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Climate researchers at Sieben Hengste in Switzerland.

Dripstones tell of storm track changes (27.02.2015)

A new study in Nature Communications shows that storm tracks were located further to the south of Europe during the last ice age, 25,000 years ago.

The Christie Conference 2015: The North Sea was never a barrier (20.02.2015)

The author Michael Pye believes that the North Sea was the foundation for the history of Northern Europe's civilisation. On 29 April he will open the Christie Conference 2015 in Bergen.

Researcher Gyri Teien Haugland of UiB’s Department of Biology holds a lumpfish. She has received a grant to study vaccines for lumpfish to fight sea lice.

Healthy lumpfish to the rescue of farmed salmon? (20.02.2015)

Researchers in Bergen want to vaccinate lumpfish that eat salmon lice. The hope is that the healthy immune defence system of the lumpfish can replace the use of chemicals in the fight against sea lice.

Doctor Samuel Okware, PhD graduate January 2015 from the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen.

A general in the war against Ebola (19.02.2015)

“I remember the feeling I had when I first heard about Ebola. We didn't know what it was, but the fear crept up on us. Then my colleagues began to die,” says Samuel Okware, a recent PhD graduate at the University of Bergen.

Youngest female Professor in Economics in Norway (17.02.2015)

Katrine Vellesen Løken (31) from the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen is now the youngest female Professor in Economics in Norway ever.

Researcher Andreas H. Hejnol, Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen (UiB).

Andreas Hejnol receives ERC Consolidator Grant (12.02.2015)

Evolutionary development biologist Andreas H. Hejnol of the Sars Centre in Bergen has been given a grant of 2 million Euros from the European Research Council (ERC) to reconstruct parts of the evolutionary history of Earth’s species.

Photo showing a group of graduates from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at an event at the University of Bergen on 30 January 2015.

New PhDs celebrate at Håkon’s Hall (02.02.2015)

Internationalisation and the research community were praised at what may have been the last ever doctor promotion event at Håkon’s Hall.