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The Planetary Health Diet. That's the diet that will keep us healthy and put food on the table for a future world population of 10 billion. But will it reduce strokes, premature deaths and greenhouse gas emissions? To find out, Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff compared different dietary indices. Her own index came out on top, and the results are now published in the prestigious Lancet Pla

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/stubbendorffs-index-paves-way-sustainable-healthy-diets - 2026-06-21

The packing crates are emptied, new furniture is in place, the art is hung, and the tech is working. The Offices of the Vice-Chancellor and staff have moved into the King’s House. The new entrance opens onto the University Square and the fountain. Behind the doors of the University’s oldest building, there’s a definite air of new and modern. You are greeted first by an exhibition about the buildin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-beginning-kings-house - 2026-06-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Everyone knows about source criticism, but researchers Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin want to emphasise source confidence. “There has been an intensive focus on the critical aspect. Pupils leave school with the attitude that you cannot trust anything, so source confidence is an important complement to source criticism.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-strike-blow-source-confidence - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perfor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft believed that living in hierarchies destroyed and corrupted people deep down in their souls. “For her, inequality was the greatest threat to democracy and liberty. It is still dynamite today, as the gulf between rich and poor widens and the world is divided into lords and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reinterpreting-feminist-pioneer - 2026-06-21

No 55, 19 February 2026 Welcome to the latest addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   In this edition we have one new event on scientific visualialization with ParaView.   Registration is closing soon for “Intro to Python for HPC” and “Array computing in C++ using Eigen”.  If you want to speak to us directly, the next zoom-in is scheduled for the 12th of March.An overview on our events is ava

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-8 - 2026-06-21

No 53, 22 January 2026 Welcome to the latest addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   Registration for the NAISS Introduction training week is about to close.  Registration for the  CodeRefienry workshop has now been opened.  We re-advertise a number of events advertised before.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS training page (NAISS).Questions on NAISS training events and gene

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-6 - 2026-06-21

Martiné Wlosinska, medical doctor and PhD student, will be defending her thesis titled “Preventing Cardiovascular Disease. Complementary precision medicine” on the 26th of November. In this interview, Martiné tells us about the effect of aged garlic extract on progression of cardiovascular disease and the importance of treating patients on a personalized level. Can you tell us more about your PhD

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martine-wlosinska - 2026-06-21

Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are viewed has changed. When Anders Forslid started out as a laboratory animal veterinarian at Lund University, he received a fairly cool

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2026-06-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do researchers want to see in 2021?

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2026-06-21

Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many funding bodies require faculties and departments to co-fund research projects, something that is becoming a major financial challenge for the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and others. “Of course there is a limit to what we can do,” says Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences. Re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/co-funding-increasingly-difficult-challenge - 2026-06-22

Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the crowd. Cyberattacks against higher education institutions and other public authorities, as well as against companies, have s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2026-06-21

Thanks to stem cell research, we now understand much more about the earliest stages of human development and what underlies many of our diseases. In recent years, the field has been revolutionised by several discoveries that have completely changed the landscape of stem cell research. Since its establishment as a strategic research centre, the Lund Stem Cell Center has become one of the strongest

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/twenty-years-revolutionary-stem-cell-research - 2026-06-22

Two-year-old Arvid will soon undergo his third heart operation. This time, the procedure will be safer and quicker, due to a new simulation method that researchers have developed for children with heart disease. It is Monday afternoon in Ward 67 at Skåne University Hospital and in one of the rooms, two-year-old Arvid is having his heart checked. A cartoon is playing on the TV above the hospital be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tragic-loss-led-research-project - 2026-06-22

No 60, 29 April 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   We have two courses: “Programming formalism” and “File Transfer 201”, for which registration closes soon. Please register immediately if your are interested.If you want to speak to us in person, the next zoom-in is scheduled for the 7th of May.If you have ideas, questions, requests or any other input, please get in

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-13 - 2026-06-21

The EAT-Lancet diet is a framework designed to promote environmental sustainability while also preventing common diseases such as type 2 diabetes. How do we know if the diet actually works? An international research team studied seven dietary scores and found that two of them were particularly good at evaluating adherence to the diet. Reliable diet scores are important when developing sustainable

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/research-paves-way-sustainable-dietary-recommendations - 2026-06-21

No 56, 5 March 2026 Welcome to the latest addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   This time we have four new events:  User developing and optimising applications on the Grace Hopper GPU nodes on Dardel or the future Arrhenius system may be interested to join us in the end of March.  We have a course on using Python in an HPC environment and the Programming Formalisms course.   Users of our se

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-9 - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. To distinguish between education and research as early as the allocation stage of basic government funding does not benefit their intertwining. Nor is it helpful that only research counts if you want to have a good career. “Good teaching initiatives are to be rewarded and teaching should be well-regarded” according to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-intertwining - 2026-06-21

Her diary is full for the rest of the year, and new invitations to events around the globe pour in every day. Receiving the Nobel Prize does not just mean a gala dinner with the King, it also means a different everyday life. “It almost feels like I’ve got a new job,” says Anne L’Huillier. In Anne L’Huillier’s office in the A building at the Department of Physics there is a majestic plant with gree

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-having-new-job - 2026-06-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Right now, everything is focused on managing the coronavirus. However, even before COVID-19, viral pandemics around the world were increasing and the ’ordinary’ influenza virus and common cold virus cost society enormous amounts of money each year. Swedish virus researchers say they could improve the world with the he

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/virus-war - 2026-06-21