the centre: medical technology and human-machine communication.

It took Nicole Franke and Tobias Pieper exactly 1001 days to cycle around the world. The university graduates set off in March 2009 and arrived back in Oldenburg to great acclaim in December 2011.

"How can it be that I meet up with my best friends to punch them in the nose?" Nils Baratella is a doctoral student in the "Self-formations" research training group. His topic: boxing. Ines Weber, who is researching bishops, is quite different. A portrait.

Teaching and research focus: Migration and education, intercultural pedagogy, racism research and pedagogical professionalism.

"Lifelong Learning Campus" opened: The new campus houses all players involved in advanced scientific training and lifelong learning under one roof. And there are now many of them.

Nine new competence centres are being created across the country. The name of the Oldenburg Advanced Training Centre (OFZ) will remain the same. The OFZ, which is closely linked to the Didactic Centre, was the model for the changes.

The DFG is funding the international research group "European Socialisation" with three million euros. The initial questions: What does European integration mean for society? And how does it manifest itself in people's everyday lives?