15 art students had themselves photographed in everyday places on campus. The speciality: They have painted their bodies in such a way that they virtually merge with the background.

It is wafer-thin, but nevertheless important - the boundary layer between the ocean and the atmosphere. It influences the exchange of gases between water and air - and thus has an impact on the climate. An international team of researchers is now investigating this layer in the Jade Bay.

The university has its own Quidditch team. That's right - the sport known from the magical Harry Potter world and played at lofty heights on flying brooms. But the university athletes stay on the ground.

The European Union is celebrating its 60th birthday - and is in crisis. In this interview, social scientist and Europe expert Martin Heidenreich talks about the successes and failures of European integration, cross-border solidarity and social division.

Back at university after 30 years: in mid-March, the first-year physics students from the winter semester of 86/87 gathered in Oldenburg for a reunion.

Is the agricultural industry producing the right seeds for sustainable agriculture? Can common property rights to varieties change plant cultivation socially and ecologically? The "Right Seeds" research group is focussing on these questions.

How can the horror of the Holocaust be made comprehensible to children and young people today? One answer is provided by the "Heimatsucher" project, which is aimed at schools nationwide - and is now being incorporated into teacher training programmes in Oldenburg.

During his visit to the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, Lower Saxony's Minister President Stephan Weil paid tribute to the medical training programme. He was given exclusive insights into the degree programme and modern hearing research in the NeSSy research building.

A group of students at Oldenburg University and Hochschule Emden/Leer has a vision: to help design a brand new mode of eco-friendly transport. Their goal is to win the international Hyperloop Pod Competition.

For the summer semester, students and university staff can look forward to new seating areas and a wider range of food and drink options.

Physicists may have to rewrite their textbooks in future - at least as far as heat transport over extremely small distances in a vacuum is concerned. This is suggested by the results of experiments conducted by Oldenburg scientists.

Story, recording, editing - everything in Steffen Pilney's radio play "Tod auf der Kegelbahn!" was done by himself. The student on the Oldenburg "Integrated Media" Master's programme has received a lot of praise for his debut work.

Everyday textile objects and their history(ies) are at the centre of a restructured collection at the Institute of Material Culture. More than 4,000 objects from imperial garters to cocktail dresses from the 1980s are on display.

Interlinking science and business in the region even better: The new event series "Zukunft[s]unternehmen Nordwest" organised by the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen is dedicated to this goal. The kick-off event on 29 March in the BIS Hall will focus on "IT and technology in care".

Scientists at the university have dedicated themselves to a holistic view of the energy consumption of Data Centres in the recently launched "TEMPRO" project. The special thing about it: They are taking the entire life cycle of the devices into account.

What to do if the landlord doesn't pay back the deposit? And does a tweet about a university event actually fall under freedom of speech? Students seeking advice come to the university's student legal advice centre with these and other questions. Students have been offering this free service since…

Germany's most modern research vessel, the "Sonne", is once again under Oldenburg's command: an international team is on the high seas until 27 February to investigate the bacterial and sponge communities in the Pacific.

Have you ever made your own stationery? Or reconstructed an exchange of letters in radio play format? Letters, once the most important means of communication in the world, are the focus of a student exhibition soiree in the Lecture Hall Centre on Thursday, 9 February.

How can student teachers be best prepared for the reality of the classroom? In the OLE+ project, experts have been developing ideas for modern teacher training at the university for around a year. On 2 February, the team will present to all interested members of the university how far the project…

Space for 130 scientists, a 30 metre long measuring section and wind speeds of up to 150 km/h: the research laboratory for turbulence and wind energy systems at the University of Oldenburg was inaugurated on Thursday in the presence of Science Minister Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić.