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Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. "The trade wars have clearly affected the globa
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2026-07-01
Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. The trade wars have clearly affected the global
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2026-07-02
Climate researchers often emphasise the fact that reducing carbon emissions is in everyone’s best interest, and should involve all of us. But how good are they at minimising their own carbon footprint? A new study carried out jointly by Lund University and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland shows that some of them use up half their annual carbon allowance in a single week. There are ways to
https://www.science.lu.se/article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressors - 2026-07-01
Enäggstvillingar delar samma DNA, men är inte identiskt lika. En tvilling kan vara sjuk i typ-2 diabetes, medan den andra tvillingen inte utvecklar sjukdomen. En studie som har letts av Lunds universitet har nu upptäckt att det finns skillnader i genernas aktivitet hos tvillingar med och utan typ 2-diabetes. Forskarnas upptäckt kan bidra till utvecklingen av nya behandlingsmetoder. – Enäggstvillin
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/tvillingstudie-ger-nya-ledtradar-om-mekanismerna-bakom-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-07-01
Hans Knutsson, senior lecturer in business economy at EHL, describes the experiences he and his colleagues have had with online exams and the use of Canvas New Quizzes. Photo by Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on Unsplash At the School of Economics, where I work as a senior lecturer in business administration, we have spent the last two years working on switching platforms to Canvas. We started early a
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/quizzes-question-banks-and-random-draws - 2026-07-01
A former student had heard that our senior lecturer in statistics, Pierre Carbonnier was about to retire after this semester. Would we do a feature on him? The student remembered him fondly and added that his mother had also had Pierre as a teacher and thought he was pretty awesome. Few, if any statistics teachers can claim to have reached and inspired more students than Pierre Carbonnier, who has
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/44-years-carbonnier-stats-dont-lie - 2026-07-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Svårigheter med att äta som grundar sig i ett psykiatriskt tillstånd, kan ta sig flera olika uttryck. En del av dessa kan ha stor påverkan på en samtidig diabetessjukdom, medan en del kan bidra till att utlösa en typ 2 diabetes. Man kan dela in ätstörningarna grovt i två grupper: De som huvudsakligen utmärks av rest
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/atstorningar-och-diabetes - 2026-07-01
Eleven research centers across four thematic areas have been awarded funding in Forte's call for Research center grants 2025. Two of these centers will be led from Lund University, focusing on the themes of severe mental illness and women’s health and disease. The two new research centers at Lund University that have been granted long-term funding from Forte will be led by Ulrika Bejerholm in the
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/forte-research-center-grants-2025 - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than expected. So, if you want to follow a Paleo diet - you should quite simply eat a lot of fish. Osteologists Adam Boethius a
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-accounted-surprisingly-large-part-stone-age-diet - 2026-07-01
Despite an increasing number of informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces in Sweden and our society, not everyone feel that they can use them. Public spaces for physical activity are dominated by boys and men, while girls and women are under-represented. The research project Equalizer examines the barriers that hinders different groups access to these spaces and methods to remove the obstacle
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/methods-disturbance-gives-more-people-access-public-places - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A recent report by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) identifies 24 places across the world that are hotspots for deforestation - and where forests are under threat. A staggering over 43 million of hectares were lost in these areas between 2004 and 2017 - an area roughly the size of Morocco. Torsten Krause, who research
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-wwf-report-deforestation-fronts - 2026-07-01
The University Board needs a new teaching staff representative due to a retirement. As a staff member, you now have the opportunity to propose a colleague to the Electoral College, which is responsible for the nomination. The nomination period is from 3 September to 22 September. One of the three teaching staff representatives on the University Board, Lars Dahlin, is retiring and his place on the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/propose-new-teaching-staff-representative-university-board-election - 2026-07-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. …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
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/congratulations-cecilia-lindgren - 2026-07-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Rökare som fimpar för gott löper ökad risk att utveckla typ 2 diabetes de första sex åren jämfört med dem som aldrig rökt. Orsaken är ökad kroppsvikt. Likväl ger ett rökstopp kraftiga hälsovinster. Forskarna vid Johns Hopkins universitet i Baltimore, USA understryker att deras resultat inte ska ses som en ursäkt att
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/rokstopp-okar-risken-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-07-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Anders Rosengren, läkare på Skånes Universitetssjukhus och forskare på Lunds Universitets Diabetescenter i Malmö, har fått sex och en halv miljon kronor från Novo Nordisk Fondens Excellensprojekt. - Det betyder oerhört mycket. Jag kan starta en egen forskargrupp och driva forskningsarbetet i högre fart, säger Anders
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/stora-pengar-kartlaggning-av-sambandet-stress-och-diabetes - 2026-07-01
Har du funderat på ett forskningsproblem som kräver en tvärvetenskaplig ansats för att utforska vidare? Kanske tycker du att den inte är ”mogen” nog för att kunna söka finansiering? Då är detta din chans: Pufendorfinstitutet årliga utlysning för att ansökan om ett Tema vid Lunds universitets inkubator för tvärvetenskaplig forskning lanseras i september. Välkommen till Pufendorfinstitutet IAS 8 sep
https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/vill-du-starta-ett-tema-vid-pufendorfinstitutet-valkommen-till-launch-den-8-september - 2026-07-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. De flesta fackmedlemmar är idag tjänstemän och andelen fackligt anslutna har inte varit så låg sedan 70-talet. Anders Kjellberg, professor i sociologi här på sociologiska institutionen har intervjuats av Dagens Arena och Ekonomiekot Extra i Sveriges Radio P1 och diskuterar bland annat vilken betydelse den 25-procent
https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/klyftan-vidgas-mellan-fackligt-anstallda-arbetare-och-tjansteman - 2026-07-01
