bioCEED news

Quarter3-2020

Official opening of iEarth at UNIS

bioCEED congratulates our sister SFU iEarth with their formal opening at UNIS on October 13th! We are looking forward to years to come with collaboration on developing excellent educations at UNIS. iEarth received the status as a Centre for Excellence in Education in December 2019 which entails funding for five years with the possibility of…

Expanding the bioCEED team – meet our new student research assistants!

To further support research and development work in bioCEED, we have recently hired five students as research assistants in 20% positions. Our new colleagues will work on ongoing projects, in particular program redesign, student active research and outreach. We had many motivated and qualified applicants among the biology students at UiB, and it was hard…

Corona-adapted biORAKEL

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 our meetings. After a few…

BIO102 brings the ocean to the students.

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 are made to digitalize preparation…

Excellent Teaching Practitioner – 2020

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MatNat) at UiB and the University Centre in Svalbard are inviting teachers to apply for the title of Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP). Applications may be submitted at any time throughout the year, with the deadline for application submission on January 7th, 2021 (for teachers at UiB) and January 5th, 2021 (for teachers at…

Pedagogical TA course runs at BIO for the first time

bioCEED, along with the Department of Education at UiB, held a two-day pedagogy course for TA´s (teaching assistants) and administrative staff with teaching responsibilities from the Department of Biological Sciences. The course was led by Associate Professor in University Pedagogy Lucas Jeno, with support from Christian Strømme and Dagmar Egelkraut. The course consisted of two…

Welcome to our new student representatives at UNIS!

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 remote sensing techniques – and…