University of Oslo

He was a professor at Beijing Normal University and has worked as a visiting scholar at several universities outside China, including the University of Oslo, the University of Hawaii, and Columbia University. He served as president of the...

In this article: China, Columbia University, Beijing, Barack Obama, Dalai Lama, Internet censorship, and International PEN

...of Malta. In a truly serendipitous result, the other major award - the Junior Scholarship Prize - was won by Dr Christian Voigt from the University of Oslo. Dr Voigt was a former LLM student of Professor Bosselmann and other members of the...

In this article: Wellington, University of Auckland, and University of Malta

...to make their voices heard. "Not a lot of companies still lobby openly against regulation," says Irja Vormedal, a research fellow at the University of Oslo, who studies industry influence in climate negotiations. "That ship has left the dock.

In this article: Carbon, Climate change, UN, Royal Dutch Shell, and ExxonMobil

...first to have written a dissertation about it. "The Dialectical Eroticism of Improvisation", as an English language abstract of his University of Oslo post-graduate thesis is called, deals with the parallels between musical and erotic...

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...that strike other parts of the body, by adding genes for receptors specific to molecules found there. Alexandre Corthay of the University of Oslo in Norway warns of the unpredictable nature of T-regs, which regularly turn back into normal...

In this article: Autoimmune disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Cancer, Multiple sclerosis, Foxp3, University College London, and Norway

...Ph. D., Motonobu Matsumoto, Ph. D., Allen Clermont and Lloyd P. Aiello, M.D., Ph. D., of Joslin; Michael Leitges, Ph. D., of the University of Oslo; Andre Marette, Ph. D., of Universite Laval; and Timothy S. Kern, Ph. D., of Case Western...

In this article: Nature Medicine, Glucose, Medical advice, Universite Laval, Cancer, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Nf-kb, and Hyperglycemia

...platforms on the UK continental shelf. StatoilHydro has awarded its 2009 research prize to Professor Jan Inge Faleide from the University of Oslo for his research on the geological development of the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea, and...

In this article: Chevron Corp., Smith International, StatoilHydro, and UK

...creature measuring up to 16 metres in length An artist's impression of a 45-ton pliosaur attacking. Picture: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway The fossilised skull of a "sea monster", which may be the largest of its type...

In this article: Dorset, Svalbard, Crocodile, University of Portsmouth, and Mexico

EACH summer, a team from the University of Oslo in Norway go hunting for monsters on the island of Spitsbergen. They carry guns in case they get menaced by the world's largest living land carnivore, the polar bear. But it is not bears they...

In this article: Spitsbergen, Polar bear, Oxygen, and University of Alberta

...fossil - three feet tall and equipped with human-like eyes and thumbs - was feted as 'the first link to all humans' when Dr Jorn Hurum of Oslo University introduced her in May. It was said that Ida, named after Dr Hurum's young daughter,...

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