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HBTQ-LU, the Lund University network for LGBTQ employees, arranged an outdoor gathering as the rainbow flags were raised on the University Building on IDAHOT Day. The main building of Lund University, sometimes called The White House, is one of many white buildings where power resides. On May 17, the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, two rainbow flags were raised on i

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/rainbow-flags-over-white-house - 2025-11-23

Under våren har det hänt mycket nytt inom universitetets arbete med jämställdhet, lika villkor, trakasserier, sexuella trakasserier och kränkande särbehandling. "Nu har vi börjat skapa de förutsättningar som krävs för att bedriva arbetet med de här frågorna på ett tydligt och bra sätt", säger Jimmie Kristensson som är vicerektor för frågor som rör kommunikation, kurage och karaktär. Läs hela artik

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/lu-starker-det-forebyggande-arbetet-mot-diskriminering-och-jamstalldhet-och-lika-villkor - 2025-11-23

Antibodies are the body's superheroes, recognizing and eliminating disease-causing substances. By combining parts from antibodies, researchers at Lund University have designed a hybrid antibody that better stimulates the immune system against both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and streptococcal bacteria. Antibodies can be likened to keys, with antigens as the corresponding locks. Each antibody is uniquely

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/recipe-great-antibody - 2025-11-23

During her thesis project, Elin Byman discovered a role of alpha-amylase in Alzheimer’s disease. January 21, she defends her Ph.D. work supervised by Malin Wennström in the Preclinical memory research group at MultiPark. Here, she tells about the journey and major breakthroughs. Tell us about your research! The enzyme alpha-amylase has long been known to be abundant in saliva and the gastrointesti

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-elin-byman - 2025-11-23

With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the south of Sweden, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been working at Lund University Hospital over the holiday period and into the new year, supporting Region Skåne. Johann

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-help-fight-against-covid-19 - 2025-11-24

The Government has granted the Nation Property Board’s (SVF) request for SEK 55 million for project planning relating to the renovation and development of the Main University Building. The project planning will result in a plan for a thorough renovation and development of the Main University Building and at the same time retain and reclaim as much as possible of the Main University Building’s cult

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/government-has-granted-funds-main-university-building-which-has-celebrated-its-140th-anniversary - 2025-11-24

The strong connection between financial problems and mental health issues is well known. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that only one in five young adults could correctly answer three basic questions about inflation, interest rates and risk diversification. At the same time, they are getting more into debt. This, the researchers argue, is a worrying development. We now know that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alarmingly-low-financial-awareness-among-todays-youth - 2025-11-24

So many lovely tips. 378 nature reserves in Skåne alone. Thank you! The Sustainability Forum has a mission from the  Vice-Chancellor: to support the core activities in realising the intentions of the University's sustainability strategy. Jenny Hansson, Communications Officer and project manager at the Sustainability Forum, gives us many, great tips on sustainable and exciting holiday activities in

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/holiday-tips-our-sustainability-forum-travel-sustainably-summer - 2025-11-23

Ketevan Bolkvadze har, tillsammans med Marina Povitkina från Göteborgs universitet, publicerat artikeln "Fresh Pipes with Dirty Water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies". Artikeln har publicerats i tidskriften ”European Journal of Political Research”. Om artikeln (på engelska)Using mixed methods design the authors investigate why democracy is not enough

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/tillhandahallande-av-offentliga-varor-i-demokratier - 2025-11-23

Mark this day by learning how you can make electronics more circular! Today is the official Circular Electronics Day and the IIIEE is participating. For the sixth year in a row, the 24th of January means the Circular Electronics Day. The IIIEE is a participating organisation in the Circular Electronics Initiative. The goal is to create awareness about the need for a longer life for electronic prod

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/january-24-official-circular-electronics-day - 2025-11-23

