University news
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Stockholm Resilience Centre joins forces with Hollywood to produce stunning video on biodiversity
2013-10-04
Stockholm Resilience Centre has joined forces with Hollywood to produce a stunning video on biodiversity. Hollywood actor and Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD) Edward Norton has lent his voice to a new video explaining the challenges and opportunities that come with an increasingly urbanized planet.
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Performance of immigrant children in education and the labour market discussed in new article
2013-10-04
Associate professor Alireza Behtoui and Professor Erik Olsson, Department of Social Anthropology, write in an article just published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies that the socio-historical contexts into which immigrant children arrive and settle are likely to have an impact on their performance.
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New mobile app
2013-09-16
Just in time for the opening of Studenthuset, the new student building, the University is introducing a mobile app which will enable you to use your phone to naviagate around the campus and find services available to students.
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Stockholm University gains ground in world university rankings
2013-10-04
Stockholm University has once again strengthened its position in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the latest ranking, published on 2 October, Stockholm University is placed 103, rising fourteen places from 2012.
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New Book for Policy Makers on Population and Health
2013-10-03
Professor Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Head of the Department of Statistics, is co-editor of a newly published book ”Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa”. In addition Ghilagaber has contributed in 6 of the book’s 16 chapters. The mail goal of the book is to bring together modern and advanced statistical models and methods for the analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys, especially in African context. ”I hope researchers, policy makers, and all others who deal with statistical methods, demographic and health surveys, health economics, can make use of it”, says Ghilagaber.
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Sanjay Kak visits Stockholm University
2013-10-03
Sanjay Kak, documentary filmmaker from India, will visit the University on October 11 and 14.
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Challenge Your Perspectives!
2013-10-02
Stockholm University invites U.S. bachelor graduates and undergraduate seniors to Challenge Your Perspectives!
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Climate change: Bert Bolin and beyond
2013-09-27
Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will present the Working Group I contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report here in Stockholm. In honour of the late Bert Bolin, professor at Stockholm University, one of the founding fathers of the IPCC and its first chairman from 1988 to 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, together with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University and the IPCC are holding a symposium entitled Climate Change: Bert Bolin and Beyond. The event will be broadcast live 4-6pm on www.kva.se.
