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Climate change is damaging public health and is also leading to premature deaths. At the same time, the healthcare sector itself is responsible for significant emissions. Studies of intensive care and surgical care in Sweden show that over 60 per cent of the climate impact in intensive care is driven by the growing volume of single-use products, according to research by Linn Hemberg at Lund Univer
The jury was out for a long time. But now, we can announce the winner in both categories: “Best visual communication of scientific content” and “Most aesthetically appealing image”. “Not far from the manners of Lennart Nilsson, Sara Davidsson Bencker has captured two pancreatic cells at the end of their cell division cycle, connected to the top of nanotubes. The image clearly visualizes both the c
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-image-competition-we-have-winner - 2026-06-21
Climate change is damaging public health and is also leading to premature deaths. At the same time, the healthcare sector itself is responsible for significant emissions. Studies of intensive care and surgical care in Sweden show that over 60 per cent of the climate impact in intensive care is driven by the growing volume of single-use products, according to research by Linn Hemberg at Lund Univer
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/climate-change-threatens-public-health-and-healthcare-sector-contributes-emissions - 2026-06-21
Climate change is damaging public health and is also leading to premature deaths. At the same time, the healthcare sector itself is responsible for significant emissions. Studies of intensive care and surgical care in Sweden show that over 60 per cent of the climate impact in intensive care is driven by the growing volume of single-use products, according to research by Linn Hemberg at Lund Univer
He has designed a transport box that keeps hearts alive outside the body and developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device. But during a visit to nuns in Africa, he was suspected of being a spy. Meet Stig Steen, a post-retirement professor of thoracic surgery, who is driven by an unshakeable belief that the greatest things in life are on the other side of the mountain. If Stig Steen had f
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2026-06-22
A multifaceted British-Israeli researcher has been awarded the prestigious visiting professorship in Olof Palme’s memory and will spend 10 months at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. The right to euthanasia, multiculturalism and peace in Israel and Palestine are a few of his areas of research. LUM meets Raphael Cohen-Almagor in an attic room at the Centre for Advan
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/professorship-olof-palmes-memory-british-israeli-researcher - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In 2016, a forgotten archival treasure was found in the cellar of the Department of Geology. The material included a unique map of Iceland from 1844 and a geological map of the whole of New Zealand dated 1869. Now 322 works have been restored and plans are afoot for an exhibition. Through arched windows, a pale Novemb
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-treasure-trove-maps-restored-its-former-glory - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg after having reviewed both self-evaluations and assessor reports. The RQ20 Research Quality Evaluation Project is now entering its final phase and, so far, the results are looking good. “But it would be out of the question for us to sit back now just because we’re known globally
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2026-06-21
China currently faces challenges related to climate change and environmental degradation. Though daunting, work to combat these problems is on-going. MERGE and BECC researchers at the University of Gothenburg currently enjoys a number of research collaborations with researchers in the field at Chinese universities. “We need to take decisive action to stop the destruction of the environment. At the
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/project-china - 2026-06-21
Britta Padberg (PhD), former managing director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University for twelve years and managing director for The New Institute in Hamburg, has been on a research sabbatical here at Pufendorf IAS for a month. She is by no means a stranger to us: Britta Padberg was part of our evaluation panel during 2024 and visited us both in May and in October 202
https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/welcome-back-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies-britta-padberg - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kidney exchange, refugee placements and choosing schools. Separate things but with the common denominator that, with digitalisation's new tools, it is possible to save both time and money – and to save lives. "I don't like it when I see things that are wrong which research could solve. Then it is up to me to take my
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/algorithm-maker-saving-lives - 2026-06-21
A multifaceted British-Israeli researcher has been awarded the prestigious visiting professorship in Olof Palme’s memory and will spend 10 months at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. The right to euthanasia, multiculturalism and peace in Israel and Palestine are a few of his areas of research. LUM meets Raphael Cohen-Almagor in an attic room at the Centre for Advan
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professorship-olof-palmes-memory-british-israeli-researcher - 2026-06-22
Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 agreement suggests that markets will play a central role, but there are significant problems with this approach. Carbon removal, also known as “negative emissions”, is the process
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2026-06-21
On May 29th, the Helsingborg Innovation District, a collaboration platform and catalyst for innovation, research, and development, will be inaugurated. The innovation district is initiated by the City of Helsingborg, Lund University, Region Skåne, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden in collaboration with the business community. The district stretches from Helsingborg Centra
https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/new-innovation-district-increase-regions-innovative-capacity - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you leave work full of energy and excited about what the rest of the day has to offer? If not – maybe it is worth trying to improve recovery during the working day. Lina Ejlertsson's thesis is about recovery of staff in one of the most stressful work environments – healthcare centres. She says we have a certain am
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recover-during-working-day - 2026-06-21
When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week, one of their reflections being how local growing of crops that do not need
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2026-06-22
Our researcher is part of the Swedish Olympic Committee’s development programme “Tomorrow’s Sports Researchers” and her research on para-athletes’ health and wellbeing aims to ensure that people with physical disabilities can play sports safely. Presently she is in China to provide support for the Swedish Paralympians at the Winter Paralympics. In terms of performance, it is Sweden’s best Winter P
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Projekt Öppen vetenskap vid LUI september tog rektor ett beslut om ett 2-årigt projekt som syftar till att etablera en stödfunktion för forskare inom området öppen vetenskap. UB involveras genom att Kristoffer Holmqvist blir projektledare på 50%.Från beslutet ”Anvisning av medel till och genomförande av projektet öp
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-oktober-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He was selling carpets on Mårtenstorget in Lund, applying for all kinds of jobs and answered an advert from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Lund University, for a lab technician job. He didn´t get the job. Instead he was asked if he wanted to start a Ph.D. A few weeks ago immunology professor William Agace was
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/carpets-market-academy-professor - 2026-06-21
No 57, 13 March 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter. Our event “Efficient use of the Grace Hopper GPU nodes on Dardel and Arrhenius” is about to close registration. Since last week we added two more events. The first one is our advanced programming course on parallel programming with MPI. The second one are our NAISS induction training days. These are a set of m
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-10 - 2026-06-21
