The Unit for Academic Language (ASK) offers language and writing development resources in Swedish and English. For staff who teach and supervise students, we offer seminars on various elements of academic writing, and professional development in English or Swedish as Language of Instruction. We also invite you to collaborate with us in various ways to support students’ academic writing, reading, and language. Contact us for collaborations. All staff who would like to further…
Striving towards treatments for steatotic liver disease
GRANT. Professor Stefano Romeo receives the equivalent of almost SEK 16 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The project may lead to the first effective treatment of fatty liver, where the disease is not caused by alcohol intake. This is the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Distinguish Investigator grant in Endocrinology, which will fund Stefano Romeo’s research for the next five years. A prolonged excess in sugar and fat intake will damage…
Book bike service on site at Medicinareberget – SEK 750 for staff
On Wednesday September 6th and Thursday September 7th between 08:00-16:00, the company Mobil Cykelteknik sets up its ambulatory bicycle workshop in Academicum’s courtyard, as an opportunity for both students and staff to get easily accessible service for their bicycles. For students, the service is free, while staff pay SEK 750. Book service via: info@mobilcykel.se The service includes: • Review • Wiping • The chain is lubricated and tensioned • Tire…
Microsoft Teams is available for students
From August 21, 2023, students at the University of Gothenburg have access to Microsoft Teams. For employees, this enables collaborations where students, such as student representatives, need to be included in a collaboration space, a team. Employees search for students in Teams using the students’ names, email addresses or student accounts to invite them to teams, chats and meetings. Students’ access to Microsoft Teams also enables collaboration and communication between…
Sofia Birgersson made contacts at the EUTOPIA Summer School in Lisbon
A summer school for doctoral students was organized for the first time in connection with EUTOPIA Week in Lisbon in June. Sofia Birgersson, lecturer in pharmacokinetics at GU, was there and acted as a mentor to the participants. An interview with Sofia about the summer school is available at the Staff Portal.