Don’t forget the Day of the Faculty 10 June, where the Prizes of the Year will also be awarded.

Attached you will find a short article (in Norwegian) from the latest edition of the magazine LVS-info, written by two final-year medical students. The title of the article is “2 minutter for å bli en bedre foreleser” and the authors would like all lecturers to read the article.

Attachment: 2 minutter for å bli en bedre foreleser

We are planning completion of a long process of shutting down the server “Elle”. It will be shut down on 18 June 2016. This will make the domain names listed below invalid.

If some of these domains shall still be used, they need to be moved to another server. Those who want to have their domain names redirected to another site/location should register  an issue to that effect in Issue-tracker.

All traffic from studentportal.uib.no will be redirected to the new portal mitt.uib.no.

Please feel free to contact Michael Eric Menk (michael.menk@uib.no) if you have any questions regardin the discontinuation.

Regards,
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Friday 17 June at 9 am Dr. Hiroshi Matsumoto, the University’s representative in Tokyo, will visit the Faculty. He wants to meet researchers with cooperation or interest in Japan.

The aim of the meeting is primarily to introduce Hiroshi Matsumoto and his work in Tokyo and get a briefing on the faculty’s activities, but he would also like to meet interested researchers.

Those wishing to attend the meeting should contact Torunn Olsnes at the research section by 13 June.

The Research Council’s awards, deadline June 17th, To be submittet through the Institute.

The Research Council bestows four prestigious awards on researchers and innovators each year: the Award for Outstanding Research, the Award for Young Outstanding Researchers, the Award for Excellence in Communication of Science and the Innovation Award. For more information follow this link.

Information meetings regarding Norwegian Research Council calls on Digital Life and Infrastructure. Also schedule regarding applications to Infrastructure. More information here

For more on the information meeting 6 June regarding Digital Life, please follow this link.
For more on the information meeting 16 June regarding Infrastructure see here, and for time schedule see here.

Follow this link to see a video with useful tips for EU-applicants.

Information and match-making meeting June 20th, related to the upcoming BIOTEK2021/Digitalt Liv-call.
The call includes NOK 100 mill from the Norwegian Research Council and is expected to be announced in June 2016.
More information and sign up for the meeting June20th can be found here.

Trond Bruun will defend his PhD thesis on Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
Trial lecture: Tuesday, June 7th , 2016, 10:15
Topic:  ”Pneumoni”
Place: Birkhaugsalen (D303), Sentralblokken, Haukeland Universitetssykehus
Public defense: Tuesday, June 7th, 2016, 12:15
Place: Birkhaugsalen (D303), Sentralblokken, Haukeland Universitetssykehus
Title of dissertation: ”Clinical and bacterial diversity in streptococcal skin and soft tissue disease”
1st opponent: Professor Jan Kristian Damås, NTNU, Trondheim
2nd opponent: Docent Magnus Rasmussen, Lunds Universitet, Sverige

Press release (in Norwegian)

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