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KTH Assistant Dean and vice presidents appointed
Published Feb 04, 2008KTH’s President has appointed a new Assistant Dean and two vice presidents, one for centres of excellence and one for joint contacts, social and business life.
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New magnetic phenomenon in platinum
Published Jan 30, 2008Research at the KTH Div. of Applied Material Physics has demonstrated that under special conditions platinum, one of the precious metals, may become magnetic, despite its normally being non-magnetic. ...
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Minoo Akhtarzand Director-Gen. at Rail Infra Administration
Published Jan 24, 2008Ms. Minoo Akhtarzand has been appointed Director-General of Swedish rail infrastructure holder Banverket. She has an MSc in Engineering from KTH; her new duties will commence on 1 February 2008.
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C02 emissions in Stockholm may well be 25 per cent reduced
Published Jan 17, 2008A recent report from the City of Stockholm Environment & Health Administration indicates that the city could well reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide by some 25 percent – or 500 kilotons of CO2 equ...
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Amphibious commuting saves time and pollution
Published Jan 15, 2008Thanks to an amphibious craft, plenty of time in commuter travel involving Stockholm´s many islands would be saved in the future, and also emissions greatly reduced. Such a vehicle, the “Gena” (also S...
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National award to KTH Vehicles Programme
Published Jan 09, 2008KTH´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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High KTH scores in European ranking
Published Dec 21, 2007Chemistry 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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Tuula Teeri new Dep. President at KTH
Published Dec 18, 2007Effective 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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Great potential for Swedish medical technology
Published Dec 18, 2007Medical 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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KTH device on board the Atlantis space shuttle
Published Dec 14, 2007As 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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Joint effort towards more efficient production
Published Dec 10, 2007KTH 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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Nobel laureate to inaugurate new KTH research centre
Published Dec 06, 2007On 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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Recycling of waste better than burning it
Published Nov 28, 2007As 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 news on e-paper saves the environment
Published Nov 27, 2007Reading 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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KTH becomes new EU innovation partner
Published Nov 22, 2007EIT, 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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How do new technologies affect our environment?
Published Nov 19, 2007A 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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KTH alumnus new CEO at Morphic daughter
Published Nov 15, 2007Mats 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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Pro et contra with Hans Blix
Published Nov 12, 2007What 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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Peter Gudmundson is KTH´s new President
Published Nov 08, 2007The 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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Record number of women professors at KTH
Published Nov 08, 2007Nine 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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