From Oldenburg to Harvard: Stefan Raufer, a Master's student of hearing technology and audiology, is moving to a renowned US doctoral programme in the autumn. In this interview, the 25-year-old talks about his unusual career, the many facets of hearing research and what he loves about Oldenburg.

University history from the perspective of the Psychosocial Counselling Centre

Be careful when buying and using laser pointers: the beam power of commercially available devices can exceed the admission value many times over. And the specified values cannot always be relied upon. Holger Koch, laser safety officer at the University of Oldenburg, points this out.

35 regional and national companies are looking for the subjects and managers of the day after tomorrow at the University of Oldenburg's fifth Career Day. The job and internship fair will take place on Wednesday, 7 May, from 10.00 to 15.00 in the university's lecture hall centre (Haarentor campus,…

How can raw materials be kept in the economic cycle for as long as possible and thus protect the environment? The new BMBF junior research group led by Alexandra Pehlken - who is working with one of China's leading recycling experts - is addressing this question.

She is the granddaughter of folk icon Woody Guthrie: Sarah Lee Guthrie. His great-uncle is the American Nobel Prize winner for literature John Steinbeck: Johnny Irion. The couple tour the world together and give concerts. The folk duo will be performing at the University Library on 28 April.

Great success for the promotion of young talent at the University of Oldenburg: the state of Lower Saxony will be funding four new doctoral programmes in future. This rewards the intensive efforts to promote young talent, according to Acting President Prof Dr Katharina Al-Shamery.

Since the 1998/99 winter semester, the University of Oldenburg and Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences have been jointly offering the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in “Engineering Physics”. The universities now wish to expand their range of courses – and to include the dual study…

A new digital 3D atlas shows how heavy metals and trace elements are distributed in the sea - at an unprecedented level of detail. Scientists from the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) are also involved in the international research project.

A new inclusive sports project at the University of Oldenburg aims to encourage children to take part in Sport and Movement Science on Sundays. To kick off the "Open Sunday" project, 170 children came to the sports hall at Nadorst primary school over the past four Sundays. Under the guidance of…

What is the aim of health services research? Vice Dean Hans-Jürgen Appelrath talks in an interview about the establishment of the new focus area at the School of Medicine - and about how scientists are trying to analyse healthcare services in our healthcare system.

Current studies show that regular exercise has a positive influence on the course of schizophrenic psychoses. A research project at the university is looking at how schizophrenia patients can integrate more Sport and Movement Science into their lives and thus actively contribute to their health.

"Medical Campus University of Oldenburg" - this is the name that the Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg, the Oldenburg Clinical Centre, the Pius Hospital Oldenburg and the Karl Jaspers Clinic in Bad Zwischenahn will be able to use exclusively in future. This is regulated by an agreement that was…

"The Polish January Uprising of 1863" and its "history of entanglement and perception" is the topic of an international historians' conference with participants from seven countries. It is being organised by the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Oldenburg and will take…

The literary scholar and President of the Hölderlin Society Sabine Doering has been awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS). In this interview, she talks about her research goals and explains what fascinates her about the poet Friedrich Hölderlin.

The University of Oldenburg bid farewell to its President Prof Dr Babette Simon at an academic matinée. Numerous guests came to the Audimax of the lecture hall centre, including Lower Saxony's Science Minister Dr Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić.

Why do we find chocolate so delicious? And why should we avoid jellyfish and poisonous snakes? And what does all this have to do with our brain? In the last KinderUni lecture of the spring semester, neurobiologist Christiane Richter-Landsberg answers exciting questions.

On 21 January 2014, students at the University of London discovered the most important supernova explosion in decades. Scientists at the University of Oldenburg were able to provide early measurement data from the galactic event - which is now being accessed worldwide.

Ten out of 13 restaurants tested in Oldenburg have good to very good room acoustics: this is the initial result of a study conducted by physics students at the University of Oldenburg. Their ongoing investigation will be presented at the 40th Annual German Conference on Acoustics, which is currently…

Dr Antje Timmer has been appointed to the professorship of "Epidemiology and Biometry" at the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. She previously worked at the Leibniz Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research (BIPS) in Bremen. Timmer is the…