News
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Business Group: “Reward Research Collaboration”
Published Nov 11, 2011The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise is proposing that allocation of government research funding should give extra weight to universities that successfully collaborate with business. The organisation points to KTH as a leading example.
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KTH Wins Major Grants for Basic Research
Published Nov 08, 2011The Swedish Research Council has granted SEK 177 million to 62 KTH research projects.
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KTH–Scania Co-operation Strengthens Swedish Industrial Competitiveness
Published Nov 03, 2011KTH and the Swedish heavy vehicle manufacturer Scania will expand their competence exchange programme, enhancing co-operation aimed at strengthening KTH research and education while improving Scania's access to advanced expertise.
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Hackers Take on the Planet
Published Nov 01, 2011The two top entries in the first Stockholm Green Hackathon, held over the weekend of October 21st and 22nd in the R1 Reactor Hall, show gamers and Web users how everyday activities contribute to carbon dioxide emissions.
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Getting the Details: Images of Cancer
Published Oct 25, 2011Studies of specialised proteins by KTH researcher Helena Wållberg may have important implications for the future of cancer diagnostics. Her work is intended to allow doctors to one day distinguish tumours from healthy tissues and develop targeted treatments.
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Honorary Doctorates Named
Published Oct 10, 2011KTH has announced the recipients of honorary doctorates for 2011: —Professor Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland. —Professor Jean M.J. Fréchet,, University of California Berkeley, USA. —Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, New York, USA. —Stockholm County Governor Per Unckel, Sweden.
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Unleashing the power of green data
Published Oct 06, 2011Footprinted.org is working to give sustainability decision-makers access to open environmental impact data.
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Road and Rail Research Initiative Launched
Published Oct 04, 2011In a bid to improve future transportation capacity and safety in Sweden, KTH has joined the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the National Road and Transport Research Institute (Statens Väg- och Trafikinstitut, VTI) in announcing plans to invest a total of SEK 200 million (USD 29.1 million) on research and innovation in road and rail technology.
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“Using your phone in the car cuts costs and pollution – and it can save lives”
Published Sep 16, 2011Peter Händel wants you to make your mobile phone a part of the car’s dashboard. The KTH Professor of Signal Processing has helped create a new mobile application for safer and more efficient driving. “In the public debate, drivers are often warned about using a mobile phone while driving, but I say the opposite: your mobile phone should be seen as an extension of the car’s dashboard.”
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Charting the Stone Age spread of dingoes and domesticated dogs
Published Sep 12, 2011The odyssey of dogs and dingoes from China to Polynesia and Australia can now be mapped. KTH genetic researchers Peter Savolainen and Mattias Oskarsson have presented a new study showing how the domestic dog accompanied humans across the islands of Southeast Asia.
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KTH Enters Strategic Partnership with University of Illinois
Published Sep 09, 2011The chief executives of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, have formally announced a long-term strategic alliance designed to benefit students and faculty at both institutions. The agreement on academic and research cooperation seeks to engage the civic communities and economic interests of both Sweden and the state of Illinois.
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Record KTH donation to support advanced medical imaging
Published Sep 08, 2011A major private donation to KTH—one of the largest in the university’s history—will be devoted to development of a new centre for high technology medical imaging.
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KTH Great Prize awarded to MAX-lab’s Mikael Eriksson
Published Sep 07, 2011Professor Mikael Eriksson, a driving force behind the MAX-lab research laboratory in Lund is this year’s recipient of the KTH Great Prize. The laboratory conducts experiments considered by many to border on the impossible.
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A new age of outdoor lighting
Published Sep 05, 2011Jan Ejhed, Sweden's only professor of lighting design and director of Ljuslaboratoriet (the Lighting Laboratory) at KTH, wants to see some changes in street lighting.
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KTH Students Win Engineering Gold and Bronze
Published Aug 30, 2011The European BEST Engineering Competition in Istanbul awarded first and third place prizes to two teams representing KTH.
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Wrinkled surface for faster boiling
Published Aug 26, 2011KTH researchers have developed a new surface coating that can substantially cut energy consumption by heat pumps and cooling devices.
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Green construction cuts lifecycle costs
Published Aug 16, 2011A new doctoral dissertation from KTH shows that the increased costs of environmentally friendly construction are recouped after five years, providing direct savings for the rest of the building’s lifetime.
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The simulator which will ensure the supply of electricity to Sweden
Published Jul 13, 2011In the aftermath of the storm Gudrun, it was estimated that 730,000 Swedish electricity customers were without electricity when around 30,000 km of electric cables were damaged, of which, nine per cent were damaged so badly that a complete rebuild was necessary. Twenty days after the storm, 12,000 customers were still without electricity and for some subscribers, the interruption lasted for a total of 45 days. KTH researchers have now developed a simulator that will eliminate power cuts.
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Baltic flora of bacterial plankton mapped out
Published Jun 23, 2011Using advanced DNA sequencing technology, researchers at KTH in an international research collaboration have created a three dimensional map of the distribution of thousands of bacterial plankton species in the Baltic Sea. Since bacteria play key roles in various nutrient cycles in the marine environment, this is important work in order to understand how the Baltic Sea’s ecosystem functions.
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Touchpads can be used for patient information
Published Jun 22, 2011When a cancer has been diagnosed, surgery is often urgently required. To quickly get an overview of the information available about a patient, it is not always adequate with case records and verbal communication. KTH researcher Kristina Groth, together with colleagues has developed a communication tool that runs on touchpads (such as Ipads) and which very quickly provides physicians with an overview of the situation.
