News from Roskilde University

New, efficient enzymes make it easier to turn corn stalks, straw and other agricultural waste into environmentally friendly fuel. In addition to climate benefits, the research represents a substantial export potential.

Assistant Professor Agnete Meldgaard Hansen's paper 'Rehabilitative bodywork: Cleaning up the dirty work of homecare' has been awarded 'the Mildred Blaxter New Writer's Prize' for 2016.

Associate Professor Lotte Jelsbak has discovered a special variant of salmonella, which may be more dangerous than the common salmonella. It is therefore important to study the new variant.

Mathematical models can be used to develop new methods to diagnose e.g. depression, and the models can provide important information to help develop better forms of treatment.

While parents in the upper part of the middle class are better at seeing beyond the norm of living healthily, parents in the middle of the middle-class struggle most to maintain and defend their reputations by providing healthy and nutritious food for social events at their children's schools.

Young people's passionate use of computer games creates worries about addiction, but the thought of computer games as a possible mental disorder stigmatizes people, and must be understood in other ways.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is such a major player in international development work, in terms of both financial assets and influence, that it fundamentally alters the conditions for the work. This is creating a democratic problem, according to a PhD student.