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Joan Yuan, researcher and associate professor in immunology, receives the Eric K. Fernström prize for younger, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University in 2024. Her research is about how the immune system is formed and how it affects us throughout life. Award justification: "For her decisive discoveries that have changed our understanding of hematopoiesis and the immune

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstrom-award-young-successful-researchers-goes-joan-yuan - 2026-04-17

It’s a new role and we got to ask her a few questions about it, and also a little more about Emelie. How long have you worked at Lund University, and how did you become the faculty’s data steward?I have been working as a librarian at the LUSEM Library at Lund University since 2022. Becoming the faculty’s data steward was likely a matter of timing and duties, as is often the case. I was asked becau

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/emelie-estling-data-steward-lusem - 2026-04-17

The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowledge exchange is Oksana Chernysh, dean of the Faculty of Pedagogical Technologies and L

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2026-04-18

Should climate researchers let their findings speak for themselves, or does the state of the planet mean that it is a duty to take to the barricades? How can science get its message across in the best way and does climate activism by researchers impact their credibility? These questions were the focus of Debatt i Lund this May. The panel consisted of sustainability researcher Kimberly Nicholas, so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-and-activism - 2026-04-18

In February 2026, the University’s new unified education website, ESU, will be launched. The goal is to make it easier for students to find the right course or programme. The work encompasses new design, new underlying technology, reworked content and new working methods for information about education. The project, which has been in progress for several years, has involved many people from all pa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-education-website-will-help-right-students-find-right-course-or-programme - 2026-04-18

When invited to the first ever Lund University Quality conference, Martina Oxling accepted. The conference is a good opportunity to tell people about one of the LUSEM flagships, the Change Maker Future Track. Meet Martina and learn more about the track, and her expectations and goals for the future. The Lund University Quality conference was given recently at the School of Social Work. Martina was

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/change-maker-future-track-highlighted-quality-conference - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Matching the blood of donors and recipients can be crucial to health, and sometimes even a matter of life and death. Blood researcher Martin L. Olsson wants in various ways to make this pairing as good as possible. Saranda Muhaxheri and Asma Al-Grety. Photo: Gunnar Menander Martin L. Olsson. Photo: Gunnar Menander Mos

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/blood-matching-matter-life-and-death - 2026-04-17

A lab where you can “craft” new materials on the atomic level, bringing together cross-disciplinary scientists to produce nanomaterials and semiconductor components. A neighborhood with major research infrastructures, complementary to each other. And most important: an open environment where academia, industry, and society can meet and collaborate, finding solutions for a sustainable world. Intrig

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-it-big-nano-crafting - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A few weeks ago The Huntington Disease Center in Lund, Sweden, welcomed researchers, clinicians and representatives from patient organizations in the Nordic countries to the second Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting in Lund. Among the prominent visitors were Patrick Weydt, representative of the European Huntin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-huntington-heights-met-lund-summit - 2026-04-17

How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2026-04-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Blodprover, urinprover, avföringsprover, nagelprover, muskel- och fettbiopsier… I forskningens tjänst har människor under de senaste decennierna lämnat prover och detaljerad information om sina liv och leverne. Ett material som utgör en guldgruva för dagens forskare. Vid Lunds universitet bedrivs i dag flera stora f

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/biobankernas-ovarderliga-kapital - 2026-04-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vid olyckor eller terrordåd där radioaktiva ämnen misstänks vara inblandade kan det vara svårt att klargöra ifall människor i omgivningen utsatts för strålning. Men genom att analysera mobiltelefoner eller andra kroppsnära föremål går det att få viktig information om strålningsexponeringen. Det visar en ny avhandlin

https://www.lu.se/artikel/din-mobil-kan-avsloja-om-du-utsatts-stralning - 2026-04-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Allt fler samhällsfunktioner påverkas av digitaliseringen och den snabba teknikutvecklingen. Vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten startar man nu därför en tankesmedja med fokus på teknik. Sociologen Carola Aili är en av initiativtagarna. Sociologen Carola Aili är en av initiativtagarna till tankesmedjan. Varför behö

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tankesmedja-med-teknikfokus-hos-samhallsvetarna - 2026-04-17

I höst har de första studenterna påbörjat sina studier på det nya sexåriga läkarprogrammet. Samtidigt tog Medicinska fakulteten tillfället att arrangera en konferens där den nya utbildningen betraktas ur ett internationellt perspektiv. På programmet stod frågeställningar om framtida kompetensbehov i Sverige och andra länder samt internationella kvalitetsstandarder.  Och kommer läkarstudenterna som

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nya-lakarutbildningen-i-ett-internationellt-perspektiv - 2026-04-17

När Kansli S. flyttar in i Allhelgonaskolan kommer många av medarbetarna behöva vänja sig vid förändrade arbetssätt – och arbeta mer aktivitetsbaserat. Byggnaden kommer även att öppnas upp för att alla som arbetar inom fakulteten ska kunna nyttja ett av våningsplanen för olika aktiviteter. Ett aktivitetsbaserat kontor utgår från en enkel tanke: olika arbetsuppgifter kräver olika miljöer. I stället

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/aktivitetsbaserat-arbetssatt-i-allhelgonaskolan-vad-innebar-det-i-praktiken - 2026-04-17

Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten erbjuder fem metodworkshoppar i september och oktober. I år ingår bland annat en workshop om ChatGPT i forskningen och en femdagarsworkshop i mixed methods, om hur man kombinerar och integrerar kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder. Workshopparna vänder sig till lärare, forskare och doktorander från samtliga ämnen och fakulteter som önskar bredda och fördjupa sin me

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/metodworkshoppar-hosten-2023 - 2026-04-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. – Hjärtat är byggt runt vätskan det innehåller, blodet. Det är vätskans egenskaper som avgör hur stort hjärtat blir. Det säger Håkan Arheden, professor i klinisk fysiologi vid Lunds universitet, som med magnetkamera visat virvlarna i hjärtat på tredimensionell film. Att muskulatur påverkas av belastning är välkänt.

https://www.lu.se/artikel/blodets-egenskaper-formar-hjartat - 2026-04-18

As long as we need to examination remotley, we will need to do it in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an examination on campus into the same examination done at home, and different forms of examination handle the adjustments needed differently. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinations that work just as well and someti

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/easier-formative-assessment - 2026-04-17

As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Exam hall and home examinations Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinat

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Leadership is our greatest challenge for the future. We will not be getting more money, so we must learn to use what we have in the best possible way. That means we must look at the whole picture, which requires a new type of leadership.” Torbjörn von Schantz. That’s the view of Torbjörn von Schantz, who is now appro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/torbjorn-von-schantz-leadership-our-greatest-challenge-future - 2026-04-17