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Female infidelity enhances male cooperation (11.05.2009)
BIO researcher, Sigrunn Eliassen proposes this as a new hypothesis to a long-standing conundrum in sexual selection theory. By offering an explanation to patterns in nature that have proven difficult to interpret, understand, and predict with existing theory, the FriBIO evaluators in 2008 clearly agreed with Eliassen that her work has the potential for significant impact.
MI 60th anniversary soccer match. The employees' team (MI UTD), top, and the...
The Maths Institute 60th anniversary soccer game (09.05.2009)
In occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Maths Institute in Bergen, master student challenged employees in a soccer match at Møhlenpris on may 5th 2009. And the result was a surprise for many.
Siv Hovland Erstad (left) and Inger Nilsen, study advisors at Dept. of...
Flying Start for New Informatics Bachelor Programmes (27.04.2009)
Applicant counts from NUCAS (‘Samordna opptak’) show a 81% increase in the number of applicants to the Department of Informatics, compared to last year.
Misha Gromov, winner of the Abel Prize 2009
Abel prize 2009 awarded to Misha Gromov (27.03.2009)
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (65) for “his revolutionary contributions to geometry”.
10 years of EU activities in Women in Science - and beyond (12.03.2009)
Changing research landscapes to make the most of human potential
Discovering new worlds on Earth (03.03.2009)
In 2000 during an oceanographic cruise a group of researchers stumbled upon a unique discovery – a completely new kind of hydrothermal vent field.
Unexpected findings from over 2 billion years ago (03.03.2009)
Preliminary analysis of 3650m of pristine rock core is revealing some unexpected data that may provide insights into perhaps the earliest perturbations of the global carbon cycle.
GROW 2009 (27.02.2009)
Fourth workshop on Graph Classes, Optimization, and Width Parameters
Adaptasjon til liv i ekstremt jordsmonn (06.02.2009)
A book chapter by Vigdis Torsvik and Lise Øvreås... The book is entitled: Microbial diversity, life strategies, and adaptation to life in extreme soils. I: Microbiology of Extreme Soils. Springer 2008 ISBN 978-3-540-74230-2. s. 15-43.
Serendipitous observation leads to new directions in research (29.01.2009)
The Skeletal Development Group has a new name; Vertebrate evolution and development. According to Professors Sindre Grotmol, Harald Kryvi and Geir Låre Totland, the new name reflects an exciting evolution in the group's research activity towards more fundamental biological questions regarding the mechanism for the development of the vertebral column; the hallmark of the vertebrates.
Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs (08.01.2009)
Mathematicians Land Top Spot in New Ranking of Best and Worst Occupations in the U.S.
Unique ecosystem communities (08.01.2009)
They are studying the microorganisms found around the hostile environments found in the deep sea and at hydrothermal vents to learn more about how they collaborate to build up chemosynthetic ecosystems that support unique communities of larger organisms.
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Our fields (06.01.2009)

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