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Epidemiologist awarded honorary membership (30.10.2013)
Professor Grethe S. Tell is to become one of the first two women ever to be awarded honorary membership of the Norwegian Epidemiological Association.
Image showing doctor's medical tablet with stethoscope.
Health care: an information business (28.10.2013)
Africa is technologically advanced in several areas, but woefully unprepared for technologies that could revolutionise its health care.
Poles of a high-voltage power line, used to illustrate article about energy research at University of Bergen.
Statoil to support UiB research (24.10.2013)
Statoil is to fund energy research at UiB by NOK 55 million over the next five years.
Image from the documentary film Particle Fever.
Super Collider: recreating the Big Bang (23.10.2013)
The film Particle Fever shows the whats and the whys of the scientific work done at the CERN reactor. It is screened at the BIFF festival.
Professor Halvor Sommerfelt at the opening of CISMAC, a new Centre of Excellence at UIB.
Saving mothers and children (16.10.2013)
The Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health opened on 15 October 2013. The centre works to improve the health of mothers and children in developing countries.
PhD student from University of Bergen's Centre for International Health does health check in India.
Global health centre is 25 (14.10.2013)
UiB’s Centre for international health celebrates a quarter century of pioneering development-related research.
Stock photo of oil refinery.
The oil curse (11.10.2013)
Most of the world’s 20 largest oil-producing countries struggle with corruption and a lack of democracy. And oil plays an important – and unfortunate – part.
Map of Africa held up by an African woman.
Africa's women rise on quotas (10.10.2013)
In 2008 Rwanda became the first country in the world to fill its parliament with a majority of women. Now the rest of Africa follows in the landlocked country’s footsteps.
Professor emerita Ida Blom in picture from UiB's magazine Hubro international.
A pioneer of women’s history studies (08.10.2013)
As a historian, she studied women’s liberation. As a woman she experienced this liberation. For Professor Ida Blom, history and life are two sides of the same coin.
Logo of international university rankings magazine, Times Higher Education.
UiB up in rankings (03.10.2013)
The University of Bergen rises in Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings.
Vice-rector for international affairs, Anne Christine Johannessen, visits Khartoum in September 2013.
UiB celebrates Sudan collaboration (02.10.2013)
50 years ago anthropologists in Bergen and Khartoum started a collaboration that lives on today. These pioneers provided the model for future international UiB collaborations.
Image of blackboard with algorithms written all over it.
OK Computer: a world of algorithms (01.10.2013)
The world is full of problems, but not every problem has a good algorithm that can solve it. Meet the researchers who make the computer think.