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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In many studies, bariatric surgery has been highlighted as an almost magical method for weight loss and reversing type 2 diabetes. One question that has remained largely unanswered is how the effect of surgery differs from the effects of a strict low-calorie diet. This question has now been examined by researchers at

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/strict-diet-explains-metabolic-effect-gastric-pass-surgery - 2026-07-17

Professor Oksana Tymoshchuk came to Lund with her children as soon as the opportunity arose. She also wanted to help students from her home university escape the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine. Now four medical students have arrived to study here for six months with a full Erasmus scholarship. “It’s a fantastic opportunity, with such practical studies. The other week I got to stitch up a Cesarean!” “I

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ukrainian-medical-students-arrive-lund-after-lightning-fast-application-process - 2026-07-17

Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she tells us about her research and what is it like to be a PhD student in newly established group. Giulia defends her thesis on the 8th of December.   What have you been working with during your PhD studies? The main aim of my PhD project was to unravel pos

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2026-07-17

How can philosophy help us make sense of the technologies shaping our everyday lives? A brand new doctoral course explores these ideas and other intersections between philosophy and technology. The doctoral course Introduction to Philosophy of Technology, a collaboration between the Department of Informatics at Lund University (LU) School of Economics and Management and the Division of Informatics

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/philosophy-technology-course-receives-praise-doctoral-students - 2026-07-18

On Tuesday, June 21st, we had our first book-club! Twenty-five eager and a little bit angry (this book evokes emotion) women gathered at Geocentrum II to discuss Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (read more below). It was a very nice and inspirational afternoon lead by our hosts and organisers Rebecca and Amber. Did I mention there was also lunch and fika!!  For our next book club we will b

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/wings-first-book-club - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund is a very proud sponsor of INASCON 2020. The annual international nanoscience student conference opened yesterday with 1100 registered students from 70 countries around the world.   This year the conference is organized by a team of 35 Lund University undergraduate students. Due to the circumstances around CO

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-2020-more-1000-registered-participants-all-over-world - 2026-07-17

The IIIEE alumna Iryna Stavchuk, student in our Master in Environmental Management and Policy, 2004-2005, is nominated as one of the BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2023! There is a lot going on about our alumna Iryna Stavchuk. The war pushed her out of her deputy-minster of the environment post in Kiev and out of her country, picking new roles in relation to Ukraine and climate issue

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-bbc-100-list-most-inspiring-and-influential-women-2023 - 2026-07-17

The different pathways for future energy systems may technologically look very much the same, but they differ fundamentally when it comes to ownership, distribution of profits and what local values are created. How this is played out in practice is discussed in this new article by Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari and Jenny Palm. New decentralized energy-generation technologies have turned economies of scale

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/distributed-energy-systems-and-energy-communities-under-negotiation - 2026-07-17

As the Young Academy of Sweden announces its new members, one of them is a colleague from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo): Lina Eklund. That's fantastic news! What will that mean for you, Lina?"It's going to be educational and fun!"What do you hope to gain from the Academy?"Being elected to the Young Academy of Sweden is, of course, a unique opportunity to play a part in

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/lina-eklund-appointed-new-member-young-academy-sweden - 2026-07-17

Name: Anahita Baninajjar Date for disputation: 11 juni 2026 Title of thesis: Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning in High-Stakes Decision Making My PhD focuses on understanding and improving the trustworthiness of machine learning models in high-stakes applications like healthcare. Modern AI systems can achieve impressive accuracy, but they can still fail in unexpected ways, leak sensitive informa

https://www.eit.lth.se/en/article/anahita-baninajjar-understanding-and-improving-reliable-ai - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Plants in tropical dry areas have developed an unusual strategy for survival. Instead of using their water supply during the dry season, they hold on to the last drops until the very end in order to quickly get started on photosynthesis as soon as the rainy season has begun. Using satellite technology, researchers hav

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clever-strategy-sets-photosynthesis-flying-start - 2026-07-17

da Nafstad och Heraclitos Muhire hade var sin artikel bland de fem mest nedladdade från tidskriften Justice, Power and Resistance förra året. Båda artiklarna har laddats ner mer än 2000 gånger sedan de publicerades. Ida Nafstad skrev artikeln ”Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesens penal abolition”, där hon beskriver Thomas Mathiesens teorier om straffavs

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/tva-artiklar-fran-institutionen-bland-jprs-mest-nedladdade - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Socialantropologen Petra Östergrens forskning omprövar sättet som prostitutionpolicy diskuteras och får internationell respons och beröm. Hennes kapitel "Från nolltolerans till fullständig integration. Omprövning av prostitutionspolicy" har nu publicerats i handboken för global sexualitet The Sage Handbook of Global

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/nytt-satt-att-kategorisera-prostitutionspolicy-kan-bli-standard-framover - 2026-07-17

Han har varit här i ett par månader nu, Jonathan Andrew, som i vanliga fall jobbar som forskare vid Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights i Schweiz. Jag träffar honom i hans mysiga kontor med de synliga takbjälkarna på Pufendorfinstitutet och inleder med att a. be om ursäkt för att jag inte intervjuat honom förrän nu och b. tacka honom för alla de olika godsaker som stä

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/mot-jonathan-andrew-international-fellow-vid-pufendorfinstitutet - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. När Barndiabetesfonden för första gången delade ut Johnny Ludvigssons pris var det två LUDC-forskare som lönades. Ur kronprinsessan Victorias hand fick de motta blommor, diplom och var sin penningsumma. Åke Lernmark, professor i experimentell diabetesforskning fick det stora priset på 250 000 kronor.Corrado Cilio, f

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/dubbelt-pris-till-diabetesforskare-i-malmo - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I samband mer våra institutionsmöten vill vi särskilt uppmärksamma goda nyheter som berör vår personal gällande publicerade artiklar, finansiella bidrag och intressanta uppdrag.  Tomas Germundsson har publicerat en artikel: ”Flerkärnighet – det bästa av två världar?” i tidskriften PLAN – Planering av stad & land, nr

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/goda-nyheter-oktober-2017 - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I år är Lunds universitets medverkan under Almedalsveckan digital. Alla programpunkter sänds onsdag 7 juli, och kommer även att kunna ses i efterhand. Totalt är det elva olika seminarier, med start klockan 13.00. Först ut är "I vår hållbara framtid blandas utbildning, forskning och samverkan i en unik miljö. Hur då?

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-almedag-fylld-med-spannande-samtal-och-debatter - 2026-07-18

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What’s the point of having lots of higher education credits if you don’t use them to make the world a little better? Activism and academia go together, according to student Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. “As a child, I dreamed of fighting side by side with the Apache indians”, Johannes lau

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johannes Stripple was one of nearly 1,000 people who ran a relay race, organised by the Swedish theatre company Riksteatern, from the Arctic to Paris – for life and the climate. Each participant had their own reasons why they wanted to participate in this climate initiative. For Johannes Stripple, it was about the fru

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-runs-climate - 2026-07-17

Lund University Diabetes Centre’s Scientific Advisory Board give researchers valuable feedback on ongoing research. Frances Ashcroft and Flemming Pociot from the board were invited to the LUDC retreat in the city of Helsingborg recently and they were impressed by the range of the research being performed at the centre. Research within type 1 diabetes specifically caught their attention. Frances As

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/scientific-advisory-board-important-contributions-within-type-1-diabetes-research - 2026-07-17