"False"
Skip to content
printicon
Main menu hidden.

Features and news

Research news

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

Elegant generation of multiple beams for filming electron motion
Published: 2019-02-26

Physicist shows laser generated twin-electron and x-ray beams for filming electron motion in matter.

New possibilities for light-emitting plastics with patterned light
Published: 2019-02-12

Mattias Lindh shows that the thickness of ultra-thin light-emitting plastics is important for brightness.

Nasdaq chooses Umeå and its university
Published: 2019-02-04

As Cinnober becomes part of Nasdaq, Umeå will have a new global brand in town.

Umeå mathematics duo with article that tops philosophy research
Published: 2019-01-30

Mathematicians' article on mathematical aesthetics in well-respected philosophy journal chosen as top article.

8 million SEK to expertise network for sample preparation
Published: 2019-01-29

Researcher Linda Sandblad receives a grant for improving the accessibility of national infrastructures.

New research charts an alternative imaginative path for design
Published: 2019-01-25

Could a more experimental and imaginative way of doing design help make us better equipped today's challenges?

Mixed forests deliver more – but only if mixed correctly!
Published: 2019-01-22

New study gives advice on how to mix the right tree species for tree production and other ecosystem services.

New formal methods for natural language processing
Published: 2019-01-17

Computers represents the semantic meaning of a sentence by graphs. These graphs can be made more explicit.

Moon Eclipse -time!
Published: 2019-01-15

If you would like to see the moon eclipse through a telescope, come visit us at Umevatoriet Monday morning!

IDS celebrates 10-year jubilee and continues to strive upwards
Published: 2019-01-14

Umeå University’s Industrial Doctoral School (IDS) is celebrating its first decade of successful activities.

If a leaf can do it – we can do it too!
Published: 2018-12-27

Anurag Kawde shows that mimicking the leaf to harvest solar energy is possible in a cost effective way.

9 million to cancer research from the Sjöberg Foundation
Published: 2018-12-21

Researchers Per Fransson and Daniel Öhlund receive 9 million SEK from for research in pancreatic cancer.

Mistra Digital Forest is paving the way for robotics in the woods
Published: 2018-12-11

Joins forest industry with academy to create digital solutions for sustainable bioeconomy.

Drug residues make bottom-dwelling animals walking pills
Published: 2018-11-22

Annelie Lagesson shows that small bottom-dwelling organisms are the largest recipients of drug residues.

Developing molecules that disarm Listeria and Chlamydia bacteria
Published: 2018-11-22

Martina Kulén develops new types of antibiotics that do not kill bacteria, but only disarm them.