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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This week around 40 Swedish researchers are visiting Korea to meet Korean colleagues in a series of interdisciplinary round table discussions within the framework of the two-day Korea–Sweden Excellence seminar, to reinforce existing contacts and to develop new ones. Issues regarding creativity and innovation, environm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sweden-reinforce-its-research-contacts-south-korea - 2026-06-27

The risk of neurodegenerative diseases increases markedly after a traumatic brain injury – particularly following repeated concussions. Professors Niklas Marklund and Tadeusz Wieloch have now received SEK 3.4 million from The ALBORADA Trust for their research into preventing dementia after brain injury. Brain injury is a major but often underestimated public health problem that particularly affect

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/millions-brain-research-dementia - 2026-06-27

Following a new decision by Lund University, LU Accommodation will update its rental model to a more standardized student accommodation model. Further rental increases due to inflation have been postponed until August 2024. Rental changes 2024 New rental model LU Accommodation will change to an 11 month rental model, where the yearly rent for almost all accommodations* will be distributed over 11

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/rental-changes-january-2024 - 2026-06-27

The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded network grant for planning future excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies. Of the 40 networks approved, four are at The Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The purpose of the grant is to enable a constellation of researchers to plan for a future application for funding aimed at establishing clusters of exce

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/network-grant-planning-future-excellence-clusters - 2026-06-27

For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lundagård on Tuesday morning (14 May) and similar camps have been established around other hi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tent-camp-lundagard - 2026-06-28

When humans are ill, we tend to be less active. This also applies to wild animals, but so far, it has not been known how long the reduced activity lasts or which activities are affected the most. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds' activity decreases for up to three weeks when they become ill - something that could mean the difference between life and death. The researche

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/disease-affects-blackbirds-more-previously-thought - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University Diabetes Centre shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect i

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a unique study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped the origins of migratory birds. They used the results to investigate and discover major differences in the immune systems of sedentary and migratory birds. The researchers conclude that migratory species benefit from leaving tropical areas when it

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-migrate-away-diseases - 2026-06-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-selective-hunting-strategies-and-delayed-return-lifestyle-among-ancient-foragers - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Welcome to the inauguration of the Anti Apartheid Room at Malmö Art Academy During the spring semester 2017 the course The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South initiated by professor Sarat Maharaj will take place at Malmö Art Academy.The start-up for the project is a reconstructi

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/course-start-world-turned-upside-down - 2026-06-27

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/welcome-home-ellen - 2026-06-27

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2026-06-27

Children who had autoantibodies before falling ill with type 1 diabetes have also had an imbalance in their intestinal flora, previous research shows. In a new study conducted within the framework of a European research network, researchers at Lund University and Region Skåne will investigate whether the ingestion of probiotics from early birth can prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in chi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-can-probiotics-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2026-06-27

Vice-Chancellor’s blog: On 23 May, I once again had the honour of giving the doctoral degree conferment speech in Lund’s beautiful cathedral. This year the starting point of the speech was interaction, such as that between the reason-based Age of Enlightenment and the emotionally-driven Romantic era. The interaction between sense and sensibility not only shapes our private life, but also cultural

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sense-and-sensibility-conferment-and-ceremony - 2026-06-28

Forskare vid Lunds universitet har i en ny observationsstudie tittat på samtliga fall av hjärttransplantationer hos barn under 18 år i Norden mellan 1986 och 2023. Totalt 597 barn ingick i studien, varav 461 transplanterades. Resultaten visar att överlevnaden ökat markant – en utveckling som forskarna kopplar till tekniska framsteg, avancerad teknik och bättre rutiner i vården. Kort om studien:597

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/barn-i-vantan-pa-nytt-hjarta-ny-studie-visar-pa-markant-forbattrad-overlevnad-och-vikten-av-nordiskt - 2026-06-28

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Ellen Hillbom, the economic historian, who, in cooperation with a Dutch and a German colleague, has created an online textbook on trends in Africa’s economic history. The book, which can be downloaded free of charge from the internet, has so far reached over 4,000 readers. Ellen Hillbom. Where did you get the ide

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ellen-hillbom-about-free-digital-textbook-about-africa - 2026-06-27

Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others" published by Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström in the Nordic Journal of Criminology, and available as Open Access. One in three women Violence against women in close relationships is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When the snow is gone, it does not take too long before a familiar spring sound reappears - the bumblebee buzz. Since bumblebees are well adapted to cold climates, many of the species are negatively affected by a warmer climate. Researchers at Lund University now ask for the public's help in reporting the first bumble

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/find-first-bumblebee-spring - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The VBE program welcomes new collaborator Petra Björne! Dr. Björne has a PhD in Cognitive Science and occupies a position as research and development coordinator at the City of Malmö Department for Disability Support. She has been granted a three year research grant by Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Worki

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/petra-bjorne-new-vbe-collaborator - 2026-06-27

We are in the middle of the busiest time of the academic year – overwhelmed by thesis supervision and wrapping up all that needs to be done before the end of the semester. The end of May also marks a mile stone for doctoral students, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors when they are awarded their doctoral degrees at the annual doctoral degree conferment ceremony. We are in the middle of the busie

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/deans-letter-may-2026 - 2026-06-27