The value of the small things in health and medical technology
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Remember Teaching Day(s)
You can now sign up for K1 and K2s joint education days! K1 and K2 have a lot of teaching together, and this year we joint each other for teaching days. The teaching days will be 2 half days, the 1st and 14th of October. We encourage all teachers at K1 and K2 all the study administration to hold the dates. (Starts at.9 am and ends with lunch.) Registration deadline 20 September.
New organization of K2
This Tuesday the Institute Council approved a new organization for K2. The old organization of K2 had one axis for teaching, divided into 8 areas and one axis for research, divided in 21 research groups. The purpose of this division was to ensure teaching would be equated with research. The eight managers with responsibility for education have constituted the extended management team at K2.
A disadvantage of this arrangement is that it has been 8 + 21 groups, a total of 29 groups who reported directly to the department management. The control span for the K2 head was large. In addition there was an artificial distinction between research and teaching with two separate axes. In reality, it is the researchers who teach.
It has therefore been desirable to have a new organization of K2 with a smaller span of control for the management, and with research and teaching seen as a whole. In the new curriculum in medicine there will be semester boards that are responsible for the education in each semester. These semester boards will overlap with the function of today’s education managers.
In the new organization of K2, the current education managers will be abandoned. 7 of the 21 research group leaders will constitute the extended management team. The advantage of the new organization is that it is simpler, the department management will have a more manageable span of control and the differentiation between teaching and research is reduced.
I will take this opportunity to thank the education managers for the job they have done. The new organization is not to express dissatisfaction with their efforts, but is the result of experience with the old model and not least that semester boards will be established in the new curriculum for medicine.
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New employee and a new cell sorter
In July Brith Bergum took over as the daily manager of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility after Marianne Enger.If anyone has any questions or just want to come and say hello, you will find her at the 5th floor in the laboratory building. The Flow Cytometry Core Facility has also gotten a new cell sorter from SONY.
For more information, click here
Physical activity for all employees
UiB wishes to encourage and facilitate physical activity for all employees, and from now on it is possible for employees to exercise up to 1 hour per week during working hours, after specified terms. Continue reading
Sign up for fire protection training!
All employees at UiB have to participate in fire protection training,
theory and practice. This is which is enshrined in the fire law and in fire safety regulations.
UiB organizes a course that goes over 2 hours, 1 hour theory and 1 hour practical training.
For more information see here.
Sign up by contacting Irene Hjelmaas (Phone:+47 55 58 88 46).
Alumnus Day September 12
Get professional input on Alumnus Day
Selfies, sleep, overcrowding, earthquakes, cancer research, game violence and the Supreme Court. On Alumnus Day September 12th there will be lectures from some of the best communicators at UiB, and the themes are many and varied. It’s alle happening at the Student Centre from 12 pm.
See here for program and registration (in Norwegian).
(Norsk) UiB og BT presenterer: Et våtere Vestland: En velsignelse eller forbannelse?
Sorry, this entry is only available in Norsk.
Call for applications: Exploratory pre-seed grants, fall 2015
The application system opens September 1, and deadline is October 9, 2015, at 16:00 hrs.
For more information, see here.
HELSEVEL call is open!
Public PhD Defense, Week 37
Jostein Andersen Førsvoll will defend his PhD thesis on Friday September 11, 2015
Trial lecture: Friday, September 11, 2015, 09:15
Topic: “ Autoimmunitet versus autoinflammasjon – hvor står vi – hvor går vi?”
Place: Aulaen, 2. etasje Sydbygg, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Public defense: Friday, September 11, 2015, 10:30
Place: Aulaen, 2. etasje Sydbygg, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Title of dissertation: “The Periodic Fever, Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis and cervical Adenitis syndrome in children. Clinical and immunological aspects”
1st opponent: Överläkare, ph.d. Stefan Berg, Drottning Silvias Barn- och Ungdomssjukhus, Gøteborg, Sverige
2nd opponent: Professor Marite Rygg, NTNU, Trondheim
Application Deadlines
Here you will find this week`s application deadlines.
New Publications
Based on last week’s search for “Department of Clinical Science AND Bergen”. If you have publications which are not covered by this search, send the reference to elin.opheim@uib.no. Continue reading