The University Society's (UGO) "Impulse Forum" is intended to serve as a door opener to the university for young managers from business, culture and administration. Conversely, it is an opportunity for young academics to network in the region.

The first Heisenberg Professor of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Oldenburg, Prof. Dr Lars Steinsträßer, will give his inaugural lecture on Wednesday, 11 February at 6 p.m. in The Smart House Oldenburg (Schlossplatz 16).

Smartphone plus app is not enough: Oldenburg computer scientist Susanne Boll and her team are developing mobile assistance devices that people really want - because they fit in well with everyday life, because they help and because they look good. A portrait

This year, the Audimax in the lecture theatre centre is once again firmly in the hands of children: The KinderUniversität Oldenburg offers exciting excursions into the world of science on six afternoons. Advance ticket sales for the spring term are now underway.

Solving fictitious patient cases and discussing cranial nerves in the anatomy room: Lucia Christians is the first prospective doctor at the European Medical School currently studying in Groningen - in Dutch.

The conference "New appointees and neurosensory science - getting to know each other and impulses for professional cooperation" took place in mid-January / Basis laid for new research initiatives

One of Germany’s most renowned psychiatrists will take up the Karl Jaspers Visiting Professorship in the 2014/2015 winter semester: Prof. Dr Dr Andreas Heinz, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Once again, the New Year's reception of the University and the University Society on 22 January 2015 at the Oldenburg State Theatre delivered what it promises year after year: a cultural and communication event that is unparalleled in the region.

What does the TV series "Buffy" have to do with Plato? This is just one of the questions that the academic articles in the new student online journal `forsch!' aim to answer. Other topics in the first issue include fashion blogs, guilt and remorse and marriage as an event.

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.