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The Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize is Uppsala University’s foremost award for contributions to the promotion of human rights and liberty. This ye...

Six years have passed since Thomas Schön arrived in Uppsala with two doctoral students and a professorship of automatic control. Now he is a leadin...

This year’s Uppsala Student of the Year is in his seventh semester of the Master’s Programme in Sociotechnical Systems Engineering. Alongside his s...

Fundraising organisation Bissen Brainwalk is distributing SEK 750,000 to brain research into epilepsy, strokes and autism. The projects in question...

Diabetes is one of our major health scourges. The disease is increasing in prevalence worldwide and an estimated 640 million people will be affecte...

Uppsala University Archives holds a large collection of hand-drawn seventeenth century maps on parchment. These maps are of significant historical ...

Uppsala University has been named Erasmus+ Actor of the Year for its systematic and successful efforts to promote student mobility through Erasmus+...

On 15 November more than 20 new professors will be inaugurated at Uppsala University at a formal ceremony in the Grand Auditorium. Each will descri...

Major investments are required in the area of research and research infrastructure if Sweden is to retain its position as a leading knowledge natio...

Nine universities – rectors, staff and student representatives, from all over Europe have formally launched the 'ENLIGHT' consortium. ENLIGHT will ...

NeuroDeRisk is a new international consortium in which Uppsala University, together with 17 partner organisations, will develop tools for better pr...

The nine faculties at Uppsala University have decided on who they wish to appoint as honorary doctors this academic year. The new honorary doctors ...

200 years ago on October 19 1819, king Charles XIV John of Sweden laid the symbolic foundation stone for the new University Library building, Carol...

Solar cells, glasses, mobile technology, medical treatments – there is an endless list of inventions for which ion-beam based research has been dec...

On 7 October, it is 542 years since teaching began at Uppsala University in 1477. This first day of higher education in the city is worth commemora...

The Alumnus of the Year award is being presented this year to researcher, author, popular educator and science writer Emma Frans for her “tireless ...

At the end of September Uppsala university alumni and friends were invited to American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis to visit the exhibition “Th...

The Swedish Research Council has reached a decision on which applications have been successful in their call for Research infrastructure of nationa...

A major national research programme aims to study the impact of artificial intelligence on society at large and on individual behaviour. The Marian...

Uppsala University is ranked 102nd place among 1,400 universities throughout the world in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of the world’s b...