Articles about award

Driverless load carrier lines up prizes

The battery-powered driverless hauler HX1, developed by students at Luleå University of Technology together with Volvo Construction Equipment, wins national and international prizes.

Majorov took Sweden's first medal

Figure skater Alexander Majorov, a student in physiotherapy at Luleå University of Technology, won bronze this weekend in the Universiade - student sport's equivalent of the Olympic Games - which was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Prestigious award to Luleå researcher

Kentaro Umeki has been awarded the Gunnar Öquist Fellowship by the Kempe Foundations. Umeki will recieve 3 million SEK for research and 50 000 SEK as a personal prize.

Rewarded with scholarship

Erik Westberg, a professor at the University, was awarded the Norrbotten County Council Honorary Merit Scholarship at the annual Rubus Arcticus ceremony.

Praise for collaboration industry - academia

David Sundstrom, Business Development Director in Piteå, was rewarded by Luleå University of Technology for being the municipality in Norrbotten who managed to get most collaborations between companies and academia in 2016.

Prizes to outstanding graduates

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Praised for their fine efforts

It was a nice award ceremony at the House of Science, when Luleå University of Technology's educational award winners were presented and when the County Council handed out the scholarship in memory of county director Elisabeth Holmgren.

Physics Professor receives medal

Andreas Larsson, Chair Professor in Applied Physics at Luleå University of Technology, has for his outstanding research in advanced materials been awarded the IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials) medal for 2016.

They received scholarship for studies in South Korea

There were three very happy and surprised students at Luleå University of Technology who received Rune Andersson scholarship for studies abroad. All reading the the Master Programme in Industrial and Management engineering. This autumn, they will study in South Korea with a scholarship that makes it possible to also look around in the country.

Maintenance researcher awarded best PhD thesis

Christer Stenström, Division of Operation, Maintenance and Acoustics, has been awarded EFNMS Excellence Award for the Best European PhD Thesis in Maintenance 2016, by the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies (EFNMS). The title of the thesis is “Operation and maintenance performance of rail infrastructure: Model and methods”.

Non-profit student organization nominated

The non-profit student organization, 180 Degrees Consulting Luleå, founded and run by students at Luleå University of Technology, is the first student organization to be nominated for Lulåa Business Awards.

In the media: Built Environment student of the Year

Built Environment student of the Year have been great but after careful deliberation could Skanska and Sweco announce Jakob Eriksson from Luleå University of Technology as a worthy winner.

STLE awards scientific paper on lubricating grease flow

Another prestigious award from STLE, the world's largest tribology organization, has been awarded the University's grease researchers. It is the Walter D. Hodson Award that is given to young researchers who wrote the best article in lubrication.

Award for a PhD student in ore geology

Friederike Minz, a doctoral student in the Division of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded The Mann Redmayne Medal: Applied Earth Science. Friederike researching Rockliden, Västernorrland only known massive sulphide ore. The ore was found in the mid-eighties by Boliden AB.

Award-winning concept in architecture

Linda Hartzell and Per Westermark, who study on the Master Programme in Architectural Engineering at Luleå University of Technology have won an international award for their urban design project: Climarctic Box – Which addresses the city edges to improve the city-wide microclimate.

Modular furniture awarded best thesis

A functional and environmentally friendly furniture that can be assembled without tools and expanded when needed. That was Benedikt Neyses’ project for his master thesis, which also was awarded best thesis in 2015 by the Bo Rydin Foundation, with a prize sum of SEK 30 000.

The Noak Technology Award 2015 to Jan Stener, Mineral Processing

The Norrbotten Academy Technology Award has since 1996 been distributed to students at Luleå University of Technology for outstanding studies in the technical and natural sciences on basic, advanced or for special reasons postgraduate level. The prize is SEK 10 000.

Brilliant teaching efforts awarded

Håkan Jonsson, Senior Lecturer, and Lena Nyström, Lecturer, were awarded for their educational efforts at the Academic ceremony. – I am very happy for the award! It feels nice and it is an honor to be recognized for my work on teaching, says Lena Nyström.

Best thesis in civil engineering

The Swedish Concrete Association awards an annual prize for the best thesis to students in Sweden, mainly in Civil Engineering. The universities nominate one, or sometimes a few theses, to be examined by an expert jury of language, scope, disposition, results and how to place their work in a larger context.

Tina Koohnavard rewarded again

Tina Koohnavard, alumnus of Industrial Design Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, received in the spring of 2015 Unionen Students prize for best thesis. Now has also EHSS, Ergonomics and Human Factors Society of Sweden, awarded her the EHSS student price of 2015.

Alumni praised in Finland

Erica Back studied music, artistic candidate at Luleå University in 2009-2012. Recently, the promising singer was praised at the prestigious Sibelius Singing Competition in Helsinki where she in fierce competition came in on second place. This summer she also plays the role of Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Confidence in Stockholm.

Physicist chose the brain - rewarded greatly

The processes in the brain that we experience like the colour violet, hunger, or the smell of cinnamon cannot be described with Physics, as we know it. This fact fascinates the
physicist Fredrik Sandin at the Luleå University of Technology. Now he is awarded by the Kempe Foundations for his pioneering research in physics and brain-inspired computation.

Awarded teacher with high requirements

"We have enough of crappy products", says Åsa Wikberg Nilsson, Senior Lecturer in Industrial design that has been awarded for best educational effort in 2013 at the Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences at LTU.

Teachers Praised For Their Education

Lecturers Juha Koivuniemi and Harriet Nilsson was awarded the LTU price for excellent efforts for the benefit of education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Price from The King Carl XVI Gustaf´s 50th Anniversary Fund

It is Linda Sandström, Technical Doctor at the division of Sustainable Process Engineering, at Luleå University of Technology, who has received the favorable price.

Evelina Roos

Young Research Award went to LTU researchers

Praised for entrepreneurial thinking in education
Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 27 February 2016