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KTH´s Vehicle Engineering Programme was one of the undergraduate programmes that were awarded the title of ”Centre of Excellent Quality in Higher Education” in 2007 – one out of five such national awa...

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Chemistry and math at KTH both receive high subject area scores as CHE, the Centre for Higher Education Development at Gütersloh, Germany, does its annual ranking of European universities. This effort...

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Effective 1 January, Ms. Tuula Teeri, Professor of Wood Biotechnology at KTH, will be our new Executive Deputy President. This decision was taken by the KTH Board last Wednesday (12 Dec.).

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Medical technology is an industry for the future in Sweden, but to exploit the potential that exists, the industrial, academic and healthcare sectors will have to collaborate more closely on areas suc...

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As the space shuttle Atlantis will leave Earth next time, bound for the international space station ISS, a radiation meter devised at KTH will be installed on board. One of the astronauts will use thi...

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KTH is making a joint effort with Scania and Nova University College Centre in Oskarshamn, says the local newspaper Nyheterna. This is a one-year project aiming to develop the Japanese industrial prod...

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On Friday 7 December Albert Fert, one of this year´s Nobel Prize winners, will inaugurate the new Centre of Excellence on Spintronics here at KTH. Its research effort will focus on new raw materials a...

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As a rule, recycling of household waste means a saving of energy; in addition, the environment is less affected than if energy is ”released” by burning it. This is confirmed by a recent study at KTH´s...

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Reading the newspaper 30 minutes a day on e-paper instead of a regular newspaper is environmentally preferable. If you read a Web-based newspaper instead, you can only read for ten minutes to produce...

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EIT, the European Institute of Technology, is one of EU´s most important efforts to bring about new forms of co-operation between academy and industry. Recently two applications for project funding we...

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A new professorial chair dedicated to strategic environment analysis at KTH will result in better studies of how environmental issues interact with technology development and other changes in society....

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Mats Reimark, with an MSc Engineering degree from KTH, has been appointed CEO of Morphic Technologies´ daughter company for new energy systems, Morphic Business Development, MBD. Mr. Reimark was last ...

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What is the relationship between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons? This is a question that will be discussed at KTHs debate forum Pro et contra Thursday November 15. The speaker at this seminar...

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The Swedish Government has just appointed Peter Gudmundson President of KTH. Mr Gudmundson is today Professor of Materials Science at KTH. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineeri...

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Nine of the new Professorial Chairs to be formally inaugurated on 16 November 2007 are held by women. Even if we still have quite some way to go to reach the goal of an equal proportion of women to me...

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On Saturday 10 November KTH will do a direct TV transmission jointly with Keio University from the Kyoto Prize ceremony in Japan, using picture format 4096 x 2160 pixels. This resolution is far better...

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KTH has been co-ordinating CONFIRM, an EU project for developing sophisticated nitride fuels designed for the transmutation of long-life nuclear waste. The new fuel will be tested in a Dutch reactor d...

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A new telescope, utilising laser technology, will be installed at KTH for studying the thickness of the ozone layer. This technology may also come in handy when the contents of various air impurities ...

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”Diwali”, the great Hindu autumn festival, will be celebrated at KTH on 31 October. Indian ambassador Deepa Gopalan och KTH´s acting President Anders Eriksson will join the party, together with many I...

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KTH´s five-year study programme in Vehicle Engineering for the MSc Engineering degree has been selected as one of nine finalists, competing for the award “Distinguished Educational Environment 2007”. ...

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