Helping people with impaired hearing to enjoy music more is the long-term goal of Oldenburg hearing researcher Kai Siedenburg. His outstanding research in this area has now earned him a "Freigeist" fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation.

How can we keep the memory of historical events alive? What role could places such as the "Polish memorial" demanded by a citizens' initiative play in this? A discussion on the occasion of the anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.

The Oldenburg School 2019 is once again promoting young academics. This year, the undead play just as much a role as writing training and third-party funding applications.

Around 100 experts from all over the world gathered at the "Marine Microbiota" symposium in Oldenburg at the end of August. Here, the host of the event, microbiologist Meinhard Simon, explains why these marine bacteria are so important.

Over the past two years, Oldenburg business IT specialists have worked with partners in Tanzania to establish a centre of excellence for information and communication technologies. The "Centre of Excellence for ICT in East Africa" has now been opened.

If you want to study abroad, you should be proactive and open-minded. Katharina Mauz explains why she wouldn't want to miss out on international experience. She spent a semester in Uganda.

The university has set up an interdisciplinary research centre to investigate the technical and social challenges of so-called "human-cyber-physical systems". Scientists from all six Schools are involved.

The philosopher and sociologist Theodor W. Adorno died 50 years ago. Oldenburg sociologist Stefan Müller-Dohm, Adorno biographer and founder of the Adorno Research Centre at the University of Oldenburg, takes a look at the intellectual's work.

The small town of Lindau regularly hosts a unique conference in the summer. Oldenburg physics doctoral candidate Jannik Ehrich was there this year - and reports on his experiences.

Occupational mobility should be organised in a healthy way. Results of the BMBF joint project prentimo.

When does the whirring of fans sound pleasant? Two hearing researchers from Oldenburg are tracking the acoustic quality of ventilation.

Students help refugee children to find their feet in a foreign world - that's what the university and city's "Buddy" project is all about. A success story that has continued this year.

On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Björn Poppe and Kay Willborn from the University Clinic for Medical Radiation Physics talk about the dangers and curiosities of the Apollo missions - and about the role of radiation protection in future missions.

Katerina Tounousidi left her home country of Greece a year and a half ago and moved to Oldenburg to pursue her dream of studying biology. Today, she feels right at home here.

The University Medicine Oldenburg and its clinical partners consider the results of the evaluation of its university medicine by the German Council of Science and Humanities (WR), which were announced on 15 July, to be pleasing and extremely helpful.

In the new building W03A, new offices and laboratories for the natural sciences and medicine are being built on an area of 300 square metres.

Anyone planning a wind farm needs precise information about the prevailing wind conditions. The NEWA (New European Wind Atlas) research project, in which Oldenburg researchers were also involved, is now providing the necessary data.

How can agricultural land be made more attractive to insects without reducing yields? Oldenburg biologists are investigating this in an EU project.

The music theatre piece "Heimat im Koffer" tells the stories of artists who fled abroad to escape National Socialism. University students spent months developing the play themselves. A look behind the scenes.

The successful collaboration at the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen is going to be expanded. The cooperation agreement was signed yesterday in Groningen by the universities' presidents and the deans of their respective medical schools.