The process of developing a new strategy for the University of Oslo (UiO) has begun, looking towards 2030. Our strategy work at the Faculty will make a good foundation for our input to the new strategy for UiO.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences contributes to creating a better school for the future by offering in-service training in programming for school teachers.
On Monday August 13th our Faculty welcomed 1400 new students. We give them a heartwarming welcome and will do our best to make sure that they feel comfortable at UiO!
The institute kicks off its first study programme next autumn.
New calls for proposals for Centres for Research-based innovation (SFI) is coming soon, and MN is ready for the task! While the Research Council of Norway is adjusting and optimizing the SFI initiative after being evaluated, our researchers are focusing on how to solve societal challenges in collaboration with Norwegian and international industry.
Two of the three major university-wide interdisciplinary initiatives at UiO, UiO:Energy and UiO:Life Sciences have hired new directors in recent weeks, and both come from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MN). I'm sure there will be many exciting opportunities for MN researchers and educators to contribute to both of these efforts in the future.
Professor Trygve Helgaker claims never to have done any “applied science”. Nevertheless theoretical chemistry turns out to be so useful that the Research Council has granted him two Centres of Excellence in a row.
I would like to start thanking the employees at the Faculty for their input in the making of a new strategy for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The first draft is soon ready and will be distributed to all our employees during May.
Many things are happening on the educational front at our faculty! We are now in the middle of our InterAct process. At the same time, there are many activities outside the Faculty that we will be affected by.
On March 8th we are getting ready for the invading hordes of young students who are interested in studying with us during the next year or two. Through the day, thousands of young ones will surge the campus, sniffing out the best study environments. At the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, about a hundred students and staffers will be welcoming them warmly.
The University of Oslo has three major initiatives across faculties and museums. UiO:Life Science is the largest of these initiatives and arranges the Life Science Conference February 12 - 15.
Our news site Titan celebrated its two-year anniversary just before Christmas. And we can conclude that Titan has been a huge success. Now the time is ripe to further develop the news site and we need your input!
The election of new representatives for temporary academic staff for the Faculty Board is opened. Place your vote before the deadline January 24 at 12:00 pm (noon).
The Norwegian center for science education develops the online resources Realfagsl?yper to strengthen the science education competence of kindergarten teachers and teachers. Realfagsl?ypene will be a tool for local professional development and will be launched at realfagsl?yper.no in April 2018.
The faculty's activities are conducted in many buildings across Blindern. Many of these buildings, especially at Nedre Blindern, including Kristine Bonnevie's house, need refurbishment. This is expensive and something the University of Oslo can never do alone. What shall we do?
It is the MN faculty’s ambition to be one of Europe's most attractive places for education and research in science and technology. Our new strategy, currently under way, will definitely maintain this ambition of looking to Europe and beyond.
The University of Oslo will commence using the new learning management system Canvas in the autumn semester of 2018. Canvas is an advanced system that will give us new possibilities in course development, teaching and student contact.
The size of Horizon2020 is approximately 75 billion Euros, and about half of this will be granted over the next 3 years. Our EU-team is available to anyone who wants advice on the EU-system and/or assistance with applications.
Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS) at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics officially opened on November 1st 2017. RoCS is one of five new Centres of Excellence that were awarded UiO earlier this year.
Knowledge and competence in science and technology is and will be important for society development. Where should science and technology at the University of Oslo be in 2030? The Faculty Board has decided to work on developing a new strategy for science and technology at UiO. We begin now!
I have been asked this question many times since I started as a Vice Dean for Innovation and External Relations in October. I do not have the final answer to that question, and we will define together how we will organize the work at the faculty.
For the students, summer schools, and exchange activities that lasts a few weeks are very attractive. It is more challenging to entice students to spend a semester abroad.
Our first news in this renewed newsletter from the Faculty is that we have decided to continue with our monthly newsletter. The lifescience building will also be a reality, and our new students on our new bachelor programs have studied for almost two months.
President Lyndon Johnson reportedly said that Gerald Ford too dumb to walk while chewing gum, strongly suggesting that Ford lacked the intelligence required to handle two tasks at the same time.
The aDNA laboratory at the Department of Biosciences is a powerfull tool in UiOs bouquet of infrastructures for lifesciences.
