"Have fun and move together": Under this motto, the Institute of Sport Science invites all children of university staff and students and their parents to go "sporting".

How must university operations be organised in order to master future social challenges? This is the central question of the university's first sustainability report, which lists previous activities relating to sustainability - and identifies points for discussion.

Hero, traitor, fighter for peace, co-destroyer of the republic, victim, martyr, pacifist, communist, democrat - these are just some of the names given to Carl von Ossietzky. An exhibition in the University Library focuses on the man who gave his name to the University of Oldenburg.

40 years of the University of Oldenburg: At the start of the anniversary celebrations, President Babette Simon talks about challenges and prospects, about "sustainable society" as a topic, the support of the region - and about what is typical of the University of Oldenburg.

Game makes climate negotiations tangible

Is it possible to compare the function of biotic communities? Scientists from the Universities of Oldenburg and Göttingen are investigating this question in a globally unique project and are jointly researching the functional significance of biodiversity.

Double success in the Telekom Foundation's university competition: The University of Oldenburg is the only university to score points in two subject areas. The funding makes it possible to develop and test new approaches to STEM teacher training.

The German Research Foundation has once again granted the University of Oldenburg funding for the "Roseobacter" Collaborative Research Centre. The scientists have already decoded the genomes of 14 organisms of the marine bacteria group - with surprising results.

University President Prof Dr Babette Simon and Vice President Prof Dr Gunilla Budde awarded 104 Deutschlandstipendien to students at a ceremony. The funding not only benefits the recipients, but also strengthens the north-west region.

Once again this year, the Oldenburg State Theatre is calling for "more drama" from university students and inviting them to the second TheatreCampus from 18 to 24 November.

During the TheatreCampus, students can attend all performances for five euros - on all seats. A total of 15 productions are…

Ten lecturers at the university have been awarded the "Teaching Prize" for the 2012/13 academic year by the Vice President for Studies and Teaching, Prof Dr Gunilla Budde. They were nominated by students.

The 2nd Day of Research at the University of Oldenburg on Wednesday, 13 November, 9.00 am to 4.00 pm, in the library hall (Haarentor campus) is all about young researchers and their promotion. The event is being organised by the Department for Research and Technology Transfer.

"The training of…

The gender relations in Richard Wagner's operatic world seem clear. Radiant male heroes or brilliant artists are juxtaposed with primordial women: Incarnations of sacrifice or redemption. The international symposium "Wagner - Gender - Myths" questions this view.

"Genomes are something like a blueprint for life," explains microbiologist Prof Dr Ralf Rabus.

But it is the proteomes, the totality of all proteins in a cell, that breathe life into them.

They are the focus of the new discipline of proteomics, which Rabus presents in the journal PROTEOMICS.

Researchers are investigating the long-neglected phenomenon of local chronicles - with the aim of shedding new light on the confrontation with National Socialism. An interview with the two project leaders Dietmar von Reeken and Malte Thießen.

How do we actually thematise what we commonly call the "foreign"?

Students of the subjects of general studies, art and German studies have explored this question - and approached the "foreign", this cultural construction, artistically.

"In the prism of science. One hundred years of general psychopathology" - this is the title of a scientific conference taking place in Oldenburg and Bremen from 7 to 9 November. The organisers - the University of Oldenburg in co-operation with the Karl Jaspers Society and the Klinikum Bremen Ost…

The new "Teacher of the Year for Science Subjects" comes from Hamburg: Kerstin Gleine received the €15,000 Klaus von Klitzing Prize, which was awarded for the ninth time by the University of Oldenburg and the EWE Foundation.

Success for Michael Sommer: the first volume of his Roman history "Rom und die antike Welt bis zum Ende der Republik. Römische Geschichte" was voted "Historical Book of the Year" in the "Overview" category by the history magazine "Damals".

Fritz Stern researched Germany's difficult path to modernity - and subjected the national-conservative resentment against the Weimar Republic to in-depth criticism. The University of Oldenburg has now awarded the important German-American scholar an honorary doctorate.