Archive for December, 2017

Mohn prize 2018 awarded to the team ‘The Meaning of Ice’.

The team The Meaning of Ice og dr. Eddy Carmack, have been named as winners of the International Mohn Prize for excellent research related to the Arctic. The first award winners  in history of the Mohn Prize were announced the 5th of December at Árdna – the Saami Culture House at the University of Tromsø.

Vice chancellor Anne Husebekk opened the session and presented the Prize winners. Preses Synnøve des Bouvrie, Academia Borealis, gave an overview of the background of the Mohn prize. The text can be found in a separate document (Norwegian only).

A video by UiT from the event can be viewed here.

Preses Synnøve des Bouvrie and
Vice Chancellor Anne Husebekk

Jens Ivar Nergård and Synnøve des Bouvrie from Academia Borealis.

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