The university continues to grow: a new laboratory building will be constructed at the Wechloy site from May, and a research and training centre for the Institute of Sport Science and university sports will be built on the Haarentor campus.

Relatives often hire a live-in caregiver for persons with dementia. The relationship between patient, carer and family members can lead to moral conflicts that researchers from Oldenburg and Tel Aviv are exploring in a joint study.

The niche is all the rage in the context of sustainability. Whether understood spatially or metaphorically as a place of retreat - legal historian Johanna Rakebrand and sociologist Jędrzej Sulmowski talk about its appeal in this interview.

From child protection in primary education to virtual reality in anatomy: seven projects at the University of Oldenburg are receiving funding through the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture's Innovation plus programme.

The semester is coming to an end - for students, this means the exam phase begins. Some not only have to deal with the material, but also with sweaty palms, panic or blackouts. Five tips against exam anxiety.

Deterioration in speech understanding when the speaker is wearing a mask mainly has visual causes. They are even more significant than the acoustic attenuation caused by the masks.

When society observes itself: Diagnosing (in) the Modern Age" is the focus of a new scientific network coordinated at the university and funded by the German Research Foundation for three years.

A new study published in Science Magazine has shed light on how birds navigate back to their breeding site after flying across two continents. Magnetic information seems to play a key role.

The organization Fairtrade Germany has recognized the University of Oldenburg as a Fairtrade-University. This makes it one of 36 universities in Germany that have proven to integrate fair trade into every day university life.

The Bible as a historical text, a critical examination of Christianity and interesting excursions: A look at studying theology and one graduate's special journey.

The university becomes a Fairtrade University. To mark this honour, the Student Union has come up with a special offer in three courses.

Campus versus Corona: The city of Oldenburg has opened a vaccination point in the university library. On Mondays, everyone aged 12 years or older can drop in to get a COVID19 vaccination.

There would be no oxygen on Earth were it not for sunlight; the key component in photosynthesis. Now researchers have made the surprising discovery that oxygen is also produced without sunlight, possibly deep below the ocean surface.

In the post-Brexit era, German and British universities are seeking new ways to collaborate. Thanks to a new programme, chemists Lena Albers from Oldenburg and Catherine Weetman from Glasgow are working together on a joint research project.

More and more plastic litter accumulates in the oceans. Remote sensing specialist Shungudzemwoyo Garaba from the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment develops monitoring tools to identify and track the long-lived debris.

Languages are often more variable than we imagine. In this interview, Slavic scholar Gerd Hentschel talks about German loan words in Upper Silesian and the aspirations of Upper Silesians to gain appreciation for their idiom.

It is not only in Lower Saxony that pupils write their first academic papers in upper secondary school. For years, they have been getting help with research for their specialist papers from the Oldenburg University Library, for example.

When crystals consist of only a single layer, they often exhibit strange properties. The Quantum Materials working group makes the two-dimensional semiconductors glow - a first step towards future, tiny laser light sources.

Five groups of students conducted research focused on the topic of "the future". Among the questions they investigated were how the climate movement envisions the future and how election forecasts influence voting behaviour.

Oldenburg chemist Dmitry Momotenko has developed a new printing technology for tiny metallic objects. He succeeded in producing copper columns with a diameter of only 25 billionths of a meter.