Major sporting events such as the Olympic Games are increasingly criticised. Sports sociologist Thomas Alkemeyer talks about whether such competitions…

Relatives often hire a live-in caregiver for persons with dementia. The relationship between patient, carer and family members can lead to moral…

From child protection in primary education to virtual reality in anatomy: seven projects at the University of Oldenburg are receiving funding through…

The semester is coming to an end - for students, this means the exam phase begins. Some not only have to deal with the material, but also with sweaty…

Deterioration in speech understanding when the speaker is wearing a mask mainly has visual causes. They are even more significant than the acoustic…

A new study published in Science Magazine has shed light on how birds navigate back to their breeding site after flying across two continents.…

The organization Fairtrade Germany has recognized the University of Oldenburg as a Fairtrade-University. This makes it one of 36 universities in…

Campus versus Corona: The city of Oldenburg has opened a vaccination point in the university library. On Mondays, everyone aged 12 years or older can…

There would be no oxygen on Earth were it not for sunlight; the key component in photosynthesis. Now researchers have made the surprising discovery…

In the post-Brexit era, German and British universities are seeking new ways to collaborate. Thanks to a new programme, chemists Lena Albers from…

More and more plastic litter accumulates in the oceans. Remote sensing specialist Shungudzemwoyo Garaba from the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of…

Languages are often more variable than we imagine. In this interview, Slavic scholar Gerd Hentschel talks about German loan words in Upper Silesian…

Five groups of students conducted research focused on the topic of "the future". Among the questions they investigated were how the climate movement…

Oldenburg chemist Dmitry Momotenko has developed a new printing technology for tiny metallic objects. He succeeded in producing copper columns with a…

Vote now for the University Pearl of the year 2021! The Oldenburg project "Work it out!" is also on the ballot: The certificate course supports…

The senate of the university has voted in favor of a second term for special needs educationalist Annett Thiele. Psychologist Christiane Thiel and…

The research group DynaCom is investigating how stable ecosystems are in the face of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. The German…

As well as supporting mobility in higher education, the European Erasmus+ programme aims to promote social change towards more sustainability. The…

Volcanism probably triggered a period of global cooling that caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history. A new study by Jack…

Originally, Jingjing Xu planned to spend just one year at the University of Oldenburg. That was in 2017. She stayed longer to continue her research…