Category: Hendingar
Christmas party a smashing success!
Thanks to meticulous planning from Mali, a great effort from the Inorganic nanochemistry group, and a generous turn-out of party-minded chemists, it is safe to declare the chemistry Christmas party last night a great success! The location (IntegrerBar) was carefully and appropriately decorated according in the colors of the season, with glasses of bubbles and a verbal duet by Emily and Anders greeting each and one to the party. The evening saw the debut of a brand new choir – the Off-ke(y)tones – featuring a Grammy-nominated member (according to her own beautiful and hence reliable voice) – which served great entertainment and cultural delicacies – matched in quality and diversity only by the marvelous food contributed by all the guests in this hotpot event! After even the sweet teeth among us had had our fill, chemistry’s own quizmaster Bjørn took the floor — great expectations were met with equal fun and excitement and what looked to become a draw was turned into a staggering dark-horse victory (hence the light setting of the photo) — congratulations!
A success like this begs for continuation. In short – you have been taking part in the birth of (what will become) a grand tradition! While it will be hard to top the skills and efforts by the organizers of this year’s premiere event, the good news is that Mali has it all documented and ready for the next crew. The last quiz question is obviously which division (faggruppe) accepts the challenge. The answer is…?
Very joyous news II!
Today, the Norwegian Research Council announced the outcome of the annual yet extremely competitive FRIPRO call for funding of Blue-Sky research projects. Out of the 350 researcher projects within FRIMEDBIO, only 8% or 29 projects were granted. 
One of those applications that were simply too well written and too well conceived to be passed by, describes the project Chartering chemical space of riboswitch ligands – towards future antibiotics, coauthored by Professors Ruth Brenk (Department of Biomedicine) 
and Bengt Erik Haug (Department of Chemistry). It is gratifying to see hard work, dedication and excellent scientific ideas prevail — this is a very important step in the fruitful development of medicinal chemistry at our department. Congratulations!!
Very joyous news I!
Today, the Norwegian Research Council announced the outcome of the annual yet extremely competitive FRIPRO call for funding of Blue-Sky research projects. Out of the 233 researcher projects within FRINATEK, only 6% or 14 projects were granted. 
Professor Vidar Jensen struck bulls eye with his proposal on Sustainable and Selective Metathesis: From Fundamental Insights to New Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals. This is news very important to the olefin-metathesis-line of research at the department, joyous to the project team in particular and to the chemistry department at large, and impressive in terms of the effort and quality of the proposal itself and the research on which it builds! To Vidar and his team, which locally includes Giovanni, Jarl and Karl, Congratulations!
Upcoming PhD Events
December is a very busy month on the PhD horizon, and as a help for all of us to keep the overview and thus give the candidates the attention and attendance that their hard work deserves, here is the schedule:
Dec 14 at 10.30 in Aud. II: Markus Baumann defends his thesis titled: Synthesis of bicyclic CXCR4 antagonists.
Dec 15 at 12.15 in Tripletten: Mikel Oregui Bengoechea lectures over Chemicals and fuels from marine algal biomass – status and future perspectives?
Dec 19 at 13.15 in Tripletten: Festo Kayima lectures over Constructive alignment in university teaching – what is it, and why should we care?
Dec 21 at 12:00 in Aud. II: Mikel Oregui Bengoechea defends his thesis titled: Formic acid aided catalytic lignin conversion in ethanol and water media.
Spennande Nobel-foredrag om molekylære motorar!
NKS-Bergen har lang tradisjon for å presentere Nobelprisvinnarar i kjemi, og i år tok Mali Husby Rosnes seg av den oppgåva på meisterleg vis. 
Med utgangspunkt i grundig forarbeid og personleg kjennskap til ein av prisvinnarane fortalte ho den fengslande historia om utviklinga av supramolekylær kjemi frå Lehn, Pedersen og Cram (Nobelprisen 1987) til kontrollert framstilling av molekylære motorar og årets heltar; Stoddart, Sauvage og Feringa.
(Biletet til høgre viser molekylær «bil», les meir i Kudernac et al., Electrically Driven Directional Motion of a Four-Wheeled Molecule on a Metal Surface. Nature 2011, 479 (7372), 208.)
Etterpå kunne arrangementskomitéen Rihannon, Camilla, Inger og Audun (Takk til dykk!!) by på ferske reker og anna godt, til store glede for 25-30 oppglødde kjemikarar. Til neste år står det klar ein stol også til deg!
Nobelforedrag og fest!
For mange av oss er dette så nær ein Nobelpris som vi nokon gong kjem — Meld deg på NKS Bergen si førjulsfeiring av årets vinnarar av Nobelprisen i kjemi – både kjemi, god mat og godt lag i ein og same pakke!
Føredragshaldar er Dr. Mali H. Rosnes — dette lovar godt!
Tid: fredag 25. november, kl. 18:30
Stad: Rom 3069/Tripletten
Antrekk: Pent
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3 timers – HMS / 3h HSE seminar
Torsdag 24. november kl 9-12 vil forelesere og teknisk stab på Kjemisk institutt gjennomføre eit HMS-seminar med fokus på laboratoriepraksis. Thursday November 24 at 9-12 am, the chemistry department will join in a seminar focussed on HSE-issues at the laboratory.
Film – pizza – chill(i)
Med over 100 oppmøtte studenter var film(Mulan)kvelden med KFU stor suksess! Et avbrekk i eksamenstiden med pizza og kos. De koste seg masse. Dette skal de absolutt gjøre igjen.
Ka vil DE bli? – fagdager i kjemi
Nå er de her igjen, 24 av byens håpefulle fremtidskjemikere. I dag fra skolene i Arna og Åsane.
Høsten 2008 ble faget Utdanningsvalg innført i ungdomsskolen. Faget er obligatorisk for alle elever. Målet med faget er å gi elevene bedre grunnlag for valg av videregående opplæring.
Kjemisk institutt har deltatt siden oppstarten, og tilbyr fem fagdager pr skoleår for elever på 9. trinn.
Datoer for høsten 2016 er 4., 18., og 25. november.
Faglig leder er Bjørn Grung.
Teknisk leder er Inger J. Fjellanger