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Master students at Umeå Institute of Design win iF concept awards 2012

From more than 10.000 valid entries submitted by design students from all over the world, only 100 projects received an iF concept award 2012. Two of these were awarded to Masters students at Umeå Institute of Design: Simon Fredriksson and Gosha Galitsky, Dogan Sekercioglu, all students at the Master's programme in Advanced Product Design, and Carol Tang from UID's Interaction Design programme.

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Female bugs overcome cost of traumatic sex

2012-05-09
The study of “sexual conflict” between males and females helps us to understand why sexual reproduction persists given that it can be costly, especially to females. One aspect of this conflict concerns how females respond to increased mating events that are of more benefit to males than to themselve...

A semester abroad above the Arctic Circle

2012-05-07
Jürgen Leonbacher, a German exchange student at Umeå University, is currently taking a course in Abisko, a small town in northern Sweden with only 85 inhabitants, 195 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. However, he is neither bored nor freezing.

Umeå Institute of Design ranked 2nd in Europe/Americas

2012-05-07
Umeå Institute of Design (UID) is ranked second in the prestigious red dot design ranking for design concept 2011. This ranking recognizes UID as one of the top universities in Americas and Europe to continuously and progressively produce cutting edge and forward thinking projects.

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