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Prostate Cancer
Tapeworm drug fights Prostate Cancer (14.11.2017)
Medicine against parasites like Tapeworms and Giardia, contains a substance that kills Prostate- and colon cancer.
Marco Hirnstein, IBMP
Small electrical shocks give healthier brains (13.11.2017)
Controversial electrotherapy has been replaced with small electrical impulses to the brain. This can help patients with depression, stroke and brain tumours.
Åpningsseremoni
– A proud day (30.10.2017)
UiB's new Centre of Excellence is officially open.
Anya Helene Bagge
Anya Helene Bagge is Lecturer of the Year (19.10.2017)
She’s both a groundbreaking computer scientist and an excellent teacher; and now she’s awarded the Teaching Prize at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Professor Katrine Løken from the Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Bergen.
Katrine Løken awarded ERC Starting Grant (07.09.2017)
The economist Katrine Vellesen Løken has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council.
Asthma
Asthma Medicine Halves Risk of Parkinson´s (31.08.2017)
Using data gathered from 100 million Norwegian prescriptions, researchers at the University of Bergen have found that asthma medicine can halve a patient’s risk of developing Parkinson´s disease.
Iraqi children playing, used as part of an article about the opening of a new child care research centre at the University of Bergen (UiB).
Millions awarded to child welfare research (22.08.2017)
Professor Marit Skivenes has received 10 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway for her research on child care. The new grant is part of her new research centre, which will bring together world-class researchers in the field of law, child protection and children's rights.
For the fourth year, UiB researcher Siri Gloppen (right) gathered researchers across disciplines for the Bergen Exchanges conference. Here with the opening keynote speaker Rashida Manjoo from the University of Cape Town. Photo: Sver
Interdisciplinary debate on gender, sexuality and justice (21.08.2017)
On Monday 21 August, the fourth Bergen Exchanges conference opened with a special focus on legislation as a catalyst for social change regarding gender and sexuality.
Representantar for dei ulike bedriftene som flyttar inn i Media City Bergen
– An arena of possibilities! (03.08.2017)
The University of Bergen and other media cluster companies signed for the takeover of Media City Bergen on August 1st.
Jill Walker Rettberg
Rewarded for her Snapchat Research Stories (04.07.2017)
Professor Jill Walker Rettberg studies how humans use technology and what it means to us as a culture.
Portrait of Georg Picot from the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in June 2017.
Research for the worst off in the labour market (30.06.2017)
Georg Picot has long done research on temporary employment. For his next project he wants to study low-wage employment and how the state influences wages.
Illustrasjonsbilete - muskel, figur
A new weapon in the fight against skeletal muscle wasting (26.06.2017)
A hormone builiding muscle mass can be vital in helping the aged, cancer patients and the obese, new research from the University of Bergen shows.
Professor Peter M. Haugan from the University of Bergen at the UN Ocean Conference in New York in June 2017.
Between research and diplomacy (20.06.2017)
Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.
Michaël Tatham
Political scientist scores publication award (12.06.2017)
Professor Michaël Tatham honoured by the Faculty of Social Sciences for his volume on European regions, which was published by Oxford University Press.
PACIFIC PARTNERS: UiB's Jarl Giske (left) and USP's Rajesh Chandra launching a unique joint marine chair at the UN Ocean Conference in New York, thus strengthening the ties between the two universities.
Bergen and Fiji expand partnership (08.06.2017)
The University of Bergen and the University of the South Pacific announced the establishment of a joint marine chair at a reception during the UN Ocean Conference.
Dead fish on a beach, used to illustrate article about voluntary commitment on a marine research and education project on sustainability.
Strengthening marine cooperation in Africa (06.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York, the University of Bergen has committed to support a research and education project with South African partners.
From the performance Moana: the Rising of the Sea at Oseana Art Centre in Os, south of Bergen, in 2015.
UiB expands collaboration in the Pacific (01.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in the first week of June 2017, anthropologist Edvard Hviding established new partnerships between Norway and the Pacific island nations in marine and climate research.
Keyboard showing the shift key marked in blue with the imprint “government”. Used to illustrate news article about e-government.
Does digitalisation enhance collaboration? (01.06.2017)
The international research project TROPICO has received support from the EU's programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020. The project is coordinated by the University of Bergen.

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