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  Stockholm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1270 Stockholm appears in historical documents as a city and in 1289 it was described as the most populated city in the Swedish region.
Stockholm Municipality is further subdivided geographically into 18 district councils or boroughs, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas.
Stockholm might be best known for the Nobel Prizes and the prize ceremony held each year, but the city also houses the largest concentration of universities with research and higher education in Sweden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stockholm   (1520 words)

  
 Stockholms universitet: In English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stockholm University is a centre for higher education and research, organised into four faculties: natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and law.
Stockholm College began in 1878 with a series of public lectures on the natural sciences.
In 1960 Stockholm College became a state University and four years later the Faculty of Social Sciences was added.
www.su.se /english   (107 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Stockholm University
A University Chancellor is the title frequently used — particularly in Europe —; to indicate the head of a university.
The City of Stockholm is administratively a Municipality within Stockholm County, with an inner city population of 743,703, and with 1,823,210 including the suburbs and county.
Stockholm might be most well known for the Nobel Prizes and the prize ceremony held each year, but the city also houses the largest concentration of Universities with research and higher education in Sweden.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stockholm-University   (853 words)

  
 Stockholm University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1878, the university college Stockholm högskola started its operations with a series of lectures on natural sciences, open to curious citizens (a tradition still upheld by yearly publicly open lectures).
The Arrhenius Laboratory at the main campus of Stockholm University at Frescati
Aula Magna, one of the main lecture halls of Stockholm University
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stockholm_University   (264 words)

  
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Stockholm University one of Sweden's largest educational establishments as well as one of the largest employers in the Stockholm area.
The Stockholm University campus may be said to start at the very edge of Stockholm proper, at the Sveaplan traffic circle, and running all the way north to the Bergius Conservatory.
Stockholm University's own students have a waiting period of more than one year before they can get access to a student room.
www.sa.sdsu.edu /ISC/study_abroad/pr__sweden_sdsu.html   (1214 words)

  
 Stockholm University Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stockholm University Library is one of Sweden's largest research libraries and one of Stockholm's most frequented cultural institutions, with about 2 million visitors every year.
When Stockholm University was founded in 1878, large collections of books were donated by several outstanding libraries for instance the Swedish Academy and the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
Stockholm University Library is also a European Documentation Centre (EDC), which means that it receives material directly from the EU institutions.
www.sub.su.se /english/welcome.htm   (420 words)

  
 NYU International Exchange
Stockholm University is one of the largest universities in Sweden with about 34,000 students and more than 1,700 graduate students.
At Stockholm University students choose from a variety of courses and register with the appropriate department.
The awarding of credit for courses taken by NYU students at Stockholm University is determined by the Dean of the NYU school.
www.nyu.edu /global/exchange/stockholm.html   (724 words)

  
 Stockholm Diary
Stockholm University and the University of Washington (UW) recently signed a cooperation agreement.
There are 20 counties in Sweden with Stockholm by far the largest, home to 28 percent of the country’s population.
Now, of course, Stockholm is a wireless center with 74 percent of the population owning wireless phones and devices.
www.cityofseattle.net /tda/stockmay28.htm   (1189 words)

  
 Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stockholm University was the third university in Sweden and it was planned from 1865, opening in 1880 with Mittag-Leffler as its first professor of mathematics.
He was a student of Mittag-Leffler at Stockholm University.
In July 1911 von Koch succeeded Mittag-Leffler as professor of mathematics at Stockholm University.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Koch.html   (742 words)

  
 ECTS - Practical Information - Stockholm University
Students coming via agreements between their home university and Stockholm University (exchange students) are exempted from the general entrance requirements.
Stockholm has more theatres per capita than most other European cities and a number of concerts and special performances are held every week.
Studies at universities and university colleges are usually free of charge.
www.info.su.se /English/Edu/ECTS/PractInfo.asp   (2070 words)

  
 ECTS - General Information - Stockholm University
Stockholm University, founded in 1878, is one of the largest universities in Sweden.
Stockholm University is a public university where approximately 33,000 students pursue studies or research at the four main faculties: Law, Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.
Most of the university departments and the University Library are located at the university campus, Frescati,within easy reach of the city centre.
www.info.su.se /english/edu/ECTS/General.html   (473 words)

