12.8 kilograms of plastic waste have been collected by employees of the Department of Health Services Research over the past few months. They are supporting an initiative that aims to eradicate the highly contagious disease polio.

The Oldenburg State Theatre was sold out for the New Year's reception of the University and the University Society (UGO) on Thursday evening. Two ballet performances, four honours and the "chat afterwards" provided the almost 500 guests with an atmospheric evening.

A university campus with strict gender segregation, white doves on a golden mosque: Matthias Marx, who is studying Marine Environmental Sciences in Oldenburg, gained a wide range of impressions while attending a conference on student research in Qatar. His travel report.

Plants and animals are increasingly spreading - humans in particular are contributing to the introduction of non-native species. A team of scientists from Oldenburg has now discovered what pattern the spread follows.

The "Women Professors Forum" - a network just for female professors - was launched at the university a few weeks ago. In this interview, founder Katharina Al-Shamery explains how she and her colleagues want to help young female academics.

Like school lessons, only more difficult? A degree programme is more. In this interview, Vice President Sabine Kyora talks about research-based learning as a hallmark of the university and its pioneering role in the recognition of prior learning.

The exploration of their second subject has inspired eleven art students at the University of Oldenburg to create a wide range of artistic works. Their exhibition "Zweifach" can be seen in the lecture hall centre until 26 January.

How do coral reef fish find their way to their home reef and what role does the Earth's magnetic field play in this? An international team of researchers led by Oldenburg has investigated the navigational ability of cardinalfish.

More and more students prefer a single flat to the classic shared flat. Does this trend mean the end of shared flats? We visited students in their own homes and asked experts for their assessment.

Oldenburg scientists have worked with pharmacists and people with speech impairments to design a pictogram book that improves mutual understanding - even without speech. Simple pictograms provide information about complaints and medication.

"There is more to the Picture..." - is the title of an exhibition of works by art students, which can be seen in the lecture theatre centre until mid-December.

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…