News
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Road to work for migrants – a crucial issue for Sweden
21 June 2018
A costly and desolate trek through social measures or a worthwhile rescue for Sweden? Olof Åslund, Professor of Economics, sees migration as a key ...
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U4 and Tartu prepare for European University application
21 June 2018
The U4 universities (Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen and Uppsala) have joined forces with the University of Tartu to prepare an application for the Eur...
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Secret of the volcanoes
20 June 2018
There is no risk of an eruption when volcano researcher Steffi Burchardt is out on a research expedition. She studies extinct volcanoes that had er...
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Gunilla Lundmark new Managing Director of Uppsala University Holding Company
19 June 2018
On 1 September, Gunilla Lundmark will take office as Managing Director of Uppsala University Holding Company, where she succeeds Lars Jonsson. She ...
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Fatalities in organised violence still decreasing
18 June 2018
New data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University shows that the number of fatalities in organised violence decreased for ...
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European universities issue call for research and innovation
15 June 2018
The European Commission’s proposal for the ninth framework programme for research and innovation, which is part of a long-term budget 2021–2027, ha...
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Endocrine-disrupting pesticides impair frog reproduction
14 June 2018
In a new study, researchers from Sweden and Britain have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the We...
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Large-scale whaling in north Scandinavia may date back to 6th century
13 June 2018
The intensive whaling that has pushed many species to the brink of extinction today may be several centuries older than previously assumed. This vi...
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Scholarship took him from China to doctorate in Uppsala
10 June 2018
Yan Shao was one of the first Chinese students to receive Anders Wall’s scholarship for a Master’s degree at Uppsala University. Back then he knew ...
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First forecasts from ViEWS – the Violence Early-Warning System
8 June 2018
The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to large-scale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where i...
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Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson to receive King’s Medal
8 June 2018
H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf has decided to award Uppsala University’s Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson and Johan Svedjedal, Professor of Literature, H.M. ...
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“It’s my way of giving something back”
7 June 2018
Thanks to a donation of USD 40,000, a new scholarship fund has been established for doctoral students at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. T...
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New doctoral thesis: How over-production of meat is maintained
7 June 2018
Meat consumption is high in Sweden, but production nevertheless outstrips demand. In a new doctoral thesis in sociology, Jonas Bååth has studied ho...
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Uppsala alumnus leads the first alumni network in South Africa
5 June 2018
Uppsala alumnus Irshaad Wadvalla is the first chairman of the newly founded Sweden Alumni Network in South Africa. “It’s very exciting, and we look...
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Collaborative project to develop smart electric vehicle charging
5 June 2018
Through the Swedish Electromobility Centre, Uppsala University has entered into a partnership with Vattenfall AB and CEVT (China Euro Vehicle Techn...
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Uppsala researchers create world’s fastest water heater
5 June 2018
In an international collaboration, Uppsala researchers have successfully heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than...
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Diabetes and solar cell researchers awarded Göran Gustafsson Prize
5 June 2018
Jonathan Staaf Scragg, a researcher in the field of thin film solar cells, and Gustaf Christoffersson, whose research focuses on Type 1 diabetes, w...
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Cosmic voids and galaxy clusters could upend Einstein
5 June 2018
New astronomical mappings of hundreds of thousands of cosmic voids and galaxy clusters will make it possible to test Einstein’s theory of relativit...
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School pupils can help scientists with radiation project
5 June 2018
Is there radioactive caesium in Swedish mushrooms? And if so, how much? A national survey of radioactivity in mushrooms called Strålande jord (“Rad...
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Shamus Khan awarded the 2018 Hans L. Zetterberg Prize
5 June 2018
Professor Shamus Khan of Columbia University is the second recipient of the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize in Sociology. The prize sum is SEK 100,000.