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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Wait, wait, come here! And then you go under there, good, and now you can jump…” instructs Daniela Chiang and bursts out laughing when coursemate Malaley Rahmani stumbles and collapses in a giggling heap on the floor. It is Monday afternoon at the Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and about 40 Master’s st

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/project-reports-lth-have-improved-thanks-sports-psychologist - 2026-07-17

LUCSUS researcher, David O’Byrne, who has done extensive research on coastal restoration in Louisiana, USA, comments in the wake of storm Ida. It was one of the strongest to hit the state in terms of wind-speed, and struck on the same day, 16 years later, as Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1800 people.  So far, storm Ida has claimed over 40 lives in different parts of the USA, and left m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/quick-funds-recovery-need-be-combined-long-term-plans-david-obyrne-comments-storm-ida - 2026-07-17

In May, Salma Mahamed, Gustavo Cadenas Delascio, Marta Pitino and Ismail Bazine participated in our third doctoral course, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg: ‘Making Foreign Aid Work: Managing tensions between top-down and bottom-up approaches’. The participants took part in online literature seminars, but also our onsite workshop in Gothenburg.  The course brought together both doctoral

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/salma-mahamed-i-found-it-very-meaningful-discuss-practitioners-field - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO)

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent years, researchers have tried to capture the electrical current that bacteria generate through their own metabolism. So far, however, the transfer of the current from the bacteria to a receiving electrode has not been efficient at all. Now, researchers from institutions including Lund University have achieve

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bacteria-could-become-future-source-electricity - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Charlotta Kjöllerström, is the network coordinator for the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project. Next week, a group of eight ESG Research Fellows will make a stop at LUCSUS and Lund University as part of a study trip for early career researchers. In this short interview, she explains the aim of the study trip, and wh

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/why-esg-project-study-trip-charlotta-kjollerstrom-explains - 2026-07-17

Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support six projects with seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies.  Lena Sandin Wranker, one of the recipients of the funding, is a research assistant, PhD, and a specialist physician in pain rehabilitation, at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malm

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/six-projects-epidemiology-will-get-seed-funding - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed. Young growing forests store a lot of carbon, as th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-07-17

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-07-17

Linguist Sara Farshchi's research was plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers who published it as their own. Five months have passed since Professor Carita Paradis discovered that parts of her former doctoral student Sara Farshchi's five-year-old thesis had been plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers and that the plagiarism had been published by international publishers Springer, among othe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-was-plagiarised - 2026-07-18

In 2028, the first observations will be made at the world's largest optical telescope being built in Chile. It is now clear that the facility will be equipped with a powerful spectrograph that researchers in Lund will help to develop. The telescope is called the Extremely Large Telescope and is being built by the European Southern Observatory, ESO - an international organisation with 16 member cou

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-develop-new-spectrograph-giant-telescope - 2026-07-17

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-07-17

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/frequent-use-strong-painkillers-patients-knee-osteoarthritis-years-total-knee-replacement - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. First published: 2019-05-03Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protecti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2026-07-17

Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). Mine Islar, who leads the ongoing glacier research at LUCSUS, presented at the launch event in Geneva. Why is 2025 designated as a glacier preservation year?– 2025 is seen as a tipping point

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2025-international-year-glaciers-preservation-research-lucsus-studies-impacts-glacial-melt - 2026-07-17

Eager to explore digital educational collaborations with partners from around the world? Join us at our upcoming workshop! On 29 November, between 9:00-15:00, Casey Dinger and Leslie Alvarez from the University of Denver will be hosting a workshop on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). COIL is a digital collaboration between educational institutions in at least two different countr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/explore-global-digital-educational-collaborations - 2026-07-18

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sarah-mckibbin-gets-funding-greening-lund-nano-lab - 2026-07-17

At the May 2024 ScienceBrew we heard from three great speakers from the Faculty of Law and LTH. Read about their presentations below and experience even more great talks at the last evening of this series on June 17th! Thanks to Sarah, Gabriel and Alberto for presenting their work at Café Ariman!Sarah, a PhD student at the Faculty of Law, presented her research on the use of artificial intellingen

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/sciencebrew-may-2024-ai-power-distribution-and-ethics-neuroscience - 2026-07-17

Getting external funds for your research project is often what makes or breaks it at an early stage, but finding one that suits is a challenge, as is finding one that accepts applications at the right time. Welcome to the jungle! On LUSEM’s “Research grants” page you will find a lengthy list of funders and it is well worth the time spent searching through them. Some offer one or two grants yearly,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/funds-grants - 2026-07-17

Lund University's holding company is changing its name from LU Holding to LU Ventures. The new name aims to better reflect the company's mission: to build companies that transform research into new products and services creating global impact. "We are third best in the world, but we should not be satisfied – more research must lead to innovations." said Rector Erik Renström and highlighted a repor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-holding-becomes-lu-ventures-new-chapter-universitys-venture-builder - 2026-07-18