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.

The dozen is full - but the ideas for further joint topics, projects and synergies are almost endless: the 12th annual meeting between the University of Oldenburg and the city leadership took place on Monday.

Master's students specialising in Computing Science and Business Informatics have developed a portable measuring station that can be used to detect floods at an early stage, among other things. The fire brigade, THW and NLWKN have shown interest.

Time plays an important role in medical decisions at different stages of life. The German Research Foundation is funding research into these relationships for a further four years. New spokesperson is Mark Schweda. 

Should the phase-out of the combustion engine be postponed or cancelled? A strategy paper with the participation of economists Jörn Hoppmann and Hauke Lütkehaus looks at the consequences of the "combustion engine phase-out" for the automotive industry.

The first coronavirus lockdown was imposed five years ago. A new study by sociologist Gundula Zoch shows that political trust has changed significantly during the pandemic years – in some cases with long-term consequences.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) at universities is the topic of a new research group headed by Heinke Röbken. The team is investigating fields of application and the use of AI in research, administration, studying and teaching.

How can school labs promote young talent in the STEM subjects and humanities? Around 180 people talked about this at the 20th annual conference of Lernortlabor e.V., the federal association of school laboratories.

Museum researcher Christopher Sommer studies how museums represent wars and how this is perceived by visitors. His research reveals that there is often a large gap between the desired effect and the actual impact on the public.

The metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria have been decoded for the first time. A study in the journal Science Advances reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.

The rapid movements of electrons in solids or molecules can be analysed much more easily than before thanks to a development by researchers in Oldenburg. The team presents the new method in the journal Optica.

The federal and state governments recognise the university's gender equality concept by including it in the programme for female professors. This is about academic appointments - but also much more.

Governments are guided by ethical principles when it comes to climate protection, while cost-benefit considerations take priority for their citizens, according to a new Oldenburg study. This poses a dilemma for ambitious climate politics.

After ten years in Berlin, Ann Kathrin Schubert has moved back to the village where she grew up near Bremen in Lower Saxony. Since last September she has been reorganising the university's central Alumni Office.

If you dial 112 for the emergency medical services in the Oldenburg area, the dispatchers won’t always send an ambulance. Since the pilot project Gemeindenotfallsanitäter was launched, they may decide to send a specially trained paramedic instead. 

The first international symposium of the Collaborative Research Centre "Magnetoreception and Navigation in Vertebrates" attracted many international guests. The programme ranged from how moths navigate to exotic quantum materials and robots that fly like birds.

Henrik Mouritsen was on the US podcast Radiolab, chatting with host Annie McEwen about the idea that birds use a quantum compass to navigate and how they might visualize the magnetic field.