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The Faculty of Arts and Humanities

We teach and conduct research in the fields of language, religion, history, archaeology, philosophy, history of ideas, art, literature, ethnology, media and culture.

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Education

The Faculty offers 13 undergraduate and 5 master's programmes and a wide selection of freestanding courses.

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Advanced coatings boost the competitiveness of solar thermal energy

Solar thermal collectors are taking on fossil energy sources – thanks to a new type of coating.

Ricard Solé, public speaker for the 15 year IceLab anniversary public lecture on terraforming ecosystems, seen here against an AI-generated backdrop depicting an arid ecosystem being transformed to a lush one thanks to synthetic organisms.
Can we engineer nature to save it? Bold ideas in a public lecture

Can synthetic biology help restore collapsing ecosystems? Join Ricard Solé's public talk May 22 Aula Nordica.

Dag Avango och Dag Rune Olsen står skakar hand. Bredvid dem står Johanne Raade med en present i handed. Alla är fint klädda i mörka kläder.
The Arctic Six switches leaderships

The Arctic Six formally switched leaderships at the Arctic Six Extended meeting in Tromsø on 28 April.

Johan Normark och Constantin Urban Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi
New discovery explains why men more are more affected from severe COVID-19

Contributing piece of the puzzle that explains differences in immune responses in women and men to COVID-19.

– Erik Olof WikLund, konstnär och examinerande masterstudent vid Konsthögskolan, Umeå universitet– Nils Hauff, staff scientist, Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy, Umeå universitet, SciLifeLab
Art meets nanotechnology – the world’s smallest Dala horse created at Umeå University

A unique collaboration where artistic creativity and advanced nanotechnology come together.

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The cough is in the air - why more people have colds right now

More people than usual are at home with cold symptoms, Professor Niklas Arnberg answers why.