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On board a North Sea fishing vessel, with a fisherman on deck, hauling in the catch of the day.
Legal puzzle in the North Sea (03.06.2015)
What is the best way to manage an ecosystem? This is one of the many questions Sigrid Eskeland Schütz deals with in her work as a professor of law.
Kjersti Fløttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.
What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)
Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.
Volcanoes under the sea
Researchers discover missing link in the evolution of complex cells (07.05.2015)
University of Bergen researcher Steffen Leth Jørgensen has discovered a new microbe in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, which represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.
fMRI scan of a brain, used as part of an article about treatment for patients who have suffered a stroke.
Future help for stroke patients with language problems (04.05.2015)
Brain researcher Karsten Specht has found a new method of analysis to distinguish between stroke patients with language problem. The result may be individualised treatment for each patient.
Ornaments from the Early Neolithic Period, belonging to Le Tai, Toulouse University and Essenbach-Ammerbreite, Archäologische Staatssammlung München.
North Europeans resisted farming (16.04.2015)
North Europeans resisted adaption of farming and herding when these practices arrived in Europe about 8,000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by a team including Archaeology Professor Francesco d’Errico at the University of Bergen.
The logo of the Centre on Law & Social Transformation in Bergen, which opened on 22 August 2014. The centre is a collaboration between Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen.
A call to laws (25.08.2014)
The new Centre on Law & Social Transformation officially opened on 22 August and is to be a dynamo for interdisciplinary research on law as an instrument of social change.
Blood sample to test a patient for diabetes, used as part of an article in the UiB Magazine on diabetes research.
Research in front: Solving diabetes (08.08.2014)
What roles do diets and genetics play in the development of obesity and diabetes?
Satelitte dishes in Svalbard, used as part of the research of the Birkeland Centre for Space Science, pictures are from an article in the UiB Magazine.
Research in front: Basic research in space (08.08.2014)
How is earth connected to space? That is one of the questions the researchers at the Birkeland Centre for Space Science are trying to answer.
Illustration by artist Oda Valle for an article on the Sea Lice Research Centre at the University of Bergen for the UiB Magazine 2014.
Tailor-made medicine to fight salmon louse (06.08.2014)
The salmon louse has become ever more resistant to drugs. The Sea Lice Research Centre in Bergen works to find new solutions to fight the louse.
The University Museum of Bergen pictured from the front in bright sunshine in wintertime, with scattered spots of snow in front of the museum.
UiB in world elite in eight subjects (26.02.2014)
In the 2014 QS subject rankings, the University of Bergen scores most highly in the disciplines of modern language, communication & media studies, and in earth & marine sciences.
Photo by social anthropologist Edvard Hviding taken during fieldwork in the Marovo lagoon of Solomon Islands in 2010 showing a fast eroding village shore.
Pacific front lines of climate change (18.12.2013)
The EU-funded ECOPAS project brings together anthropology, climate research and performative arts to highlight the challenges faced by Pacific island nations.
Fiskere på Nilen. Flere av programpostene dreier seg om elven.
Critical acclaim for Nile biography (28.01.2013)
Professor Terje Tvedt has studied the River Nile for 30 years. His extensive research reaches its conclusion in an epic book that has been lauded by Norwegian critics.

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