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Professor i geografi, Ole Reidar Vetaas, avfotografert i Byfjellene ifm saken «Wuthering heights» i Hubro international edition 2012/2013. Bildet er formatert for bruk på forsiden av aktuelt/news.

Wuthering heights

The City Mountains of Bergen are typically Norwegian and covered with needle-bearing trees and birch. At least that’s what the locals would like to believe.

NEW STUDENT PROGRAMMES
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All set for Chinese studies

The University of Bergen establishes a new Bachelor programme in Chinese and makes changes to ease the academic progress for Psychology students.

LINGUISTICS
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The Russian language enters a new world

The political turmoil in Russia in the nineties was followed by a digital and linguistic revolution. Now President Putin wants to reclaim the language as a tool of power.

100,000 YEAR OLD DISCOVERIES: Professor Christopher Henshilwood outside Blombos Cave in South Africa, where his work combines excavations with climate simulations better to understand human history.
ARCHAEOLOGY

Symbols in a cave

Archaeological finds in South Africa shed new light on early human's abilities to adapt to climate change.

MEDICINE
GENE RESEARCHER: Professor and paediatrician Pål Rasmus Njølstad at UiB is researching the association between genetics, obesity, and diabetes.

How your genes can solve obesity

What roles do diet and genetics play in the development of obesity and diabetes? The answer may be found in a unique Norwegian study of mothers and children.

GLOBAL HEALTH
Illustrasjonsfoto til saken A primer in life and death fra Hubro international edition 2012/2013.

A primer in life and death

Who receives medical care when resources are scarce? To make those hard decisions, researchers at UiB have worked on a guide with the World Health Organization.

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    ERC ADVANCED GRANT

    Space science receives supergrant

    Space research at the University of Bergen has been awarded with one of the most prestigious grants in Europe. Nikolai Østgaard is the man looking for GRBs in thunderclouds.

  • The enigmatic marine penis worms (priapulids) develop their intestine just like humans, fish or starfish do.
    Biology

    Penis worms uncover the evolution of the digestive system

    A team of scientists has revealed that the enigmatic marine penis worms (priapulids) develop their intestine just like humans, fish or starfish do.

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    Social media

    From local heroes to Hollywood

    The boundaries between global and local were blurred when music artists started using social media, according to a new book.

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    PSYCHOLOGY

    Sleep problems cost billions

    Insomnia and sleep apnoea are turning us into major health service consumers, causing us to be less productive at work, and may even lead to serious accidents.

  • NEW RESEARCH: The Sea Lice Research Centre was one of three prestigious research centres opened at UiB in 2011.
    AQUACULTURE

    Fighting the salmon parasite

    As one of the world’s leading aquaculture nations, Norway has an international obligation to improve health conditions for salmon, according to Frank Nilsen. He is Professor of Biology and head of the Sea Lice Research Centre in Bergen.

  • Illustrasjonsfoto til bruk på forside ifm sak «Norwegian law in the global arena» fra Hubro international edition 2012/2013
    CRIMINAL LAW

    Norwegian law in the global arena

    The world outside is knocking on Norway’s door. This creates new and challenging issues for legal professionals that will change the legal landscape in the next few years.

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    GEODYNAMICS

    Glacial youth therapy for the Scandinavian landscape

    The high elevation flat surfaces characteristic of the Norwegian landscape are in geologically terms young, according to a paper in Nature Geoscience.

  • PRIZE WINNERS: Ann M. Graybiel (left) and Mildred S. Dresselhaus visited the University of Bergen.
    THE KAVLI PRIZE

    A prize for basic research

    The Kavli Prize is awarded to researchers in the fields of astrophysics, nano science, and neuro science. The man behind the prize, Fred Kavli, recently visited Bergen.

  • PARTNERS IN CLIMATE RESEARCH: Greg Holland of the NCAR's Earth System
Laboratory and leader of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Eystein
Jansen sign the formalized partnership between the two research
institutions.
    Partnership agreement

    Partnership for climate research

    The exchange of researchers and developing regional climate expertise and capacity in developing countries is part of the now formalized collaboration between the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

  • FUTURE WEATHER? More extreme weather, such as droughts, have been on the increase and become more pronounced in recent years.
    CLIMATE CHANGE

    Prize-winning research

    In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents its Fifth Assessment Report. The Bjerknes Centre is heavily involved with the report.

  • RESEARCHING PAST CLIMATES: Camille Li and Bjørg Risebrobakken lead the DYNAWARM project, which seeks to improve our understanding of the climate system in a warmer world, and to learn more about the present and future climate by looking at warmer periods thousands of years ago.
    CLIMATE RESEARCH

    The grand puzzle of climate research

    At the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, more than 100 climate scientists work to study the climate – past, present, and future. The centre celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012.

  • Flere kvinner tar doktorgrad, men dette gjenspeiles ikke i universitetenes ansettelser. Bilde fra doktorpromosjonen ved UiB 2012.
    PHD PROMOTION

    A record number of new PhDs

    The number of PhDs at the University of Bergen reached another high in the spring of 2012 with 144 new doctorates. Each faculty will also get an honorary doctorate.

  • NEW TO THE UIB FAMILY: International students' first meeting with UiB in January 2012.
    THE ALUMNUS PROJECT

    A very large family

    Jill Walker Rettberg is hard at work trying to bring together up to 40,000 alumni of the University of Bergen. The UiB alumnni project kicked off with an event in London on 31 August.

  • WELCOME: Vice-Rector for International Relations Astri Andresen greeting the new international students in the autumn of 2012.
    SEMESTER START

    Record number of international students

    The University of Bergen welcomes 715 new international students this autumn. A new record. The students first meeting with UiB is a crash course in how to be a student in Bergen.

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