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New UiB system makes it easier to speak up (11.01.2018)

Will gather all student feedback in one infrastructure.

UiB's Vice-Rector for Global Relations Annelin Eriksen and Professor Edvard Hviding in front of the symbols for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in the United Nations building in New York.

Building global partnerships in New York (03.01.2018)

UiB's new Vice-Rector for Global Relations, Annelin Eriksen, chose New York as the destination for her first international trip after being appointed. In New York she met with diplomats and United Nations officials.

The difference between science and research (18.12.2017)

Interview with Dr Kenneth Hugdahl on his research into auditory hallucination, why meaningful scientific advancement takes time and how the European Research Council (ERC) is integral in making it happen.

A new view of evolution (13.12.2017)

New discoveries from the University of Bergen can knock a hundred years old hypothesis on the evolution of the nervous system off its perch. The results are published in Nature.

Research administrator Kårstein Måseide, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Norway.

Science for a better planet (29.11.2017)

A glowing interest in the climate challenges and the need for a transformation of society to minimize these changes made Kårstein Måseide apply for the job as research coordinator at CET. He wants to encourage broad, interdisciplinary climate research.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Government of Norway.

Prime minister to speak at SDG conference (27.11.2017)

Prime Minister Erna Solberg is one of the key note speakers at the Sustainable Development Goals conference at the University of Bergen, 8-9 February, 2018.

Ørnulf Lillestøl is the new director at the Faculty of Psychology (22.11.2017)

Ørnulf Lillestøl has accepted the position as director at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen. He will start working at UiB in March 2018.

Small electrical shocks give healthier brains (13.11.2017)

Controversial electrotherapy has been replaced with small electrical impulses to the brain. This can help patients with depression, stroke and brain tumours.

– A proud day (30.10.2017)

UiB's new Centre of Excellence is officially open.

Anya Helene Bagge is Lecturer of the Year (19.10.2017)

She’s both a groundbreaking computer scientist and an excellent teacher; and now she’s awarded the Teaching Prize at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Professor Katrine Løken from the Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Bergen.

Katrine Løken awarded ERC Starting Grant (07.09.2017)

The economist Katrine Vellesen Løken has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council.

Iraqi children playing, used as part of an article about the opening of a new child care research centre at the University of Bergen (UiB).

Millions awarded to child welfare research (22.08.2017)

Professor Marit Skivenes has received 10 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway for her research on child care. The new grant is part of her new research centre, which will bring together world-class researchers in the field of law, child protection and children's rights.

For the fourth year, UiB researcher Siri Gloppen (right) gathered researchers across disciplines for the Bergen Exchanges conference. Here with the opening keynote speaker Rashida Manjoo from the University of Cape Town. Photo: Sver

Interdisciplinary debate on gender, sexuality and justice (21.08.2017)

On Monday 21 August, the fourth Bergen Exchanges conference opened with a special focus on legislation as a catalyst for social change regarding gender and sexuality.

Representantar for dei ulike bedriftene som flyttar inn i Media City Bergen

– An arena of possibilities! (03.08.2017)

The University of Bergen and other media cluster companies signed for the takeover of Media City Bergen on August 1st.

Rewarded for her Snapchat Research Stories (04.07.2017)

Professor Jill Walker Rettberg studies how humans use technology and what it means to us as a culture.

Portrait of Georg Picot from the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in June 2017.

Research for the worst off in the labour market (30.06.2017)

Georg Picot has long done research on temporary employment. For his next project he wants to study low-wage employment and how the state influences wages.

A new weapon in the fight against skeletal muscle wasting (26.06.2017)

A hormone builiding muscle mass can be vital in helping the aged, cancer patients and the obese, new research from the University of Bergen shows.

Professor Peter M. Haugan from the University of Bergen at the UN Ocean Conference in New York in June 2017.

Between research and diplomacy (20.06.2017)

Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.

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