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Master Selina Thomas Mkimbili defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Learner-Centred Science Teaching in Community Secondary Schools in Tanzania

Master Caroline Cruaud defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

The Playful Frame. Design and use of a gamified application for foreign language learning.

Cand.polit. Katrine Nesje defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Motivation and professional identity in a context of multiple career Choices.

Open guest lecture presented by professor Murray Krahn, Toronto. This short talk will outline how data from various sources, especially health administrative data, can help us think us think about the cost of cancer. We will serve light refreshments.

NCMM will host a mini-symposium in Systems Medicine and Precision Medicine.

This seminar is a joint event between the Sven Furberg seminars in Bioinformatics and Statistical genomics and the Hans Prydz Guest Lectures.

Professor Anders Malthe-S?renssen from the Department of Physics is  visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Malthe-S?renssen is  leader of the Centre of excellence in education ?Centre for Computing in  Science Education? at the University of Oslo. 

The lecture is open for everyone.

Cand.philol. Anne Kristine ?greid defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Written argumentation in subject specific writing contexts at the lower secondary Level.

Hilde K. Ellingsen at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis Standing to Enforce European Union Law before National Courts. EU Law Requirements on the Legal Standing of Individuals for the degree of Ph.D.

Ana Domingos, Principal Investigator of the Obesity Laboratory at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal, will give a lecture titled, "Sympathetic Neuroimmunity for Obesity".

Lars Jansen, Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Epigenetic Mechanisms, at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal, will give a lecture titled, "Chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance".

Cand.paed. Rolf K. Baltzersen defends hisdoctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Collective knowledge advancement as a pedagogical practice in teacher education. An explorative case study of student group work with wiki assignments in the interplay between an offline and a global online setting.

Master Tove S. Fr?nes defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Online reading comprehension and navigation - a study of student's reading and navigation strategies.

The first GPIU symposium in Norway. Open to all interested health personnel and the general public.

Mark Taylor will be defending the thesis War Economies and International Law:  Regulating the Economic Activity of Armed Conflicts for the degree of Dr. Philos.

Master Silje Systad defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Is Language Impairments a Symptom of Nocturnal Epilelptiform Activity? Studies exploring the relationship between nocturnal epileptiform activity and language impairments.

Master Magnar ?deg?rd defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

A Comparative Study of Disruptive Behavior between Schools in Norway and the United States.

Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Hasok Chang, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Chang focuses on history and philosophy of chemistry and physics from the 18th century onward; philosophy of scientific practice; other topics in the philosophy of science, including realism, pluralism, pragmatism, measurement, and evidence.

The seminar is open for everyone!

Kimberley Dodge-Kafka, Associate Professor at the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut, will give a lecture titled, "mAKAP- a master regulator of cardiac hypertrophy"

Cand.polit. Eva Elisabeth Hessevaagbakke defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

The characteristics of nurses¡¯ pedagogical competence.

Ageliki Lefkaditou is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lefkaditou is senior curator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (NTM) and a historian of science. She is writing on the history of physical anthropology, human population genetics, race and racism from late 19^th century to present with a specific interest in Greece. Her interests include the development of museum theory, methods and practices, public understanding of science and science communication. Lefkaditou is the co-curator of the upcoming exhibit FOLK at NTM.

Howard Young from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada will give a lecture titled, 'Correlating Structure and Function of Human Genetic Variants in Calcium Homeostasis and Cardiac Contractility'

Master Jarmila Bubikova-Moan defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Discursive portraits of language, literacy and learning: emerging bilinguals in Norway.