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IKTPLUSS Grant to SETA project (15.04.2020)

While the COVID-19 hits us badly, we can have some great news too. Chunlei has recently received a grant from the Research Council of Norway’s IKTPLUSS program on the call of ubiquitous data and services. Congratulations to Chunlei!

Photo: Interactive workshop at SDG Conference Bergen 2020.

Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde på agendaen under Bærekraftskonferansen i Bergen 2020 (10.03.2020)

På Day Zero av Bærekraftskonferansen i Bergen 2020 myldret det i Storelogen på Kvarteret med over 80 entusiastiske mennesker som kom for å diskutere Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde som en arena for bærekraftig utvikling. Den interaktive arbeidssmia ble arrangert av UNESCO Chair ved Universitetet i Bergen, den norske UNESCO-kommisjonen, Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde og det norske FN-... Read more

Guest PhD student from Thailand (28.02.2020)

Mr. Wisarut Tukanghan, awarded Industry Grant by The Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), formerly known as the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) is on a 3 months research visit to BIO.

RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (27.02.2020)

Professor Vincent Rijmen has received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics. The award “recognizes innovation and ongoing contributions to the field of cryptography and mathematics”. Congratulations to Vincent!

Podcast: Storm tracks – A conveyor belt of warm moist air (23.01.2020)

IFT Research on the Cover of Science (14.01.2020)

Lilya Budaghyan - Interview with the Trond Mohn Foundation (07.01.2020)

We have invented new methods to construct optimal cryptographic Boolean functions and created new families of optimal functions.

The Program for Sustainable Aviation! (20.12.2019)

Because of the current covid-19 situation in Bergen, this half-day seminar will be digital! This is the third in a series of transport related half day seminars considers the topic of a more sustainable future for aviation.

Christine holding up a print of a cod head

Master thesis on the effects of bisphenol compounds on Atlantic cod estrogen receptor (18.12.2019)

In her master thesis, Christine Tveiten Johansen, has studied how bisphenol compounds activate or inhibit estrogen receptor in Atlantic cod. She shows disturbing results of the substitute compounds can be more harmful that the known plastic additive bisphenol A.

Technology meets medicine at the MMIV-conference (12.12.2019)

- Making people from the tech fields and the clinical fields merge efforts, is vital to improve patient treatment

When environmental toxicology meets design (05.12.2019)

During the last months I have been thinking about how to communicate my PhD project to the general public. As a scientist, I explain my work with graphs and figures. But a figure which is easy to understand to my colleagues or peer reviewers, will find it hard to attract the attention of someone outside science.

A new tool uncovers how a disease develops in individual patients (05.12.2019)

UiB and Imperial College researchers have developed a tool which predicts how progressive diseases like cancer and malaria develop in individual patients. In addition, the tool uncovers how bacteria develop resistance to certain drugs.

Eurasian students from Kazakhistan (15.11.2019)

Mashzhan Akzhigit , PhD student and Musabekov Zhorabek, master student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University make their first research visit to University of Bergen under the Eurasian Framework. Welcome!

Researchers discover cause of rapid sea level change 100.000 years ago (07.11.2019)

The world’s sea level was at one time ten meters higher than today. Researchers have now discovered where the water came from.

Elin Darelius held The Nansen Memorial Lecture (04.11.2019)

The yearly lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Letters and Sciences.

Breakdown of keratin-laden biomass waste by the thermophilic bacteria Fervidobacterium pennivorans strain Ker (02.11.2019)

Edoardo Mandolini, will work on his master thesis focussing on the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennivorans, named strain Ker, isolated from a terrestrial hot-spring in Tajikistan.

What is the dominant wind direction for air-sea heat exchange? (30.10.2019)

In the mid-latitudes the weather changes quickly. Changing winds influence the heat exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean. A new study by Fumiaki Ogawa and Thomas Spengler shows how important it is to consider short-term phenomena like extratropical cyclones and cold air outbreaks when calculating air-sea fluxes. Read their account below.

Data interoperability a key for disaster risk reduction in Europe (30.10.2019)

In a number of European countries, there is a clear imbalance between long-term disaster risk reduction and short-term preparation, according to a new study. With increasing amounts of data, there is a potential for investments in long-term reduction measures, but data availability is not enough. Jenny Sjåstad Hagen, co-author of the study, writes about the importance of data interoperability.

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