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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. 2012-06-01 Doktorspromotionen, Susanne Kristensson ny förvaltningschef, Lund University Advisory Boards besök, Trackit!-projektet, HSV:s utvärderingar, rektorernas möte i Uppsala och terminsavslutningar är några punkter i detta rektorsbrev. Doktorspromotionen, vår stora akademiska högtid, hölls i fredags 25 maj. I s
https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-1-juni - 2026-06-25
This Regional Outlook focuses on the obstacles of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza and the challenges of rebuilding and reconstructing the area after the war. In 2007, the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt in Gaza transformed the Strip into an area entirely dependent on humanitarian aid and external support, with the movement of people and goods under Israeli and Egyptian control. The 7 Octo
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ”Bakom varje framgångsrik man står en kvinna”, säger ett gammalt talesätt. Hur är det då med framgångsrika kvinnor? Och hur är det med par där båda är framgångsrika – hur får de familjelivet att fungera? LUM har träffat Olle Melander och Marju Orho-Melander, som är bland universitetets mest pris- och anslagsbelönade
https://www.lu.se/artikel/planering-och-o-framgangsrikt-forskarpar - 2026-06-25
Almost 14 million viewers have watched Anils Seth’s TED Talk “Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”. In the beginning of May, he visits Lund University and Neuroscience Day to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. We meet on zoom for a conversation about AI, the mystery of consciousness and – of course – to find out what he knew about Sweden. … how would you explain consciousne
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hello-there-anil-seth - 2026-06-25
Missiologist Mika Vähäkangas thinks that Scandinavians can be a little self-righteous. He says that he has become who he is in great part thanks to his research in Africa – there he learnt what he knows about compassion. Over nearly thirty years, he first carried out missionary work and then research, teaching and fieldwork in Africa on African Christianity. "It has always been Africa. My pare
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-has-given-me-more-i-could-ever-give-back - 2026-06-25
The climate cannot handle the amount of animals we eat. There needs to be a protein shift, according to researcher Karolina Östbring who is involved in the Sustainability Week. Her vision is to create a platform for research on vegetable proteins at LU. Karolina Östberg Photo: Kennet Ruona. The human population is growing, while our ecological footprint needs to become much lower in order to redu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-protein-shift - 2026-06-25
The university director has decided to change the Division of External Relations into a new division, Global Engagement, which will have a more explicit focus on international matters. The decision is based on an overview of the University’s organisation and working methods carried out in 2023. With the support of the Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE) initiative, there is a desire to create conditio
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/division-external-relations-become-division-global-engagement - 2026-06-26
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Michael Edgerton in exciting and new collaboration with ESS. Why do you collaborate with ESS and when did the collaboration start? -The collaboration began a little more than a year ago. For years I have collaborated with scientists on both artistic and research projects, and just generally been inspired by
https://www.arts.lu.se/article/new-and-exciting-collaboration-between-ess-and-academy-music - 2026-06-25
This is an update for everyone having questions regarding the application for the autumn. In short, it’s the first application period we have in our new housing system, it was the first time we randomized the queue time on the first day, and it’s the first time both me and my colleague has been chiefly responsible for the student application process. All of this has meant some people’s priorities
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/update-application-process - 2026-06-25
Did you miss the chance in the spring to apply for funds to develop a commissioned education course at your department, or would you like to try again? Now, the University is opening another round of applications, starting on 1 September. In order to provide further support for organisations within LU in the development of new commissioned education courses, a second round of applications for stra
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-opportunity-apply-funds-develop-commissioned-education-courses - 2026-06-25
On Wednesday, Georgia de Leeuw nailed her thesis, "The Comfort of Alignment: Mining, Green Steel, and Killjoy Desires in Sweden/Sápmi" at the Department of Political Science, Eden. The public defense will take place on Friday 1 March 2024, kl. 10.15, in Eden auditorium, Allhelgona kyrkogata 14, Lund.The external reviewer is Associate Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen. Abst
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-nailed-her-thesis - 2026-06-25
Georgia de Leeuw has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/Sápmi'. Congratulations! The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/SápmiAbstractThis dissertation deals with Swedish extractivism in Sápmi through the examples of a planned iron ore mine in Gállok/Kallak and the hydrogen-bas
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are te
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2026-06-25
The Conversation is an online news outlet written by researchers, working together with professional journalists. All content is published as open source and the website’s articles reach a total audience of 10 million readers – every month. Associate Professor Sverre Spoelstra is one of the LUSEM researchers who has chosen to write for The Conversation. The Conversation is an online news outlet wr
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sverre-spoelstra-how-researchers-reach-global-audience-conversation - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the thesis work, a view supported by a survey conducted by the Swedis
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2026-06-25
In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equipment at centre’s Preclinical Nuclear Medicine platform. The funds will be used to enhance the positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An extensive study has confirmed that the risk of developing coeliac disease is connected to the amount of gluten children consume. The new study is observational and therefore does not prove causation; however, it is the most comprehensive of its kind to date. The results are presented in the prestigious journal JAMA
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/association-between-coeliac-disease-risk-and-gluten-intake-confirmed - 2026-06-25
Obesity is commonly diagnosed using BMI, but this approach has several limitations. Researchers at Lund University and AstraZeneca show that integrating measurements such as body fat percentage and waist circumference captures disease risks missed by BMI alone. In recent years, research has shown that there are several limitations with BMI alone when it comes to assessing adiposity quantity, dis
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-bmi-alone-does-not-fully-capture-health-risks-linked-obesity - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/method-which-repairs-damaged-genes - 2026-06-25
The Leadership Academy has been offered at Lund University School of Economics and Management since 2007, and the program equips young leaders for the challenges that a leadership position in a student organisation often brings. The Leadership Academy at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) is a leadership training program for students at Lund University, who are employed ful
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leadership-academy-educates-leaders-student-organisations - 2026-06-25
