Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

The Universities of Helsinki, Lapland, Oulu and Vaasa, and LAB University of Applied Sciences, join the Sustainability Studies Network.

Jukka Kekäläinen has been appointed as Professor of Evolutionary and Reproductive Biology at the University of Eastern Finland.

Taija Saarela, MSc, investigated the effects of catchment characteristics on dissolved organic matter (DOM) microbial degradability and greenhouse gas dynamics in northern freshwater ecosystems.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has decided on funding to support early-career researchers and scientific renewal through 44 new Academy Research Fellowships.

MPhil Samuel Tewelde Yigzaw's study focuses on the case of UbuntuNet Alliance, the regional research and education network in the eastern and southern Africa.

The University of Eastern Finland's nationwide survey investigates the link between forests and happiness.

MSc Antti Tenkanen's doctoral thesis shows that Northern Finnish silver birch provenances were clearly distinct from southern ones in many traits.

Nicholas Downes of the A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences and Khai Pham Dinh of the Department of Chemistry secured a Finnish Foundations' Post Doc Pool grant.

The university’s operational and financial result for 2022 was good. The result from ordinary activities was as planned, and the university’s income and expenses were in balance.

UEF, together with Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund, will organise the 8th Karelia Symposium under the theme “Food from Wood” in Joensuu on 25 April 2023.