On our own behalf: The new issue of the research magazine EINBLICKE and a relaunch of the online alumni magazine "AlMa".

Edward O. Wilson, the outstanding American evolutionary biologist and "father of sociobiology", is dedicating an annual lecture series on biodiversity, which starts at the university on Wednesday, 30 May. The renowned biologist Prof Dr Georgina Mace will kick off the series.

How does a novel become a bestseller, an author a star? These are questions that scientists will be discussing at the "Precarious Alliances" conference. Oldenburg-based popular culture researcher Martin Butler is already revealing that personal networks and social media play an important role.

She has become famous for her drawings: The artist Isabel Kreitz made a name for herself with her comic adaptation of Uwe Timm's "Die Entdeckung der Currywurst". Now she is the university's 2012 poetry professor.

We need flexible study structures for working people, say Oldenburg university lecturers Anke Hanft, Heinke Röbken and Olaf Zawacki-Richter. This is because German universities are not sufficiently geared towards the requirements of lifelong learning.

Are you nearing the end of your studies and still no job in sight? Students in the final phase of their studies and graduates in particular need guidance when starting their careers. This is what Career Day offers - with more than 40 companies and non-profit organisations.

Technical companies - especially in the STEM fields - have a high demand for qualified junior staff. Women in particular are underrepresented there. The university and the Jade University of Applied Sciences want to change this together.

Marine researchers call the substance that gives seawater its yellowish colour "Colored Dissolved Organic Matter". It can be used to track the path of water through the oceans. Its sky-blue fluorescence enables highly sensitive spectral fingerprints.

Oldenburg lawyer Prof Dr Jürgen Taeger is expecting participants from five countries at the conference "A Democratic Europe - Memory, Unity and Diversity". It will take place from 7 to 10 May at the University of Oldenburg.

What do Oldenburg's pedestrian zone, kale and the artist Horst Janssen have in common? Quite simply: they are considered characteristic of Oldenburg, as so-called "places of remembrance".

For the fourth time, students from the "Sport and Lifestyle" degree programme are organising a Master's Day. It gives interested parties an insight into the topics and career opportunities of the degree programme.

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) has given the go-ahead for the construction of the new Student Service Centre (SSC) at the University of Oldenburg.

Prof Dr Christoph Böhringer, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oldenburg, is a new member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI).

Developing new online business models and supporting and promoting the creation of a start-up team: This is the aim of the "IdeaJam Nordwest" ideas competition, which will take place on 11 and 12 May 2012 at the Oldenburg Technology and Start-up Centre.

There is now a central point of contact for anyone with a business idea: the university's start-up and innovation centre. Director Dr Petra Buchholz talks about the centre's goals and how a culture of creativity is being created on campus.

They use a new mass spectrometer to analyse isotopes and fossil marine sediments: Scientists from the second Max Planck Research Group at the university. Their aim is to decipher the role of the world's oceans in the climate.

Students with an academic appointment or with a foreign educational qualification receive support through a project accompanying their studies.

The University of Oldenburg today opened a central point of contact for those interested in setting up a business at regional universities in the form of the Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ). Lower Saxony's Science Minister Prof Dr Johanna Wanka was among the guests.

The international DAAD Alumni Summer School "Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems and Sustainable Development" started on Saturday, 14 April at the University of Oldenburg.

The idea has fascinated researchers for centuries: capturing and storing light. This is particularly complex in nanostructures. A German-Japanese research team led by Prof Dr Christoph Lienau, physicist at the University of Oldenburg, has now achieved a breakthrough.