Orient and Occident - a variety of stereotypes are associated with these terms. Rima Chahine uses advertising posters to analyse exactly what they look like.

From a South Pacific expedition, a research team led by geoscientist Torben Struve brought back a research object which had travelled far before and can help explain the severe Earth cooling of the last Ice Age – dust.

Having their toddlers looked after in the immediate vicinity of the university - employees will have this option from autumn next year. The new large day care centre is currently being built on Uhlhornsweg.

40 jaar coöperatie tussen de universiteiten van Oldenburg en Groningen: Dankzij de lange samenwerking zijn Groningen en Oldenburgers in de loop der jaren collega's, vrienden en vertrouwelingen geworden - en soms zelfs meer.

The Universities of Groningen and Oldenburg have been cooperating for 40 years. In an interview, the two presidents Jouke de Vries and Hans Michael Piper talk about cross-border cooperation and pay tribute to the special relationship.

Turbulence is an omnipresent phenomenon – and one of the great mysteries of physics. A research team from Oldenburg has now succeeded in generating realistic storm turbulence in the wind tunnel of the Center for Wind Energy Research (ForWind).

Around 50 students from five schools have been working on their own projects around the pandemic. The university supports the projects in the teaching profile research@curriculum.

Digital learning formats are booming. Chemists at the University of Oldenburg developed practical experiments that can be carried out via the internet in the early 2000s. Now other universities are using these experiments – and demand is growing.

When the number of people infected with the corona virus rose dramatically in spring, many people did not seek medical care. Here, health care researcher Lena Ansmann discusses the reasons for this and explains why health literacy is important.

The university welcomed around 1,600 first-semester students on Monday - unfortunately not in the Audimax as usual due to the coronavirus, but via livestream and video. The O-Week also kicked off with many events - online and in person.

Trouble finding courses for the semester abroad? International students of social sciences and humanities who come to Oldenburg are spared this. Instead, the university offers a programme tailor-made for incomings.

Political education often leads a niche existence. The German reunification offers a good opportunity to demonstrate the achievements of democracy, says Tonio Oeftering, expert for political didactics, on the occasion of the 3rd of October.

Lower Saxony's state government has announced that it will now provide 80 million euros for the first construction phase of the new teaching and research building at the University Medical Centre.

"Pedagogical Week" online: Digital teaching and learning are increasingly characterising everyday school life - and consequently also the form and content of this year's teachers' conference.

Inga Rüdebusch has been the University's Inclusion Officer since mid-August. She represents the university in all matters relating to people with severe disabilities and their peers. A task with many overlaps.

The state of Lower Saxony is funding two new projects in which teachers at the university are developing free learning materials on education management and inclusion.

Almost 4,000 robotic floats drift through the world's oceans in the international Argo programme. Using new optical measuring methods, the robots will soon be able to collect biological and chemical data.

University Medicine Oldenburg hosted a parliamentary evening in Hanover on 14 September. The response was great, as was the need for dialogue.

In a seminar held by biologist Sascha Laubinger last winter semester, students dealt with questions of science communication and experienced what it means to talk to politicians.

Gustavo Adolfo Leon Montoya has come to appreciate the short distances, nature and peace and quiet of Oldenburg. After two and a half years, the psychology student from Mexico has settled in well and would like to stay.