  
 Study Abroad in Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The university functions as a hub in the development of the region and as a national and international center for the generation of knowledge.
The university is one of the most expansive universities in Sweden today and has the second largest choice of engineering education in Sweden.
Stockholm, founded in 1252, is a unique capital situated on fourteen islands between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea.
www.sa.sdsu.edu /isc/sites_sweden.htm   (5055 words)

  
 Geo-Science Buildning | Stockholm University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Department is located at Frescati - the main campus area of Stockholm University - and a northern part of the City of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
The campus at North Djurgården in Stockholm is part of the urban national park - the Ecopark.
The University Library, the administration and almost all the departments are by now situated at the campus.
www.humangeo.su.se /eng/department/location/area.htm   (186 words)

  
 CPAS
The university boasts of excellent Chinese, Japanese and Korean language programs, and its students and researchers have access to important collections of bibliographic and other materials, housed in the university's new Asia Library and elsewhere in Stockholm.
Stockholm University's East Asia Area Studies Program, founded at the same time as CPAS, provides a foundation on which to base graduate and postgraduate-level East Asian research projects.
Together with Stockholm University's Institute of Oriental Languages, CPAS occupies a spacious building at Kräftriket or "The Crayfish Realm," situated on a lovely bay at the edge of the main campus at Frescati.
orient4.orient.su.se /cpas/department.html   (408 words)

  
 League of World Universities: Stockholm Universitet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The University was given its name in 1960 when the College of Stockholm became a State University.
Stockholm University Library consists of a number of separate libraries, most of which started in the beginning of the 20th century.
When Stockholm University was founded in 1878, large collections of books were donated by the Swedish Academy, the University Library in Kristiana (now Oslo) and the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
www.nyu.edu /rectors/stock.html   (608 words)

  
 Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan
Stockholm University College of Physical Education and Sports was founded in 1813 by Pehr Henrik Ling, which makes it the oldest University College in the world within its field.
The University College has established close co-operation with research departments at the Karolinska Institute, the Stockholm Institute of Education and Stockholm University.
Stockholm International Researchers Association SIRAP is a non-profit voluntary association that was started to bring together international researchers, their families and local patrons.
www.ihs.se /templates/ihsNormalPage.aspx?id=729   (306 words)

  
 FAQ: Schools in Meteorology/Oceanography/Environmental Science
The University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences Raymond Pierrehumbert, Faculty Member rtp1@midway.uchicago.edu Areas of faculty research include: Geophysical fluid dynamics, large scale mixing processes, fractals and chos, dynamic meteorology, stratospheric dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, radar meteorology, cloud physics, glaciology, polar meteorlogy and oceanography, radiative transfer, stratospheric ozone, chemical oceanography, carbon cycle modelling, and paleoclimate.
University of Washington School of Oceanography Box 357940 Seattle, WA 98195-7940 The UW School of Oceanography offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees with specialization in biological, chemical and physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics.
University of Wisconsin Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 1225 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-2828 Our department is one of the largest and oldest programs in the country.
www.radix.net /~bobg/faqs/schfaq.html   (3759 words)

  
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Stockholm Bioinformatics Center 3 Lecturers, 1 Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics Stockholm Bioinformatics Center (SBC) is a joint research center between Stockholm University, The Royal Instititute of Technology, and Karolinska Institutet.
The position is at the Department of Biochemistry, but will be placed at Stockholm Bioinformatics Center for the duration of the center grant from the Foundation for Strategic Research (at least 5 years).
Copies should not be included in the application but later, at the request of the university, sent to the outside experts.
xray.bmc.uu.se /sbnet/text/biostock.txt   (1294 words)

  
 Academic Study Abroad Programs in Sweden
Stockholm University, situated in the capital of Sweden, is a city University enjoying many links with today's society - both from a local and an international perspective.
Setting Description: The Stockholm University campus may be said to start at the very edge of Stockholm proper, at the Sveaplan traffic circle, and running all the way north to the Bergius Conservatory.
Stockholm University School of Business: Stockholm University School of Business is one of the only three business schools in Sweden accredited by the prestigious EQUIS organization, set up by the European Union.
www.studyabroad.com /simplehtml/Sweden.html   (1753 words)

  
 Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU)
Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU) proposed a Swedish rocket campaign to launch the MAGIC instruments from Esrange.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado directly during the MAGIC rocket flight.
The University of East Anglia is also heavily involved in laboratory studies related to smoke particles.
www.misu.su.se /magic.html   (1865 words)

