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Many of the world’s 1.4 million lakes larger than or equal to 0.1 km2 suffer from serious health issues which require immediate treatment. This is shown by Professor Gesa Weyhenmeye together with an international research team: uu.se/en/news/2024/2… #Sustainability
Researchers at Uppsala University have identified a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against the multi-drug resistant bacteria that WHO pinpoints as the most critical to develop novel treatments for: uu.se/en/news/2024/2… #antibiotics Farmaceutiska fakulteten
Jürgen Habermas is awarded the 2024 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Political Science”, for his contributions to political science, the social sciences and the humanities in general: uu.se/en/news/2024/2… Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
David Håkansson, Professor of Swedish Language and Linguistics at Uppsala University is a new member of the Swedish Academy. After many years of research, he is looking forward to following the development of Swedish from a new perspective: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…
Don Kulick, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from European Research Council (ERC). The EUR 2.5 million grant is for a multidisciplinary project on ‘non-persons’ who are present but are treated as if they were not: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…
Björn Melander, Professor of Swedish at the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, has been awarded the Margit Påhlson Prize from the Swedish Academy for his contributions to the Swedish language: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…
Elena Kozlova´s research team have made new discoveries about how stem cells are affected by microgravity. During a two-week spaceflight, the ability of cells to survive and grow in space was studied, yielding promising results: uu.se/en/news/2024/2… European Space Agency Rymdstyrelsen
This year’s Fulbright Lecture will be given by Eric Weisbard, Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. It takes place on March 21 and will focus on Swedish music exports. eric weisbard
Photo: Bengt H Malmqvist
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The Uppsala Student Union is about to celebrate its 175th anniversary. It was founded in 1849 because the students had a growing need to take a collective political stand, says Johan Sjöberg, Archivist at the University Library: uu.se/en/news/archiv… UppsalaUniLib Uppsala studentkår
How is wood affected by climate change? In a project funded by the Swedish Research Council, Sara Florisson, researcher in applied mechanics, is investigating how climate change affects the moisture dependent mechanical properties: uu.se/en/news/archiv… Vetenskapsrådet
Hongji Yan, a researcher at Uppsala University, has been awarded a substantial grant from the Horizon Europe funding programme European Innovation Council (EIC) for his research on nature-inspired lubricating gels that might protect from HIV and herpes: uu.se/en/news/archiv…
Uppsala University is the new world record holder for electrical energy generation from CIGS solar cells. The new world record is 23.64 per cent efficiency.
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There is now a secure and legal way for researchers in different European countries to share genomic data. NBIS, the bioinformatics platform at Uppsala University’s SciLifeLab, has collected data on childhood tumours as a first pilot project: uu.se/en/news/archiv…
Uppsala University is linked to 193 active companies, representing a wide spectrum of sectors, from life sciences to organisation and management development. Find out more about the spin-off companies from the University’s research and education: uu.se/en/news/archiv… #innovation
When should the University take a position?
Read Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt 's blog post about the war between Hamas and Israel.
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The Bissen Brainwalk Fund is awarding SEK 250,000 for the benefit of brain research to researcher Greta Hultqvist at Uppsala University. She is going to test a new method of treating Alzheimer’s disease: uu.se/en/news/archiv… #publichealth #drugdevelopment Bissen Larsson