The research team led by Oldenburg physicist and physician Birger Kollmeier has brought about a rethink in the entire hearing system industry. It has now been nominated as one of four teams for the prestigious German Future Prize 2012.

An international conference is being held at the University of Oldenburg from 20 to 22 September on the subject of peasant and middle-class elites in Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries.

The Schlaues Haus opens on 28 September: An interview with Dr Petra Buchholz, Managing Director of The Smart House Oldenburg gGmbH, about the aims of the facility, the building on Schlossplatz, initial events and the planned opening ceremony.

She comes from Russia and has been studying at the University of Oldenburg since 2006. In this interview, Natalia Movchan talks about the start of her studies and her first experiences in Oldenburg. And about the special recipe that helped her.

Dive into the depths of the oceans with the KinderUni

The Advisory Board of School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences met for the first time yesterday evening. All 16 members appointed by the Presidential Board were present to discuss its own rules of procedure and the examination and degree programme regulations for the new degree programme.

2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the posting of Luther's theses. Over the next five years, researchers from the "Freedom Space Reformation" project will be exploring the significance of the Reformation for the north-west region.

You need a rain jacket almost all year round, and for some it is "the biggest small town in the world". We are, of course, talking about Oldenburg. What should a future student actually know about the city? In this video, nine students reveal what they think is typical of Oldenburg.

16 young people started their academic appointments at the University of Oldenburg today.

"As one of the largest employers in the region, the university is doing everything it can to provide the young professionals with sound and qualified training," said Nikolas Lange, Vice President for…

The KinderUniversität opens its doors again: The autumn semester begins on Wednesday, 5 September at 4.30 pm with the lecture "Letters become words, become pictures - What happens in the mind when we read?".

Learning, reading, researching, checking emails, copying, surfing the net - maybe even relaxing in the café: The university library is the central point of contact for almost all students. It offers a comprehensive range of services.

John Cage, revolutionary innovator of modern music, celebrates his 100th birthday on 5 September. The Institute of Music is organising a Cage concert on this day. Christiane Abt and Prof. Dr Lars Oberhaus talk about Cage's work, his visits to Oldenburg and the concert.

At the University of Oldenburg, an increasing number of individuals with vocational qualifications are looking to take up a degree course. The number of applicants for Bachelor’s degree programmes with restricted admission for the 2012/13 winter semester stands at 169. This represents an increase of…

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 Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at the University of Oldenburg are opening up to new target groups for 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.