MOL-203 Gene structure and Function is known amongst molecular biology students as an interesting, but challenging course. This is the last semester the course runs, before it will be renewed and return as an introductory molecular biology course. But this didn’t mean that the current students didn’t need help before...
More than 100 students, teachers and staff attended the BIO Fall 2020 Student Poster Symposium. Every semester, students at BIO present posters of their scientific work at a poster symposium. Many students have been conducting projects as part of their courses during this semester, in which they participated in workshops...
Taking microscopy pictures with a smartphone is quite common at the teaching lab. Students often use their favorite electronical device for documenting observations and illustrating their journals or their Instagram feed. Taking pictures directly through the eyepiece of a microscope isn’t that difficult, to be honest. However, taking good pictures...
Monday the 26th of October 2020, three excited student representatives from bioCEED Bergen arrived at Svalbard Airport. We were looking forward to spending the subsequent week 78° North at the annual Learning Forum at UNIS. Coincidentally this day was also the first day of the Polar night, where the sun...
Like many others, biORAKEL needed to adapt for this pandemic to be able to resume our weekly meetings. Back in March, when the national lockdown went in effect and physical lectures were replaced with Zoom meetings, we took a small break to try and figure out how we could continue...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of us to reconsider the way we teach larger classes. Digital solutions now replace or supplement classroom teaching, and videos take a larger part in the teaching material. However, field courses and excursions are still hardly replaceable by a screen, even if tremendous efforts...
Daniela Walch and Christina Hess are our two new bioCEED student representatives at UNIS this semester. Daniela is studying Biology and Geography in a Master of Education programme at Potsdam University (close to Berlin). For her master’s thesis, she is looking into influences of freshwater discharge to arctic fjords with...
Hi! My name is Seth Thompson and I’ve been collaborating on the ExcelAQUA project with Ivar Rønnestad and others. I first joined the project as a graduate student in Dr. Sehoya Cotner’s lab group at the University of Minnesota and have primarily been involved with supporting the summer school program....
On March 8, 2020, 48 students and teachers from 18 countries and four continents met in Cuzco, Peru. We looked forward to participating in and running the 5th International Plant Functional Traits Field Course (PFTC5). In the PFTC field courses, students learn a range of plant functional traits approaches to...
The last few months have been challenging for everyone at our two institutions, both for students, teachers and support staff. But it has also been a unique period demonstrating that it is possible to develop and achieve under such conditions and over a short period of time. When universities across...
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education and Research invited comments on the Official Norwegian Report with a proposal for a new Act relating to universities and university colleges (NOU 2020:3). The work has been led by the Aune committee and the aim has been to review and assess the...
Hey, my name is Kseniia and I have been working at UNIS since 2020. Initially I joined the interdisciplinary “FieldPass” project as a postdoc where I am investigating possible ways to strengthen the constructive alignment between learning activities (with fieldwork as a key element), forms of assessments and learning outcomes....
My name is Christian Bianchi Strømme and I have recently joined the inspiring environment at bioCEED as a postdoctoral researcher. The background for my involvement is the further development of the Bachelor’s programme in Biology at UiB, a process that encompasses a closer weaving of research practice and culture into...
The BIO-courses SDG214 Life below water, SDG215 Life on land, BIO241 Behavioural ecology and BIO299 Research practice in biology had their third open joint student poster session on May 13th. No less that 26 posters were listed for the event which had to happen online this year. Indeed, the corona situation and...
Utdanning skal gi faglig kunnskap og overblikk, erfaring og ferdigheter i å kunne utøve faglighet og faglig skjønn, og evne til faglig egenutvikling og samarbeid. Utdanning er ikke ferskvare – den skal forberede studentene på mange tiårs yrkesliv i et arbeidsmarked i rask endring. Fremtidens arbeidstakere, arbeidsgivere, og utdanningsinstitusjoner har felles langsiktige interesser i utdanninger som sikter bredere enn å tilby spesifikke ferdigheter tilpasset dagens jobbmarked.
Hard to keep motivated while studying at home? Lucas Jeno, associate professor at the Department for Education and bioCEED, has tips for you! There are difficult circumstances with Corona, unemployment, and uncertain times. We fully understand that it is hard to stay motivated for your studies. To help you structure...
På Senter for fremragende utdanning, bioCEED, deltar studentene i forskning som en del av undervisningen. Utdanningen skal og må være relevant både for studentene og samfunnet, forteller Oddfrid Kårstad Førland ved Universitetet i Bergen. Read more at Diku.no
In spring 2020, when the world suddenly faced Corona, and all UNIS courses were cancelled, we suddenly saw an opening to work on other frontiers. It was time to breathe in and think about how to use the time for those students that are still here. In Arctic Biology, several...
At the University of Bergen, the semester has in many ways been characterized by the shutdown due to Covid-19. biORACLE had a regular start before the shutdown, with quite a few people showing up to the weekly Wednesday meetings to grab a waffle, a coffee, and getting some help or...
The goal of bioWRITE is to provide a common resource in the academic writing education at BIO. Currently, the site includes instructions on how to write in the IMRaD-format (Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion); it also covers different genres within science communication such as lab reports, blog posts...