News for SLU staff

Internationalise education for urban futures!

The International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) took place in Bordeaux from 29 June to 1 July 2022. Lisa Diedrich, Programme Director at SLU Urban Futures, participated and here she shares her key

Prestigious award to SLU doctoral student

Hasitha Priyashantha defended his thesis at the Department of Molecular Sciences at SLU in September 2021. Now one of his articles has been awarded by The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) as

Former student deceased in Ukraine war

Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre has been reached by the tragic news that one of our former students has died in Ukraine. Semen Oblomei was a student of the master programme Euroforester

Open call of two co-funded collaborative post doc projects

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at SLU hereby opens a call for co-funding of two post doc projects. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at SLU hereby opens a

The time is ripe for a Living Lab Campus

Campus Alnarp has a long tradition of using the outdoors for testbeds, trial areas and landscape laboratories. In the autumn of 2022 a new doctoral project in Alnarp will explore the possibilities of

Award for Best Qualitative Paper to Hina Hashim and Annie Roos

We are very proud to announce that Hina Hashim and Annie Roos, in the Group Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainable Development (EIS) at the Department of Economics, has received a

SLU and Stockholm+50

SLU contributes to the UN high-level meeting Stockholm + 50 in several ways. The university management has participated in preparatory leadership dialogues, and representatives of SLU will

Call to attend conferences in plant protection

The SLU Plant Protection Network is launching a special call for researchers at SLU for attending conferences relevant to their study subject or project work within the area of plant protection/plant

Seedling performance is modulated by soil properties and soil microorganisms

How do soil properties and microorganisms in the soil influence seedling growth? David Castro, PhD student in Vaughan Hurry’s group at UPSC and SLU showed in his PhD thesis that understanding this

the road to more broadleaves

A record-breaking investment in fast-growing broadleaf trees has been made. Today almost all trees planted are Norway spruce or Scots pine. The goal is for 10 percent of new planting to be

inauguration of new professors Umea

On May 6, five new professors were inaugurated at SLU in Umea. The professors' inauguration lectures were pre-recorded and broadcast on the morning of 6 May. On the evening of the same day, the

Disputation på institutionen för ekonomi

On april 29, Jonathan Stråle defended his thesis "Travel demand and environmental policy" at SLU. The external reviewer was Mikael Elinder, associate professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala