Press and public affairs

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Latest news from UiS

New research puts Einstein to the test

Researchers at the University of Stavanger have recently made observations of the strongest gravitational wave signal ev...

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...

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...

Upcoming events

Disputation for Cathrine Witnes Karlson

Mon. 15.09.2025

10:00-14:30

Kjølv Egelands hus
KE E-164

Book Launch: Skrivetips! Den første akademiske oppgaven

Mon. 15.09.2025

13:15-14:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, Campus Ullandhaug

Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talks series: "Segregated Species" by Jules Skotnes-Brown

Mon. 15.09.2025

16:00-17:00

Zoom

Reading Hour – Shared Reading at the Library

Tue. 16.09.2025

12:15-13:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullandhaug

Disputation for Ali Hasan Saber Alkaraly

Tue. 16.09.2025

14:00-16:00

Kjølv Egelands hus
KE E-164

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 17.09.2025

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Market Information in Banking Supervision: The Role of Stress Test Design

Wed. 17.09.2025

12:15-13:15

Elise Ottesen-Jensens hus
EOJ 276/277

Bjergsted Brass Festival 2025: Opening Concert

Wed. 17.09.2025

19:30-21:00

St. Petri kirke

Disputation for Gaute Terning

Thu. 18.09.2025

10:00-14:30

Kjølv Egelands hus
KE E-164

AI talk: Synergizing machine learning with fluid-structure interaction research in ocean engineering

Thu. 18.09.2025

11:00-11:35

University of Stavanger
EOJ 101

Bjergsted Brass Festival 2025: Chamber Concert

Thu. 18.09.2025

19:30-21:00

Stavanger domkirke

Bjergsted Brass Festival 2025: Chamber Concert

Fri. 19.09.2025

19:30-21:00

St. Petri kirke

Bjergsted Brass Festival 2025: Solist- og kammerkonsert

Sat. 20.09.2025

18:00-20:30

St. Petri kirke

Bjergsted Brass Festival 2025: Closing concert

Sun. 21.09.2025

15:00-16:30

Fakultet for utøvende kunstfag
Eikenes-salen

Bjergsted Brass Festival 2025: Final Concert

Sun. 21.09.2025

17:00-18:30

Stokka kirke

The 66th International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society

Tue. 23.09 10:00

wed. 24.09 16:00

Clarion Hotel Energy

Reading Hour – Shared Reading at the Library

Tue. 23.09.2025

12:15-13:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullandhaug

Introduction to Research Data Management Planning

Wed. 24.09.2025

09:15-12:00

Arne Rettedals Hus, V-209

17th Nordic Conference in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Thu. 25.09 09:00

fri. 26.09 17:30

Arne Rettedals hus
AR Ø-110

Latest research news

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...

The impermanence of permafrost: learning how to be discontinuous

"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.

Why get involved in a research study?

Doctors and surgeons from Stavanger University Hospital participate in the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project. This blog ...