  
 Dag Prawitz
Dag Prawitz was born in 1936 and took his PhD at Stockholm university in 1965 with the dissertation Natural Deduction.
After some years as associate professor at Lund university and then as professor at Oslo university he succeeded Wedberg as professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm university 1976.
The project involves 22 researchers from several swedish universities, in the subjects of philosophy, history of literature, linguistics, scandinavian languages, theatre studies and history of art.
www.philosophy.su.se /eng/prawitz.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Department of English, Stockholm University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Frescati campus is just north of central Stockholm and can be reached either by underground (the stop is Universitetet on line 23 to Mörby Centrum), by bus (no. 40 from central Stockholm or no. 540 from north and northwestern suburbs), by train (Roslagsbanan) or by car (E4/18, Norrtäljevägen northbound).
The university degree Filosofie Kandidat-examen, corresponding to a B.A., with a major in English, is awarded for 120 credits (6 semesters of full-time studies), 60 of which must be in English, i.e.
The English Department of Stockholm University is one of the largest language departments in Sweden, with around 800 undergraduate students, the great majority of whom are studying English full time.
www.english.su.se /generalinformation.html   (1074 words)

  
 Particle Physics and the Universe
Neutrinos with mass may also comprise part of the "dark matter" in the universe.
The question of whether the universe will expand eternally or whether its current expansion will be followed by contraction is a very central issue.
The symposium discussed new data from supernova explosions that took place very far away and thus early in the evolution of the universe.
nobelprize.org /physics/symposia/ns109/about.html   (260 words)

  
 Folklore Fellows
He was Professor of Folkloristics and Comparative Religion at the University of Turku 1963—96, Director of the Nordic Institute of Folklore, Turku (1972—90) and Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland (1975—78, 1991—96).
Barbro Klein is Professor of Ethnology at Stockholm University and one of three directors of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala.
Academy Professor Anna-Leena Siikala from the University of Helsinki, Finland is the Chair of the FFSS Organising Committee.
www.folklorefellows.org /netw/ffn23/6th_summer_school.html   (3125 words)

  
 Stanford and Stockholm University scientists show that water molecules cling together more loosely than previously ...
A team led by scientists at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and Stockholm University now has achieved a breakthrough in understanding the structure of liquid water.
The SSRL is a division of SLAC, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility operated by Stanford University.
The project was a collaboration between researchers at SSRL, Stockholm University, Linköping University (Sweden) and the University of Utrecht (Holland).
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2004/april7/water-47.html   (1057 words)

  
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Stockholm University is a centre for higher education and research, organized into four faculties: Natural Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.
Its 33,000 students and 3,820 permanent employees make Stockholm University one of Sweden's largest educational establishments as well as one of the largest employers in the Stockholm area.
A financial guarantee for the whole study period is required (as of September 2000: $5,000 per year).
www.sweb.cz /vademecum/ms/su.html   (429 words)

  
 US climate expert to receive honorary doctorate at University of Stockholm
The degree will be conferred by the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Stockholm University.
Mayewski is internationally known for pioneering contributions to the understanding of historic changes in atmospheric chemistry and climate change through the study of ice cores.
Mayewski received his Ph.D. at The Ohio State University in 1973 and worked in the University of Maine Institute for Quaternary Studies as a post-doctoral researcher.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2000-09/UoM-Ucet-0709100.php   (358 words)

  
 Dr. Yngve Myrman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Director of undergraduate studies at Department of Political Science, Stockholm University during the first half of the 1970s and beginning of the 1990s.
Head of the Department of Social Sciences at Stockholm University during the first part of the 1980s.
Project leader of the "Introduction of the case method at the School of Public Administration", Stockholm University, 1984.
www.rh.edu /~chan7578/wacra/myrman.html   (304 words)

  
 Institutionen för antikens kultur och samhällsliv vid Stockholms universitet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Exploring Ancient World Cultures Edited by Anthony F. Beavers (University of Evansville), Exploring Ancient World Cultures is a general textbook project dedicated to the ancient Near East, ancient India, ancient Egypt, ancient China, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, early Rome and medieval Europe.
Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica Edited by Alessandro Cristofori (University of Bologna), the Rassegna (in Italian) is a gateway to resources for the classical periods of Greece and Rome.
Romarch: Roman Art and Archeology Edited by Pedar Foss (University of Cincinnati) and supported by the University of Michigan, Romarch is a wide-ranging index of resources on ancient Italy and the Roman world.
www.antiken.su.se /link.html   (974 words)

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