Microbial ecosystems have tipping points where even small perturbations are enough to cause a collapse, according to a new study. Tom Clegg and Thilo Gross describe microbial communities as a network based on the exchange of metabolic by-products. 

From the culture of remembrance to political education, more civic participation and good politics to digital sovereignty: five researchers at the university report on approaches to strengthen our democracy.

Drug and medical device research involving humans is subject to many legal requirements and complex authorisation procedures. The Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials provides support with planning and implementation.

Student flyers offer a special view of the past. A project by the University Archive now aims to digitise these previously unused sources.

The university's administration is gradually being converted to digital processes. Vice President Jörg Stahlmann and Sabine Lohwasser, Coordinator for Digital Change in Administration, report on the current status and challenges.

Philosopher Alexander Max Bauer investigates to what extent people's needs must be covered in order for the society to perceive a distribution of goods as fair. His latest study focuses on the distribution of housing space.

Dörte Dannemann is "University of Excellence Coordination Officer " in the Structural Planning and Development Unit, where she is coordinating the preparations for a potential application for funding as a University of Excellence.

Dr Jan Rennies-Hochmuth has been appointed as part of a joint process between the University of Oldenburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT. In this interview, he talks about what this means in concrete terms.

The 50th episode of the podcast "Hirn gehört - Oldenburger Wissensschnack" will be released in May. We spoke to the presenter duo and provide an overview of more podcasts from the university cosmos.

A new study by University Medicine Oldenburg offers special training for older people after a fall. The researchers are investigating the extent to which targeted exercises can reduce the risk of falling.

Since the winter semester, a parent-and-child room in the library has provided a space for learning, working and playing. It is designed to help students and researchers balance their daily university life with childcare

How do early language experiences, especially bilingualism, affect the processing of language in the brain? This is the topic of a new Oldenburg project in the "Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel" programme.

Researchers led by Oscar Puebla have described a new species of fish in the Gulf of Mexico. The brightly patterned creature, Hypoplectrus espinosai, belongs to the hamlet group. The team published their findings in the journal Zootaxa.

What is the role of hydrothermal vents in the cycle of dissolved organic matter in the ocean? Researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg have analysed samples from the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California.

Dr Daniel Kristanto wants to know what goes on in the human brain – not brains in general, but each individual brain. The University is now funding his "Individual Brain Project" for up to three years with a Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship.

Digitalisation has profoundly changed academic education in recent years. The University of Oldenburg is involved in two large joint projects in Lower Saxony that are driving this development forward.

Even if they receive optimal medical care, children with hearing impairments may need extra support with vocabulary for years to come, research by the scientists in the Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all indicates.

The University does many things to make settling in easier for international students in Oldenburg. Intercultural facilitators listen to their problems and offer support and guidance – and there’s also plenty of fun to be had.

For the first time, the most prestigious award for early-career researchers goes to an Oldenburg scientist: geoscientist Sinikka Lennartz receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for her computational modelling of organic carbon in the oceans.

Two projects in the fields of hearing research and political science have received funding from the state of Lower Saxony. The focus is on the influence of bilingualism on listening comprehension and the construction of social groups by political parties.