News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

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Full house on Poster Symposium (25.06.2019)

May 22 was an exciting day for students and staff at the Department of Biological Sciences, when the first Poster Symposium was arranged in Høyteknologisenteret.

Another success of the BFA workshop in 2019 (25.06.2019)

Planning the fall-program 2019 (25.06.2019)

The program for the fall 2019 is being planned as we speak, and we can already tell that a number of different topics will be addressed.

Newsletter - Spring 2019 (25.06.2019)

Our program this spring has been diverse, covering a broad range of topics and disciplines. Here in this newsletter you will find a short summary of a couple of our meetings and seminars, in addition to the thoughts of one of our most recent master’s students and an outlook on the semester to come.

Apinya Singkhala - Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology (18.06.2019)

Ms. Apinya Singkhala defended her PhD thesis, tilted Metagenomics and Isolation of Thermophilic Cellulase - producing Bacteria from Thermophilic High Solid Digestion Condition at the Department of Biology, Thaksin University in Thailand in May 2018. Congratulations!

Visiting PhD student from Thailand (18.06.2019)

Ms Srisuda Chaikitkaew has a Royal Golden Jubilee PhD scholarship awarded by the Thai Research Fund for a 10 month reseach visit to BIO.

Academia Agreement: Several offshore wind projects receive funding (17.06.2019)

Allocations from the Academy Agreement between UiB and Equinor were announced on 28.06.2019. Four research projects on offshore wind received funding. In addition BOW was allocated funding for two Associate Professor II positions.

IACR Fellows (07.06.2019)

Richard Payne in climbing gear sitting on a rock

Killed in Himalaya (06.06.2019)

Richard Payne, a former Marie Curie Fellow with EECRG in 2003, was killed climbing in the Himalaya