Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez, Prestige - how does nature manage to recover from such immense interventions? Scientists have known for some time that bacteria play a key role here. Oldenburg researchers have now discovered how these microorganisms manage to clean their environment.

Prof Dr Wolfgang Nebel, Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg and Chairman of the Board of the affiliated Institute OFFIS, is a new member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Who wouldn't sometimes like to be able to split up and be in several places at the same time? Jellyfish can do this: reproduce, for example, by simply cutting off parts from which a new individual then emerges. Biology student Anneke Heins got to the bottom of the strategies of one particular…

What does the transition from autumn to winter sound like? On Thursday, university students will present their interpretations of the seasonal change under the title "Autumn Leaves - Concert between the Seasons".

He has been its new president since 1 August, and on Friday the university formally inaugurated him: The medical scientist Prof Dr Dr Hans Michael Piper will steer the fortunes of the University of Oldenburg for the next six years.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG) at the University of Oldenburg invites you to the 5th Gender Research Day on Friday, 27 November.

They are the best lecturers at the University of Oldenburg: eight lecturers from various Schools have been honoured with the Teaching Award for the 2014/15 academic year.

Diplom physicist Dr Daniel Nickelsen received the University Society's 2015 Science Award for his outstanding doctorate at the University of Oldenburg.

At its 2015 Annual General Meeting, the Oldenburg University Society draws a positive balance - over 1,100 members

How teachers manage to awaken curiosity and a spirit of enquiry in their pupils in science lessons is to be more firmly anchored in teacher training in Oldenburg. To this end, the university will be cooperating with the association Forscherbambini e.V., which acts as the local network of the…

Under the title "Autumn Leaves - Concert between the Seasons", students from the University of Oldenburg will bring the year to a musical close on Thursday, 26 November from 5.00 pm in the university auditorium (Haarentor campus, building A11).

He has set up a professional laboratory, built an observatory and offers experimental workshops in his spare time: Teacher Christian Lorey from Würzburg receives the 2015 Klaus von Klitzing Award for special commitment to STEM subjects.

More than six million people across Germany suffer from depression every year. Although the illness is widespread, most people know very little about it - which makes life even more difficult for sufferers.

School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences has honoured graduates for the first time in its young history. 29 students from the model degree programme in Human Medicine at the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) completed the first stage of the medical examination. In addition,…

Helping refugee students in their everyday lives or perhaps occasionally offering a sofa to sleep on? If you would like to get involved or find out about other ways to help refugees at the university, the student initiative "University without Borders" invites you to the lecture hall centre on…

The Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ) invites those interested in founding a company with a "green" business idea to the Sustainable Entrepreneurship School.

Oldenburg physicist Daniel Nickelsen has gained important insights for energy research in his dissertation. For this, he has been awarded the Science Prize of the Oldenburg University Society (UGO), worth 2,000 euros.

Hearing damage caused by noise has hardly been recognised to date. Oldenburg hearing researcher Sarah Verhulst wants to change this. The junior professor in the "Hearing4all" cluster of excellence is receiving 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council.

The university-wide project "Research-based Learning in Focus (FLiF)" was able to convince the selection committee of the Joint Science Conference for the second phase of the "Quality Pact for Teaching" funding programme with its FLiF+ proposal. Around 6.2 million euros will be available from…

What does the picture book "Auf dem Land" by Ernst Jandl and Monika Maslowska sound like? How music, illustration and literature can work together is the focus of the symposium "colour-sound-rhyme-rhythm", hosted by the University's Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature (OlFoKi)…