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Top News Marine Sciences Research

Exploring the ocean's thin skin

The microlayer between ocean and atmosphere is at the center of a new research group led by Oldenburg scientists. Over the next four years, the team…

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Campus Life Landingpage [Entdecken] Persönliches International affairs

Practising intercultural relations

Since 2011, the master programme EMMIR funded by the European Excellence Programme Erasmus Mundus, has been training students from all over the world.…

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Facets of freedom

Freedom is guaranteed to us as a fundamental right, but it also has limits. Scholars at our university share their thoughts in this online feature…

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Top News Higher Education Policy International affairs

Refuge and support for scholars at risk

Autocratic regimes, wars and political persecution put academics all over the world at risk. As a member of the international network Scholars at…

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Top News Research Medical Physics and Acoustics

Better hearing through automatic speech recognition?

Speech recognition software is on the rise thanks to smart home systems. Researchers from Oldenburg have now taught an artificial intelligence to hear…

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Top News Research Wissenschaftliches Rechnen

New computing power for future research

CARL and EDDY have ensured excellent conditions for research at the University of Oldenburg for the past five years. Now the two high-performance…

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Campus Life Early Career

Out into the world

The University Society Oldenburg provides several funding programmes, including travel grants for conferences and congresses abroad. Students and…

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Top News Research Social Sciences

Research behind bars

Anna Katharina Schliehe is interested in experiences of incarceration. The human geographer has been awarded a fellowship by the prestigious Marie…

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Top News Marine Sciences

A view into the past of the Southwest Pacific Ocean

"Cast off" is the motto on board the research vessel "Sonne" this Friday. Led by Oldenburg geochemist Katharina Pahnke, an international team of…

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Welcome to Campus

Starting into the summer semester as regular as possible with in-person classes: In his welcoming video, University president Prof. Dr Ralph Bruder…

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Ukraine Top News Slavic Studies

Ukraine and Russia: really "one people"?

Gerd Hentschel, a Slavicist at the University of Oldenburg, provides insights on Ukrainian identity. Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 he has…

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Top News Research Biology

Navigation without sextant or GPS

Fish migrations generally take place hidden from view. Researchers from the Magnetoreception Collaborative Research Centre at the University of…

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Top News Marine Sciences Research

A mutually beneficial relationship

Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals…

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Campus Life Early Career

Experienced guidance

The university supports female junior scientists through a special mentoring programme. Participant Irene Faber and her mentor Ria Nijhuis-van der…

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Ukraine Top News History

"Courage that inspires hope"

The world is watching the war in Ukraine. Historian Hans-Christian Petersen knows its background as well as people in Ukraine. An interview about…

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Top News Research Human Medicine

New dimensions in surgery

Dirk Weyhe sees IT and digitalization playing an integral role in the operating rooms of the future. He and his team are working to harness new…

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Where is history leading us?

Seven decades ago, Adorno's "Minima Moralia" took a mercilessly critical look at the state of society. Philosophers Helena Esther Grass and Peter…

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Campus Life Human Medicine

Setting up forty additional chairs is not enough

Next winter semester, 120 new medical students will begin their studies at the University of Oldenburg, before only 80 students were accepted. The…

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Campus Life International affairs

Online and intercultural

Enabling intercultural exchange for student teachers and academics - this is the idea behind the DAAD programme Lehramt.International. Lecturers from…

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Top News Music

Singing in decline?

Choir rehearsals are disappearing from people's calendars, music lessons at schools are more theory than practice and churches are shrouded in…

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