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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University (Sweden), Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Porto University (Portugal), Szeged University (Hungary) and Université Paris-Saclay have decided to join forces to create a pilot project of a European University, an “Alliance for Global Health,” committed to higher education in global healt
Through its extensive digitisation of older card catalogues, Lund University Library has made an unexpected discovery: a copy of astronomer Copernicus' famous work from the 16th century, which presents the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The discovery was made possible thanks to the new full-text search in Catalogue-1957, which makes the library's older material much more accessible
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/digitisation-card-catalogues-led-unexpected-discovery-university-library - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the dinosaurs. Now, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, are analysing drill cores from the crater to reco
https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction - 2026-07-09
Anna Stubbendorff, a recent PhD graduate from the Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded Lund University’s Agenda 2030 Award 2026. She is being recognised for research showing that when we put climate-friendly food on our plates, it benefits both the environment and our personal health. In her doctoral thesis, Anna Stubbendorff has studied the effects of the EAT-Lancet diet, a dietary pattern desig
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anna-stubbendorff-receives-agenda-2030-award-her-research-sustainable-diets - 2026-07-10
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Hygienhypotesen säger att vi i lever så rent att det gör oss sjuka. Immunförsvaret, som inte får tillräcklig stimulans, vänder då sina vapen mot kroppens egna celler. Nu satsas nästan 60 miljoner kronor på att besvara frågan om hypotesen är sann eller falsk. Vårt immunförsvar utvecklas av de prövningar det utsätts f
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/sysslolost-omoget-immunforsvar-sparar-ur - 2026-07-09
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Hygienhypotesen säger att vi i lever så rent att det gör oss sjuka. Immunförsvaret, som inte får tillräcklig stimulans, vänder då sina vapen mot kroppens egna celler. Nu satsas nästan 60 miljoner kronor på att besvara frågan om hypotesen är sann eller falsk. Vårt immunförsvar utvecklas av de prövningar det utsätts f
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/sysslolost-omoget-immunforsvar-sparar-ur-0 - 2026-07-09
Research on osteoarthritis receives a significant boost as the founder and owner of Artrosportalen, Professor Martin Englund, is awarded one of the newly established medical prizes from the Greta and Johan Kocks Foundations – an award worth one million SEK. The prize is given to outstanding medical researchers with strong future potential, and Englund is highlighted as an internationally influenti
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/prestigious-award-one-million-sek-leading-osteoarthritis-researcher-lund - 2026-07-09
Do you have a question regarding scientific publishing, authorship, and research collaborations? Then you can turn to Per Odin, the Faculty of Medicine's scientific ombudsman, for advice and support. "What has quantitatively dominated during my time are various questions regarding authorship - who has the right and who does not have the right to be a co-author, the order of authors, and much more
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/get-research-ethics-advice-our-scientific-ombudsman - 2026-07-09
Anyone who watched the carnival parade on Saturday and held out to the last orchestra could catch a glimpse of Medfak's envoy Johanna Erlandson in full costume. It was her tenth carnival with Alte/Ältere Kamreren. On a daily basis, Johanna is Head of Communications at the Faculty of Medicine, but when it's the Lund Carnival, it's clarinet and carnival parade all the way."I started playing in the s
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/clarinet-ready-play - 2026-07-09
I have participated in a very interesting conference arranged by the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) on the theme of administration quality – changes in ways of working. Several researchers from Swedish higher education institutions shared knowledge and ideas about how, based on experiences from the pandemic, we can create even better conditions for our work. The questi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-workplace-lessons-learned-conference - 2026-07-09
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The discovery that dung beetles use the light of the Milky Way to navigate in the world has received much praise. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now taken a new step in understanding the existence of these unique beetles: when the beetles dance on top of a ball of dung, they simultaneously take a photog
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/when-dung-beetles-dance-they-photograph-firmament - 2026-07-09
Stress, bad weather, strep throat, alcohol or cuts – there are a number of triggers that can set off psoriasis. At the same time, a great deal is happening in research on this skin disease, and new ways of controlling the immune system are being discovered. Psoriasis is considered one of the common chronic diseases in Sweden and is likely found in more than 600,000 people. It is a chronic inflamma
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/making-body-forget-psoriasis - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If in the future electrodes are inserted into the human brain – either for research purposes or to treat diseases – it may be appropriate to give them a ‘coat’ of nanowires that could make them less irritating for the brain tissue. However, the nanowires must not exceed a certain length, according to new research from
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/extra-short-nanowires-best-brain - 2026-07-09
The IIIEE in collaboration with Viable Cities has launched a new online course on cities, climate and change with a focus on developing transformative skills and capacities. This course explores how we can design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities. We embrace the “mission to the moon” approach for tackling greenhouse emissions from cities putting an emphasis on pathw
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-climate-and-change-new-online-course-iiiee - 2026-07-09
The project Reflections on soil and agriculture began in 2015 when I met John Eriksen, a conventional farmer in Djursland, Jutland. Through farm work and afternoon coffee, I became part of the community around his farm and made a film portrait of him. In Part I of this exhibition project, I explore how we talk about a difficult and emotional subject like farming across rural and urban areas, acros
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-maia-torp-neergard-reflections-soil-and-agriculture - 2026-07-09
Over the past seven years, Sustainability Week has established itself as a key meeting place to discuss the transition to a sustainable society. This year, Lund University together with Lund Municipality gathers over 70 events in the program – where issues relating to everything from biodiversity and climate change to democracy, urban development and cultural expression are highlighted. April 8-13
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-week-lund-8-13-april - 2026-07-10
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Sjöbo Konsthall presenterar Helena Olsson, Ihra Lill och LealVeileby i utställningen Colliding Narratives!I utställningen sammanstrålar tre olika konstnärskap kring frågeställningar om berättande med video som medium. Hur berättar man en historia? Vad händer när flera berättelser kolliderar? Hade den franska filoso
https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/alumniutstallning-pa-sjobo-konsthall - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As of January 1, 2021, Maj Hasager will be the new Rector at Malmö Art Academy. Gertrud Sandqvist, who has been Rector at Malmö Art Academy since 2011 (she also held the post between 1995 and 2007), then becomes vice rector at the school. Below, Gertrud herself writes about the handover of the post. After 22 years as
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/gertrud-sandqvist-hands-over-maj-hasager - 2026-07-09
Jenny Palm has been appointed to the position of Director and Lena Neij, who has temporarily been managing the institute in 2021, will go back to focusing on research. Jenny holds a role as Professor in Sustainable Urban Governance at the IIIEE since 2017 and will start in her new role February 1. Fredrik Andersson, Chairman of the IIIEE board and Professor at Lund University School of Economics a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-new-director-iiiee - 2026-07-09
