IxDA, the global Interaction Design Association, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the winner of this year’s student challenge at Interaction14 in Amsterdam, a yearly conference for interaction designers. Umeå Institute of Design’s interaction student Kevin Gaunt from Switzerland impressed and was awarded first prize.
Umeå University advanced seven places globally – from 34 to 27 – in this year’s 'Top 50 under 50' league table produced by QS University Rankings. The list focuses on young and dynamic universities established within the last 50 years.
Researchers at Umeå and Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered a new signaling pathway that makes cancer cells aggressive. The findings could lead to improved treatment for advanced prostate cancer, as well as breast and lung cancer.
Professor Martin Karplus, one of the three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2013, will visit Umeå University on Friday December 13 to give a lecture on his groundbreaking research. Thanks to the methods he started developing in the 1970s together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, today’s chemists can research in detail every little step in complicated chemical processes.
Professor Martin Karplus, one of the three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2013, will visit Umeå University on Friday December 13 to give a lecture on his groundbreaking research. His visit to Umeå University is due to the fact that one of his former post doctoral students now works in Umeå.
Umeå Institute of Design has done it again! For the second time in a row UID is placed first on the prestigious Red Dot Institute’s ranking which is based on the school’s achievements over the past five years. The competitors are schools in Europe, North and South America.
Designhögskolan har gjort det igen. För andra året i rad placeras skolan på första plats på Red Dot Institutes prestigefulla rankinglista. Rankingen baseras på skolans prestationer i designtävlingen, kategori Design Concept, under de senaste fem åren i konkurrens med skolor i Europa, Nord- och Sydamerika.
Philip Buckland, senior lecturer in environmental archaeology and deputy head at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University, has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES). A large number of internationally recognised entomologists, including Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, have been and are, Fellows of the Society.
Theatrical Fields examines artistic practice that make use of the theatrical. It brings together major video installations: “Voice off” by Judith Barry, “Suspiria” by Stan Douglas, “Sister Squares” by Marcel Dzama, “Lines in the Sand” by Joan Jonas, “Vagabondia” by Isaac Julien, “ X Characters RE(hers)AL” by Constanze Ruhm. Films by Marie-Louise Ekman, Eva Meyer/Eran Schaerf, Ulrike Ottinger.
The Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University was an overwhelming winner in the 2013 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). They were more successful than prestigious design schools in China, the US and UK, and demonstrated once again that they are among the world's best in industrial design education.
Umeå School of Architecture, UMA, at Umeå university launches the first international publication. The book Intravention, Duration, Effects: Notes of Expansive Sites and Relational Architectures is a carefully edited collection of work and research produced at the Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention, LiAi.
In the newly released book titled "Fanged Fan Fiction – Variations on TWILIGHT, TRUE BLOOD and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES", Umeå University associate professors of literature Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Malin Isaksson examine the major phenomenon of vampire-themed fan fiction.