What role does the brain play in hearing? How do migratory birds navigate? And where is the magnetic sense of salmon located? The new "digitising microscopy robot" will help Oldenburg scientists to find the answers in future.

Young researchers should no longer have to shuffle from short-term contract to short-term contract - this is one of the aims of the new Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act. But what does the amendment mean in practice for young researchers and those who want to employ them?

Outstanding teaching: A teacher and two historians from the University of Oldenburg have been honoured with the Teaching Prize for their outstanding teaching of content to students at a ceremony.

The EU is once again funding the "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations". In this interview, consortium member Martin Butler and graduates Saba Al Kuntar and Rueben Okine explain what makes EMMIR so special.

Becoming a consultant? Students of economics and other subjects can try this out and gain a wide range of experience at the student consultancy CARLO. CARLO celebrated its tenth anniversary on Friday.

The university's two new high-performance computers CARL and EDDY have made it into the top 500 of the world's fastest computing clusters. This means that IT services also operate one of the fastest computing clusters for university research in Germany.

Physicist and private lecturer Dr Svend-Age Biehs was awarded the 5,000 euro prize for excellent research in 2016 and received it from the new Chair of the Oldenburg University Society, Honorary Professor Dr Werner Brinker (right), and his predecessor Michael Wefers (left) at a ceremony.

Honorary Professor Dr Werner Brinker is the new Chair of the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. (UGO). He was elected today at the suggestion of his predecessor Michael Wefers, who did not stand for re-election due to academic appointments. Deputy Chair Swea von Mende, Treasurer Dr Andreas…

The UGO Prize for excellent research has been awarded to physicist Svend-Age Biehs. The 39-year-old was honoured at a ceremony on Wednesday for his work in the field of radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale. Biehs studied and completed his doctorate at the Institute of Physics at the University…

Hydrogen fuel cells have great potential, but their breakthrough is still a long time coming. Since July, junior professor Mehtap Özaslan has headed a BMBF junior research group that aims to give the low-emission technology new impetus.

What does it mean to flee your home country? Abdul Abbasi and Allaa Faham have experienced exactly that. The two Syrians talk about their experiences as refugees at the Kulturetage on Tuesday.

How can regional fruit growing be safeguarded? How can innovative organic breeding concepts be developed and how can access to newly developed varieties be kept open? A new research network at the university will be addressing these questions from January.

"Hej! KIBUM meets Sweden" - this is the motto of the 42nd Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Fair, which the University of Oldenburg is organising together with the City of Oldenburg from 5 to 15 November.

He invented the "Schillermobil" for his school - a molecular biology laboratory that can be set up and dismantled at any time. Dr Florian Schaller also knows how to inspire enthusiasm for his subjects of chemistry and biology. On Tuesday, the teacher was awarded the Klaus von Klitzing Prize 2016 for…

High-ranking visitor for the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg: Federal Research Minister Prof Dr Johanna Wanka personally informed herself about the latest successes of Oldenburg's marine research on Tuesday.

Sitting for hours on end and listening intently - everyday lecture life can be quite stressful and tiring. Since the start of the semester, university sports instructors have been providing a new lease of life in the lecture theatre with their "Moving Break".

To strengthen cooperation among hearing researchers worldwide and in this way promote innovation in the field is the goal of a new project at the University of Oldenburg.

The terrorist attacks of 11 September, the NSA wiretapping affair and other events in contemporary history have inspired twelve Oldenburg students to create a wide range of artistic works. The results are currently on display in lecture theatre centre A14.

Explaining his research to a layperson is not so easy: computer mathematician Florian Heß on parallels with car construction, the irony of history - and an unresolved million-dollar question.

Irina Geibel and Anna Dierks have discovered a new chemical reaction - an absolute rarity these days. With their discovery, the two chemists could contribute to the development of new medicines.