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New Associate Professor at the Faculty

2012-05-15
Christina Ottander has been accepted as Associate Professor in Didactics of Natural Science.

New Associate Professor at the Faculty

2012-05-15
Torgeir Hvidsten has been accepted as Associate Professor in Systems Biology.

Seminar for international students on finding work in Sweden after studies

2012-04-23
Meet with and listen to Rodrigo Garay from Working for Change and Katarina Önell from TNS Sifo, who will talk about career possibilities in Sweden for international academics on Monday 14 May in Lindell Hall.

New Associate Professor at the Faculty

2012-03-20
Madeleine Ramstedt has been accepted as Associate Professor in Chemistry.

The Spring Graduation Ceremony 2012

2012-03-13
The Spring Graduation Ceremony at Umeå University on 2 June 2012, takes place at 1:00 p.m. at Aula Nordica, Campus Umeå, and the following ceremony banquet at 6:00 p.m. at Restaurant Äpplet, Umeå Folkets hus.

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External News

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.

New record for applications to Umeå University

2012-04-23
The number of applications to courses and programmes at Umeå University reached a new record this year. Nearly 57,000 applications have been submitted for the autumn 2012 term, over 3,300 more than the previous year. The increase is higher than the average for Swedish universities.

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

2012-04-18
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 Maste...

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