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Students enter student motor racing competition with their own electric motorcycle
23 juni 2022
Uppsala University now has its first student motor racing team – UPPström Racing! It includes students from no less than 11 different engineering and master’s programmes. In the course of three sem...
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The professor of physics with an aptitude for popular education
17 juni 2022
His calm and methodical way of explaining the most advanced cosmological concepts has made him much in demand for everything from lectures and debates to radio and TV programmes. After five books, ...
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Sustainable Tourism Across Borders
14 juni 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic had enormous consequences for our society. Not least, it had negative consequences for the hospitality and tourism industries, given the restrictions on our ability to travel....
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Uppsala University new national coordinator for MOOCs
14 juni 2022
As part of the Swedish Government’s initiative to develop skills to meet the challenge of climate change, nine Swedish higher education institutions have been granted funds to develop Massive Open ...
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Nuclear fusion may provide tomorrow’s safe and cheap energy
13 juni 2022
Imagine cheap nuclear power without any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste or greenhouse gas emissions. Fusion has been described as the solution to our future energy needs. The problem is that f...
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Tourism as a tool for sustainable local development
13 juni 2022
Marije Poort, a PhD student at Uppsala University’s Campus Gotland, is focusing on sustainable destination development. Marije is exploring how people and economic activities such as tourism can le...
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King honours Hans Ellegren and Lennart Elmevik
13 juni 2022
King Carl XVI Gustaf has decided to award H.M. The King's Medal to Hans Ellegren, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, and Lennart Elmevik, Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Languages.
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Evidence of very early Islamic burials in the Levant
09 juni 2022
A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic period in modern-day Syria. The research team was planning to focus on a muc...
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Major successes for Uppsala University researchers’ battery material
08 juni 2022
Uppsala-based battery company Altris AB was recently given the green light for funding to the tune of SEK 100 million. The company’s roots are at the Ångström Laboratory, where development of the i...
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Inauguration of the Beijer Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
30 maj 2022
Earlier in May, the Beijer Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was inaugurated in Building 10 of the Ångström Laboratory. The lab will focus its research on the applications of AI in the life scienc...
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Microparticles with feeling
25 maj 2022
An international research team headed by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Aarhus University and Uppsala University has developed tiny particles that measure the oxygen co...
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Building 10 at New Ångström inaugurated
17 maj 2022
The official inauguration of Building 10 at the New Ångström Laboratory with ribbon cutting by Crown Princess Victoria was held on 13 May. “With its fantastic flexible classrooms and modern lab...
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New Ångström will inspire creativity and an inter-disciplinary approach
16 maj 2022
The expansion of the Ångström Laboratory is now complete and the new Ångström was officially opened by Crown Princess Victoria on 13 May. The intention, with various types of places to meet, art wo...
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Ångström Explanatorium inaugurated
12 maj 2022
The exhibition Ångström Explanatorium opened on the first floor of Building 1 of the Ångström Laboratory on 4 May. The interactive stands were thoroughly tested by visitors to the premiere. “It was...
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Space researcher honoured as innovative entrepreneur
12 maj 2022
Anders Ajaxon Persson, a researcher in space technology at Uppsala University and co-founder of the company Fourth State Systems, is one of the ten innovative entrepreneurs in Sweden to be awarded ...
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45 million to research on sustainable landscapes
09 maj 2022
Uppsala University receives a grant of SEK 45 million for research on sustainable landscapes in the LAND-PATHS programme. The overarching aim is to develop more sustainable and integrated practises...
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Climate resilient microalgae could help restore coral reefs
29 april 2022
Coral species exhibit different temperature tolerances. This is in part due to the composition of their microalgae symbionts. With a new method, researchers from Uppsala University were able to pre...
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“Without Otto Zdansky, this museum in Uppsala wouldn’t have existed”
26 april 2022
Hello, Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Curator of the Museum of Evolution. You and Jan Romgard co-wrote the book Otto Zdansky: The scientist who discovered Peking Man and explored China’s fossil past, about t...
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Major donation for research on ecology and genetics
26 april 2022
The entrepreneur Sverker Lerheden has resolved to donate SEK 100 million to promote basic ecology and genetics research. Through the newly formed Birgitta Sintring Scholarship Fund, scholarships wi...
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Partnership agreement for sustainable vehicles signed
21 april 2022
Battery technology is hot. Tomorrow’s electric vehicles will need highly efficient, sustainable batteries and the industry is currently suffering a shortage of labour; meanwhile, academia needs ind...