Monthly Archives: December 2016

HSE corner – Who are you?

ssaasaOn UiB’s websites, you can search for a person if you need their phone number, email or other info. It is also possible to post a picture of yourself. This is something UiB wishes that we have on our profiles. Unfortunately many here at K2 doesn’t have a picture of themself, but it is very easy to fix.

You can contact Irene Hjelmaas or Ingvild Lekven Jonsvoll (8th floor – lab-building) to get your picture taken. You can upload the Picture on Your profile at www.uib.no/login. You can come by Thursday December 15th at: 9-10 AM or Wednesday December 21st at 10-11 AM to get your picture taken.

It is time to select the best oral and poster presentations held at a conference in 2016!

You are hereby invited to present your work to fellow researchers and the general audience during the traditional event: Research presentations of the year, organized by the The Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research. If you have presented a poster or had an oral presentation at a scientific meeting or a conference in 2016, you are welcome to submit your work.

It is really easy – just submit the same poster/abstract that you held at a conference in 2016

Submission deadline is December 18. There will be a poster exhibition, January 23-27, 2017 in the main entrance of the Haukeland University Hospital. Wednesday 24th posters will be presented orally, and  selected abstracts will be presented orally on Thursday 25th.

See poster here.

The best presentations will be awarded 5000 NOK!

Use the opportunity to increase the visibility of your research to the hospital, your peers and the public!

Who can participate? All young scientists in the PhD programme, forskerlinje students, master students and postdocs. Information and submission:

forskningspresentasjoner.forskerskolen@uib.no

www.facebook.com/groups/forskerskolen

Educational training of new seminar leaders at UiB for the spring semester 2017

Attached you’ll find information about UiBs offer about educational training for advanced students who will have seminars or supervise written assignments in the spring semester 2017.

Time: Modul 1a + 1b:  Monday Januar 9th + Tuesday January 10th at 9.15 AM  – 3.00 PM
Modul 2:  Wednesday January 11th , at 9.15 AM  – 3.00 PM

Place:  VilVite senteret, 2nd floor room C + D (Thormøhlens gate 51)

Information about scholarship to USA – Full degree and exchange

Norway-Amerika Association would like to inform about a grant their students to study in the US at the graduate levels (master, PhD, post-doc) can apply.

The deadline is December 18th 2016 for the study autum 2017 and spring 2018. Students do not have admission to school / applied exchange from their institution by the deadline. We support both helgrad and delgrad, and this year allocated we scholarships to 25 students.

Our amounts range from $ 3,000 – $ 20,000, which comes very well to school costs and living expenses.

We often meet students who are not thinking about financing before they enter the program and hope that you can remind those on being early to think about funding

For more information, see www.noram.no/graduate-stipender/.

Do you have staff / professors or others who want to have a stay in the United States, to research or teach a semester? Our partner organization in the US, American Scandinavian Foundation has a scholarship named Visiting Lectureships. Application deadline is 15 February 2017 and we recommend starting early with an application

 

Teknikkerforum 15th of December

Dear all,

Attached you can find the program for the next Technician Forum.

It will take place Thursday 15th December, 13:00 – 15:00, meeting room 9.1 and 9.2 of laboratory building.

Topics:

Julie Stavnes: Season greeting from the Head of Administration

Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen: Ethical aspects and future perspectives in regards to personalized medicine

Thank you for your help in making the forum.

Welcome!

Technician forum community: Ersilia Bifulco, Jenny Zhang, Tove Folkestad

The Translational Hematology Cluster presents «Therapy Development in Malignant Blood Disease

The Translational Hematology Cluster invites all interested to participate in this semesters half-day seminar with the theme «Therapy Development in Malignant Blood Disease». Topics from basal research developing novel cancer therapeutics to implementation of new drugs in the clinic will be covered.

Time: 14th of December, 12:00
Venue: Conference room, 3rd floor, BBB.

For the program, click here

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Call for proposals – cooperation agreement UiB-BKK

Referring to the letter from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (2015 / 6653-16) on funding announcement for student scholarships and research projects through the cooperation agreement between BKK and the University of Bergen.

Announcement Text can be found here and Application form can be found here.

The funds will help support master students and PhD candidates at the University of Bergen, working on assignments or papers that relate to new knowledge about technological, scientific and social issues related to the development and utilization of renewable energy, energy restructuring and provident infrastructure

You may apply for funding to study trips, conferences and fieldwork.

All Applications shall be submitted jointly by email to marianne.stien@uib.no  by Thursday January 5th 2017