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4 Horizon Uppsala Ice tells us about future weather Glacier research provides us with knowledge about how we affect the climate and how the climate affects us.Veijo Pohjola,a glacial
The fact that Upsala Glacier is melt- ing is not only due to temperature changes,according to Ulf Jonsell. PHOTOS:ARCHIVO MUSEO SALESIANO/DEAGOSTINI/ GREENPEACE/DANIEL BELTRá
6 Horizon Uppsala PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON Staffan Svärd,professor of microbiology, together with Chinnaddurai Senthil Kumar andYentopalliVenkata Ranesh from India. The art of recruiting master’s st
Popular master’s programme together with Shanghai f For the last three years the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala has collaborated with Tongji University in Shanghai in the form o
8 Horizon Uppsala A century of successful life science The Uppsala region’s leading position in biomedicine,or life science,as it is often referred to today,is no accident.Its tradition of succe
UU Innovation f UU Innovation, established in 2007, supports the commercial exploitation of ideas at Uppsala University, gives advice about patent protection and contracts, and mediates contacts wit
10 Horizon Uppsala The quest for that perfect glide An ice-cream freezer at the Ångström Laboratory is a secret weapon in skiers' search for maximal glide.Sture Hogmark,professor of materials s
TON PHOTO:MAT Simpler diagnosis with the aid of nanotechnology f A little box in the kitchen or at a clinic will be able to rapidly and simply diagnose infectious diseases in the future.This is at
12 Horizon Uppsala Donations bring new opportunity Donations are growing ever more important for the University’s strategic commitments. 2009 will bring a visiting professorship and a grant
Horizon Uppsala 13 New honorary doctors f At the 2009 winter conferment, 17 honorary doctors were awarded. One was Martin Kemp, professor of art history at Oxford University,and learned in both s
14 Horizon Uppsala Commercialization of gene tests means that companies will set up their own biobanks.They are regulated by the same legislation as those at universities.
University has important knowledge about hate crimes During World War II the University was the site of lively debate about whether Sweden should accept Jewish refugees.Today’s hate crimes,on the ris
16 Horizon Uppsala PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON Stefan Karpe has been director musices,that is,the conductor of the RoyalAcademic Orchestra,and professor of orchestra conducting at Uppsala University for
Horizon Uppsala 17 Stefan Karpe brought Tosca to Uppsala: Puccini’s music goes straight to the heart Itwasduringawalktoworkthattheideastartedtogrow.YearsearlierStefanKarpe had seen aTV productio
PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON Religion and law in tandem: “Acute need for knowledge!” Religion and law – what do they have to do with each other? Lots, say two of the scholars who received SEK 50 million
Committed star conversed about global problems PHOTO:TOMMyWESTBERG Film actress Sharon Stone visited Uppsala University in late spring to discuss global health and global peace – two issues that ar
20 Humanities and social sciences humaniotieras social sciences 26 22 28 27 25 PHOTO:CECILIA MELLBERG Margaretha Fahlgren,Vice Rector of the D
Football promotes peace Sports can serve as a platform for building peace, according to peace and conflict re- searcher Kristine Höglund,
SSON 22 Humanities and social sciences PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAE Professor Claes von Hofsten with Maria Jansson and Oliver Viita,six months. Brain in focus at Babylab “Infants have huge social competenc
LAB :BABy PHOTO Brain activity during the first 0.1-0.6 seconds in a five- month-old baby that is looking at a moving pattern.Red indicates heightened activity,blue indicates little activity. The bl
24 Humanities and social sciences PHOTO:MAGNUS PEHRSSON Experiments yield new insights into society How are sickness benefits and allowances for minding sick children actually used? Do jobseekers
Humanities and social sciences 25 New social work programme In 2008 Uppsala University gained the right to issue degrees in social work, and programme in social work started in the autumn, leadin
26 The runic stones in University Horizon Uppsala
PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON Eva H book much Researcher on copyright: “File sharing just the tip of the iceberg” f It is thanks to Victor Hugo that Eva Hem- mungs Wirtén, professor of library and infor-
28 Humanities and social sciences PHOTO:ISTOCKPHOTOS This autumn.four new programmes will start, in classical studies,early languages and cultures, culture,society,and eth- nography,and hist
huemduacnaiotiroanal sciences PHOTO:CECILIA MELLBERG Caroline Liberg,dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences. Own PhDs,at last! PHOTO:ALEX GIACOMINI PHOTO:MARTIN CEJIE
3b0ooks in Jörgen Mattlar has studied text- SwEeduischaatsioansaelcosncdiences language and found that there is a clear ideology behind the texts, not a wish to present diversity.
