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Profiles and Features

ALS forskare Ulrika Nordström och Matthew Marklund
Conferred as doctors – 20 years after their PhD defences

They missed their doctoral conferment. Twenty years later, Ulrika Nordström and Matthew Marklund celebrate.

Mikael Goossen at the University of Texas, Austin
A semester abroad in Texas gave new perspectives on teaching

Driven by curiosity, Mikael Goossen explored new ways of teaching through a STINT teaching sabbatical.

ukraina
Night-time evacuations, converted vehicles and civil defence services in a time of crisis

How prepared is the Swedish healthcare system if war breaks out? What can we learn from the war in Ukraine?

Mara-Kim Wiedmann, praktikant vid Humlab.
Kim about her internship at Humlab

As her time at Humlab comes to an end, she reflects on her experiences and what she has learned along the way.

Bokhyllor i Studiesalen på UB
Improved research quality with help of the library

Umeå University Library supports researchers through its search consultation service.

En man som sitter i ett laboratorium klädd i labbrock och handskar. Han har långt mörkt hår och skägg.
Not the genes, but how they work together makes a tree a tree

Trees are shaped not by unique "tree genes", but by how genes work together.

Full list of Profiles and Features

I believe in team thinking and collaboration
The interest in science led into a world where collaboration is the key to success.
Published: 2022-10-19
The 11th IceLab Camp exceeded the participants’ expectations
18 researchers at different career stages met for a creative camp in Granö.
Published: 2022-10-12
The walls of the cell - vital in the fight against many diseases
Viruses create small spaces of their own in cells membrane, where they secretly can do great harm.
Published: 2022-09-28
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