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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)

Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.

Abrupt warming caused ice collapse and sea level rise (22.04.2020)

Near the end of the last ice age, the global sea level rose 12–14 meters in less than 350 years. Most of the meltwater has been thought to have come from North America and Antarctica. A new study shows that the ice over coastal Norway and the Barents Sea may have contributed almost as much.

New publication in Nature Geoscience (20.04.2020)

Last month Andreas Beinlich had a publication in Nature Geoscience, and this month we are happy to announce that a new publication from Jebsen Centre researchers is out in Nature Geoscience: Today Jo Brendryen, Bjarte Hannisdal, and Kristian Agasøster Haaga published “Eurasian Ice Sheet collapse was a major source of Meltwater Pulse 1A 14,600 years ago”.

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.

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