Umeå University

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Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet) is a university in Umeå in the Midnorth of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the 5th oldest within Sweden's present borders.

During the seventies the university became known as the "red university" due to a large number of student strikes and a large share of left-wing politically active students. Since then conditions have normalised and Umeå University now has about 28,000 students, including master and Ph.D. candidates. There are a little less than 4000 employees, including 256 professors.

Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the Populus tree (Life sciences), contributions to the Gleason problem and function spaces on fractals (mathematics) and its school of industrial design which gives degree programs in English open to students from all of the world. It is also the biggest provider of distance education courses in the Nordic countries.

Institution

Organization and Campus Schools

Umeå University has 5 faculties and 7 campus schools, with additional campuses in the cities of Skellefteå and Örnsköldsvik, with a total of over 28,000 people studying in 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses.

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Medicine

Norrlands University Hospital

Faculty of Teacher Education

Umeå School of Sports Pedagogies

Faculty of Social Sciences

Umeå School of Environmental studies

Umeå University School of Restaurant and Culinary Arts

Faculty of Science and Technology

Research Centres

• *Centre for Disability Research
• *Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics
• *Centre for Educational Technology (CUT)
• *Centre for Environmental Research (CMF)
• *Centre for Evaluation Research (UCER)
• *Centre for Fish and Wildlife Research (CFW)
• *Centre for Population Studies (CBS)
• *Centre for Principal Development
• *Centre for Regional Science (Cerum)
• *Centre for Sami Research (Cesam)
• *Centre for Teaching and Learning (UPC)
• *Centre for Values Education (VGC) (at June 30, 2005, the unit was dissolved)
• *Centre for the Studies of Science and Values
• *High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N)
• *Umeå Centre for Interaction Technology (UCIT)
• *Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging(UFBI)
• *Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)
• *Umeå Centre for Molecular Pathogenes (UCMP)
• *Umeå Life Science Centre - ULSC
• *Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF)
• *Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)
• *Universitetspedagogiskt centrum (UPC)
• *Demografic Data Base (DDB)
• *BildMuseet
• *Centre for Women´s Studies
• *Humlab
• *Transportation Research (Trum)
• *Umeå School of Environmental Studies
• *Umeå Transgene Core Facility (UTCF)
• *VR-lab
• *Intelligent Vehicles for Off-Road - IFOR

Notable people

Students

• Ibrahim Baylan, Minister of Education, Sweden
• Birgitta Egerbladh
• Sigbritt Franke, Swedish University Chancellor
• Liesel Holler, former Miss Peru
• Pål Hollender, artist
• Anna Sjödin, Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League , Sweden
• Henrik P. Molin, Auther
• Malin Moestroem, Footballer

Faculty

• Håkan Wiberg
• Claes-Christian Elert
• Gunnar Eriksson
• Henrik Grönberg
• Ronny Ambjörnsson
• Jan Bodin

Honorary doctorates

• C. West Churchman
• Lars Heikensten
• Sverker Olofsson
• Kerstin Ekman
• Anders Englund
• Jean-Pierre Mach
• P. N. Ramachandran Nair
• Rita M. Kelly
• Bertil Andersson -Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation

External links

• [Umeå University] - Official site
• [Umeå Institute of technology] - Official site
• [Umeå School of Business and Economics] - Official site
• [Umeå Institute of Design] - Official site

Umeå University Campus. Photo by Yogesh Bhole http://byoge.tripod.com

See also

• List of universities in Sweden''

External links

• [Umeå University] - Official site
• [Umeå Institute of Design] - Official site
• [Umeå school of Business and Economics] - Official site

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