News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

New PhD - Eivind N. W. Støren (31.05.2011)

Thursday 26. May 2011 Eivind N. W. Støren defended his PhD-thesis at Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen

Research Council granting millions for equipment purchase (26.05.2011)

Investment in research infrastructures and technology is costly and requires long-term thinking and planning. The Research Council of Norway has a total budget of 400 million for equipment proposals for 2011. May 10 they announced the allotment of funding for equipment proposals under 30 million. The remaining funding will be granted to more costly equipment purchase proposals, which must... Read more

Guppies in the university news (25.05.2011)

The web magazine of the University of Bergen, På Høyden, has published an article about our guppy experiment.

Suneetha Gunawickrama visiting EvoFish (20.05.2011)

Between October 2010 and mid September 2011, Suneetha is splitting her time between EvoFish and Institute of Marine Research (Tromsø).

Abel prize winner John W. Milnor to Bergen (16.05.2011)

The Abel prize winner for 2011, John W. Milnor, holds a guest lecture, "SPHERES", in Bergen, THURSDAY May 26, 14:15, VilVite Auditorium.

New PhD - Espen N. Vaular (16.05.2011)

Espen N. Vaular, Department of Chemistry, defended his PhD thesis on 26. May 2011. Valuar has participated in the GEO-lead "Gas hydrates on the Norwegian-Barents Sea-Svalbard margin"-project (NFR-Petromaks)

New master's thesis (12.05.2011)

Martin Wiech has finished his master's thesis on guppy behaviour.

Publication in Nature (09.05.2011)

Depth-dependent extension, two-stage breakup and cratonic underplating at rifted margins