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“Most people can relate to music”
06 juni 2023
Mattias Lundberg’s area of research is liturgical music from the Renaissance. However, as a professor of musicology, he is used to covering the his...
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Music Professor Mattias Lundberg receives Royal Medal
06 juni 2023
Mattias Lundberg is familiar from several series on Sveriges Radio’s channel P2, most recently “Fråga musikprofessorn” (“Ask the Music Professor”)....
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Negligent not to warn about ticks
31 maj 2023
He has 10,000 ticks in a freezer and is one of the media’s frequently hired experts on the subject. Professor Thomas Jaenson has dedicated the last...
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Junk food may impair our deep sleep
31 maj 2023
In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have investigated how junk food affects sleep. Healthy participants consumed an unhealthier as we...
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Barren habitat for sows leaves imprint on piglets’ brains
26 maj 2023
In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University, together with colleagues in Brazil, have investigated the impact that a barren living environm...
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Aviation fuel from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight
26 maj 2023
In the quest for fossil-free fuels for aircraft, a new study shows that isoprene could be part of a future solution. Isoprene can be produced by bl...
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This year’s Johan Skytte Prize winner announced
26 maj 2023
Alexander Wendt and Martha Finnemore have been jointly awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. The prize is a recognition of their exc...
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Winners of the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Awards selected
24 maj 2023
The winners of this year’s Uppsala University Distinguished Teaching Awards in Religious Studies, Business Studies, Paediatrics and Chemistry. This...
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Breaking the isolation of Ukrainian university teachers
17 maj 2023
During the spring, around 80 Ukrainian university teachers have had the chance to take a course on online teaching and learning from Uppsala Univer...
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New Academician keen to promote Swedish
16 maj 2023
In December this year, David Håkansson will become a member of the Swedish Academy. As professor and researcher in linguistics at Uppsala Universit...
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Recipients of Uppsala University’s Gustaf Adolf Medal 2023
15 maj 2023
Four current and former employees of Uppsala University are to receive the Elder Gustaf Adolf Medal for valuable services.
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New therapy helps immune system eradicate brain tumours
12 maj 2023
Researchers from Uppsala University have developed a method that helps immune cells exit from blood vessels into the tumour and kill cancer cells. ...
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When Swedes agree to pause democracy
12 maj 2023
Swedish people are very positive about their democracy and how it works. Despite that, a majority thinks that our democratic freedoms and rights co...
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Can you be a researcher and a pop star at the same time?
11 maj 2023
In Faculty of Pharmacy – The Movie we join Alice, David, Nadia and Valter, seventh graders at the Uppsala Music Classes, during their visit to Upps...
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The AI tool quickly became good at Swedish
10 maj 2023
The AI tool Chat-GPT has stunned the world with its good language use. But how did the language model become so good at Swedish? We asked Joakim Ni...
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International conference on the battery technology of the future
08 maj 2023
On 9-10 May, the EU flagship Battery 2030+ will be hosting its annual conference at Uppsala University. To promote new innovations in the field of ...
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200 years of spring songs at the castle
08 maj 2023
200 years ago, the tradition of greeting the spring with song started in the castle grounds in Uppsala. This was celebrated by Allmänna Sången, the...
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New platform to improve drug development and animal welfare
08 maj 2023
A drive to provide accessible information for more reliable, reproducible and efficient pre-clinical and translational research made Emmi Puuvuori ...
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How autism presents in small children
04 maj 2023
Babies who go on to develop symptoms of autism interpret movement differently. Terje Falck-Ytter has been able to measure this in babies as young a...
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International meeting on measures to combat antibiotic resistance
04 maj 2023
On 9–10 May, a forum will be held in Uppsala on the topic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) within the framework of the Swedish Presidency of the C...