Many things are happening on the educational front at our faculty! We are now in the middle of our InterAct process. At the same time, there are many activities outside the Faculty that we will be affected by.
On March 8th we are getting ready for the invading hordes of young students who are interested in studying with us during the next year or two. Through the day, thousands of young ones will surge the campus, sniffing out the best study environments. At the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, about a hundred students and staffers will be welcoming them warmly.
The University of Oslo has three major initiatives across faculties and museums. UiO:Life Science is the largest of these initiatives and arranges the Life Science Conference February 12 - 15.
Our news site Titan celebrated its two-year anniversary just before Christmas. And we can conclude that Titan has been a huge success. Now the time is ripe to further develop the news site and we need your input!
The city of Oslo did not want to organize the 2022 Winter Olympics. However, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo will instead have the pleasure of inviting over 100 countries to a mathematical competition in July 2022.
The election of new representatives for temporary academic staff for the Faculty Board is opened. Place your vote before the deadline January 24 at 12:00 pm (noon).
The Norwegian center for science education develops the online resources Realfagsl?yper to strengthen the science education competence of kindergarten teachers and teachers. Realfagsl?ypene will be a tool for local professional development and will be launched at realfagsl?yper.no in April 2018.
The faculty's activities are conducted in many buildings across Blindern. Many of these buildings, especially at Nedre Blindern, including Kristine Bonnevie's house, need refurbishment. This is expensive and something the University of Oslo can never do alone. What shall we do?
It is the MN faculty’s ambition to be one of Europe's most attractive places for education and research in science and technology. Our new strategy, currently under way, will definitely maintain this ambition of looking to Europe and beyond.
The University of Oslo will commence using the new learning management system Canvas in the autumn semester of 2018. Canvas is an advanced system that will give us new possibilities in course development, teaching and student contact.
The size of Horizon2020 is approximately 75 billion Euros, and about half of this will be granted over the next 3 years. Our EU-team is available to anyone who wants advice on the EU-system and/or assistance with applications.
Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS) at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics officially opened on November 1st 2017. RoCS is one of five new Centres of Excellence that were awarded UiO earlier this year.
Knowledge and competence in science and technology is and will be important for society development. Where should science and technology at the University of Oslo be in 2030? The Faculty Board has decided to work on developing a new strategy for science and technology at UiO. We begin now!
I have been asked this question many times since I started as a Vice Dean for Innovation and External Relations in October. I do not have the final answer to that question, and we will define together how we will organize the work at the faculty.
For the students, summer schools, and exchange activities that lasts a few weeks are very attractive. It is more challenging to entice students to spend a semester abroad.
Our first news in this renewed newsletter from the Faculty is that we have decided to continue with our monthly newsletter. The lifescience building will also be a reality, and our new students on our new bachelor programs have studied for almost two months.
President Lyndon Johnson reportedly said that Gerald Ford too dumb to walk while chewing gum, strongly suggesting that Ford lacked the intelligence required to handle two tasks at the same time.
The aDNA laboratory at the Department of Biosciences is a powerfull tool in UiOs bouquet of infrastructures for lifesciences.
The Dean Morten D?hlen, Vice Dean Svein St?len og Vice Dean Solveig Kristensen are the only nominated for the election of Dean 2016.
Stephanie Werner is elected as the new representative for the temporary academic staff on the Faculty Board.
Tuesday January 12th at 12:00 pm the election of one representative for the temporary staff to the Faculty Board for 2016 is opened.
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