Dear colleagues,
As Dean, I have many tasks. One of the major highlights of last week was the conferment of 43 new “doctores” at the UiO Faculty of Medicine.
This grand ceremony takes place in the University Aula, against the backdrop of Edvard Munch’s monumental paintings. The ceremony begins with the deans all dressed up in their various robes entering the hall in a formal procession to Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba”, played by the University Symphony Orchestra.
The Aula is packed to capacity with doctoral candidates and their academic supervisors, family and friends. One by one, the candidates are called up to the podium and presented with their doctoral diploma by the Rector.
MED awards the most doctoral degrees
This impressive ceremony demonstrates the great breadth and the significance of the important research work being done at our outstanding all-round university. The Faculty of Medicine produces by far the largest number of doctoral degrees at the University of Oslo. The theses in medicine cover a wide range of topics – this time in psychiatry, surgery, internal medicine, immunology, cancer, neuroscience, women and children, social medicine and public health.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to all the new doctores on having completed the highest level of education you can get in Norway, and thank you all for your important contributions to the research front. We must also congratulate their academic supervisors, colleagues and other supporters who help make it possible for them to do this important research work. I agree with the Rector’s words in his speech to the new doctores: “I am confident that you will contribute to the light, which Munch has captured so perfectly in his painting, and take your curiosity and persistence out into the world and contribute to society.”
Yours sincerely, Hanne
