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Excitera Innovation Challenge, the entrepreneurship competition for all Swedish students, was concluded on 15 May with an awards ceremony at Berns in Stockholm. The prize for the Best New Mobile Servi...

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The Government of Sweden has appointed Professor Anders Flodström, currently President of KTH, to the position of University Chancellor and Director General of the National Agency for Higher Education...

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After a nerve-racking final, our team from KTH won the game during this year´s “Teknik-SM” (the annual Technology Competition between Swedish students in engineering and technology), after both “Lego ...

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The Joint Research Center of Photonics (Jorcep) is the joint body in optical research set up by KTH and its Chinese partner, Zhejiang University, near Shanghai. Together they now offer help with "matc...

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HPR, the prestigious Swedish genome project conducted by Mathias Uhlén, Professor of Biotechnology at KTH, is now mapping the entire human protein bank at an amazing speed. Now they will also open a b...

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With better access to supercomputers, researchers in climatic change could obtain more reliable prognoses as to how the various activities of man do affect the weather. Funds amounting to SEK 25.4 mil...

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Melissa Albert, one of our senior undergraduate IT students, has been appointed “IT Girl of the Year” for 2007. This award was instituted by Microsoft as a stimulus towards making young women apply fo...

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The Swedish Road Administration, our national highway authority, does not take long-term climatic targets into account as they plan for the construction of new through roads in the Stockholm area – an...

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2007 is the 20th birthday of the Erasmus Student Exchange Programme. This will be celebrated by the Erasmus Student Network by way of “Erasmus Days” arranged all over Europe. A minibus is now travelli...

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Biofuels in heat & power production is the most sustainable alternative of all when it comes to extending the urban district heating networks sensibly. Natural gas is a more uncertain alternative, as ...

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Three young research scholars from KTH have now been nominated for the European Young Investigator Awards, EURYI. This is a prestigious scientific prize – a total of 20 nominees will be sharing about ...

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So far no vehicle or vessel resembling a ”water motor bicyle” has existed – but now it is here, and it is called the Kaimaran. This is an environment-friendly one-man craft, with extremely low fuel co...

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Every year Shell puts European technology students to a challenge: Competing for the best home-built fuel-efficient vehicle. In 2007 two teams from KTH will compete, each with a car designed and built...

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On 20 February Michael M. Woods, US Ambassador to Sweden, visited our School of Energy & Environmental Technology. The purpose of his visit was to discuss joint US-Swedish efforts furthering issues a...

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Thanks to a donation from the Alice & Knut Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish scientists will have access to the world´s most powerful tool for decoding of DNA. This will enable them to establish the sequ...

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The Swedish Energy Agency has granted the KTH Dept. of Energy Technology the sum of 60 MSEK towards the research programme ”Turbo-power – electric current production from thermal turbo engines & proce...

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As astronaut Christer Fuglesang visited KTH´s Main Campus on Thursday 25 January 2007, hundreds of students from the high schools affiliated to KTH had the opportunity to hear his personal account of ...

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Christer Fuglesang, the first Swede in space, visits KTH Thursday, January 25. He will participate in a seminar for high school students and teachers. During the seminar he will screen a film shot dur...

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A major problem today is not lack of information but the overwhelming mass of it. Many people feel that the pressure from this leads to information stress – difficulties in finding the right info, on ...

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KTH is helping IBM to develop the computer memory of the future – MRAM. This is economical on energy, super-fast, and with very large storage capacity; in other words just what all types of PC´s, mobi...

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