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The past year has to a large extent been shaped by developments in the world around us. At this time last year, the government presented its Research and Innovation Bill, “Research and Innovation for the Future, Curiosity and Benefit”. The investments announced there triggered an intense period of work at the university, and many colleagues have had to set aside other tasks to respond to these ini

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/deans-corner-dean-persson-reflections-year - 2026-04-25

The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affect the shaping of the Storsjöodjuret. The aim of the study

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-human-ecology-thesis-storsjoodjur-cryptid-borderland-between-reality-and-imagined - 2026-04-25

Roberto García-Roa, postdoc at the department of Biology has won yet another prestigious photo award. This time he’s the overall winner of “Capturing Ecology”, the British Ecological Society photo competition. Congratulations Roberto, what does this award mean to you? – It’s very special! First, it links two powerful allies, science and photography. They are probably two of the best tools we have

https://www.science.lu.se/article/sharp-shooting-biologist-winner-international-photography-award - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. … Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Francisca Skoogh dreams of establishing an interdisciplinary centre for “performance science” at Lund University. She is both a pianist and a psychologist, and conducts research on her own relationship with the stage and stage performance anxiety. She is also a new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The con

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-wants-teach-artists-overcome-stage-fright - 2026-04-25

Associate professor Christel Nielsen who works at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Lund University has been appointed vice coordinator of the strategic research area EpiHealth. - EpiHealth is one of the reasons why I chose to move from Uppsala to do research at Lund University. The EpiHealth cohort and Swedish registers contain vast amounts of data and provide a unique fo

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-new-vice-coordinator-epihealth-christel-nielsen - 2026-04-25

With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data. Maria Johnsson will take on the role of data steward at the Faculty of Medicine. The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their research data accord

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-research-data-unit-data-stewards-each-faculty - 2026-04-25

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Hållbarhetsveckan är ett årligt event i Lund där universitetet, Lunds kommun, organisationer och andra intresserade fyller en vecka med aktiviteter kring hållbarhet! I år går veckan av stapeln den 8 till 13 april på temat "Transforming our World" - med fokus på de globala målen för hållbar utveckling. Forskare från

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/samhallsvetare-pa-hallbarhetsveckan - 2026-04-25

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. CenCIP forskare har fått med uppsatsen "Using microworlds to study critical infrastructure protection – The effect of incentives on risk management" på konferensen ESREL2018 i Trondheim i sommar. Uppsatsen handlar om hur olika typer av incitament kan påverka hanteringen av risk i en samhällsviktig verksamhet och hur

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/ny-uppsats-om-samhallsviktig-verksamhet-incitament-och-riskhantering - 2026-04-25

Henrik Smith tilldelas Marsh Awards for Ecology av British Ecological Society. Priset uppmärksammar hans långvariga insatser för att utveckla ekologisk forskning och för att stärka kopplingen mellan vetenskap och samhälle. Han själv betonar vikten av att forskningen interagerar med samhället – tiden är förbi när det räckte att skriva en tung studie som sedan stod och samlade damm. Motiveringen til

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/miljopionjar-prisas-forskare-maste-interagera-mer-med-samhallet - 2026-04-25

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. När diagnosen typ 2 diabetes ställs har sjukdomsprocessen i regel pågått i flera år och diabetiska skador på exempelvis blodkärl och ögon redan ett faktum. Ett prov som tidigt visar vem som är i riskzonen är värdefullt, då skulle förebyggande behandling kunna starta i tid. Nu har forskare hittat en lovande kandidat

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/proteinet-som-avslojar-diabetsrisk-manga-ar-i-forvag - 2026-04-26

LUCSUS researcher, David O’Byrne, who has done extensive research on coastal restoration in Louisiana, USA, comments in the wake of storm Ida. It was one of the strongest to hit the state in terms of wind-speed, and struck on the same day, 16 years later, as Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1800 people.  So far, storm Ida has claimed over 40 lives in different parts of the USA, and left m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/quick-funds-recovery-need-be-combined-long-term-plans-david-obyrne-comments-storm-ida - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. High blood pressure damages our blood vessels. It also damages our heart, our brain and our kidneys. A high blood pressure increases the risk of suffering a heart attack and stroke. However, it is not known exactly why a high blood pressure is so dangerous. – The reason is that we have effective antihypertensive medic

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/high-blood-pressure-bloody-serious - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards:  “Usually there is always some kin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-04-25

With enormous eyes, a huge mouth and defined, prominent eyebrows, an avatar in the form of a ghost using sign language in real time takes the stage. During 2022, Riksteatern Crea – one of the world’s leading sign language theatres – and researchers at Lund University Humanities Lab trialled new innovative and creative solutions in order to make the technology work for this multi-dimensional theatr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avatar-provides-live-signing-stage-unique-project - 2026-04-25

The University's Management Group has visited Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Utrecht University has written a text about the visit "The Swedish University appreciates Utrecht's innovative power". Here you can read Utrecht University's text. In the next LU News, the University Management will describe the visit to Utrecht with their own words. They are similar in several ways: Lund Universi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/utrecht-university-writes-about-lus-management-groups-visit-utrecht - 2026-04-26

Nätbolagen fortsätter att höja elnätsavgifterna. Professor emeritus Stefan Yard är expert på elnäts­regleringar och reder ut hur den framtida elnätsregleringen kommer att utformas. Nätbolagen fortsätter att höja elnätsavgifterna. Men de förslag Energimarknads­inspektionen (Ei) arbetar på för skärpta intäktsramar för bolagen från 2028 ser att bli en halvmesyr som inte rättar till viktiga fel i de b

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/elnatsbolagen-overkompenseras-pa-kundernas-bekostnad - 2026-04-26

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Information om innehåll och system sammanställt av Kerstin Andreasson. Nya e-resurserTaylor & Francis Group – ny plattform för eböckerhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/En ny plattform från Taylor & Francis kommer att ersätta CRCnetbase och Taylor & Francis eBooks. Innehåll vi haft från de gamla plattformarna migreras ti

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-1 - 2026-04-25

Prefekterna för centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC), institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap (INES) och geologiska institutionen har enats om ett namnförslag för en gemensam institution, om ett beslut om samorganisation tas i september. Nedan följer en bakgrund till hur institutionsrepresentanterna, som fått i uppdrag att ta fram namnförslag, har arbetat fram de presenterad

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/forslag-pa-namn-till-en-potentiell-gemensam-institution - 2026-04-25

Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy, is failing to deliver on its aim to protect rural livelihoods, landscapes and the environment. – Currently, public money in the EU is paying for bad performance. Instead of using

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mapping-hotspots-sustainable-and-unsustainable-agriculture-europe - 2026-04-25