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22 September 2023 08:19

Queues negatively impacted voter turnout

Turnout in the general elections in 2022 fell more sharply in electoral districts that had long queues to the polling stations than in comparable districts without queuing issues. Queuing can only explain a small part of the decrease in turnout between the years 2018 and 2022, however. 87 percent of the population voted in 2018, which fell to 84 percent in 2022.

Stacy VanDeveer new professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University

19 September 2023 14:19

Stacy VanDeveer new Zennström Professor of Climate Change Leadership

Stacy VanDeveer, professor in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston becomes visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University. The ten-years series of visiting professorships is financed by a previous donation to Uppsala University by alumnus Niklas Zennström and Catherine Zennström through their foundation Zennström Philanthropies.

Professor Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University and Director Battery 2030+ . Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt

11 September 2023 07:30

€150 million to sustainable battery research

Horizon Europe, the European Union's research initiative, announces €150 million funding for Battery 2030+, an initiative for developing advanced green battery technology. This signifies a renewed confidence in Battery 2030+ coordinated by Uppsala University, Sweden, with the goal to make Europe the world leader in the development and production of green batteries.

Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo has now been named Uppsala University’s Alumnus of the Year 2023. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt

11 September 2023 07:00

Svante Pääbo named Alumnus of the Year 2023

He opened up a completely new field of research by sequencing the genome of our long-extinct relatives. For his scientific accomplishments, Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2022. He has now been named Uppsala University’s Alumnus of the Year 2023.

8 September 2023 13:09

More mast cell progenitors during pollen season

The frequency of mast cell progenitors in the blood circulation is higher in asthma patients during the birch pollen season than outside of it. This has been demonstrated in a new study by Uppsala University, published in the scholarly journal Allergy.

7 September 2023 10:20

Difficult decisions led to unequal vaccination rates

There was a significant difference in the speed with which different groups were vaccinated against COVID-19. One explanation could be that people absorb information and make decisions in different ways. A new study shows that among people with the highest cognitive ability, 80% had been vaccinated within 50 days. Among those with the lowest cognitive ability, it took 180 days to achieve the same

5 September 2023 13:36

New spatial omics method created

Researchers at Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH have managed to create a new spatial omics method. By combining two complex techniques that are usually used separately – mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) and spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) – they have taken an important step in research on biological tissues. The study is published in the Nature Biotechnology.

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