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U.S. President is coming to KTH
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit KTH Royal Institute of Technology on Sept. 4. (Photo: Pete Souza/whitehouse.gov) Published Aug 30, 2013U.S. President Barack Obama is coming to KTH Royal Institute of Technology on Sept. 4. He will be joined by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, to get a taste of KTH's research in renewable ener...
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The diverse background of Sweden's digital master
Published Aug 29, 2013Data, design and psychology are the three vital pillars of his activities. Gulan – or Jan Gulliksen as it says on the passport – is chairman of the Swedish government’s digitalisation commission and h...
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Georgia Tech professor is KTH Alumnus of Year
Published Aug 29, 2013Magnus Egerstedt, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, U.S., has been named 2013 Alumnus of the Year by KTH Royal Insti...
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Search for lost ship leads adventurer to KTH
Published Aug 20, 2013In a quest to find a lost piece of Swedish history at the bottom of the sea, adventurer Ola Skinnarmo is now picking up where the KTH research engineer Bengt Grisell left off. The two met in KTH’s Arc...
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First anniversary of closer contact with Ericsson
Published Aug 13, 2013A year has elapsed since an agreement on strategic collaboration (MoU) was reached between Ericsson and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In the course of a visit to Ericsson recently this same agree...
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Campi closes for summer break
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Panel says benefits of research must be told better
KTH researchers should explain more the benefits of their work to the community, says Folke Snickars, who leads a group working on this issue. (Photo: Marc Femenia) Published Jun 27, 2013KTH should invest resources in more far-reaching information about the wider public value of its research activities. And it is the researchers themselves who must take responsibility for this, throug...
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Library shows researchers what they are missing
Published Jun 27, 2013Researchers would be able to work more efficiently if they used the library’s resources to a greater degree than at present. That at least is the opinion of those responsible at KTH Library (KTHB), wh...
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Social site makes research papers more accessible
Published Jun 17, 2013It has been called the Facebook for researchers. Researchgate is a web-based social networking platform where researchers from around the world are able to communicate with one another through uploadi...
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Gudmundson nominated for another term as KTH president
Published Jun 12, 2013Peter Gudmundson, President of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has been nominated for another term by the university’s Board of Directors.
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No quick fix for job stress
Published Jun 12, 2013There’s no quick-fix solution for stress. But team spirit and an open and tolerant atmosphere at work are fundamental requirements for making stress more manageable, say representatives of the trade u...
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European Inventor prize awarded to KTH professor
Published May 29, 2013Biochemistry Professor Pål Nyrén was awarded one of Europe's most prestigious innovation awards yesterday for pioneering a DNA analysis technique that has revolutionised medicine.
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Researcher's message survives media frenzy
Environmental researcher Josefin Wangel's comments about local projects provoked a media frenzy. (Photo: Christer Gummeson) Published May 21, 2013Rarely has an environmental researcher from KTH had such an impact in the media. When Josefin Wangel highlighted the environmental shortcomings in Hammarby Sjöstad and Norra Djurgårdsstaden, it trigge...
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Pop star Robyn lights up KTH lab project
Published May 14, 2013International pop star Robyn is the inspiration for a dancing robot being developed by third- and fourth-year mechatronics students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology; and the singer recently visite...
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Study documents gender inequality at KTH
The opportunity for women to pursue careers in KTH has been hampered by informal structures, a recent survey shows. (Photo: Jann Lipka) Published May 08, 2013The pattern is only too familiar. Women’s careers come to a halt somewhere up in the hierarchy; very few reach the top positions. But why? A far-reaching gender equity project has now charted those ob...
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Helping foreign researchers wade through Swedish bureaucracy
Colombian researcher Mauricio Aljure Rey turned to KTH Relocation for help after encountering problems in obtaining a Swedish personal identity number. (Photo: Lindgren) Published May 02, 2013Long delays with Sweden’s Migration Board and communication gaps between authorities combine daily to create hurdles for international scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. But now the univ...
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Broadening her network – one tweet at a time
PhD student Elisabeth Ekener Petersen uses Twitter to expand her network in the research area of Social Life Cycle Analysis. (Photo: Marc Femenia) Published Apr 30, 2013When Elisabeth Ekener Petersen tweets, she likes to stir things up in the debate on the environment and sustainable development. The microblog Twitter has become an important platform for finding news...
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For Spotify founder, innovation combines science and art
Published Apr 24, 2013He has been called the saviour of the recording industry. In any case, Daniel Ek’s creation, Spotify, has made an enormous selection of the world’s recorded music available on computers and mobile pho...
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A boss must be able to say 'stop'
Published Apr 19, 2013“The individual who works the most hours doesn’t always show the best performance,” Head of Department Ann Lantz points out. Instead, she encourages her colleagues to not work overtime and to adopt a ...
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Professor is finalist for European Inventor of the Year
Published Apr 15, 2013Pyrosequencing pioneer Pål Nyrén, a professor of Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has been nominated for the 2013 European Inventor of the Year Award by the European Patent Office a...
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