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“A place full of opportunities” – Rico Krause, international student at Umeå University

Studying abroad, a path to personal and academic development.

Graduate course an experiment in reimagining science

IceLab Camp: a graduate course and an experiment in how scientific collaboration happens.

Undisciplined curiosity drives versatile Inge-Bert Täljedal

Academia, politics, philosophy, culture, religion. Inge-Bert Täljedal's commitment spans a wide range of areas

Has her heart with women affected by violence in Congo – receives medal

Ellinor Ädelroth is awarded Umeå University's Medal of Merit for her scientific and humanitarian work.

80 years of enchanting stories from Moominvalley

Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories turn 80 years old and continue to charm new generations of readers.

Cornelia RedekerProfessor vid Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitetRoll: Katalogansvarig, Prefekt

How buildings can help us become self-sufficient

Cornelia Redeker is shaping tomorrow's cities with climate change in mind.

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Four-stranded DNA in a new type of cancer therapy

Nasim Sabouris research findings are forming the basis for efforts to develop new cancer therapeutics.

Published: 2022-09-27

“If we continue to eat like we do today we will destroy the planet”

To tackle climate change, we must eat less meat. But what really makes people change their diets?

Published: 2022-09-21

Anders wants to reduce debris and interference in MRI

Anders Garpebring wants to get sharper and clearer results from images of cancerous tumors, with help of AI.

Published: 2022-09-02

Independent, knowledge-seeking students are the goal

Oskar Hemmingsson on taking a docentship, teaching and the challenges of the autumn.

Published: 2022-08-23

I want to show that their own wings carry

Maria Sandström, who was awarded the rose of the semester last spring, makes the students feel welcome.

Published: 2022-08-15

Psychiatric drugs may cause adverse cardiac event in young people

ADHD drugs has not been tested in combination with other drugs or in children with different conditions.

Published: 2022-08-15

Research strengthens the quality of life of older people

Annika Toots have focused on the promotion of health and well-being in older people.

Published: 2022-06-21

High-intensity interval training helps patients with COPD

Andre Nyberg wants to see if high-intensity exercise improve quality of life for people with lungdisease COPD.

Published: 2022-06-21

VR - The future of teaching

Is VR the new classroom technology?

Published: 2022-06-16

Swedish course for foreign scientists focuses on daring to speak

Questions and laughter abound when internationally recruited researchers meet for an intensive Swedish course.

Published: 2022-06-16

Genetics, environment and health

What particularly interests Sophia Harlid is how the environment affects us during sensitive time periods.

Published: 2022-06-01

The interest in people led to the medical profession

We have met Malin Sjöström and talked about the new medical school and her new exciting research idea!

Published: 2022-05-30

"Unequal conditions risk becoming normalised"

An Umeå-based analysis has been conducted on sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability in academia.

Published: 2022-05-20

Umeå University takes a holistic approach to open science

The university-wide project for how to manage research data throughout their lifecycle.

Published: 2022-05-17

Towards a new reward system for open science

We met Gustav Nilsonne, to talk about reward systems and the present conditions for doing research.

Published: 2022-05-06