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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Teaching projects and outstanding teaching get funding and award from Olav Thon Foundation
On January 10th, Olav Thon Foundation announced that UiB professor Ivar Rønnestad, professor Vigdis Vandvik (with colleagues) and UNIS associate professor Pernille B. Eidesen have gotten award and funding from the Foundation. Ivar Rønnestad received a national award for outstanding teaching, while Vigdis Vandvik and Pernille B. Eidesen received 1.5 million NOK and 1.35 million…
Welcome to our new student representatives at BIO and UNIS!
Ingrid Oline Tveranger (BIO) and Ørjan Vabø (AB, UNIS) are our new student representatives in bioCEED this semester. Ingrid Oline is a 22 years old post bachelor student in molecular biology at the University of Bergen. Her plan is to proceed in this field, taking a master in molecular biology. During her bachelor she have been very active in…
Ivar Rønnestad gets national award for excellent teaching from the Olav Thon Foundation
On January 10th, the Olav Thon foundation announced in a press conference that Prof. Ivar Rønnestad was awarded one of the three national prizes for excellent teaching. Ivar Rønnestad, professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, UiB, has been teaching physiology, fish health and aquaculture since 1989. He is known for his strong international commitment both…
UNIS launches its first internship course for Arctic Biology students
This spring semester, UNIS runs the AB-208 course “Internship in Arctic Biology” for bachelor students for the first time. The course aims at giving students the possibility to get knowledge and skills not easily obtained in class-room settings. It has been developed in close collaboration and with help from the internship course BIO298 run at…
New paper: Biology students at work: Using blogs to investigate personal epistemologies.
Torstein Nielsen Hole, Gaute Velle, Hanne Riese, Arild Raaheim and Anne Laure Simonelli have written an article about learning in work placements among biology students. To investigate learning they have focused on personal epistemologies. That is, students’ accounts of learning and knowing. Students have written about their learning experiences in blogs; using student blogs as…
BioBREAKFAST webpage is ready!
The bioBREAKFAST webpage is now up and running! Here you will get an overview of what bioBREAKFAST is and why it is arranged. Every time the breakfast is arranged, it will be posted there. The webpage is developed in cooperation between students and employees. Its aim is to make it easy accessible to read about this…
Not just one, but two new episodes of NOKUT-podden!
Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education.
The latest two editions of NOKUT-podden are about:
There is much to learn from this podcast, especially if you understand Norwegian… Here are the other episodes: