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It is easy to be dazzled by all the possibilities that modern language models, such as ChatGPT, bring with them, but there is no denying that they also present certain challenges in higher education. Several teachers are concerned that assessment forms and assessment criteria will have to be changed as a result of the development. Here are some suggestions for how you can prepare your teaching for the age of chatbots.

The visual artist Ellen Karin Mæhlum has been making a collection of prints based on microscopy pictures of brain cells from CINPLA. Images shows neurons surrounded by perineuronal nets.

The 18^th edition of Darwin Day at the University of Oslo was titled "a multidisciplinary approach to save the common Scandinavian marine waters".

Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from the UiO Growth House! Application deadline 14 March 2023. 

The University of Oslo has students and staff who are affected by what is happening to friends and family hit by the earthquake in Turkey, Syria, and nearby areas. – We want to express our deepest condolences to those afflicted by this enormous tragedy, says Rector Svein Stølen.

The Board of the University has established new guidelines for how violations of research ethics norms are to be processed. This is part of the ongoing work with research ethics at UiO.

The Library of Things opened in the HumSam Library on January 16. Come by and borrow a drill, a back pack or maybe a spade!

Are you a PhD student, postdoc or master's student in life sciences and looking for career opportunities outside academia - then you must sign up for Norway Life Science 2023!

The UiO Growth House, dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ‘Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking’, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.

Every year, IBV's own prizes are awarded. This year, seven prizes were awarded at the Department of Biosciences' Christmas dinner.

In 2022 the Life Science Growth House was established as UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology. In 2023 we change our name to UiO Growth House to show that we cover all departments and centres at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

This year's Bonnevie Prize has been awarded to Leif Ryvarden for his work in sharing and disseminating knowledge about species, through several major reference works.

The Life Science Growth House is the innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology at the University of Oslo. We help researchers and students to mature early-stage ideas. Watch our 2022 summary.

This year's Titan Award goes to biology professor Dag O. Hessen from IBV and CBA, who has prioritized communication throughout his career. Congratulations, well deserved!

With this film we wish all our students, staff, collaboration partners and everyone else a very happy holiday. 

During Christmas, there are short working days and limited capacity. At IBV, the expedition, IT and the purchasing office have closed all or partially during Christmas.

In the research group of Professor Alessandro Cataliotti at the University of Oslo, the School of Health Innovation plays a vital role in the training of young researchers. Both the professor and his PhD student Reza Parvan have found the innovation courses highly relevant to broaden the career opportunities for young researchers.

Five projects have completed the SPARK Norway innovation programme in 2022. During the graduation ceremony in December, the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2022 was presented.

The University of Oslo have long worked to reduce the energy consumption. High energy prices and increased costs has made it necessary to introduce new measures, with the aim of further reducing the usage. This is how IBV is affected by the new measures.

Learn how to commercialize research or ideas into business ventures and how to innovate services in a clinical setting. Apply for admission to the spring course in health innovation and entrepreneurship. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.

AstraZeneca, the SPARK Norway programme at University of Oslo and Oslo Cancer Cluster enter a new mentoring collaboration for life science start-ups.

Great success for new science career day, where students received career guidance from companies, and answers to questions about research education from fellows.

The Norway Life Science 2023 conference brings together key actors for developing a world-leading healthcare industry in Norway. The theme of the conference is interaction between health, technology and society.

Norbert Pirk and Frans-Jan Parmentier, who are CBA researchers, contributed with data from Norway in a research study led by researchers at the University of Zurich.

UiO researchers who experience threats or harassment must contact the Security Operation Centre and their immediate line managers, and have now been provided with a checklist of other things they should do after having received a threat.