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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.

Building upon the success of AIMday academic–industry matchmaking events and demand from other Canadian institutions for expansion of the approach,...

Inspired by nature, researchers have developed a new method to produce hydrogen from bacteria. They use biological ‘hydrogen factories’ that are mo...