An international research team including neuroscientists Henrik Mouritsen and Karin Dedek has made a surprising discovery: Bird retinas – among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom – operate permanently without oxygen.

The heads of the city and university drew a positive interim balance at the annual meeting. The co-operation will focus on the start of construction of the medical campus in 2026 and the promotion of new medical start-ups.

The University Library has a new service: the "Digital Humanities" service centre supports anyone interested in using digital methods in research in the humanities.

The university and the Universitätsgesellschaft celebrated their New Year's reception with a special programme at the Oldenburg State Theatre.

The digitalisation of administration at the university has taken an important step forward: the first e-file has been launched with the personnel file. Further files are to follow.

A new Junior Research Group aims to make bioplastics out of organic waste such as green waste, hay and algae. The Project is receiving 2.7 million euros from the BMFTR funding.

For three decades, the University has been offering language courses for students, researchers and staff. In this interview, Maike Engelhardt, head of the Language Centre, explains its important role in campus life.

Dr Silke Bakenhus is investigating how primary school children imagine life 200 years ago. She has found out that five- to twelve-year-olds rarely have a realistic image of the past.

Johanna Raphaela Wahl is the first in her family to study at university and is now doing a doctorate. The new mentoring programme Perspectives is helping her to advance her academic career.

Germany has seen slow progress when it comes to increasing the participation of people with disabilities. In this interview, Teresa Sansour, an expert in special needs education, explains which groups need more attention and how her research can help.

Andrea Lübben is head of the Botanical Garden's Administrative Office. In this interview she talks about her varied tasks, what the annual Open Day means for the garden and why the seed exchange platform Index Seminum is so important.

On 1 January, the Hearing4all cluster began its third funding period - with a new face at the helm. Birger Kollmeier and his successor Christiane Thiel in an interview about the past and future of the cluster.

Historian Dagmar Freist recently presented the Prize Papers Project at the Spanish Embassy in London. In this interview, she talks about captured galleons, secret trade networks, slavery, and moving letters that never reached their destination.

Karina Moritzen has been awarded the 2025 DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students. In addition to her academic research in Game Studies at the University of Oldenburg, she is involved in a number of social projects.

Mastering two examination phases per semester and finding your way around a foreign city to boot: Maja Theophil reports on her Erasmus+ year abroad in the Netherlands.

For the second time, the Academic Senates from Bremen and Oldenburg met together. At the meeting, which took place at the HWK Delmenhorst, the university executive boards discussed the further strategy in the competition for the title of excellence.

Ninety years have passed since Carl von Ossietzky, after whom the university is named, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The University Library is displaying an innovative 3D scan of his Nobel Prize medal on its website to mark the occasion.

The world-renowned philosopher Hannah Arendt died fifty years ago today. In this essay, Oldenburg philosopher Matthias Bormuth examines Arendt’s views on independent thinking as a prerequisite for democracy.

After 38 years at the Psychological Counselling Service of the Studierendenwerk and the University, Gisela Degener has retired. During this time, she has closely supported and influenced many thousands of students.

A research team from the Institute for German Studies is investigating family groups that speak Sater Frisian in everyday life as part of a new DFG project. They want to find out how alive the minority language still is.