Press and public affairs
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Latest news from UiS
UiS reduces tuition fees for international students
University of Stavanger (UiS) is introducing lower tuition fees for international students from outside the EEA and Swit...
One Ocean Expedition
40 students and staff from the University of Stavanger will sail from La Paz to Herradura Bay with the Staatsraad Lehmku...
Parking fees on campus from 1 September
Paid parking was introduced at Ullandhaug Campus on 1 September 2025. Students and staff pay a maximum of NOK 50 per day...
10 years with a 24-hour library
August 26, 2025 marks ten years since UiS opened Norway’s first 24-hour library. Back then, many were skeptical, but it ...
Discontinues involvement in ECIU University
The UiS board decided in its June 12 meeting to end activities related to ECIU University. However, the board wants memb...
UiS board decides faculty change for NHS - DMSI
The university board decided on June 12 to move NHS – Department of Management and Service Innovation – from the Faculty...
ECIU students found new solutions for wind power
Over 30 students from six countries gathered at the University of Stavanger to develop solutions that could make the win...
UNESCO Chair: Diversity, Inclusion, and Education
The University of Stavanger has extended its UNESCO professorship on diversity, inclusion, and education. This time, it ...
Greenhouse co-founder Dolly Jørgensen receives prestigious Swedish award
Dolly Jørgensen was awarded the 2025 Swedish Gad Rausing Prize for her groundbreaking research in environmental history ...
Like tuning forks in space: A final pure tone reveals mysterious interior of neutron stars
Scientists at University of Stavanger and Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of...
Upcoming events
Workshop: Introduction to NVivo
Wed. 22.10.2025
12:00-15:00
KÅKÅnomics Research Seminar: Trade Wars and the Limits of Economic Theory in a Geopolitical Context
Wed. 22.10.2025
12:30-14:15
Ecodesigning Sustainable Products? Voluntary and Regulatory Measures Shaping Design Strategies in the Scandinavian Furniture Industry, 1987-present
Wed. 22.10.2025
14:15-15:30
Reassessing the impact of French on the semantic development of late medieval English
Thu. 23.10.2025
10:15-11:30
Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talks series: "Remaking the Earth" by Micah S. Muscolino
Mon. 27.10.2025
16:00-17:00
How to live a meaningful and nature-friendly life
Tue. 28.10.2025
11:15-12:15
Reading Hour – Shared Reading at the Library
Tue. 28.10.2025
12:15-13:00
Book Launch: “Forskningsperspektiver på hverdagen i barnehagen”
Wed. 29.10.2025
10:15-11:00
Annual celebration at the University of Stavanger
Wed. 29.10.2025
13:00-14:30
Researching and communicating black and green gold in a museum
Wed. 29.10.2025
14:15-15:30
Latest research news
One Ocean Expedition
40 students and staff from the University of Stavanger will sail from La Paz to Herradura Bay with the Staatsraad Lehmku...
New research puts Einstein to the test
Researchers at the University of Stavanger have recently made observations of the strongest gravitational wave signal ev...
New Research from Synapse Lab: Teaching Coping Skills in Schools Improves Youth Mental Health & Academic Outcomes
New research shows that a school-based coping skills program improves youth mental health, increases motivation, and enh...
New Research from Synapse Lab: The Social Gradient in Social and Emotional Skills
A new working paper analyzes four large datasets to examine the social gradient in a comprehensive set of social and emo...
Like tuning forks in space: A final pure tone reveals mysterious interior of neutron stars
Scientists at University of Stavanger and Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of...
Hosting international conferences and seminars 2024
During 2024 SHARE hosted and organized a series of international conferences and seminars.
Impact Case: WiKIT: Transforming Children’s Learning with evidence-based EdTech
WiKIT is a social enterprise that was spun off from the University of Stavanger, and was created with the goal to bridge...
Is a nurse assisted remote monitoring intervention useable?
This article reports on the findings from a study which looked at the acceptability and usability of this intervention ...
Promoting resilient healthcare – Insights from SHARE researchers at ISQua 2024
Several of the SHARE research teams recently traveled to Istanbul to attend the 40th ISQua conference, hosted by the Int...
The Resilient Health Care Society Summer Meeting 2024
Sunday 9th of June the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare hosted the annul Resilient in Healthcare Society Meetin...
The Greenhouse at the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History
The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History will take place at the University of Oulu, Finland from 19 to 23 Au...
Literary Birding in Taiwan
Endre Harvold Kvangraven describes the experience of a research trip to Taiwan as part of his PhD studies at the Univers...
Could scented books encourage more kids to read?
Do you remember the scented erasers you had as a child? ‘Scratch and sniff objects’ have now made a comeback.
Are Sámi schoolchildren more involved in online bullying than other students?
A new research project is going to look into whether Sámi students in Norwegian schools are more involved in online bull...
New methods for characterization of impurities in chalk
Tine Vigdel Bredal has investigated different methods for analyzing chalk at core level and right down to the smallest s...
Detects cerebral stroke using artificial intelligence
She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a ...
Successful UiS Aerospace rocket launch
The UiS Aerospace rocket launch took place successfully 27 April in Helleland.
The Osage, Automobility, and the Environment in Sundown (1934)
UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automob...
The Mongoose on the Loose in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica
"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–190...