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UiB condemn the signing into law of Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill (31.05.2023)

As a long standing partner of Uganda, the University of Bergen condemn the signing into law of Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

Unique offer for all employees at UiB (30.05.2023)

From autumn 2023, all employees will have the opportunity to take the popular DIGI courses. This allows them to acquire digital understanding, knowledge, and competence.

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Women with a normal weight first offspring and a small second offspring have increased risk of cardiovascular mortality (30.05.2023)

A new study from the University of Bergen reveals that including offspring birthweight information from women’s subsequent births, is helpful in identifying a woman's long-term risk of dying from cardiovascular causes.

Learn about the technologies behind ChatGPT and personalised medicine (26.05.2023)

All students and staff at UiB are offered the opportunity to take individual courses in digital understanding, knowledge, and competence (DIGI). UiB started the initiative in the autumn 2022, and the courses on language technology and medical data science are new this year.

Showcasing Fascinating Discoveries about Early Modern Human Behaviour (26.05.2023)

The SapienCE Early Human Behaviour Exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore fascinating discoveries and insights into the behaviours of our early, shared, ancestors.

Opened centre for EU and EEA Law (22.05.2023)

The Centre on the Europeanization of Norwegian Law (CENTENOL) was officially opened on Monday, May 22.

Ingrid Halland’s keynote lecture ‘Towards Deep Surfaces’ at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin (2022). Photo: Aedes Architekturforum

"Sustainability needs to look different" (16.05.2023)

Ingrid Halland is convinced that the materials of a more sustainable future cannot mimic the aesthetics belonging to the paradigms we must leave behind.

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Liquid biopsy and single-cell analysis can become gamechangers in cancer treatment (16.05.2023)

A simple blood test can contribute to earlier detection of cancer and provide valuable information about the tumor in a number of cancers. The technology behind liquid biopsies is still being tested, but will change the landscape in cancer diagnostics, says professor and CCBIO-partner Klaus Pantel.

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Erik Knudsen Wants Media Researchers to Focus More on Thresholds (15.05.2023)

“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.

Prof. Eivind Valen wins the ERC Consolidator Grant. (05.05.2023)

For the next five years, the ERC grant will allow Prof. Eivind Valen to develop new informatics methods to explore a basic molecular biology mystery that remains unsolved: the cap code.

Professor Bettina Husebø will investigate how technology can be used to predict death (05.05.2023)

With economic support from the European Research Council (ERC), professor Bettina Husebø at UiB will investigate how assistive technology can be used to recognize symptoms among people with dementia who are near the end of life.

ERC grants to Husebø and Valen (05.05.2023)

Bettina Husebø and Eivind Valen have received funding for ground-breaking research projects through the European Research Council (ERC). In total, UiB has been awarded six ERC Consolidator Grants in 2023.

Individualising treatments to help people with poor impulse control (02.05.2023)

Hayley MacDonalds multidisciplinary research focuses on the neurophysiological, genetic and behavioural mechanisms of an important executive function - impulse control. Her research can help people with conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, ADHD and Tourette syndrome.