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  • 2024-03-15

    New AI tool for students

    Students at Karlstad University now have access to the AI tool Microsoft Copilot.

    With Copilot, you can utilize a chat function to assist with various tasks, including generating text and images, analyzing data, summarizing documents, writing code, and much more. However, be aware of certain limitations in today’s AI models. Therefore, have a critical approach towards generated information. Use the AI service sensibly, but do not use it for information related to:

  • 2024-03-11

    The Minister for Education pleased with his visit to Karlstad University

    On Friday 8 March, the Minister for Education, Mats Persson, visited Karlstad University.
    – It was very interesting in general. I’m very pleased, he says.

    – It was particularly interesting to listen to Birgitta Persdotter and her research on social services. And interesting to find out more about the research on mathematics education, says Mats Persson.

  • 2024-03-08

    Hard work, patience and dedication the recipe for success

    Our alumna Julia Bengtson from Borlänge has an extensive music education, having studied at Musikkonservatoriet Falun, exchange studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and not least a degree in Music Production at Ingesund School of Music. Currently, she is studying music at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.

    Was it always clear to you that you wanted to be a musician and producer?

  • 2024-03-08

    Enhancing health education with the help of 6G

    6G-PATH (6G-pilots and Trials Through Europe) is a new Horizon Europe project where Computer Science and Nursing Science at Karlstad University are participating. The project is going to develop solutions that can be applied in health education.

    6G is expected to introduce new technologies that will enable innovative applications. One such application is Extended Reality (XR), which is a general term used to describe experiences that span from the physical to the digital world.

  • 2024-03-07

    Researchers offered the opportunity to change workplace through strategic mobility

    The possibility of moving between different sectors and universities, within Sweden and abroad, has proven to be a successful step for researchers at Karlstad University. The idea is for new research findings to reach the surrounding community at an earlier stage and for different types of expertise to be of greater use.

    This form of transfer is called strategic mobility and means that researchers work at another university or outside academia for a period of time while having their salary paid for through external funding.

  • 2024-03-05

    Research for a cost-effective and environmentally friendly pulp and paper industry

    Aerobic treatment of industrial wastewater from the pulp and paper industry is the most expensive treatment step in the purification process. New research shows how the purification of wastewater from pulp manufacturing can be made more energy efficient by predicting the oxygen-transfer rate and thereby enabling a way to regulate the aeration.

    - Our published study is about analysing oxygenation of water in order to predict the oxygen-transfer rate depending on the concentration of surfactants in the water, says Kamal Rezk, Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Energy Systems. The study focuses on the surfactant lauric acid, which is a common substance in contaminated water from the pulp and paper industry.

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