News from Uppsala University
News - Archive 2006-2007
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2007-12-21
Number of conflicts in the world no longer declining
The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest a...
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2007-12-14
Linnaeus descendant takes doctorate on last day of Linnaeus Tercentenary
This weekend the tercentenary celebrations of Carl Linnaeus birth will come to an end, and today his young descendent, Martin Nervall, will publi...
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2007-12-14
Delighted Nobel laureates met students at Uppsala University
Seven of this years Nobel Prize laureates visited Uppsala University yesterday, and they were met by packed lecture halls. They were warmly recei...
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2007-12-11
Promising material for hydrogen storage
A Swedish research team led by Professor Rajeev Ahuja has reported a highest hydrogen capacity for the hydrogen storage material called metal-orga...
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2007-12-07
Major commitment to research on ocean energy
Norska Statkraft, in Norway, and Uppsala University are initiating a collaborative commitment to research on ocean energy. The aim is to build Eu...
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2007-12-06
Uppsala discovery can become medicine to halt Alzheimers
Within a couple of years research findings from Uppsala University may lead to a new medicine with the potential to halt the progress of Alzheimer...
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2007-12-06
Nobel laureates to lecture at Uppsala University
On St. Lucia Day, December 13, seven of this years Nobel laureates will visit Uppsala University. After a reception held by the Vice-Chancellor,...
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2007-12-04
Ethnic discrimination not only based on prejudice
Our belief in power hierarchies is important in how we view and treat people. This is shown in a dissertation by Alexandra Snellman that examines ...
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2007-12-04
Project of Uppsala University awarded for integrating IT and life science
On November 29, the Bioclipse project from Uppsala University was awarded the Special Prize of the jury at Trophées du Libre an international co...
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2007-11-23
Bear hunting altered genetics more than Ice Age isolation
It was not the isolation of the Ice Age that determined the genetic distribution of bears, as has long been thought. This is shown by an internat...
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2007-11-20
50th anniversary of worlds first cancer treatment with protons
On November 23 it will have been 50 years since the first proton radiation treatment was administered at the then Gustaf Werner Institute for Nucl...
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2007-11-14
Li Bennich-Björkman appointed to worlds oldest chair in political science
Li Bennich-Björkman will be the new Skytte Professor of Elocution and Political Science at Uppsala University. She is the first woman to hold what...
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2007-11-11
Uppsala University best in Nordic countries
Uppsala University is the best university in the Nordic countries according to the annual ranking by Times Higher Education.
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2007-11-01
Overweight mothers run greater risk of having hyperactive children
If a woman is overweight when she becomes pregnant, the probability is much greater that her child will evince ADHD-like symptoms when he/she reac...
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2007-10-22
New inhibitor has potential as cancer drug
Laboratory experiments have previously shown that cancer cells overproduce an enzyme, heparanase, which splits the bodys own polysaccharide hepar...
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2007-10-09
World-class research recognized in expert report
Uppsala University can hold its own in international competition. Research at many departments leads the world. Activities in theoretical physics...
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2007-10-01
DNA from ten mammoths relates history and facilitates crime scene investigations
An international research team with members from Uppsala University has managed for the first time to retrieve large amounts of DNA from as many a...
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2007-09-28
New Swedish research hope for millions of sufferers
Todays issue of the scientific journal Science presents research on the genetic make-up and biology of the parasite Giardia lamblia that ultimate...
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2007-09-24
What gives us sunburn protects crayfish against bacteria
The production of melanin gives us sunburns, but it also helps invertebrate animals to encapsulate attacking fungi and parasites. Uppsala Univers...
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2007-09-21
Uppsala University most visible in world press
Research is something that is often associated with Sweden in articles all over the world. And Uppsala University appears most frequently in the ...