HONORARY DOCTOR. All staff at Sahlgrenska Academy may nominate honorary doctorates. These awards are evidence of the faculty’s appreciation, and a way to strengthen our national and international network of contacts. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2022. The Sahlgrenska Academy Board decides on who will be appointed Honorary Doctor in 2022. Many of our honorary doctorates are awarded because of their direct importance to research or education at…
Nominations for Honorary Doctors 2020 is open
HONORARY DOCTOR. All staff at Sahlgrenska Academy may nominate honorary doctorates. The appointments are evidence of the faculty’s appreciation, and a way to strengthen our national and international network of contacts. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2020. The Sahlgrenska Academy Board decides on who will be appointed Honorary Doctor in 2020. Many of our honorary doctorates are appointed because of their direct importance to research or education at…
The film from the seminar with our new honorary doctors now available
HONOARY DOCTORS. Last Friday, Sahlgrenska Academy invited both staff and students to a seminar with our new honorary doctors Carl Bennet, Gunilla Backman and Denis Mukwege. The film of with the seminar is now available. Here you can watch the recording of the seminar (in English): Each of our three new honorary doctors gave short and inspiring talks during the seminar. Industrialist Carl Bennet began by saying he felt very…
See photos from Friday’s Conferment of Doctoral Degrees
FORMAL. The theme for this year’s Conferment of Doctoral Degrees was knowledge and enlightenment, and the ceremony last Friday was, as should be, both stately and festive. Akademiliv presents some pictures from the event, taken by University Photographer Johan Wingborg. During the university’s major academic celebration on Friday, 111 new doctors of philosophy, medicine and odontology at Sahlgrenska Academy were conferred. During the ceremony our three new honorary doctors were…
New Honorary Doctors at Sahlgrenska Academy
DISTINCTIONS. Gunilla Backman, Carl Bennet, and Denis Mukwege have been appointed honorary doctors at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. The three people awarded honorary doctorates at Sahlgrenska Academy in 2019 have been engaged in important collaborations with the University of Gothenburg for many years. With these honors, the Academy wishes to express both its appreciation of what they have done to date and its desire for further collaboration. “We…