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New K.G. Jebsen Centre for Genome-Directed Therapy in Cancer (28.02.2018)

Professor Per Eystein Lønning and his research team will map tumour genes for better and tailor made chemotherapy.

Harsh weather conditions pushes green shift (22.02.2018)

"Here in Western Norway we are closer to floods and extreme weather," says climate researcher and centre director Håvard Haarstad.

Strengthening health priority in Ethiopia with Gates-Millions (19.02.2018)

A grant of 3 million US dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is enabling Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim and his research group to teach health priorities to Ethiopian students.

Household cleaning can be as bad as smoking for lung function (16.02.2018)

Cleaners who have regularly used cleaning sprays over 20 years were found to have reduced lung function equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day over the same period, a UiB-study shows.

Cut fossil subsidies to reduce CO2? It depends! (14.02.2018)

A study published in Nature conducted by a team led by Jessica Jewell found that the effect of subsidy removal varies strongly across regions.

The University of Bergen's Rector Dag Rune Olsen speaking at the opening of the SDG Bergen Conference 2018.

SDG Conference is to be annual event (10.02.2018)

At the SDG Conference Bergen, Rector Dag Rune Olsen promised to make the University of Bergen climate neutral by 2030. The university will also host an annual conference on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Vulkanen Kilauea i 2016

How to live next to the world's most active volcano (07.02.2018)

How do people live in a place where the question is not if the disaster will happen, but when?

Mare Nullius: Professor Edvard Hviding awarded Toppforsk grant (05.02.2018)

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.

Humanities scholars attract foreign researchers to Bergen (01.02.2018)

Thanks to EU funding, the Digital Culture, Archaeology, Philosophy and Theory of Science researchs groups will welcome new international researchers to their team. These groups at the Faculty of Humanities received five out of seven Marie Curie grants awarded to UiB.