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  • How to find your way at KTH

    Published Sep 22, 2009

    Do you think that the KTH campus on Valhallavägen in Stockholm is like a jungle? Mostly consisting of enormous amounts of ivy-covered red brick? That’s not surprising as the campus is as big as Gamla ...

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  • Grants raining over KTH

    Published Sep 21, 2009

    It has been announced that the Research Council Formas has allocated SEK 25 million to KTH as part if its efforts to strengthen research environments. This funding, which will be spread over five year...

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  • Goodbye to late blight

    Published Sep 17, 2009

    Leaf blight and brown rot in potatoes and tomatoes cause global losses to the equivalent of SEK 48 billion every year. But now the fight to vanquish this ancient problem has taken a substantial step i...

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  • Skype creator wins a million

    Published Sep 15, 2009

    Niklas Zennström has been awarded the KTH Great Prize for 2009 for his considerable entrepreneurship and technological skills. Niklas Zennström feels that it is a great honour to receive this prize.

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  • Castells one of four honorary doctors at KTH

    Published Sep 15, 2009

    Sociologist Manual Castells, who has attracted much attention worldwide for his analysis of the social and political implications of the Internet, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at KTH. Toget...

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  • Storage of carbon dioxide a vexed question

    Published Sep 15, 2009

    In Sweden alone, 52 million tons of carbon dioxide is emitted every year. To mitigate the negative impacts of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide sequestration has come to the fore as a hot new method. H...

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  • KTH thesis wins prestigious prize

    Published Sep 14, 2009

    His research at KTH concerned how to construct fail-safe systems. Jakob Nordström received the prestigious Ackermann Award for his thesis, a project that also earned him a place at the prestigious MIT...

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  • International prize for research into societal vulnerability

    Published Sep 08, 2009

    Rajeev Thottappillil, Professor at KTH, and Daniel Månsson, who shares his time between KTH and High Voltage Valley in Ludvika, have received an extremely prestigious international award for their art...

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  • Easier to find oil

    Published Sep 07, 2009

    Researchers at KTH have been able to prove that the fossils of animals and plants are not necessary to generate raw oil and natural gas. This result is extremely radical as it means that it will be mu...

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  • Development 30 percent more efficient

    Published Sep 03, 2009

    Free access to experts and laboratory equipment costing the equivalent of EUR 1.9 billion is to kick start the European development of extremely powerful components at micro and nano levels. KTH will ...

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  • Dog´s place and date of birth identified

    Published Sep 01, 2009

    Earlier studies of this field have shown that Eastern Asia is the place where the wolf was tamed to become the dog. More detailed information has not been available. Now researchers at KTH have succee...

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  • Christer Fuglesang launched into space

    Published Aug 31, 2009

    The Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang has been launched into space on board the American space shuttle Discovery for the second time. His mission to the international space station ISS will last fo...

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  • KTH Professor involved in European air traffic project

    Published Aug 28, 2009

    The SESAR EU project has been tasked to build up a technical platform which will be able to manage three times as much air traffic as there is today. In addition, flight security is to be improved by ...

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  • KTH awarded most Erasmus Mundus Programmes

    Published Aug 24, 2009

    KTH has been appointed coordinator of five Master’s programmes within Erasmus Mundus, the EU cooperation programme. In addition KTH will host an External Cooperation Window which is an exchange cooper...

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  • KTH students second in Europe’s largest business plan competition

    Published Jun 18, 2009

    SolarCool is a company that was started up by two KTH students. This company develops solar-powered, inexpensive fridges which could provide vital help for billions of people in developing countries. ...

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  • Wallenberg Foundation supports KTH researcher

    Published Jun 08, 2009

    The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has determined which researchers will receive financing through their new programme entitled the Wallenberg Scholars. Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH, is one of ten...

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  • Ramon Wyss new Vice-President of KTH

    Published Jun 04, 2009

    Ramon Wyss, Professor at the Division of Nuclear Physics at KTH, has been appointed as Vice-President for International Projects. He has previously worked as Vice-President both at KTH and at Jönköpin...

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  • KTH researchers most successful in Europe

    Published May 29, 2009

    KTH is the institution in Europe that has obtained most Advanced Grants from the prestigious European Research Council (ERC). Only the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has won as many grants as...

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  • File sharing Internet technology developed by KTH

    Published May 19, 2009

    Improved technology for file sharing of films on Internet is under development at KTH in cooperation with the BBC among other stakeholders. This project is financed by the EU and is based on BitTorren...

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  • KTH team won 24 hour Programming Contest

    Published May 11, 2009

    Last weekend a team from KTH won the 24-hour World Programming Championships in Budapest, Hungary. This is the second time that KTH has won the competition.

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