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PhD promotion in the University hall
To solve the complex problems of the world today, researchers must be able to communicate across different fields. This was the message when the PhD promotion took place in the University hall in August 2015.
Professor Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen (UiB).
Statistically speaking, Professor of Psychology Kenneth Hugdahl should have been a drug addict. Instead, he became addicted to long jogs and research into auditory hallucinations.
Scan of a human brain, to accompany an article about a new theory of cognitive functions.
The UiB brain researchers Kenneth Hugdahl and Karsten Specht recently published an article documenting proof for a generalized active network for cognitive functions of the brain.
New PhDs in Håkon's hall
Spring 2015 saw 141 people getting their doctorate at the University of Bergen. This is 26 more than last spring.
Richard II
Professor Stuart Sillars is offering a new way of looking at Shakespeare’s plays in his new book, Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination.
Bathroom scale
A special gene variant may be part of the explanation for increased fat storage in half of the population. This finding may give patients new and better targeted treatments in the future.
Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit
Patients with chronic whiplash experience long-lasting pain, but doctors and researchers struggle to explain the causes. Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit wants to help these often misunderstood patients.
Goats at Storøyen
Herds of goats equipped with GPS collars will help combat reforestation in the mountains surrounding Bergen.
Showing cleaners at work, preparing to clean floors, used to accompany article about how many cleaners suffer bad health unless preventive measures are taken.
The risk among cleaners of developing asthma is greater if you had unfavourable conditions early in life. This is the result that was found by researchers at the University of Bergen in a recently published study.
Johan Torås Halseth
In June 2015, Master student in computer science at the University of Bergen, Johan Torås Halseth (24), was awarded the prize for best Norwegian computer science student of the year.

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