Research at Umeå University extends over many disciplines and scientific fields. Many of our more than 2,000 researchers and teachers are among the elite in Sweden and throughout the world. Our strong research environments highlight our ambition to conduct high quality international research.
We carry out groundbreaking, top-level international research within such areas as ageing and population studies, infections, and plant and forest biotechnology.
2012-02-07
Laughter, its meaning and propriety have continuously occupied the mind of philosophers, moralists and dramatists since at least Antiquity. In a modern context, laughter is typically associated with humour and joy, but not all laughter is the fruit of the former and even less so the latter.
2012-02-06
Pregnant women exposed to air pollution are at higher risk than others to give birth prematurely, according to a research study involving a large number of mothers living in Stockholm, reports the news website TheLocal.se. The study was conducted by researchers at the division of Occupational and En...
2012-01-25
Friday 28th September 2012, The University of Nottingham
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Mary Eagleton (formerly Leeds Metropolitan University)
Professor Mary Evans (Gender Institute, London School of Economics and
Political Science)
Umeå University engages in research in many disciplines.
