David Håkansson, Professor of Swedish Language and Linguistics at Uppsala University is a new member of the Swedish Academy. After many years of research, he is looking forward to following the development of Swedish from a new perspective: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…

Don Kulick, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from European Research Council (ERC). The EUR 2.5 million grant is for a multidisciplinary project on ‘non-persons’ who are present but are treated as if they were not: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…

Björn Melander, Professor of Swedish at the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, has been awarded the Margit Påhlson Prize from the Swedish Academy for his contributions to the Swedish language: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…

Elena Kozlova´s research team have made new discoveries about how stem cells are affected by microgravity. During a two-week spaceflight, the ability of cells to survive and grow in space was studied, yielding promising results: uu.se/en/news/2024/2… European Space Agency Rymdstyrelsen

This year’s Fulbright Lecture will be given by Eric Weisbard, Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. It takes place on March 21 and will focus on Swedish music exports. eric weisbard
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The Uppsala Student Union is about to celebrate its 175th anniversary. It was founded in 1849 because the students had a growing need to take a collective political stand, says Johan Sjöberg, Archivist at the University Library: uu.se/en/news/archiv… UppsalaUniLib Uppsala studentkår

Blizzards, record winds, red weather warnings and biting cold. The long winter of 2023/2024 has featured heavy precipitation and a number of extreme weather events. There are several reasons for this, one of which is high ocean temperatures.
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How is wood affected by climate change? In a project funded by the Swedish Research Council, Sara Florisson, researcher in applied mechanics, is investigating how climate change affects the moisture dependent mechanical properties: uu.se/en/news/archiv… Vetenskapsrådet

Gabriele Messori, Professor of Meteorology, is coordinator of the new Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes. The centre of excellence will be inaugurated on 26 April.
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Hongji Yan, a researcher at Uppsala University, has been awarded a substantial grant from the Horizon Europe funding programme European Innovation Council (EIC) for his research on nature-inspired lubricating gels that might protect from HIV and herpes: uu.se/en/news/archiv…

Uppsala University is the new world record holder for electrical energy generation from CIGS solar cells. The new world record is 23.64 per cent efficiency.
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There is now a secure and legal way for researchers in different European countries to share genomic data. NBIS, the bioinformatics platform at Uppsala University’s SciLifeLab, has collected data on childhood tumours as a first pilot project: uu.se/en/news/archiv…

Strengthen academic freedom at all levels, increase level of compensation for higher education and direct research funding towards excellent research. These are some of the messages conveyed in Uppsala University's budget submission to the government: uu.se/en/news/archiv…

Uppsala University is linked to 193 active companies, representing a wide spectrum of sectors, from life sciences to organisation and management development. Find out more about the spin-off companies from the University’s research and education: uu.se/en/news/archiv… #innovation

When should the University take a position?
Read Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt 's blog post about the war between Hamas and Israel.
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The Bissen Brainwalk Fund is awarding SEK 250,000 for the benefit of brain research to researcher Greta Hultqvist at Uppsala University. She is going to test a new method of treating Alzheimer’s disease: uu.se/en/news/archiv… #publichealth #drugdevelopment Bissen Larsson

With an increasing number of cyberthreats and data breaches, advanced digital solutions are needed to protect critical operations. In a new Vinnova-funded project, Uppsala researchers are developing new methods to secure industrial systems: uu.se/en/news/archiv… #CyberSecurity

Hugo Katus, professor at the Department of Internal Medicine at Uni Heidelberg, was the first to identify troponin T as a protein specific to the heart. He is now receiving an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University.
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A specially designed molecule can improve the durability of perovskite solar cells, according to research at Uppsala University. The result is the most stable perovskite film reported to date, increasing the potential to compete with the silicon solar cells: uu.se/en/news/archiv…

The number of conflicts in the world increased in 2022 and the negative trend seems to have continued in 2023, according to Therese Pettersson, Research Coordinator and Project Manager at the Uppsala Conflict Data Program UCDP uu.se/en/news/archiv… UppsalaPeaceConflict