More and more academically qualified students want to study at the University of Oldenburg. The number of applicants for admission-restricted Bachelor's degree programmes in the winter semester 2012/13 was 169, an increase of 38 percent compared to the previous year.

Prof Dr Uwe Meves, emeritus Germanist at the university, has once again been awarded a "Lower Saxony 65+ Professorship". The expert in the German language and literature of the Middle Ages has already held this status for two years. Now he has once again prevailed over a prominent field of…

Three part-time degree programmes at the Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at the University of Oldenburg are opening up to new target groups in the 2012/2013 winter semester.

Slash-and-burn clearing of the rainforest leaves behind large quantities of charcoal - which over time ends up in the sea as extremely stable carbon compounds. The consequences for marine microorganisms are incalculable, according to the authors of a recently published study.

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has awarded Prof. Dr Reto Weiler, Managing Director of the Research Centre Neurosensory Science and head of the Neurobiology working group, the prestigious "Boycott Prize".

"Water is the coal of the future" wrote Jules Verne in his adventure story "The Mysterious Island" back in 1875. Today, hydrogen is regarded as a major source of energy. But how can hydrogen be produced in an environmentally friendly way and utilised on a large scale?

The University of Oldenburg has a new School: School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences has been established with the appointment of the founding dean by the Presidential Board.

He is regarded as an outstanding international scientist: 35-year-old physicist Dr Mohammed Khalil Saeed Salih from Sudan will be conducting research at the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen over the next two years as part of his Humboldt Fellowship.

At the end of July, the research vessel Maria S. Merian left the harbour of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The destination of the voyage: the fjord systems of Greenland and Iceland. On board is the Oldenburg expert for marine sensor systems Prof Dr Oliver Zielinski. Some impressions of the first…

Over the next three years, the University of Oldenburg will be supporting partner universities in Jordan, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt in the introduction of Master's degree programmes in business informatics.

It has been in operation at the university for a few days now: Europe's first commercially available light microscope with a resolution of less than 50 nanometres. It can be used to investigate processes in living cells.

The University of Oldenburg and the Jade University of Applied Sciences want to jointly increase the number and quality of start-ups from the universities. The two universities agreed this today with the signing of a cooperation agreement.

It will be ready in September, just in time for the start of the winter semester: The modular building for the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS). It is currently under construction on the Wechloy campus.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin developed the Olympic Games as a reaction to the crisis experiences of the fin de siècle - as a response to modernity. When the Summer Games begin today in London, it will become clear how contemporary his project still is. An essay by Thomas Alkemeyer.

The Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft has honoured the University of Oldenburg with the "Vielfalt gestaltet" (Shaping Diversity) audit certificate. Eight universities nationwide received the certificate, which was awarded for the first time.

With this award, the Stifterverband is drawing…

On Thursday, 26 July, the research vessel Maria S. Merian sets sail. The destination: the large fjords of Greenland and Iceland. There, Oldenburg scientists want to investigate, among other things, how harmful algal blooms develop - using state-of-the-art marine technology.

Violeta Dinescu's compositions for flute are intended to transport the listener to a magical garden of sounds. "Forgetmenot" (Forget-me-not) is the title of the new CD by the composer and university teacher. The Romanian flautist Ion Bogdan Stefanescu interprets the works.

Graduates of the Master of Education programme were bid farewell today at a ceremony at the University of Oldenburg.

To what extent do young men with a migration background feel discriminated against? And what is their understanding of masculinity? Oldenburg educationalist Rudolf Leiprecht surveyed more than 700 people in Lower Saxony - and sees a "huge challenge for society".

A literary magazine called "Persephonyx", for which you can send in photos, caricatures and comics. Or a music video without cuts, called Lipdub, in which the performers sing playback: About two projects by students who are out and about creatively on campus.