Articles By: Vilja Savolainen

Vilja Savolainen / 24. May 2012 19:49

Competence and competition from the South

The University of Tromsø really decided to put effort in to getting students from Southern Norway to apply to UiT this spring and designed a big campaign with some pretty awesome prizes. The University invests in recruiting new students every year, but this time they went all out. Utropia sat down with Kjetil Undseth, the project manager for the Snu [...]

Vilja Savolainen / 10. May 2012 12:56

Campaigning for the University – and for the North

Out of all the people who applied for higher education in Norway this year, 4 516 picked the University of Tromsø as their first-choice. That is a 19 % increase from last year states Samordna opptakk, the University and College admission service in Norway. Asbjørn Bartnes from the Department of Communications and Public Relations at  the University of Tromsø says that [...]

Vilja Savolainen / 27. March 2012 12:11

Come on, it’s only rocket science!

Utropia wanted to find out what is so interesting about space physics. Instead of an answer, a counter question was asked: what’s not interesting about it?   Space physics, or rocket science, has a reputation of being a hardcore science and almost impossible to understand. Still, some people are passionate about it, for example,  UiT student Christian Schregel who studies [...]