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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In view of the ongoing corona pandemic, Andreas Johansson sat down with epidemiologist Dr. Shantanu Sharma to talk about the latest developments. After the first cases were reported in November 2019 in the Wuhan region of China, the coronavirus has spread to 177 countries and infected more than 200,000 people worldwid

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-corona-virus-india - 2026-07-25

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-nominating-committee - 2026-07-25

Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. A global intellectual history of the international system, this book challenges the widespread assumption that this system emerged as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-when-and-how-did-modern-world-become-international-one - 2026-07-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has/

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2026-07-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isha Dubey explores the nature of the communal violence that occurred in Bihar in 1946 against the backdrop of the ‘escalating’ communal tensions during the 1930-1940s. Abstract:The year 1937 saw the establishment of Congress Ministries in eight of the eleven provinces in which the provincial elections had been held,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-publishes-article-journal-royal-asiatic-society - 2026-07-25

Lund University continues to rise in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is rated number 72 in the world. That is three places higher than last year and means that Lund University is the top-ranked higher education institution in Sweden. QS has published annual university rankings since 2004. In the latest QS rankings (2026), 8,467 higher education institutions were evaluated, of which 1,501

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-best-sweden-qs-rankings - 2026-07-24

Lund University continues its climb towards the top of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at universities around the world. The University is now ranked 3rd in the world out of approximately 1,750 ranked universities. This places the University second in Europe, and number one in Sweden. QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking - 2026-07-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET is hosting an online conference on "Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia" on 9-10 December 2020. Context:The current debates around the politics of memory and memorialization reinforce that the act of remembrance and forgetting in the present does not exist in isolation from the past that informs the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-2020-memory-politics-south-asia - 2026-07-25

For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lundagård on Tuesday morning (14 May) and similar camps have been established around other hi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tent-camp-lundagard - 2026-07-26

To strengthen Sweden's innovative capacity and technological independence, the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova have been tasked with setting up clusters of excellence in groundbreaking technology. A total of SEK 2.5 billion is being invested, with SEK 1.5 billion coming from the Swedish Research Council and SEK 1 billion from Vinnova. This investment in clusters of excellence is part of a Gov

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fourteen-networks-receive-funding-swedish-research-council-and-vinnova-planning-future-clusters - 2026-07-24

Maria Björkqvist and Jonas Larsson have been reappointed as dean and associate dean of the Faculty of Medicine for the next term. Here are the full election results. Maria Björkqvist and Jonas Larsson have been re-elected as Dean and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for the term from January 1, 2027, to December 31, 2029.Here’s what they had to say about their re-election:“Thank you so mu

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/election-results-they-will-lead-faculty-coming-years - 2026-07-25

Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. He receives the award for his work on reprogramming blood cells and the development of immunotherapies based on this technology. It was a sheep that determined Filipe Pereira's career choice. He was in high school when he heard a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-awarded-eric-k-fernstrom-prize-young-researchers - 2026-07-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On June 11th and 12th medial students Benjamin Sjögren and Yousef Hamid successfully presented their master thesis.Benjamin's thesis investigated non-invasive hyperspectral imaging in skin cancer diagnostics. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In order to improve patient survival through

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/congratulations-benjamin-sjogren-and-yousef-hamid-who-successfully-presented-their-master-thesis - 2026-07-25

Addgene is a global, nonprofit repository that helps scientists share plasmids, DNA-based research tools that are widely used in the life sciences. Researchers whose plasmids have been distributed to other scientists 100 times or more are recognized with Addgene’s Blue Flame Award. Among this year’s recipients are, Henrik Ahlenius and Isaac Canals. Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that s

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-receive-blue-flame-award-contributions-open-science - 2026-07-25

Kerstin Johannesson, an evolutionary biologist who readily goes to sea to find answers to the big questions, and Georg Kresse, a physicist with outstanding achievements in computational science, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science, Lund University. Kerstin Johannesson is a professor of marine ecology at the University of Gothenburg and director of the Tjärnö Marine Labor

https://www.science.lu.se/article/biologist-involved-popular-education-and-prolifically-cited-physicist-have-been-appointed-new - 2026-07-25

Thanks to the Gaia space telescope, scientists have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way. The object, Gaia BH3, is located in the Eagle constellation, less than 2 000 light years from the Sun. Lennart Lindegren, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at the Department of Physics, who has worked for many years to develop the measurement methods used by Gaia, is delighted with the new space discovery.

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-find-spectacular-black-hole - 2026-07-25

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/39-million-rj-business-usual - 2026-07-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from our Department have gained research money for two different projects. The first one is on conflict prevention in vulnerable cities and the other one is on the new urban challenge. Annika Björkdahl has together with Ivan Gusic (Lund University), Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (The Swedish Institute of In

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/research-grant-two-projects - 2026-07-25

The Bourgine lab has published a new article in Science Translational Medicine reporting the fast and standardized generation of human mini-bones/humanized ossicles, and assess to what extent they can reflect the human bone marrow microenvironment. Human ossicles consist of fully mature bone and bone marrow structures establishing a complex human mesenchymal niche with retained stem cell propertie

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-publication-science-translational-medicine - 2026-07-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2026-07-25