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The eleventh Conferment of Degrees Ceremony for all faculties of the University of Jyväskylä will be held on 19–21 May 2023. Join us to celebrate your degree and enjoy this prestigious academic celebration!

Like many other higher education institutions, the University of Jyväskylä adopts electronic degree certificates in spring 2023.

The University of Jyväskylä’s international master’s degree programmes attracted a record-breaking number of international and domestic applicants.

A recently published study showed that heatwaves reduced the biomass of phytoplankton in a boreal lake. Summertime heatwaves will become more frequent and stronger with climate change and can reduce the biomass of phytoplankton in stratified lakes.

The Rector of the University of Jyväskylä, Keijo Hämäläinen, has named Suvi Saarikallio to the professorship from 1 December 2022.

A study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä found that women with larger muscle mass had lower arterial stiffness from youth to middle age.

The staff and doctoral researchers of Development Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy are involved in a new project exploring what kind of competences the graduates from this subject should have.

The application period for the English-medium master’s degree programmes of the University of Jyväskylä, excluding international joint degree programmes, starts on Wednesday, 4 January 2023.

On this year’s list of the best sports-related university units in the world, the JYU Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences was ranked in position 22. The list includes 300 sports-related units from universities across the world.

Rector Keijo Hämäläinen has invited Sakari Taipale to a professorship starting from 1 December 2022. The domain of this professorship is social and public policy, and the post is located at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

Scientist have revealed both dark adapted and light-activated structures of a red photosensory protein, phytochrome.

Because of lack of electricity resulting from the international energy crisis, it is possible there will be planned power outages and they are estimated to last one and a half to two hours at a time.