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The bi-weekly podcast series ‘Off Center’, hosted by Scott Rettberg, Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, has launched. Read more about it and find out where you can listen to the podcast.
For the next five years, the ERC grant will allow Prof. Eivind Valen to develop new informatics methods to explore a basic molecular biology mystery that remains unsolved: the cap code.
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grant for Fred Wolf and Pawel Burkhardt.
​​​​​​​HySchool Days are the annual networking events organised by HySchool  ̶  Norwegian Research School on Hydrogen and Hydrogen-Based Fuels. Over hundred participants gathered for HySchool Days 2023, including PhD candidates and leading experts from industry, academia, research institutes and non-governmental organizations.
Eight European universities have formed the CHARM-EU alliance. In January 2023, it became clear that UiB will enter as the ninth and final partner.
Eight European universities have formed the CHARM-EU alliance. In January 2023, it became clear that UiB will enter as the ninth and final partner.
With funding from the EU, UiB researcher Arnald Puy will study the deep uncertainties that condition our understanding of irrigation water withdrawals for agriculture.
In the span of two weeks, Postdoctoral Fellow Justas Zalieckas has been awarded two prestigious grants for his diamond coating research.
A vision of diversity is central to the work on the new UiB strategy, but what does diversity mean, and how does diversity policy translate into action?
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. "Warm congratulations to Svante Pääbo. We are extremely proud of our collaboration with the new laureate", says SapienCE-director Professor Christopher Henshilwood at the University of Bergen.
Textbooks and popular science books claim with certainty that women are better at finding words and remembering words, but is this really a fact?
At the 2022 Coimbra Group Annual Conference in Padova, Margareth Hagen, the rector of the University of Bergen was elected to the Rectors` Advisory Group.
About a hundred employees and students showed up to hear about the work to be done during the year, and to share their thoughts on what direction the university will take in the years to come. - I want to thank the presenters and everyone who attended the meeting, rector Margareth Hagen says.
On Wednesday 4 May, a seminar for the University Board, the university leadership and the deans was arranged. The board seminar was entitled "Ambitions for a new decade".
The strategy process is an important part of a vibrant university democracy. This autumn, an open and inclusive process will be arranged where employees and students are invited to contribute. Here are some important milestones.
What is important to you as a student or employee at UiB? How do you think UiB should be developed in the coming years? Contribute your input to strategi@uib.no.
This question is central to the research of the 2022 Holberg Prize winner, Sheila Jasanoff, who has a long-standing collaboration with University of Bergen researchers.
The risk of cancer increases considerably if you gain weight before the age of 40. For endometrial cancer, the risk increases by 70 percent.

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