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Design student awarded for visions of future boating
Kosin Voravattayagon, studying the master programme in transportation design at Umeå Institute of Design, has received first prize in the Finnish marine design competition Visions of Future Boating.
Faculty News
Design student awarded for visions of future boating
2012-01-25
Kosin Voravattayagon, studying the master programme in transportation design at Umeå Institute of Design, has received first prize in the Finnish marine design competition Visions of Future Boating.
Major environmental study finds traces of many drugs in Swedish waters
2012-01-10
High levels of the anti-inflammatory substance diclofenac are released from wastewater plants, according to a study from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Umeå University that was commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
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Biotech Umeå: The quest for a better spruce
2011-12-29
The Norway spruce tree has seven times more genetic material than humans. A huge project at Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) at Umeå University is currently underway in an attempt to decipher every base in the spruce tree’s DNA sequence.
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