Educational sciences 31 How do you become a physicist? Society needs more physicists and advanced engineers, but it is hard to recruit students, especially women. Better knowledge of how physics
medicine pharmacy PHOTO:CECILIA MELLBERG Britt Skogseid,Vice Rector of the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy. 36 34 PneEwT tceoclhlanbo
PHOTO:MATTON Medicine and pharmacy 33 Hormones – a key women’s issue The effect of hormones on women’s mental health is often dismissed as a minor “women’s problem,”as Inger Sundström-Poromaa,pro
34 Medicine and pharmacy Maréne Landström is starting a
Medicine and pharmacy 35 With one foot in research – the other in the hospital She has a bead on a cure for prostate cancer. Maréne Landström, associate professor, specialist physician,and d
36 Medicine and pharmacy Implants restore lost hearing With the help of various types of implants, many people can regain at least some of their hearing. Damaged hair cells in the cochlea can
“These are measures that don’t cost much but have a great impact,” says EvaVingård, professor of occupational and environmental medicine. PHOTO:MARTIN CEJIE The secret behind healthy workplaces Pr
38 Medicine and pharmacy Dean Fred Nyberg: “More drug experts needed in future” FacultyofPharmacyat40 f Up to 2000, Uppsala University offered the only training of phar
PHOTO:JONAS BONNEDAHL PHOTO:TOMMyWESTBERG Pharmacists to enhance health care With more clinical pharmacists in health care,patient drug use will be better and safer, and caring efforts will be faci
40 Medicine and pharmacy PHOTO:MATTON Beet roots protect against ulcers Fruits and vegetables rich in nitrate pro- tect the stomach against ulcers. This is shown by cell biologist Joel Petersson i
humscaineinocrea technology PHOTO:CECILIA MELLBERG Joseph Nordgren,Vice Rector of the Disciplinary Domain of Science andTechnology. Innovations in focus
42 Science and technology Lightning measures global warming Every year lightning strikes about 100,000 times in Sweden,
PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON ProfessorVernon Cooray. it’s most powerful. We have shown however that most nitrogen oxides are formed during the much long- er period when the current is very weak in the l
44 Science and technology Prehistoric DNA reveals origins of species It has broadly been thought that our northern European dogs descend from the Scandinavian wolf.But molecular geneticists at
Hot solar cells from Uppsala Solar cells from Uppsala University are now making their way onto the market in large scale. The German company Q-cells started delivering from its newly built factory i
46 Science and technology PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON Kristina Edström researches so- called lithium/air batteries,where oxygen in the air is used as fuel.
Science and technology 47 I love how orderly chemistry is As a 13-year-old she explained the concept of the atom to her mother. Today, a few decades later, professor of inorganic chemistry Kris
48 Science and technology PHOTO:STAFFAN CLAESSON Bengt Sandblad,professor of human-computer interaction. IT developer helped CSN find better routines PHOTO:CSN/OLLE MELKERHED More useful IT supp
Science and technology 49 Water management in unique European programme For two weeks early in the autumn 2008 term some thirty students and fourteen teachers from different universities in Europe
50 Uppsala University Uppsala University in figures } Three disciplinary domains:humanities and social sciences, medicine and pharmacy,and science and technology. } Education and researc
BMC – Uppsala Ekonomikum Biomedical Centre Science and technology 51 English Park Ångström Laboratory Geo Centr
PHOTOS:STAFFAN CLAESSON,ALEX GIACOMINI,MARCUS MARCETIC,TOMMyWESTBERG Tosca in Uppsala Tosca was performed on June 13 and 14, 2008, in Uppsala Cathe- dral (Act I),the University GrandAuditorium (
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