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Baby with nebulizer, used to illustrate article on future public health challenges and in particular the increase in asthma and allergies.

Research to prevent future pandemics (28.01.2015)

What is the connection between parasitic infections and allergies? This question is at the core of a new University of Bergen-led research project, which has received seed funding from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).

UiB alumni gathered at the 2014 UiB alumni day.

Alumni look forward to revisiting UiB (28.01.2015)

More than 3,400 former University of Bergen students have registered on UiB’s alumni home page. The goal is to register 5,000 alumni before UiB’s alumni day, 12 September 2015.

PhD students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the doctor promotion in Håkon’s Hall in August 2014.

218 new PhDs conferred at UiB (27.01.2015)

In 2014, 218 new doctorates were conferred at the University of Bergen.

The Ilulissat ice fjord in west Greenland, used to accompany article on the announcement of the ERC Consolidator Grant to Professor Noel Keenlyside.

More ERC award glory for UiB climate researchers (27.01.2015)

Professor Noel Keenlyside has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He is the first University of Bergen researcher to be awarded this prestigious grant.

University of Bergen researcher and surgeon Sven Young consulting with assistants and the mother of an infant, who may have broken a bone, at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi.

UiB’s development-related research is internationally recognised (19.01.2015)

According to an international panel of experts, the development-related research and education at the University of Bergen is of an excellent international standard.

Record-breaking spring for international admissions (16.01.2015)

The University of Bergen welcomes 359 new international students in the spring semester 2015. The number has increased by 80 students from spring 2014. This is the highest number of international students ever admitted at UiB in a spring semester.

Illustration photo: Graphic showing hormone variations.

UiB receives funding for second Horizon 2020 project (15.01.2015)

The ULTRADIAN project aims to ameliorate and facilitate endocrine diagnostics and treatment for both patients and the health care system. The project has recently been awarded close to 6 million Euros from the EU.

Professor Christopher Henshilwood and members of the TRACSYMBOLS research team at work in Blombos Cave in South Africa’s Western Cape region.

UiB archaeologist featured in National Geographic (13.01.2015)

In its January 2015 edition, National Geographic magazine has a 22 page article, Origins of Art, showing the research of UiB archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood.

Portrait of Researcher Kristian Smeland Ytre-Hauge, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen.

Particle physicist receives multimillion funding (09.01.2015)

Kristian Smeland Ytre-Hauge has been awarded eight million Norwegian kroner from the Bergen Research Foundation for a new research project designed to improve radiotherapy methods.

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Verena Hoppmann working on a research project at the Zebrafish Lab at the Sars Centre. The centre became part of UiB on 1 January 2015.

The Sars Centre is now part of UiB (07.01.2015)

On 1 January 2015, the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology became part of the University of Bergen (UiB). The centre was previously part of Uni Research.