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“Hello, Håkan Engqvist, Professor of Applied Materials Science and recipient of this year’s Hjärnäpple*, Uppsala University’s prize for successful ...

In autumn 2019 Sweden’s new SCAPIS medical knowledge bank will be ready for studies of cardiopulmonary diseases, and researchers in the field are b...

How does antibiotic resistance arise? In a new article in the July number of the Journal of Biological Chemistry researchers from Uppsala Universit...

After an unusually warm and dry summer in Sweden the discussion about climate change gained new force. So, what is actually happening to the climat...

A new international study shows the importance of studying historical skeletal material to increase knowledge about how viruses develop.

A new study from Uppsala University shows that many patients with colon cancer do not need any chemotherapy and that among patients who benefit fro...

In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University now demonstrate that one night of sleep loss has a tissue-specific impact on the regulation of ...

A new study by researchers at Uppsala University, published in the journal Science Advances, uses satellite nighttime light data to reveal how floo...

Uppsala University has been granted a significant increase in the number of Erasmus+ scholarships in the EU/Europe for the academic year 2018–2019....

For 20 years UU Holding has promoted the use of research conducted at Uppsala University in society. In a recent report UU Holding analysed what go...

While both the Swedish National Food Agency and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in recent years have come up with new guidelines f...

This weekend the news reached the world that former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had passed away. Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United...

Now it is time to nominate for the title Alumnus of the Year 2018. Take the opportunity to recognize someone who have inspired you or made a lastin...

Breaking with the long-held idea that working memory has fixed limits, a new study by researchers at Uppsala University and New York University sug...

In a study published in Behavioral Ecology researchers from Uppsala University show that the same type of sperm is not always the best for all male...

Nanosized magnetic particles called skyrmions are considered highly promising candidates for new data storage and information technologies. Now, ph...

A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous m...

The European Research Council (ERC) has now announced which researchers have been awarded ERC Starting Grants in the 2018 call. A total of EUR 603 ...

A new study by researchers at Uppsala University and INGV, Italy, published in Scientific Reports, sheds light on magma storage under the currently...

An international research team that includes researchers from Uppsala University and Stockholm University have identified a likely source for the h...

The workings of memory and learning have yet to be clarified, especially at the neural circuitry level. But researchers at Uppsala University have ...

An international team of scientists has used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study how domestication has affected brain morphol...

A costly and desolate trek through social measures or a worthwhile rescue for Sweden? Olof Åslund, Professor of Economics, sees migration as a key ...

The U4 universities (Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen and Uppsala) have joined forces with the University of Tartu to prepare an application for the Eur...

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...

Leading battery researcher Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University, has won the KTH Great Prize for 2018. Her rese...

On 1 September, Gunilla Lundmark will take office as Managing Director of Uppsala University Holding Company, where she succeeds Lars Jonsson. She ...

New data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University shows that the number of fatalities in organised violence decreased for ...

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...

In a new study, researchers from Sweden and Britain have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the We...

The intensive whaling that has pushed many species to the brink of extinction today may be several centuries older than previously assumed. This vi...

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 ...

The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to large-scale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where i...

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. ...

Thanks to a donation of USD 100,000, a new scholarship fund has been established for doctoral students at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. ...

Meat consumption is high in Sweden, but production nevertheless outstrips demand. In a new doctoral thesis in sociology, Jonas Bååth has studied ho...

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...

Through the Swedish Electromobility Centre, Uppsala University has entered into a partnership with Vattenfall AB and CEVT (China Euro Vehicle Techn...

In an international collaboration, Uppsala researchers have successfully heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than...

Jonathan Staaf Scragg, a researcher in the field of thin film solar cells, and Gustaf Christoffersson, whose research focuses on Type 1 diabetes, w...

New astronomical mappings of hundreds of thousands of cosmic voids and galaxy clusters will make it possible to test Einstein’s theory of relativit...

Is there radioactive caesium in Swedish mushrooms? And if so, how much? A national survey of radioactivity in mushrooms called Strålande jord (“Rad...

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.

Uppsala researcher and entrepreneur Evelina Vågesjö was cited by the journal Genetic Engineering News (GEN), as a future leader within the rapidly ...

Since the beginning of February, the University’s research on human evolution has been brought together in a new research programme. The aim is to ...

The 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award winners at Uppsala University teach subjects related to art history, informatics and media, pharmaceutical bi...

Hello, there Håvard Hegre, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. An initial version of the analytical tool c...

Uppsala University is back among the top 100 universities in the world as Times Higher Education publishes its 2018 World Reputation Ranking. Uppsa...

Per Ahlberg, Professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, Evolution and Developmental Biology, has been elected to the Academy of Europe, a s...

On 21 May a closing ceremony took place in the University Main Building for students in Uppsala University’s international Master’s programmes.