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Taming urban sprawl

Choking on their own growth
Gemini Spring 2013 edition
The world's megacities are only going to grow -- and the ones that will grow the most are those in lesser developed countries that don't have the tools to plan for this inevitable and explosive expansion. Read how NTNU planning students are helping residents of slums in Uganda and elsewhere in the world get the vital services they need in the latest edition of Gemini, NTNU and SINTEF's popular science research magazine.
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It started with one computer...

Fifty years ago, GIER, a coat-closet sized computer, came to Trondheim. It ushered the university into the digital age. In celebration of that singular event, the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering has made a video that gives you an overview of just what GIER brought to Trondheim.

NTNU News

NTNU's brain researchers May-Britt and Edvard Moser featured in The New York Times
(30.04.2013) In "A Sense of Where You Are," Science Times reporter profiles the Mosers and describes the significance of their findings, including " the discovery of cells in rats' brains that function as a kind of built-in navigation system that is at the very heart of how animals know where they are, where they are going and where they have been."

Great tit populations and climate change
(26.04.2013) In this week's issue of Science magazine, NTNU biologist Bernt-Erik Sæther and colleagues explore what happens when climate change makes for a food timing problem for great tit populations.

NTNU, Singapore-based IPI sign MOU to build international network
(26.04.2013) The Singapore-based non-profit company IPI and NTNU signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday 26 April, making NTNU IPI's first Network Partner in the Nordic region.
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