Umeå University

Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet; Ume Sami: Ubmejen universitiähta; Meänkieli: Uumaja ynivärsiteetti); is a public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders.

As of 2015, Umeå University has over 36,000 registered students (approximately 16,000 full-time students), including those at the postgraduate and doctoral level. It has more than 4,000 employees, half of which are teachers/researchers, including 310 professors.

Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the poplar tree and the Norway Spruce, and its highly ranked Institute of (industrial) Design.

Organisation

The highest branch at Umeå University is the University Board of Directors. The board includes eight members (including the board chairman) appointed by the government, the vice-chancellor, three representatives for the teachers, three for other employees, and three for the students.

The University Management consists of the vice-chancellor (rector), pro-vice-chancellor, deputy vice-chancellors, senior advisers and the university director.

The university has four faculties and eight campus schools, more than 20 research centers and 36 departments. Most education and research are located at the main campus and Umeå Arts Campus in Umeå, with additional campuses in the cities of Skellefteå and Örnsköldsvik. The total number of students enlisted to some of the 50 different study programs and 800 separate courses exceeds 34,000.

Faculties

The university today has four faculties, listed below in alphabetic order:

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Science and Technology
• Faculty of Social Sciences

The faculties in turn consist of a total of 36 departments, these are:

• Department of Applied Educational Science
• Department of Applied Physics and Electronics
• Department of Biobank Research
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Clinical Microbiology
• Department of Clinical Sciences
• Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Department of Computing Science
• Department of Creative Studies (Teacher Education)
• Department of Culture and Media Studies
• Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
• Department of Education
• Department of Epidemiology and Global Health
• Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science
• Department of Geography
• Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
• Department of Informatics
• Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB)
• Department of Language Studies
• Department of Law
• Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
• Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Department of Medical Biosciences
• Department of Molecular Biology
• Department of Nursing
• Department of Odontology
• Department of Physics
• Department of Plant Physiology
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
• Department of Radiation Sciences
• Department of Science and Mathematics Education
• Department of Social Work
• Department of Sociology
• Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences

Schools

Umeå University has eight Campus Schools, listed below in alphabetical order:

Umeå Institute of Design – a.k.a. UID, opened in 1989 at what later became Umeå Arts Campus, and is designed and equipped solely for the teaching of industrial design. UID offers a Bachelor program, master programmes in Transportation Design, Interaction Design and Advanced Industrial Design, and doctoral studies. The institute is known around the world for its high academic standards. It's the only Swedish school on BusinessWeek's top 60 list of design schools in the world.

Academic profile

Admissions

Prospective Swedish students make their applications to all Swedish universities at the Swedish Council for Higher Education website Antagning.se and international students use its counterpart in English, Universityadmissions.se. Information specific to non EU/EEA students (applications, tuition fees and scholarships) can be found at Studyinsweden.se.

Libraries

Umeå University Library (a.k.a. UmUB) was established at the time of Umeå University's foundation in 1965, but has origins in from the Scientific Library in Umeå established in 1950 at Umeå City Library. Its main building dates from 1968, but has since been extended and rebuilt, most recently in 2006. There are subsidiary libraries at the Norrland's University Hospital and the Umeå Arts Campus.

Research

Umeå University has research departments and education in a broad range of academic disciplines, with more than thirty university departments conducting most teaching and research. Since the 1990s there are also several research centers, mostly local but some in partnership with other Swedish universities, such as the neighbouring Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Luleå University of Technology.

The university is home to more than 2,000 researchers and teachers, many of them with international background. Important research areas include ageing and population studies, infections, and forest research.

Ageing and population studies have access to the new and unique Linnaeus database, which covers the entire Swedish population between 1960 and 2009. It links information from four existing databases, enabling researchers to find new connections between health, lifestyle and aging. The Demographic Data Base also gives access to extensive databases with population statistics from old Swedish parish records, dating back to the 18th century, and from 2012 a Department of Biobank Research, providing data management for research in large biological sample collections collected since the 1990.

The infection biology research focuses on microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, and their molecular infection mechanisms – microbial pathogenesis and virulence. Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), offer a qualified environment for the development of new strategies against infectious diseases. The centre also hosts The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), which is the Swedish's node in the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine.

The forest research includes plant and forest biotechnology within the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) – a collaborative effort between the Department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University and the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe, known for its research relating to the genome of the Populus tree and the Norway Spruce. The mapping of the spruce genome, in collaboration with the Swedish SciLifeLab, was the first complete sequencing of a gymnosperm and notable because it is seven times the size of the human genome, with some 20 billion base pairs.

Notable people

Alumni

• Adi Utarini, Indonesian scientist, Nature's 10 : ten people who helped shape science in 2020, Time's The 100 Most Influential People of 2021
• Bertil Andersson, president of Nanyang Technological University (2011–2017)
• Stefan Attefall, politician, Minister for Public Health, Minister for Housing in Sweden (2010–2014)
• Ibrahim Baylan, politician, Minister for Energy in Sweden (2014–)

Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, biostatistician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, member of scientific advisory committees to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control

• Lars Lagerbäck, football manager (Sweden 2000–2009, Iceland 2011–)
• Åsa Larsson Blind, Swedish-Sámi politician
• Jan Lexell, neurologist and professor in rehabilitation medicine
• Hanna Ljungberg, former football player (Umeå IK and the national team of Sweden)
• Stefan Löfven, politician, Prime Minister of Sweden (2014–2021)
• Annika Norlin, pop artist (also known as Hello Saferide)
• Dan Olweus, psychologist, recognized for research in bullying
• Kay Pollack, film director
• Sverker Sörlin, environmental historian and writer

Faculty

Emmanuelle Charpentier, microbiologist, geneticist, Nobel laureate

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