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Features

Features - UiB's magazine in English - offers a few glimpses of our range of activities in research, education and international collaboration. Features is published annually.

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    What midges can tell us about climate

    At Bergen Museum, midges are the focus of a major research project on climate change, ecology and improved methodology.

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    Risk factors for health-related absence

    The project “Health, work and society – multi-disciplinary studies of determinants of sickness absence and disability” is an attempt to quantify the impact of a multitude of risk factors on health-related absence from work.

  • Amund Gulsvik (til venstre) og Per Bakke, begge professorar ved lungeavdelinga ved Institutt for indremedisin, har funne to gen som gjev større sjanse for å utvikle KOLS.

    COPD is hereditary

    New research shows that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is genetically determined.

  • En mor holder sitt nyfødte barn, som kikker på mor og gjesper.

    Treasures of the registers

    The Medical Register of Births was established in 1967. It was the first national register of births in the world, and today it is one of the most comprehensive.

  • Vi ser en person/arkeolog som står i et arkeologisk funn landskap. det er gravd flere systematiske grøfter i sanden rundt ham. det står flere trillebårer rundt ham, og vi ser palmer i bakgrunnen.

    Safeguarding the world’s cultural heritage

    The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is a group of research-led universities that collaborate on exchanges of PhD candidates and research staff, e-learning and the development of international research projects and singletopic research programmes of international significance. WUN was set up in 2000, and the University of Bergen is the only Norwegian member of the network.

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    The Russian language and new media

    Researchers in Bergen are in the midst of a large-scale study of the development of the Russian language. Internet culture and computer jargon are blooming, and are challenging both the standard language and traditional forms of communication.

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    More North-South research cooperation

    The University of Bergen played a leading role when the Southern African - Nordic Centre (SANORD) was set up in 2007. The centre will encourage more research and exchanges of knowledge between Scandinavian universities and Southern Africa.

  • To forskere med hjelm på studerer bergarter i Arktis.

    The Arctic Auditorium

    Svalex is a multidisciplinary geoscience field course for about 90 Master’s and doctoral students specialising in petroleum-related subjects. About 40 academic staff and invited guests also take the course.

  • To mennesker står og studerer en liggende mumie.

    Doctor’s appointment for the hereafter

    Both the Norwegian and international press raised their collective eyebrows when 3000- year-old mummies from Bergen Museum went to hospital to have advanced X-rays taken.

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    Writing about death

    Ground-breaking discussions on the spiritual, medical and psychological aspects of serious illness and death take place in Care of the Seriously Sick and Dying – Perspectives from Ghana.