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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

Sugar boosts cravings for fat
Published: 2023-11-22

How our desires are controlled - study on fruit flies confirms scientists' theory.

Suna develops the language of robots
Published: 2017-11-23

Researcher Suna Bensch comes from Germany and investigates talking social robots.

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.

Sustainable, smart cities and AI - research and experience meet
Published: 2022-03-17

Academia and society meet on AI in sustainable and smart cities.

Swedish infants less affected by parental unemployment
Published: 2023-04-20

Study suggests that a generous welfare state can protect families against the effects of economic shocks.

Swedish Nordic EMBL node is part of newly funded postdoc program
Published: 2023-10-30

MIMS expands opportunities for life science research at Umeå University through NORPOD postdoc programme.

Swedish-Japanese research and innovation week in Umeå
Published: 2023-11-27

The theme for the bilateral MIRAI conference was "creating resilient and sustainble societies".

Swelling of multi-layered graphene oxide materials studied
Published: 2021-12-14

In his thesis Artem Iakunkov includes extensive studies of some fundamental properties of graphite oxides.

Teachers are important in supporting pupils' motivation
Published: 2020-12-18

Teachers can support motivation through the culture they create in the classroom, Anders Hofverberg shows.

Teaching assistants help in education - and develop personally
Published: 2021-09-16

The Faculty of Science and Technology employs teaching assistants at more departments than before.

Temporary employment may consolidate labor market inequality
Published: 2022-05-31

New study show that temporary workers receive less employer-paid training than permanent workers.

Testing designed carbon materials to purify wastewater
Published: 2019-06-24

Mirva shows that the capacity of the tested carbon materials to separate organic water pollution was low.

The benefits of AI in crisis situations
Published: 2023-02-16

Professor Frank Dignum chairs an international workshop on the benefits of AI in crisis situations.

The end of the television - Will the digital wall revolutionize our homes?
Published: 2021-03-03

Morteza Abdipour has studied how the digital wall might influence how we arrange our future households.

The Environmental Archaeological Lab takes over pollen measurements in Umeå
Published: 2022-08-03

The pollen trap is located on a roof on campus. Data is reported to the Swedish Museum of Natural History.