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In a few days, my position as Dean will come to an end. I want to thank the entire team, all dear employees and students at our fantastic Faculty.

A challenging year for teaching and examinations are about to be completed. A heartfelt thank you to all our students and staff for your strong efforts during these difficult times.

Despite closure and corona restrictions, the Faculty will submit high-quality research applications from all of our departments this autumn. I would like to thank the scientific and administrative staff, in addition to the Heads of Departments, who together ensure that we submit important research applications.

Petter Nielsen, Rebecca Anne Robinson and Else Marie Lingaas are elected as new representatives at the Faculty Board.

The new CompSci doctoral initiative has now announced its first 16 PhD positions across the entire Faculty.

The new building for chemistry, pharmacy and life sciences will be Norway's largest building for research and higher education. The building will be located in the heart of Oslo Science City, Norway's first innovation district, and activities will be developed in close collaboration with key partners such as the Oslo University Hospital (OUS), SINTEF and ÀºÇò¼´Ê±±È·Ö_nba±È·ÖÖ±²¥-²Ê¿ÍÍøÖصãÍƼösparken, to name a few.

A very successful start of studies has been completed. Many thanks to employees, student buddies and our new students who with great enthusiasm have created a solid and responsible first week under demanding conditions.

We are increasingly moving towards an interdisciplinary-based research at the intersection between theory, algorithm and method science based on high demand from several disciplines. With high performance computing and advanced models for health data, we participate in the development of personalized medicine. Our research and knowledge of artificial intelligence will be crucial in the transition to a more computer-driven economy.

On Monday, our new students are coming to Blindern. They are many and they are expectant. They are excited and we are excited. It will be great to get back to an everyday life that is something close to normal. However, the corona epidemic is not over.

We will soon have completed a Spring semester unlike any other and are planning study start and teaching in the next semester.

A special semester is soon history. A demanding semester is soon history. A semester where we have learned a lot is soon history. Now, we are looking towards the next semester and a possible new normality.

NORA has received funding from Research Council of Norway to organize Nordic artifical intelligence young researcher symposium. The proposed symposium will create an annual meeting place over a five-year period where young researchers can learn about new ideas, methods and theories within artificial intelligence as well as build a professional network and connect with industry. 

Head of the Department of Geosciences, Brit Lisa Skjelkv?le, is a new fan of digital tools and video meetings. This week the department meeting had an increased attendance rate on Zoom. Skjelkv?le is impressed with how easily people has adapted to the new everyday life.

We meet, digitally. We teach, digitally. We conduct research, as much as we can. We take the responsibility and deliver results spanning the entire range of the Faculty. I want to thank everyone for an enormous effort and team spirit in this difficult time.

Advisor in the Studies Section at the Faculty, Helge Engeseth Kleivane, works in UiO's task force to digitize teaching for all students. Of course from his home office at Ullerntoppen.

The pharmacies, the Pharmacy Association and the University have worked together to ensure continuity of the internships for pharmacy students. Meet Andreas Roswall (21), a student in the second year of the master¡¯s programme in pharmacy.

¨C My best tip for maintain good teaching when going digital is to engage students to interact through polls and shared online documents. Andreas Alxander is a doctoral reasearch fellow at the Department of Geosciences and this week started teaching his students from his balcony.

This spring the election of Dean and Vice Dean for the period of January 1 2021 ¨C December 31 2024 will be held. Deadline for proposing candidates is March 25.

Nils-J?rgen Knudsen Dal is elected as representative for temporary academic employees at the Faculty Board. First substitute is Luca Eva Gazdag, second substitute is Kristian Breivik Kvamme.

The election of representative for temporary academic employees at the Faculty Board is open, cast your vote.

Four people have been nominated to the position of representative for temporary academic staff at the Faculty Board. The election opens on Tuesday 25 February at. 12:00.

Due to new regulations on educational competence the Faculty is developing professional development opportunities for our permanent and temporary academic employees.

The Mars 2020 rover will be launched  in July 2020 to the red planet Mars. The rover will carry a ground penetrating radar developed in Norway.

In the fall of 2019, the Faculty has established thematic areas in life sciences that reflect the breadth of the department's activities in the field. Together with UiO:Life Science, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry, we will in the spring give an overall recommendation to the Rectorate on which thematic areas to be established in the free areas in the life sciences building.

It has been one year since we launched the Faculty strategy. We are very pleased with the final document, but the strategy work process has been the most important part.