Nils-J?rgen Knudsen Dal is elected as representative for temporary academic employees at the Faculty Board. First substitute is Luca Eva Gazdag, second substitute is Kristian Breivik Kvamme.
The election of representative for temporary academic employees at the Faculty Board is open, cast your vote.
Four people have been nominated to the position of representative for temporary academic staff at the Faculty Board. The election opens on Tuesday 25 February at. 12:00.
From 1 January 2020, the researchers at the Department of Informatics (IFI) are organised in fewer sections with a more articulate academic profile. The reorganisation is the outcome of a thorough strategy process.
We are working with search engine optimization to reach the most motivated students with the aim that they apply for studies at the University of Oslo.
Due to new regulations on educational competence the Faculty is developing professional development opportunities for our permanent and temporary academic employees.
The Mars 2020 rover will be launched in July 2020 to the red planet Mars. The rover will carry a ground penetrating radar developed in Norway.
In the fall of 2019, the Faculty has established thematic areas in life sciences that reflect the breadth of the department's activities in the field. Together with UiO:Life Science, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry, we will in the spring give an overall recommendation to the Rectorate on which thematic areas to be established in the free areas in the life sciences building.
It has been one year since we launched the Faculty strategy. We are very pleased with the final document, but the strategy work process has been the most important part.
Over the last 40 years a larger and larger portion of research is funded by external sources and the competition for these funds is also increasing. Our strategic advisory committee has visited us and we have got many good advices. The main question has been how the faculty shall realize the ambitious goals formulated in our strategy?
After the faculty kick-off seminar in late September, there has been a lot of activity related to the creation of the new centre. A broad range of scientific staff has prepared a description of realistic benefits in establishing the centre and assessing the centre's contribution to the Faculty’ and the University’s social mission. They have also made proposals for the centre's main focus and thematic research areas. And not least, the committee has worked out a possible centre vision.
After ten months spent at the provisory offices at Ullev?l stadium, the astrophysicists are back to Svein Rosseland’s house, and all together celebrate the inauguration of the new premises for Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, one of the nine Centers for Excellence at UiO.
November 1 was Jo D?hl's first working day as Faculty Director at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
There has been a hearing on the Rector Team's draft for the University Strategy 2020-2030. We have submittet our hearing statement from the Faculty, here are some of the highlights.
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25 PhD candidates are ready to learn everything they need to know about research communication.
"Knowledge development for a changing world" is the title of our strategy. When working with the strategy we discussed various topics, including what to consider when developing our organization. Here is a brief summary of what we consider to be the most important items when conducting organizational development.
Before the summer, the Faculty Board decided to establish a Center for Data Science and Computing. The aim of the center is to support international cooperation in research and education. The new center will become very important in our efforts to strengthen the Faculty’s position as an outstanding European research-intensive faculty and implement our strategy: Knowledge development for a changing world. Science and technology towards 2030.
31st of October to the 1st of November 2019 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Odd Hassel receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with events at the Science Library and at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The study of molecular structure has turned out to increase our understanding of how chemical processes can happen – or not happen. After 50 years this research topic is still hot, for instance in the field of medicine.
In the fall of 2019, the new internship course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences will begin, where selected study programs offer internship as part of the Bachelor degrees. This provides students with relevant work experience during their studies.
State of the art scientific equipment is important for scientific progress and the University of Oslo has decided to establish a roadmap for research infrastructure.
The start of the semester is over and our students have been welcomed by our many dedicated study buddies and scientific and administrative staff.
At Department of Pharmacy, we have placed the analytical chemistry teaching in a pharmaceutical context for more than 20 years. The purpose of this has been to increase the relevance for pharmacy students, and to define an international teaching reference. Recently we released a new international textbook, providing basic knowledge crucial for the quality and correct use of our pharmaceuticals.
In autumn, we start a new course in science communication for PhD candidates. The course MNKOM9010 Communicating Science will enable candidates to solve a variety of communication challenges.
Life sciences represents the largest priority area at UiO. Four out of eight faculties have life sciences as their core activity, UiO:Life Science is a comprehensive strategic initiative at UiO , and from 2024 the life science building will be Norway's largest research building.
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