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Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a grant from the ERC.
The aim of the programme is to stimulate childist research across the academy, test and evolve the concept of childism, and inform childist social and political justice processes.
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The library now gives you access to a new online resource for students in history and related fields.
There is a new, free, maths and physics drop-in support centre at UiS. The service is offered by Theta, the linjeforening for maths and physics students, with support from Department of Mathematics and Physics.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading professional environment for environmental humanities. On its fifth anniversary, The Greenhouse is moving on, now as a research centre at UiS.
Students from all over the world got the opportunity to meet some of the leading physicists at the 2022 XQCD PhD school.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
How can the established theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, be used to predict the material properties of the cores of neutron stars? Researchers at the University of Stavanger might have the answer.
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Do you want to learn more about the smallest building blocks in nature? UiS have invited three world famous physicists to tell us in everyday language about the role particles play in nature and the strong forces binding them together.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
A proposed centre of excellence (SFF), Quark-Lab will build a bridge between the collider physics and gravitational wave astronomy communities based on fundamental theory.
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UiS employee Roderick Dale had hardly imagined that he would contribute to making video games when he studied Old Norse literature and Viking history. Now he has translated dialogue in the game Assassin's Creed Valhalla into Norse.
This and much more was discovered by Gunnar Nerheim when he dived deep into the history of the first Norwegians in Texas.
Principal investigator Eva Leibinger is associate professor at the Department of Education and Sports Science, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger.
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A young an amibitious research group received the Lyse Research Prize for 2019, having been recognized on the national and international physics scene.
The area of Information Technology, Mathematics and Physics is a subfield within the doctoral programme in Science and Technology at UiS.