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.

Vote now for the University Pearl of the year 2021! The Oldenburg project "Work it out!" is also on the ballot: The certificate course supports international students in their transition to professional life.

The senate of the university has voted in favor of a second term for special needs educationalist Annett Thiele. Psychologist Christiane Thiel and educationalist Karsten Speck are to join the Presidential Board in January.

The research group DynaCom is investigating how stable ecosystems are in the face of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. The German Research Foundation is now funding the project for another three years.

As well as supporting mobility in higher education, the European Erasmus+ programme aims to promote social change towards more sustainability. The University of Oldenburg is supporting this goal in its own special way.

Astrid Beermann has been working as a therapist, supervisor, coach and mediator in practice and teaching for 20 years. At the university, she is the contact person for all employees, from apprentices to managers.

Volcanism probably triggered a period of global cooling that caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history. A new study by Jack Longman and colleagues is looking at the mechanisms behind this event.

Using digital tools to get a taste of working on a research vessel or independently analysing a little-noticed form of literature: In the past academic year, the university once again offered teaching that inspired students.

Originally, Jingjing Xu planned to spend just one year at the University of Oldenburg. That was in 2017. She stayed longer to continue her research and has now been awarded the DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students for her work.

She organises student academies, writes children's books and is involved in international aid projects: Teacher Wiebke Endres from Wilhelmshaven, an alumna of the university, was awarded the Klaus von Klitzing Prize this year.