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Image of the ocean with scattered clouds above. Used to illustrate article about UiB doing well in earth and marine sciences in QS by Subject rankings.

QS by Subject: Bergen in the marine research elite (29.04.2015)

The University of Bergen is number 42 in the category Earth and Marine Science in the 2015 QS World Universities by Subject ranking.

Rector Dag Rune Olsen at the 2014 WUN Conference

Rector encourages participation in international researcher network (22.04.2015)

The university leadership and several UiB researchers will participate at the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) conference in April 2015. Dag Rune Olsen wants to make more UiB researchers aware of the opportunities offered by the network.

Abstract image of pills and tablets, used to illustrate research funding article

UiB shows strength in achieving EU research funding (21.04.2015)

The University of Bergen has the highest success rate in Norway in the tough competition for research funding from Horizon 2020, the largest and most comprehensive research programme in the world.

Everything you want to know about bubble shells (but are afraid to ask) (17.04.2015)

Researchers from the University Museum of Bergen have gathered and published information about the bubble shell in Species Online.

Ornaments from the Early Neolithic Period, belonging to Le Tai, Toulouse University and Essenbach-Ammerbreite, Archäologische Staatssammlung München.

North Europeans resisted farming (16.04.2015)

North Europeans resisted adaption of farming and herding when these practices arrived in Europe about 8,000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by a team including Archaeology Professor Francesco d’Errico at the University of Bergen.

Researchers to trawl sea for new biotechnology resources (14.04.2015)

Biodiversity hot spots in the ocean are an untapped resource for safer, cheaper and greener products. The research project InMare has received EU funding to explore this resource.

NEW DIRECTOR: Starting 20 April, Alette Gilhus Mykkeltvedt is the new director at the University of Bergen’s Faculty of Social Sciences.

New Director of Faculty of Social Sciences (10.04.2015)

The Faculty of Social Sciences has appointed a new faculty director for the first time in 15 years. Alette Gilhus Mykkeltvedt wants to make the faculty more visible.

Makerere-coordination changes hands (08.04.2015)

Few people at the University of Bergen knows Makerere University in Uganda better than Thelma Kraft. She has facilitated collaboration and capacity building between UiB and "the Harvard of Africa" for fourteen years.