University President Hans Michael Piper looks back on an eventful academic year in the wake of the pandemic. In a video message [YouTube] he talks about what holds the university together, about tough decisions and a glimmer of hope.

Ten lecturers from the fields of music, education, philosophy and medicine are honoured for their outstanding courses.

How does one go about studying three centuries' worth of literary journals? Haimo Stiemer is banking on digital analysis methods – and has secured a "Carl von Ossietzky Young Researcher's Fellowship" with this approach.

Master's student Beybin Elvin Tunç receives this year's DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students.

The German Research Foundation is funding a new research group at the university. The DynaDeep project, led by hydrogeologist Gudrun Massmann, is exploring a largely unknown habitat with a subterranean monitoring network on the island of Spiekeroog.

Excellent research and outstanding doctorates: physicist Ilia Solov'yov and lawyer David Saive receive this year's prizes from the Oldenburg University Society.

Prof. Dr. Ralph Bruder (57) will be the new President of the University. The Senate has voted unanimously for the director of the Institute of Human Factors and Ergonomics at the TU Darmstadt. The six-year term of office begins in August 2021.

The new Infection Protection Act was passed by the Bundestag in mid-November, but many people are still uneasy. Is parliament being bypassed? A guest article by Oldenburg constitutional law expert Volker Boehme-Neßler.

"Science in ten minutes" - this is the name of the new format from the Oldenburg Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature (OlFoKi). In video contributions, experts analyse current children's and young adult books scientifically and didactically.

The number of photovoltaic systems at the university is growing: more modules at the sports centre and the lecture hall centre will soon be producing environmentally friendly electricity and contribute about five percent to the overall electricity needs.

How can virtual reality help to better investigate complex auditory processes? This is what Oldenburg researchers are investigating in three projects of the priority programm AUDICTIVE.

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.