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Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests in infection medicine

The financial support is included in a national investment into Life Science.

Research news

Exotic microbes stimulate carbon emissions from permafrost soil
Published: 2020-11-30

In the study in Nature Geoscience, nearly 40 per cent increase in carbon dioxide emissions was observed.

New advanced treatment technology improves wastewater quality
Published: 2020-11-26

Majid studies the electro-peroxone process by which increased removal of pollutants in wastewater is achieved.

Unique Nobel program with Swedish and Korean researchers
Published: 2020-11-24

The Sweden-Korea Nobel Memorial Program 2020 will take place on 1 December.

How do Swedish industry respond to improved energy efficiency?
Published: 2020-11-24

New thesis studies how energy efficiency and environmental regulation affect the Swedish industrial sector.

KBC awards the Best Video Research Pitch presentations from the KBC DAYS 2020
Published: 2020-11-20

Congratulations to Lill Eilersten and Lena Lassinantti for winning the Best PhD Student Presentation Awards!

Four questions to Joacim on Icelab and the way to a new covid-19 project
Published: 2020-11-19

How does an idea sparked in a casual discussion move to a funded project?

Seven spin-of companies from Umeå university on international AI map
Published: 2020-11-19

Seven spin-off companies from Umeå university on the first European AI Startup Landscape Map.

New knowledge on how climate affects pendulous lichens in northern forests
Published: 2020-11-17

Research from Umeå University explains how traits in pale lichens allow them to thrive in wet climates.

WASP-HS to host a major conference on AI, Humanity and Society
Published: 2020-11-16

This conference will bring together prominent researchers and experts in companies and organisations.

Do we have the right incentives to promote a more circular economy?
Published: 2020-11-16

A new thesis analyzes the effects of incentives aiming to create a more circular economy.

New project will analyse human and artificial decision making
Published: 2020-11-13

The project HYDE was recently granted 5,8 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council.

Surprisingly little water has escaped to space from Venus
Published: 2020-11-11

Only a small part of Venus' historical amount of water has flowed to space in the last four billion years.

Several spin-off companies take part in international AI conference
Published: 2020-11-11

Research companies based on technology for AI at Sweden Innovation Days.

The Industrial Doctoral School gets a new steering group
Published: 2020-11-10

A new steering group for the Industrial Doctoral School was appointed on 1 July 2019.

Three questions to the CBRNE Center Director Per-Erik Johansson
Published: 2020-11-06

Three quick questions regarding project activity during, and after, the pandemic to Per-Erik at CBRNE.