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.

Cacti, spurges and other plants from arid regions have been given a new home in the Botanical Garden: The new subtropical house was officially opened on Wednesday in the presence of Oldenburg's Lord Mayor Jürgen Krogmann.

Carbon instead of silicon: the next revolution in electronics could be based on so-called organic semiconductors. Physicist Manuela Schiek is working on a group of these materials that react very specifically to light.

For two and a half years, the Presidential Board and Faculties I to V worked closely together to develop a structural plan - as a basis for the future planning of the faculties and therefore also the university. Last week, the stakeholders signed the document.

Despite the occasional downpour, hundreds of people celebrated the International Summer Festival together on Wednesday. International life at the university was creative and colourful.

On Jürgen Habermas' 90th birthday, Oldenburg sociologist Stefan Müller-Doohm takes a look at the intellectual's work.

Researchers led by Dirk Albach are on the trail of the secret of the success of the widespread plant genus Veronica. In doing so, they are addressing one of the most topical questions in biology: What actually is a species?

Bringing science directly to the people - that's what the Innovation(s)Mobil of the Innovative University of Applied Sciences Jade-Oldenburg is all about!

Low German is to become established as a teaching subject at schools in Lower Saxony - and it will also be possible to study it as such. The university is currently expanding its degree programme. Students can already choose the language as a specialisation.

The state of Lower Saxony is funding a joint project between the University of Oldenburg, Jade University of Applied Sciences and Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences with around 2.25 million euros.

Ten minutes, scientific content and a lot of fun: these were the rules of the 9th Oldenburg Science Slam. Five young scientists competed this year in the sold-out Exerzierhalle.

First Qatar, now Oldenburg: the "2nd World Congress on Undergraduate Research" took place at the university at the end of May. Student Greta Lotte Kuhls was part of the organising team and looks back on three exciting days.

By Christoph Lienau. We discuss the story behind our recent Nature Nano paper introducing plasmonic nanofocusing as a powerful technique for light-scattering spectroscopy of single nano-objects with few nanometer spatial resolution and high sensitivity.

Work on the Centre for Marine Sensors is progressing: the foundation stone for the extension building was laid today at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment in Wilhelmshaven in the presence of Science Minister Björn Thümler.