News archive for News

Celebrating new PhDs, August 2015 (28.08.2015)

To solve the complex problems of the world today, researchers must be able to communicate across different fields. This was the message when the PhD promotion took place in the University hall in August 2015.

Professor Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen (UiB).

The UiB Magazine interview: Kenneth Hugdahl (26.08.2015)

Statistically speaking, Professor of Psychology Kenneth Hugdahl should have been a drug addict. Instead, he became addicted to long jogs and research into auditory hallucinations.

Scan of a human brain, to accompany an article about a new theory of cognitive functions.

A universal theory of the brain (25.08.2015)

The UiB brain researchers Kenneth Hugdahl and Karsten Specht recently published an article documenting proof for a generalized active network for cognitive functions of the brain.

141 new doctors in spring semester (25.08.2015)

Spring 2015 saw 141 people getting their doctorate at the University of Bergen. This is 26 more than last spring.

How paintings influenced Shakespeare (24.08.2015)

Professor Stuart Sillars is offering a new way of looking at Shakespeare’s plays in his new book, Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination.

Genetically “lazy” fat cells may explain overweight and obesity (21.08.2015)

A special gene variant may be part of the explanation for increased fat storage in half of the population. This finding may give patients new and better targeted treatments in the future.

Unravelling the mystery of pain (18.08.2015)

Patients with chronic whiplash experience long-lasting pain, but doctors and researchers struggle to explain the causes. Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit wants to help these often misunderstood patients.

Goats help reclaim the Bergen city mountains (12.08.2015)

Herds of goats equipped with GPS collars will help combat reforestation in the mountains surrounding Bergen.

Showing cleaners at work, preparing to clean floors, used to accompany article about how many cleaners suffer bad health unless preventive measures are taken.

Personalised prevention to improve the common health (12.08.2015)

The risk among cleaners of developing asthma is greater if you had unfavourable conditions early in life. This is the result that was found by researchers at the University of Bergen in a recently published study.

IT student of the year: Johan Torås Halseth (11.08.2015)

In June 2015, Master student in computer science at the University of Bergen, Johan Torås Halseth (24), was awarded the prize for best Norwegian computer science student of the year.

A light in a cloud of darkness (10.08.2015)

Professor Marina Warner was never destined to be an academic, and definitely not an academic who gathered prizes. We caught up with the 2015 Holberg Prize Laureate to discuss fairy tales, myths and how fantasy and reality are interwoven.

The young man and the sea (10.08.2015)

Young and promising are words that are easily attached to Eirik Vinje Galaasen. Even before reaching the age of 30, he had achieved what many researchers dream about throughout a lifetime: He had an article published in the journal Science.

Portrait of Kjersti Fløttum and Øyvind Gjerstad

My Mentor & I: Kjersti Fløttum & Øyvind Gjerstad (07.08.2015)

The collaboration between Professor Kjersti Fløttum and Associate Professor Øyvind Gjerstad started when Øyvind was Kjersti's student. Now the two work together on a project about the role of language in the climate change debate.

Bringing out the drums for new international students (07.08.2015)

More than 850 new international students were given a proper Bergen welcome at the beginning of August.

The secret to the success of insects (06.08.2015)

Insects are the most successful group of organisms in the history of life. A discovery of new genes suggests why.