Small but treacherous: midges of the genus Culicoides are much smaller than the related mosquitoes, but as disease vectors they can cause epidemics in sheep or cattle with losses in the hundreds of millions. Young researchers at the university are investigating the ecology of the bloodsuckers.

The Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. (UGO), which is one of the largest of its kind in Germany with over 1,000 members, is once again offering an extensive and varied programme for all those interested in science and culture this year.

He deals with things that remain hidden: Christoph Lienau has established the "Ultrafast Nano-Optics" research area at the university. In the international research community, Oldenburg is now known as the "city of short pulses".

The Presidential Board of the University of Oldenburg wants to initiate a debate on fundamental questions of university education with a series of colloquia. The title of the event is: "Teaching universities for the masses and research universities for the elite - what is the university's…

Jörg Stahlmann, Head of the University's Finance Division for many years, has been appointed Vice President for Administration and Finance at the University of Oldenburg by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science.

How do different scientific disciplines analyse and describe the present? And how do these descriptions influence social reality, or at least our perception of it? A new Oldenburg science blog discusses questions like these.

The University of Oldenburg celebrated its 40th birthday in 2014. What makes it special? What should education look like in the future, and how can students' thirst for knowledge be encouraged? An exchange of views between Katharina Al-Shamery, Sabine Doering, Birger Kollmeier and Niko Paech.

In his latest book, Oldenburg musicologist Gunter Kreutz examines the healing effects of singing - and why it is a wasted opportunity if you stop singing

26-year-old honoured for top performance and social commitment

Infectious diseases from a medical and cultural-historical perspective: An interview with the physician and chemist Klaus Peter Kohse and the contemporary historian Malte Thießen.

The selected students come from all subject areas. Economics, Law, Mathematics and Chemistry are most frequently represented.

Rural peripheries - are they the "problem areas" that many have long perceived them to be or, on the contrary, the engine of dynamic development, for example for tourism, agriculture or the energy sector? A geographical symposium at the university painted a differentiated picture.

The new issue of the research magazine EINBLICKE has been published. "We need to rethink the university" is the cover story.

An international team of researchers has had 20,000 litres of seawater from the North Atlantic transported by tanker to Heidelberg University for analysis - including marine researchers from the University of Oldenburg.

"Open to new paths": in line with this motto, the university is successfully driving forward its internationalisation. At a conference of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) in Berlin, it received a certificate for its participation in the internationalisation audit.

The performance of the BallettCompagnie Oldenburg is the focus of the New Year's reception of the University and the University Society on 22 January 2015 at the Oldenburg State Theatre. The company will perform compositions by Andrei Jakowlewitsch Eschpai and Georges Bizet, which will be played by…

The 2014 North German Science Award goes to the "Wind Energy Research Network". ForWind - Centre for Wind Energy Research at the Universities of Oldenburg, Hanover and Bremen, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) Northwest and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR)…

Gunilla Budde, Vice President for Studies and Teaching, yesterday honoured nine lecturers with the "Teaching Prize" for the 2013/14 academic year. For the first time, the jury awarded a special prize in the "Project" category.

New funding programme from the state and the Volkswagen Foundation / Oldenburg scientists involved in two further projects

Corporations are amassing huge amounts of data that allow detailed statements to be made about a person. How do data protectionists deal with the phenomenon of "big data" - is data protection even possible? Interview with information law expert Jürgen Taeger.