May-Britt Tessem, as the only Norwegian recipient, has received a €150 000 ERC Proof of Concept grant to standardize tissue sampling and to make the process cheaper, faster and less reliant on specialized personnel.
Vilde Coward got involved in student politics after she lost friends in the terrorist attack on Utøya. Her advice for those who want to succeed in working life is: Get enough sleep.
Last spring, she wrote the MSc thesis «Modeling and simulation of hypervelocity impact against debris shields for spacecraft protection». Now, The Norwegian Industrial Forum for Space Activities has awarded Rannveig Marie Færgestad the prize for the best space-related master’s thesis.
The name committee that will propose the Norwegian name for Ocean Space Centre has received 525 proposals. Many of the proposals has the ocean as their overarching theme, but there are also several who suggest that the new centre should preserve the historical name of the professional community; Marinteknisk senter.