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Researchers and from the TRACSYMBOLS project working in Blombos Cave, South Africa.
Answers to predict the next ice age (30.08.2013)
Precipitations lead to the growth of ice caps at the beginning of the last ice age. Researchers have now found how this precipitation was formed. The results may help predict the next ice age.
New international students at University of Bergen for semester start August 2013.
The wealth of education (27.08.2013)
“Education is the key to lifting more people out of poverty,” says Anne Christine Johannessen, the University of Bergen’s new Vice-Rector for International Affairs.
UiB researcher wins Anders Jahre Prize (26.08.2013)
Adjunct Professor Yenan Bryceson has been awarded the prestigious Anders Jahre Prize for Young Scientists.
Quod bonum felix faustumque sit! (23.08.2013)
May this bring you luck, happiness and prosperity. With this greeting Sigmund Grønmo handed the rector necklace to Dag Rune Olsen.
The image shows the North Atlantic sea surface temperature from satellites (January 2008), which clearly shows the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current. These are the regions where the ocean pumps large amounts of heat into the atmosphere that are impor
The North Atlantic Ocean drives the weather (20.08.2013)
Jacob Bjerknes, the father of modern weather forecasting, suggested a connection between European weather and temperatures in the North Atlantic. Fifty years later, the Bjerknes Centre in Bergen helps to prove that Bjerknes was right in his prediction.
CHANGES: This is how the UiB logo has changed over the years.
A symbol with staying power (19.08.2013)
The Eurasian eagle owl was the symbol of the University of Bergen even before the university was officially established. And it still flies high as the UiB logo.
Author and Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller.
Herta Müller: A strong and demanding woman (19.08.2013)
Nobel prize laureate Herta Müller’s books about life under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu challenge both the limits of language and of reality.
ECONOMY UNBALANCED: Activist groups, such as the Occupy movement, are vocal in their protest against inequality and the increasing gap between rich and poor in many Western economies.
Equality in crisis (19.08.2013)
How does greater inequality create dividing lines in society? That is one of the central issues in Professor Bruce Kapferer’s new research project.
Photo used in Hubro international 2013/2014. COASTING IT: Nils Kolle takes in...
The people of the coast (07.08.2013)
Well into the twentieth century, people from the islands outside of Bergen rowed by boat to town and sold fresh fish straight from their boats.
GROW, EAT, DIE: In these tanks at Espegrend outside Bergen viruses, bacteria and plankton grow, eat each other and die, within three weeks. Postdoctoral fellows Antonio Pagarete, Rakhesh Madhusoodhanan and Paolo Simonelli fill the tanks with water from th
The secrets of the sea (06.08.2013)
When we humans change the chemistry of the sea, it’s up to the very smallest organisms to clean up after us. The question is whether they can cope with it.
STONE OF RUST: This rock (on the left) from the seafloor is built of small...
The origins of life (05.08.2013)
A stir was created when researchers from Bergen discovered the northernmost hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. But why was this discovery so special?
NEW DISCOVERIES: UiB researchers have found 20 new animal species in the volcano areas that they discovered this summer. These animals live off the heat caused by the hydrothermal vents in the area.
A waterworld of volcanoes (02.08.2013)
At Loki’s Castle in the Arctic Ocean, researchers from the University of Bergen (UiB) have discovered a so far unknown world of volcanic activity underwater. They hope that this can become Norway’s new national park.
Rector Dag Rune Olsen, University of Bergen.
Rector Dag Rune Olsen: An international mind (01.08.2013)
UiB’s new rector Dag Rune Olsen looks forward to building on the university’s successes in past years. But what are his own plans for taking UiB further?