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  • Aslaug Mikkelsen, UiS, Jone Idsøe, Sandnes Sparebank, Sveinung Hestnes, Sparebank 1 SR-Bank

    The finance industry and UiS build a unique community

    (19.10.2007)  The finance industry of the Stavanger region jointly supports the progress of their community in contributing a minimum of NOK 20 million to develop research and study programs in applied economics at UiS.

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  • Per Arne Bjørkum at the Faculty of Technology and Science at the University of Stavanger

    The Golden Zone Theory simplifies oil and gas exploration

    (19.10.2007)  Researchers have developed a theory which can be important for future oil and gas exploration. The Golden Zone is about to become a key concept in the petroleum and gas industry.

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  • Associate professor Per Henning Uppstad at the Center for Reading Research at the University of Stavanger.

    Challenging dyslexia research

    (19.10.2007)  There is disturbingly little discussion and reflection around basic concepts in dyslexia research, says associate professor Per Henning Uppstad at the Center for Reading Research at the University of Stavanger.

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  • International Day at UiS Tuesday 30 October

    (12.10.2007)  For the third time, the University of Stavanger, in cooperation with SiS, StOr, and ISU arranges an international day at the University of Stavanger. The happening is open to all students and staff at UiS.

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  • Professor Erling Roland

    Action against bullying

    (05.09.2007)  The fight against bullying has to be won every day, says Professor Erling Roland at the Center for Behavioral Research at UiS. Together with internationally recognized colleagues he now asks the world to confront the problem.

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  • Elin Reikerås

    Poor readers can be good at math

    (23.08.2007)  Poor readers can be good at calculation - if only they have a pencil. The writing down of a problem makes the solution easier, says Elin Reikerås, associate professor at the Centre for Reading Education and Research.

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  • Label with the text Made in Bangladesh

    Increased social responsibility among businesses

    (23.08.2007)  As consumers we are constantly reminded of the possibility that everyday items like clothes, shoes, and wood products can be made under substandard working conditions in remote parts of the world. They may be produced by children or from material in the rain forests without our knowing it. From a consumer’s point of view it appears to be impossible to guard oneself against this situation.

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  • Ada Carine Hanson, David Maxwell, Mona Levina og Efosa Uyiomendo.

    Start of the Semester for 160 International Students

    (15.08.2007)  Today 160 students from 46 countries officially began their studies at UiS. 110 of them are full time students, mainly at master level, while the rest are exchange students.

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  • Kielland – an ideological paragon in the GDR

    (10.07.2007)  Alexander L. Kielland’s books were sold as dime novels in the former East Germany. Together with Ibsen, Bjørnson and Lie he constituted a part of the ideological education of the people in the GDR

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  • Tegning fra gamledager. Mennsker som haler en båt på land.

    Antagonism among Scandinavian Emigrants

    (10.07.2007)  The bitter struggle about the dissolution of the union had its reverberations on the other side of the Atlantic. In a new article Olav Tysdal at UiS tells about the struggle which led to hatred and suspicion among immigrant Swedes and Norwegians in the USA.

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  • Bullying in order to win friends

    (09.07.2007)  New research shows that immigrant boys in Norway bully because they want to belong to a group. Therefore they seem to have a different motive for bullying than ethic Norwegian boys have.

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  • Ellen Ramvi

    Doctoral presentation on how teachers learn

    (02.05.2007)  On Thursday May 3, Ellen Ramvi defends her doctoral thesis at Roskilde University Center in Denmark on Learning by Doing? A Psychoanalytical View on How Teachers Learn.

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  • Melinda K Christensen

    The biological clock - PhD thesis by Melinda K. Christensen

    (18.04.2007)  Melinda K. Christensen, formerly Moe, defends her PhD thesis on April 13, 2007 at the University of Stavanger, in Stavanger, Norway which in entitled “A frequency independent nitrate reductase rhythm in Neurospora crassa”. The topic of her obligatory lecture was "Protein degradation as an important element of cellular regulation".

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  • Food

    A Meal is More than Just Food

    (28.03.2007)  All sense impressions influence the experience of a meal when we go to a restaurant. Research carried out by associate professor Kai Victor Hansen at the University of Stavanger shows that dirty menus and waiting for the check may harm the enjoyment.

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  • Chinese dancers

    Grand Opening of UiS Study Program in China

    (19.03.2007)  Thirty Chinese students were enrolled into the Master Program in Service Management at the Beijing Institute of Tourism (BIT), the Beijing Union University, on March 9. The University of Stavanger is academically responsible for the program.

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