Editorial: The Life Sciences Building, Collaboration Meetings, and Budget Work
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo talks about a visit from Sydney for collaboration meetings with UiT. Site inspection at the Life Sciences Building, budget work, and emergency preparedness exercise.
Don't miss the local and national finals of the Researcher Grand Prix in science communication next week.
The management column
Relocation from Rikshospitalet to Gaustad and New University of Oslo Premises at the Radiumhospital
Vice-Dean for Education Magnus L?berg provides an update on the opening of new University of Oslo premises at the Radiumhospital and announces that the Medical Library, the Skills Centre, and the study rooms at Rikshospitalet will be moving to Gaustad next week.
Read the full article in The management column
News from MED
Tram Stop at Rikshospitalet Closes
The tram stop at the National Hospital Rikshospitalet is closed from September 16th. There will be a bus service replacing the tram for a period from John Collet's place.
Read the full article on the IMB website.
Construction Noise Around Domus Medica
Construction Noise Around Domus Medica There will be periods of drilling and wire sawing near Domus Medica in September and October. The underground car park at Rikshospitalet and the tram tracks will be removed.
Read the full article on the IMB website.
Briefings
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MED: Election of a New Leader for MedDocs. ?ge Winje Brustad and Gorm Edwin are standing as candidates. If you are enrolled in the PhD programme between 1 September and 30 September 2024, you can help decide who will be the voice of the PhD candidates in the Research Education Committee. Voting starts on Friday, 20 September. A new leader will be elected for one year from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025.
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MED: Faculty board election: In Autumn 2024, a representative and two deputy representatives from the temporary scientific staff will be elected. The deadline to nominate your candidate is 20 October.
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UB: Have you noticed that the Medical Library has created new subject pages for medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy? Here you will find databases and reference works, information about the library's courses and services, and other resources you might need for finding research literature, writing and referencing, or publishing openly. The website is intended for both staff and students and is of course, also available in English.
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UiO: New Email System at UiO: The transition to the new solution begins in early October. Remember that email is not a secure storage place. It is important to tidy up your account. Make sure to remove any sensitive information before the migration. Read more:
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Let's get started! Organise your emails before they are moved to MS365 in October.
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See the cleanup guide for tips on how to effectively tidy up your emails.
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UiO: Academic Environments in the Life Sciences Building. It is now confirmed that large parts of the Department of Biosciences at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and parts of the Department of Oral Biology at the Faculty of Dentistry will move into the new Life Sciences Building.
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Opinion Piece in Aftenposten in Norwegian by Gunnveig Gr?deland and Sigrid Bratlie: Science has not provided good enough answers to the question of the pandemic's origin.
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KURT: Would chatGPT need to resign as minister of higher education?
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UiO: Theatre Performance Offers for UiO Staff
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Reduced price on performances of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in September.
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UiO employees can get tickets at a symbolic price for Garborg’s Haugtussa on the main stage: 1 October, 3 October, 8 October, and 10 October.
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Management meetings
- Lederforum: Overview of meeting dates (in norwegian). The next meeting is on tuesday 1 October. Agenda items and documents must be submitted by 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Minutes of the previous meetings (in norwegian).
- Overview of faculty board meetings and IDF meetings in 2024 (PDF) (in norwegian) with deadlines for submitting cases. The next faculty board meeting will be held on 24 September. Agendas and protocols will be updated here (in norwegian).
- Meetings of the university board 2024 (in norwegian). The meetings are live streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting will take place on 3. Desember. See also agendas and minutes from previous meetings.
Opportunities and deadlines
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See all deadlines for applications for research funding under Funding opportunities.
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Keep an eye on the annual calendar for award announcements (in norwegian). There are several announcements currently: Hideyo Noguchi Africa prize, Viking Olov Bj?rk scholarship, the dementia research prize, the heart research prize, the Wolf prize, and the Warren Alpert foundation prize.
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See all deadlines for applications for research funding under Funding opportunities.
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Keep an eye on the annual calendar for award announcements (in norwegian). There are several announcements currently, some with short Deadlines: Hideyo Noguchi Africa prize, Viking Olov Bj?rk scholarship, the dementia research prize, the heart research prize, the Wolf prize, and the Warren Alpert foundation prize.
Courses and events
See the University of Oslo’s calendar (in norwegian) for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO IT (in norwegian) and the Updated course overview from the University Library (in norwegian).
Overview: Upcoming public defence.
- 24 September: Welcome breakfast for new international researchers. UiO takes pleasure in inviting all international employees, researchers and Ph.D. candidates who have joined our institution recently to an orientation meeting and common breakfast. At the end of the event, guests may take part in a guided tour of the University Library.
- 25 September - Researcher Grand Prix, local final from 18:00 to 21:30. Fully booked with a waiting list. Follow the event on the live stream!
- The UiO-Growth House for Value Creation invites you to the Innovation Conference: Science Impact 2024 – save the date, 25th September. Spend a day learning about exciting research, exploring opportunities, and building networks.
- 26 September: Open science lunch: The dark side of academic publishing
- 28 September - Researcher Grand Prix, national final (www.forskningsradet.no - in norwegian) from 19:00 to 21:00
- 3 October: 7th No-Age Symposium. Ageing, Aching and Vascular Disease.
- 22 October: Exclusion – A Democratic Problem That Starts in Childhood? in Norwegian, Domus Bibliotheca 12:30. We are living longer and our health is continuously improving, but the inequalities in society are increasing. Is there reason to be concerned that the welfare state does not encompass everyone? PhD candidate Monica Christine Haune from the Faculty of Medicine will be contributing to the event.
- 28 October - 1 November (if enough interest): UiO-course for everyone working in the lab: researchers, technicians, managers, and assistants. Register your interest: Sign-up form for "eLabJournal Workshop at UiO".
- 7 November:
- Jahre Lectures 2024, 10 AM - 2 PM at Domus Bibliotheca.
- Awarding of the Anders Jahre Medical Prizes 2024, 6 PM at the University Aula.
?rets vinnere: professor Lauri Aaltonen, professor Thomas Helleday,lektor Nicolai Albrechtsen og lektor Nicholas Taylor.
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Medisinbloggen: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare by Jonathan Adams in Norwegian.
AI also presents us with ethical challenges and can seem daunting. How can we use the technology in a good way?
Medisinbloggen: Euthanasia: When can we kill a person in Norway? by Bj?rn Hoffmann in Norwegian. The debate on euthanasia regularly resurfaces. What moral reasons do we have for taking the life of a person who wishes to die?
MED: Learn about vaccine progress from the WHO. Watch the recording of the honorary doctoral lecture by Dr. Richard J. Hatchett on 2nd September. Read more about the lectures here.
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