As a newly-appointed research leader, Wouter van der Wijngaart was becoming more stressed each day. One morning he woke up on the verge of tears. He recognised the symptoms from colleagues who had "hit the wall", and decided to look for help.
Traceable nanoparticles may be the next weapon in cancer treatment
Small particles loaded with medicine could be a future weapon for cancer treatment. A recently-published study shows how nanoparticles can be formed to efficiently carry cancer drugs to tumor cells. And because the particles can be seen in MRI images, they are traceable.
Fun, stimulating and different. “This is where we can learn to understand the concept of mathematics and not just how to use it.
“Our intention is to bridge the gap between upper-secondary school and university," says Roy Skjelnes, who teaches the course Linear Algebra for high school students at KTH.
President announces candidacy for three more years
In the beginning of June, the KTH University Board will appoint a candidate for President to be considered by the government. Peter Gudmundson has announced that he is a candidate for another period as President of KTH.
Peter Gudmundson has been the KTH President since November 2007. He is now a candidate for another three-year period, starting in the autumn of 2013.
Students share IT learning model with African universities
There should be real projects that make a real contribution to society, says Björn Pehrson, professor of telecommunication systems. For more than 20 years he has involved his students in IT projects that help improve living conditions in developing countries. Today he is also involving them in spreading his learning model to universities that need it most.
KTH Professor Hannes Alfvén was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in 1970. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, for, as the citation read, “for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics”.
