News - Page 6

It has been one year since we launched the Faculty strategy. We are very pleased with the final document, but the strategy work process has been the most important part.

Over the last 40 years a larger and larger portion of research is funded by external sources and the competition for these funds is also increasing. Our strategic advisory committee has visited us and we have got many good advices. The main question has been how the faculty shall realize the ambitious goals formulated in our strategy?

After the faculty kick-off seminar in late September, there has been a lot of activity related to the creation of the new centre. A broad range of scientific staff has prepared a description of realistic benefits in establishing the centre and assessing the centre's contribution to the Faculty’ and the University’s social mission. They have also made proposals for the centre's main focus and thematic research areas. And not least, the committee has worked out a possible centre vision.

After ten months spent at the provisory offices at Ullevål stadium, the astrophysicists are back to Svein Rosseland’s house, and all together celebrate the inauguration of the new premises for Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, one of the nine Centers for Excellence at UiO.

November 1 was Jo Døhl's first working day as Faculty Director at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

There has been a hearing on the Rector Team's draft for the University Strategy 2020-2030. We have submittet our hearing statement from the Faculty, here are some of the highlights.  

– Join us as a crater detective!

25 PhD candidates are ready to learn everything they need to know about research communication.

"Knowledge development for a changing world" is the title of our strategy. When working with the strategy we discussed various topics, including what to consider when developing our organization. Here is a brief summary of what we consider to be the most important items when conducting organizational development.

Before the summer, the Faculty Board decided to establish a Center for Data Science and Computing. The aim of the center is to support international cooperation in research and education. The new center will become very important in our efforts to strengthen the Faculty’s position as an outstanding European research-intensive faculty and implement our strategy: Knowledge development for a changing world. Science and technology towards 2030.

31st of October to the 1st of November 2019 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Odd Hassel receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with events at the Science Library and at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The study of molecular structure has turned out to increase our understanding of how chemical processes can happen – or not happen. After 50 years this research topic is still hot, for instance in the field of medicine. 

Follow the construction process through pictures that are taken by webcam regularly.

In the fall of 2019, the new internship course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences will begin, where selected study programs offer internship as part of the Bachelor degrees. This provides students with relevant work experience during their studies. 

State of the art scientific equipment is important for scientific progress and the University of Oslo has decided to establish a roadmap for research infrastructure.

The start of the semester is over and our students have been welcomed by our many dedicated study buddies and scientific and administrative staff.

At Department of Pharmacy, we have placed the analytical chemistry teaching in a pharmaceutical context for more than 20 years. The purpose of this has been to increase the relevance for pharmacy students, and to define an international teaching reference. Recently we released a new international textbook, providing basic knowledge crucial for the quality and correct use of our pharmaceuticals.

In autumn, we start a new course in science communication for PhD candidates. The course MNKOM9010 Communicating Science will enable candidates to solve a variety of communication challenges.

Life sciences represents the largest priority area at UiO. Four out of eight faculties have life sciences as their core activity, UiO:Life Science is a comprehensive strategic initiative at UiO , and from 2024 the life science building will be Norway's largest research building.

Psychology student Emma Eriksson is part of the team at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital that will test a new innovative treatment on Norwegian patients with chronic pain. The method involves meditative breathing with monitoring on smartphones at home.

SIRIUS is currently the sole Centre for Research-Based Innovation hosted by the University of Oslo. Its aim is to drive world-class computer science research through working with business challenges in, and beyond, the oil and gas industry. 

On Monday, March 18, we received a visit from the Minister of Digitalization Nikolai Astrup at the opening of the Data Science Lab in Forskningsparken. It was an inspiring meeting between researchers, established companies, entrepreneurs and the minister who has the national responsibility for nothing less than to digitize Norway.

UiO:Life Science and vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset invite all employees at UiO to breakfast meetings 27 May, 28 May, 29 May and 5 June at 8–9 AM.

This year the Sustainable Backpack celebrates its ten year anniversary. Since 2009, a total of 619 schools have completed school projects in order to give students management ability competence for sustainable development. The students of today have clearly proved their insight and engagement for sustainable development through the recent student strike, where they demanded “green actions” from the politicians. 

In our new strategy at the Faculty, data science and computing receives a lot of attention, both method research under the heading "Digitalization and Computational Science" and as an important tool for solving scientific challenges in most research areas at the Faculty.

We have dived into our new roles as deans: Knut as new Vice Dean for Education and Solveig with new tasks within research in her role as Vice Dean for Research.