"Is it bad if you have to go to hospital?" This is a question that particularly concerns children. To allay their fears of hospitalisation, medical students have created the "Teddy Bear Hospital". It's happening again on 12 and 14 April.

33 men and women started the newly designed orientation year for refugees at the university at the beginning of April. They would like to prepare for university studies in Germany.

Oldenburg care researchers warn: one in five nursing home residents receives medication whose dose has not been adjusted to their kidney function or which should even be discouraged altogether. The results of their study were recently published in the German Medical Journal.

"Collaborating" - this is the title of an exhibition of works by art students from various degree programmes, which is now on display in the Lecture Hall Centre. The students created the works last semester under the direction of lecturer Norbert Bauer.

Success for Oldenburg didactics experts: The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) is funding four projects conceived at the university with a total of 800,000 euros. They are intended to help make socially challenging topics such as climate change accessible to young people.

The summer semester for guest students at the university begins on Wednesday 23 March with an information session, a chance to share experiences and a lecture.

The state of Lower Saxony will be funding three newly designed doctoral programmes at the university in the coming years. A total of 36 scholarships are available for doctoral candidates. The programmes focus on marine analytics, the migration society and extracurricular learning.

Psychological and medical research at the university has access to a new piece of large-scale equipment: The new magnetic resonance tomograph at the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences is being used for the first time for a study on the effects of chronic pain on numerical reasoning.

Who decides what is wrong and how severe the punishment will be? And is it always fair? These are difficult questions that the legal scholar Prof. Dr. Dr. Volker Boehme-Neßler will get to the bottom of with eight to twelve-year-olds on Wednesday, 16 March at 4.30 pm.

The first step in the formation of dunes and thus an island is what are known as primary dunes - in Platt: "Wittbülten". The national park house of the same name on Spiekeroog, which has been operating a research centre in co-operation with the university since 2011, is now celebrating its tenth…

They started with a blank sheet of paper, lots of creative ideas and the will to create something new. One year later, eleven business informatics students have created a software prototype that they will soon be presenting at CeBIT.

Multi-resistant germs pose major challenges for hospitals worldwide. As part of the 1st Spring School Oldenburg-Groningen, 14 students and seven experts from Germany and the Netherlands approach the topic.

A treasure hunt in a submersible, a rollercoaster ride with the Gulf Stream and exciting experiments on wind and solar energy - there's plenty to discover in the physiXS school laboratory on the Wechloy campus during the Easter holidays.

In order to make a small contribution to nature conservation, Oliver Giesecke does almost everything on his bike - even travelling to his semester abroad.

Scientists always want to know exactly what's going on, to get to the heart of the matter - not so with the new XPS spectrometer at the Institute of Chemistry, where only the surface counts.

Another tailwind for the Oldenburg start-up MiCROW: The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is also supporting the young company, which has its roots in the Oldenburg Computing Science Institute OFFIS - an affiliated institute of the university - in the second phase of the "EXIST…

The head of university sports, Dr Martin Hillebrecht (centre), described the first 1st UGO Forum 2016, which was attended by more than 40 people, as "remarkably lively". They found out about the degree programmes and research at the Institute of Sport Science as well as university sports [...]

This year, the University of Oldenburg is hosting two conferences focussing on the topic of research during studies. Interview: Co-initiator Susanne Haberstroh, advisor for research-based learning.

Germany is neglecting e-government - electronic administration and government - and is leaving important potential for innovation and value creation untapped: This is the conclusion reached by the Expert Commission on Research and Innovation, headed by Oldenburg economist Christoph Böhringer, in its…

The educational scientist and former acting president of the University of Oldenburg, Prof. Dr Hans-Dietrich Raapke, passed away on 10 February 2016 at the age of 87.