…a Lund University alumna who has taken a new position as director of the Big Data Institute in Oxford! “Thank you! I am very excited about this”, says Cecilia Lindgren. She describes the managerial role at the Big Data Institute (BDI) as a new chapter, but on something in which she is strongly rooted. Ever since she completed her PhD at Lund University, she has used Big Data in her research in va

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/congratulations-cecilia-lindgren - 2025-11-23

CenCIP-forskare medverkar i den femte upplagan av en väl mottagen sommarkurs i Venedig med fokus på kritiska infrastrukturers resiliens. Årets upplaga av sommarkursen VIU-Critical Infrastructure Resilience är både fysisk och virtuell, med anledning av den pågende corana-pandemin. Kursen går den 13 – 17 september och där i år är det Jonas Johansson från CenCIP som undervisar på kursen.  VIU Summer

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/sommarkurs-i-venedig-critical-infrastructure-resilience - 2025-11-23

Candy heaven or candy hell? Halloween consumption has gone rampant since we imported this tradition from the United States, and is expected to reach 1,6 billion SEK in 2024. In Sweden we used to just go to graveyards on All Hallows Eve and light candles in memory of loved ones that have passed, but starting in the 1990’s it has become a spectacle, with costumes, parties, ghostly decorations and tr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/economics-death-and-halloween-consumption - 2025-11-23

Candy heaven or candy hell? Halloween consumption has gone rampant since we imported this tradition from the United States, and is expected to reach 1,6 billion SEK in 2024. In Sweden we used to just go to graveyards on All Hallows Eve and light candles in memory of loved ones that have passed, but starting in the 1990’s it has become a spectacle, with costumes, parties, ghostly decorations and tr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/economics-death-and-halloween-consumption - 2025-11-24

Roxanna Sjöstedt har tillsammans med Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Folke Bernadotteakademin, och Anders Themnér, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, publicerat artikeln ”Demagogues of hate or shepherds of peace? Examining the threat construction processes of warlord democrats in Sierra Leone and Liberia” i Journal of International Relations and Development. AbstractHow are threat images framed and constructed by

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/konstruerade-hotbilder-undergraver-demokratiseringsprocesser - 2025-11-23

Ett examensarbete med fokus på tekniska infrastrukturers resiliens i Sverige utifrån avbrottsdata belönades med SWERMA:s förstapris. Examensarbetet "Critical Infrastructure Resilience – Comparing Swedish critical infrastructures based on interruption data" av Elsa Axelsdottir och Rasmus Jonason Bjärenstam, handledda av Jonas Johansson, belönades den 28/3 med förstapris vid SWERMA:s Risk Forum i de

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/cencip-examensarbete-vann-swermas-forstapris - 2025-11-23

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/alumnus-sandra-mujinga-nominated-preis-der-nationalgalerie-2021 - 2025-11-23

Hanna Bäck är en av författarna till artikeln ”Multiparty government and economic policy-making. Coalition agreements, prime ministerial power and spending in Western European Cabinets” som publicerats i tidskriften Public Choice. Abstract (på engelska)Multiparty government has often been associated with poor economic policy-making, with distortions like lower growth rates and high budget deficits

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/back-om-koalitionsregeringar-och-policy-making - 2025-11-23

The current telephony contract will end on 31 March 2026, and a call for tenders is now being launched so that a new contract can enter into force the following day. The new contract will involve changes taking place. Therefore, a project is now being launched to get everything in place. Find out what you need to do to be ready. Two suppliers become oneLund University's current telephony solution

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-procurement-telephony-underway-landline-telephones-are-being-phased-out - 2025-11-24

Katrine Skovgård’s Ph.D. project sheds light on the dysfunctions in the brain through which dopaminergic pharmacotherapies for Parkinson’s disease affect motor behaviors. January 19, she defends her thesis. She explains how better experimental models might improve future translational research on dyskinesia. You presented your research at the MultiPark Café recently. But for those who could not at

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/why-dopamine-receptor-type-matters-phd-interview-katrine-skovgard - 2025-11-23