Jacob Carlbring Alm receives 1 000 Euro and a meeting with Boss Media's game development teams.

Johan Eriksson, student in Information Logistics, has reached the final stage of this award from Jusek.

Carrying feelings of hopelessness and loneliness affect the long-term risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This association between depressive feelings in midlife and dementia was discovered by a Swedish-Finnish research team in a study led by Krister Håkansson, researcher in psychology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and the Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The results are presented this week at the world's largest conference on Alzheimer's disease, the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) that is being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Between 5th June and 31st August 2010, the School of design will be holding its annual summer exhibition. On display in the Design Archive, Pukeberg, Nybro will be independent degree project work from this year’s group of graduating students together with project work from students on the master’s programme.

The mathematics subject is organizing a workshop to be held 20-21 May, entitled Stochastic Analysis and Applications.

Bacteria in the ocean can harvest light energy from sunlight to promote survival thanks to a unique photoprotein. This novel finding by a team of scientists in Sweden and Spain is to be published next week in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology.

The project sets out from the growing environmental consciousness and will develop mathematical applications taken from the european train system.

The Department of Peace and Development Studies arranged a careers day on Friday 5th March. Both present and prospective students had the opportunity to meet alumni and hear what they had to say about career opportunities and development after their studies.

Andrei Khrennikov, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics at Linnaeus University has been awarded a grant of 280,000 SEK from the Swedish Research Council. The funding is earmarked for the project in non-Archimedic analysis: from basic research to applications.