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 keen 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 38…

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.