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Miriyam Khan at the Alan Turing Institute
Gaining valuable knowledge from world-leading researchers (24.01.2023)
NORA Research School provides exchange opportunities for PhD students in AI related fields. Mariyam Khan just arrived at The Alan Turing Institute in London for a six-month research stay.
Participants SDG14 event in Cape Town as part of the One Ocean Expedition.
Bringing sustainable development to ocean science education (19.01.2023)
How do we transform the ocean science education of the future? In what way must teaching change to encompass this? These were a couple of the key questions discussed during a three-day event in Cape Town in mid-January 2023 as part of the One Ocean Expedition.
EU-senter
UiB establishes Centre for EU and EEA law (04.01.2023)
The Faculty of Law receives around NOK 21 million from the Research Council of Norway to establish the CENTENOL-centre. The center will strengthen knowledge of the relationship between European and Norwegian law.
Kvinne sitter i et mørkt rom foran pc og arbeider
Shift workers have a higher risk of severe COVID-19 (08.12.2022)
Compared to day workers, shift workers have an almost six-fold higher risk of needing hospital care due to COVID-19, according to a recent study from the University of Bergen.
bile av elv i Amazonas med grønt frodig landskap rundt
Human impact destroying the Amazon ecosystems faster than ever (25.11.2022)
A new Science paper shows that human-caused changes to Amazonian ecosystems are hundreds to thousands of times faster than those of natural climatic and geological processes.
Marry-Anne Karlsen and Justas Zalieckas at the University of Bergen.
ERC Starting Grant to research on migration and diamond coating (22.11.2022)
Pioneering research ideas on migration and diamond coating have given Marry-Anne Karlsen and Justas Zalieckas at the University of Bergen a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Discovery of 80 000 year old bone tools from SA. Pictures showing experimental methods to find out how the tools were used.
UiB scientists discover 80 000-year-old bone tools (15.11.2022)
An international team of archaeologists, led by a UiB scientist, has identified the oldest bone tools from southern Africa. The tools are 60,000 to 80,000 years old and were likely used for debarking trees and to dig into the ground.
illustrasjonsbilde phd-kurs pandemisenteret
Sign up for an interdisciplinary PhD course at the Pandemic Centre (09.11.2022)
In January, the Pandemic Centre offers a two-week course for students on learning from the COVID-19 pandemic. The course builds on last year's digital module and is open to all students at master's and PhD level.
Kvinne som undersøker brystet sitt
New genetic study reveals why some women get aggressive breast and ovarian cancerrian cancer (08.11.2022)
In a recent study published in JAMA Oncology, investigators from the University of Bergen, in collaboration with the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study in the US, reported epigenetic gene silencing in normal tissue to be a predictive factor for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) as well as high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC).
Professor Eivind Valen
Eivind Valen is researching the data in our cells. (07.11.2022)
Eivind Valen is a professor of bioinformatics and is researching biological big data to understand the human body.
UiB-rektor Margareth Hagen og TV-produsent James Honeyborne foran bilde av UiBs undervansrobot Ægir
UiB and Wild Space Productions collaborate on new Netflix documentary (02.11.2022)
The University of Bergen proudly announces a unique collaboration agreement with Wild Space Productions.
Portrett av Eystein Jansen
Eystein Jansen elected Vice President of the ERC (28.10.2022)
Climate scientist Eystein Jansen has been elected Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC). He is the first Norwegian researcher to join the leadership of the elite division for European research.
Panel discussion with five participants
Influencing the priorities of Horizon Europe (27.10.2022)
The University of Bergen (UiB) and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre have joined forces to give input to the European Commission on ocean-related research and innovation in Horizon Europe. Read the key messages here.
Nordlys sett fra Den internasjonale romstasjonen. Innfelt i bildet er romforsker Karl Laundal.
Filling knowledge gaps about near-Earth space (24.10.2022)
Space scientist Karl Magnus Laundal plays a key role in several international projects on how the Earth is connected to space. Among other things, the research can lead to a better understanding of the northern lights and phenomena that affect satellites and technology on the Earth’s surface.
Studenter protesterer i Teheran
Condemns the attack on Iranian students (05.10.2022)
The University of Bergen condemns the attack on Iranian students. On Sunday evening, the police acted against students who were demonstrating against the regime in the country.
Jill og Scott Rettberg
The Center for Digital Narrative has been awarded the status of Centre of Excellence (03.10.2022)
The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) has been awarded the status of Center of Research Excellence. The center will investigate new forms of digital narrative in electronic literature, digital games, social media and AI-driven storytelling.
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Two new Centres of Excellence to the University of Bergen (23.09.2022)
Center for Digital Narrative and Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health have been awarded the status as Centres of Excellence (SFF) from the Research Council of Norway.
Rein Hardangerfjord
Great commitment for «the world’s biggest plastic waste clean-up» (20.09.2022)
30 UiB students and collaborators attended the Rein Hardangerfjord (Clean Hardangerfjord) event the 15th of September. The project has been called “the world’s biggest plastic waste clean-up”. You can see photos from the clean-up in Kvam here.

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