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November 1 was Jo D?hl's first working day as Faculty Director at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

There has been a hearing on the Rector Team's draft for the University Strategy 2020-2030. We have submittet our hearing statement from the Faculty, here are some of the highlights.  

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25 PhD candidates are ready to learn everything they need to know about research communication.

31st of October to the 1st of November 2019 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Odd Hassel receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with events at the Science Library and at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The study of molecular structure has turned out to increase our understanding of how chemical processes can happen ¨C or not happen. After 50 years this research topic is still hot, for instance in the field of medicine. 

In the fall of 2019, the new internship course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences will begin, where selected study programs offer internship as part of the Bachelor degrees. This provides students with relevant work experience during their studies. 

State of the art scientific equipment is important for scientific progress and the University of Oslo has decided to establish a roadmap for research infrastructure.

At Department of Pharmacy, we have placed the analytical chemistry teaching in a pharmaceutical context for more than 20 years. The purpose of this has been to increase the relevance for pharmacy students, and to define an international teaching reference. Recently we released a new international textbook, providing basic knowledge crucial for the quality and correct use of our pharmaceuticals.

In autumn, we start a new course in science communication for PhD candidates. The course MNKOM9010 Communicating Science will enable candidates to solve a variety of communication challenges.

This year the Sustainable Backpack celebrates its ten year anniversary. Since 2009, a total of 619 schools have completed school projects in order to give students management ability competence for sustainable development. The students of today have clearly proved their insight and engagement for sustainable development through the recent student strike, where they demanded ¡°green actions¡± from the politicians. 

We have dived into our new roles as deans: Knut as new Vice Dean for Education and Solveig with new tasks within research in her role as Vice Dean for Research.

A group of scientists from the Department of Mathematics are heading for Svalbard to investigate the interactions between waves and sea ice. For the first time since the beginning of their annual expeditions in 2015, they will have the opportunity to ¡°see¡± the mechanisms taking place underneath the ice. This time they are equipped with a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), which may turn out to be one of their most important measurement instruments.

Our strategy ?Knowledge development in a changing world? says that our candidates shall be successful both academically and professionally. As a means of educating candidates with the knowledge and competence that is sought after in the labor market, we are initiating one of the instruments; internship.

Recently, we have implemented changes in the leader group at the Faculty.

The Faculty¡¯s new strategy is finalized and was launched on Monday. The brochure will be available at all Departments shortly.

It was a proud Dean who presented the Faculty's new strategy at the launch yesterday. 

Due to technical error, the election of new representatives for temporary academic staff for the Faculty Board must be carried out again. The election opens January 28 at 12:00 (noon).

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).

We have used parts of 2017 and the whole of 2018 on the development of our new strategy for matematics, natural sciences and technology at the University of Oslo. Now we are ready for the launch party February 4^th! 

When it became the Department of Physics¡¯ turn to tell a story in the newsletter, we decided we wanted to share an example on how experimental condensed matter physics and advanced material science may contribute to fundamentally new discoveries in life science.

In the coming autumn, our Faculty is launching three new study options: an Honours Programme in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities, a Master¡¯s degree in Renewable Energy Systems at the Department of Technology Systems and a one-year unit in Informatics. 

The spring term is about to start. Have you signed up for the Canvas Training for lecturers?

World leading European solar/stellar physicists granted €10 millions to unveil the mysteries of our life-energy source: the Sun. Mats Carlsson, professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and Principal Investigator, reveals objectives and strategy of his ambitious project.

The Faculty has grown a lot over the past 5-6 years, and in 2019, annual revenues will most likely reach 2 Billion crowns. This growth is a result of very good and hard work on all units, but it has also created a couple of challenges.

The Department of Pharmacy has since 2016 participated in a collaborative project between four of the faculties at the University of Oslo. The project focuses on interprofessional learning. The aim of "Sammen i praksis" is to give students from different health care educations the opportunity to learn together, and from each other in clinical practice.