News
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Aiming to slow growth of brain tumours
30 January 2018
Hello, Karin Forsberg Nilsson. You were awarded funding from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation for a three-year project on brain tumours in c...
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Record interest in exchange studies abroad
29 January 2018
More Uppsala students than ever have applied for international exchanges within the framework of their studies. The University is pleased to see th...
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Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant to Uppsala mathematician
29 January 2018
The Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant is a joint initiative involving five foundations that provide long-term support for young Swedish researche...
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Report suggests new approach to fight antibiotic resistance
24 January 2018
An international consortium managed by the University of Geneva and AstraZeneca issues final report on its research-based suggestions for driving a...
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Uppsala University Library’s digitisation plans in 2018
24 January 2018
During 2018, Uppsala University Library will put extra resources into the digitisation of materials in our collections. Books, maps, pictures and m...
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Uppsala University’s prizes and awards 2017
23 January 2018
Each year Uppsala University confers a number of prizes, distinctions, and medals to individuals who have promoted research, education, or the deve...
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Reduced attention to audiovisual synchrony predicts autism
23 January 2018
A new study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry suggests that infants who pay little attention to synchronous sights and sounds may b...
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Presidential visit from Iceland
22 January 2018
In connection with a State Visit to Sweden, Uppsala University was visited by Iceland’s president Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson and wife Eliza Jean ...
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Uppsala peace researchers: Was 2017 end of ‘Islamic State’?
19 January 2018
When peace researchers at Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) summarize the conflict situation for the world in 2017, much focus is on the so-call...
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The algorithms of our future thinking machines
19 January 2018
Behind every self-driving car, self-learning robot and smart building hides a variety of advanced algorithms that control learning and decision mak...
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Uppsala University attends events in connection with World Economic Forum in Davos
19 January 2018
On 24 January, Uppsala University will take part in “The Swedish Lunch” – an event arranged in connection with the large international World Econom...
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New method to stop cells dividing could help fight cancer
19 January 2018
Researchers at Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, and the University of Oxford, have used a new strategy to shut down specific enzymes to...
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Dan Larhammar new Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences chair
15 January 2018
Dan Larhammar, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Uppsala University, has been elected as the new President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sci...
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Spotlight on attractive innovation projects at Uppsala University
15 January 2018
In connection with UU Innovation’s 10th anniversary, promising innovation projects at Uppsala University were identified. The 11 projects that rece...
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Four new Wallenberg Academy Fellows
15 January 2018
Wallenberg Academy Fellows is a career programme for promising young researchers that covers all academic fields. Now four new researchers have bee...
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Genomic data suggest two main migrations into Scandinavia after the last ice age
10 January 2018
In a new study published in PLOS Biology, an international research team suggests Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations after the last g...
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Muslims in the Baltic Sea region since the Middle Ages
3 January 2018
Since the Late Middle Ages, Muslim Tatars have been settling in the Baltic region and continuing to practice their religion. Wooden mosques, such a...
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Charter & Code, and The Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R)
1 January 2018
Uppsala University is applying for the European Commission acknowledgement HR Excellence in Research, an award that indicates that Uppsala Universi...
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Nobel Lectures available online
21 December 2017
In case you missed them: The Nobel Lectures in Uppsala on the 13 December are available to watch online.
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Green light for SEK 1.2 billion investment in the Ångström Laboratory
21 December 2017
Akademiska Hus and Uppsala University are engaging in their largest joint initiative ever through the expansion of the Ångström Laboratory. Today t...