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• 2024-09-17

  Dissonance in focus during the conference A Sustainable Tomorrow

  With only six years left until 2030, the world is marked by war and conflict and many sustainability indicators are pointing in the wrong direction. This year’s A Sustainable Tomorrow gathered 30,000 interested individuals via 200 hubs around Scandinavia. One of those hubs was Karlstad University.

  The theme this year was “dissonance” – methods and examples to bridge the gap between what we know we must do and what we actually do.

  – Most of us are also guilty of some degree of ignorance, said Jerker Moodysson, Vice-Chancellor of Karlstad University. For instance, I drive more than I’m entirely comfortable with, despite knowing it’s harmful to the environment and that we must make significant changes in every possible way to avoid further environmental decline.

• 2024-09-17

  Karlstad University launches new bachelor's program in artificial intelligence

  Karlstad University is now launching a new bachelor's program in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) that will start in the fall of 2025. The program is designed to meet the growing demand for AI expertise in both the IT sector and other fields and is offered in a unique hybrid format, enabling flexible distance learning for both national and international students.

  Stefan Lindskog, Dean of the Faculty of Health, Science, and Technology explains why we are introducing the program:

• 2024-09-13

  Ingesund Gets Adjunct Professor and New Vocal Pedagogue

  Singer and vocal pedagogue Anne Margrethe Dahl has a broad repertoire and has made an international career with productions on major opera stages for which she has been praised. She is a respected name in the opera world, and Ingesund School of Music is now pleased to welcome her as an adjunct professor. She will be joined by mezzo-soprano and vocal pedagogue Katija Dragojevic, who will teach in the bachelor and master musician programs.

  Anne Margrethe Dahl was educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. After graduating, she continued her studies in New York. She debuted as Donna Anna at Aarhus Sommeropera. From 1999 to 2016, Anne Margrethe Dahl was a soloist at The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen. She has sung a wide repertoire including Tosca, Lady Macbeth, Marguerite (Faust), Gilda (Rigoletto), Helmwige (Die Walküre), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Mimi (La Bohème), and The Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro).

• 2024-09-12

  Award-winning conference paper on collaborative robotics

  At an international conference in Djerba, Tunisia, our visiting PhD student José Pablo De la Rosa Gutiérrez won an award for his presentation on robotics programming.

  – Collaborative robots can be used in many ways, says Jorge Solis, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Modern robotics, where collaboration between man and machine is governed through programming and gesture recognition, can be used in healthcare as well as in the manufacturing industries. The conference paper is about a programming method developed for non-programmers, meaning it aims to be user-friendly.

• 2024-09-12

  The American economy – does it even care about Trump and Harris?

  The American presidential election will be held on 5 November. A lot is at stake, not least in terms of the American economy. Mats Ekman, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Karlstad Business School, explains the difference between the American and the Swedish economy and possible consequences depending who wins the election. Or does it even matter?

  Cutting straight to the point – does it matter to the American economy who wins the presidential election in November?

  – No, we cannot tell for sure. It is difficult to say since we cannot observe a world where Donald Trump won in 2020 and compare it to our world. But if politicians are competing for votes to get elected, they might have to adapt to attract voters who are still undecided, and according to several well-known models, this means that the candidates will offer more or less the same thing.

• 2024-09-03

  New professor of Swedish language strengthens the research environment

  At the start of summer, Henrik Rahm started his position as professor of Swedish language at Karlstad University.

  – As a new professor of Swedish language, I hope to inspire new linguistic and multidisciplinary research projects and show that language expertise is important in many contexts, says Henrik Rahm.

  Henrik Rahms is a linguist and holds a teaching degree in German, Swedish and Swedish as a second language. His most recent position was at Lund University, and his research focuses on the importance of language in social contexts. He received his doctorate in Scandinavian languages with a thesis on strike news coverage in the Swedish daily press from 1879 to 1995, with the aim to clarify the relationship between language, journalism and society.