Ester Barinaga studies local currency initiatives. Photo: Juan Ocampo Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barina

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-08-28

Mikael Akke studies how protein molecules move and how other molecules bind to them – important knowledge in the development of the medicines of the future. Photo: Kennet Ruona Protein researcher Mikael Akke has been showered with grants recently: a total in excess of SEK 130 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the European Research Council. But who is the Faculty of Engineer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-researcher-receives-major-grants - 2025-08-28

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-soon-time-total-closures-e22-and-road-108 - 2025-08-28

Oskar Hansson and Sara Linse collaborate across faculties and their research has recently localised a drug that could potentially slow the progress of Alzheimer’s and be made available to the market next year. Photo: Johan Joelsson She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2025-08-27

 To achieve the University’s emissions targets, students and employees must for example, reduce how much CO2 they produce when commuting . Cycling is one alternative. Photo: Kennet Ruona By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-08-27

LU has fine laboratories with advanced equipment. But one RQ20 panel wonders how these are to be used and by whom? PHOTO: Kennet Ruona Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-08-27

Proud colleagues: Marcus Knutagård, Hans Swärd, Cecilia Heule and Arne Kristiansen. Photo: Sandra Jeppsson After 15 years, hundreds of meetings, conferences, opinion pieces, interviews and trips to Stockholm, it happened – the Government adopted the Housing First model as a national strategy for tackling homelessness. “We are very proud. We have just finished an information guide that the National

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finally-housing-first-model-adopted-national-strategy - 2025-08-28

Inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population. Photo: Stefan Holm/Mostphotos and Carina Andreasson/Mostphotos That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2025-08-28

Sign interpretation demands a lot of concentration. There are usually two interpreters in place during a lecture to relieve each other every 15 minute or so. Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University sociology student Julia Grahn is among those who receive learning support. She is deaf and is provided with sign-language interpretation during her studies. Cilla Riber Alm is one of the sign-language inter

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-studies-depend-interpretation - 2025-08-28

Locally produced food is vital in times of crisis. Photo: Carina Andreasson When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2025-08-28

“High-income countries, such as the United States, have sharply reduced their use but the gas still accounts for more than 60% of their climate emissions from anaesthetic gases", says Talbot. Photo: iStock Gases used in anaesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been known. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health led by Lund University shows

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reduced-climate-impact-anaesthetic-gases-worrying-trend-middle-income-countries - 2025-08-27

Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/uzbekistan-takes-steps-towards-establishing-welfare-state-and-eradicating-poverty-iron-feast-iron - 2025-08-27

Naturvetenskapliga fakultetens dekan Sven Lidin på den vildvuxna åkern som snart kommer att påbörja sin metamorfos till vetenskapsmeckat Science Village. En katalysator som kommer att modernisera naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, både i Brunnshög och på Sölvegatan. Dekan Sven Lidin må ha blivit ”närsynt, lönnfet och medelålders” under sina tio år i symbios med Science Village. Men hans framtidsvision

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fakultetens-fard-mot-vetenskapsbyn-i-brunnshog - 2025-08-27

"Jag vill bjuda in alla att besöka oss på Campus Helsingborg i sommar. Vi har skapat en riktigt spännande forskningsfestival, ta chansen att ta del av den fantastiska bredd och kunskap våra forskare delar med sig av under den här veckan." Det säger Charlo Kan mode någonsin bli hållbart? Hur ställer vi om till miljösmart e-handel? Och vilken roll ska universiteten ha i framtidens samhälle? Det är n

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-stader-och-samhallen-i-fokus-pa-ny-forskningsfestival - 2025-08-27

Foto: Carla Böhme Experter från olika områden inom universitetet samt ett antal gästforskare kommer inom Pufendorf-temat "DigiJustice: Digitala ojämlikheter och mänskliga rättigheter i den artificiella intelligensens tid" att demonstrera ett tvärvetenskapligt förhållningssätt till digital rättvisa och utformningen av en inkluderande framtid. Temat, som leds av Miranda Kajtazi, docent i informatik,

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/digijustice-en-tvarvetenskaplig-strategi-digital-rattvisa - 2025-08-27

Pollinering på natten är lika viktig som den som sker på dagtid, men har ofta underskattats. Bild: Franco Patrizia från Pixabay. I över 60 år har forskare försökt avgöra om växter pollineras mer på dagen eller natten – utan att nå någon tydlig slutsats. Nu visar en stor forskningsöversikt gjord vid Lunds universitet att nattens pollinatörer gör lika stor insats som dagaktiva arter i hela 90 procen

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/pollinering-i-morker-lika-viktig-som-i-dagsljus-ny-studie-utmanar-forskningsbias - 2025-08-27

Från vänster till höger på bilden: Blerim Emruli, Erik Påander, Jordina De Sousa, Iván Ortiz Del Noval & Alfriyadi Rafles. Photo: Carla Böhme. Studenter på Magisterprogrammet i informationssystem har möjlighet att få värdefulla certifikat i business analytics för att stärka sina CV. Det internationella Magisterprogrammet i informationssystem på Institutionen för informatik, Ekonomihögskolan vid Lu

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/studenter-utrustas-med-karriarframjande-certifikat - 2025-08-27

Pollinering på natten är lika viktig som den som sker på dagtid, men har ofta underskattats. Bild: Franco Patrizia från Pixabay. I över 60 år har forskare försökt avgöra om växter pollineras mer på dagen eller natten – utan att nå någon tydlig slutsats. Nu visar en stor forskningsöversikt gjord vid Lunds universitet att nattens pollinatörer gör lika stor insats som dagaktiva arter i hela 90 procen

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/pollinering-i-morker-lika-viktig-som-i-dagsljus-ny-studie-utmanar-forskningsbias - 2025-08-27

En människa ärver gener från båda föräldrar och generna styr vilka egenskaper vi ska ha. Forskarna bakom en ny studie har studerat hur egenskaper som är viktiga för ämnesomsättningen förs vidare från mammor och pappor till barn. Foto: Kennet Ruona Forskning vid Lunds universitet visar att de biologiska föräldrarnas gener påverkar barnets insulinfunktion samt förmågor att reglera blodsockernivåer o

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-foraldrars-metaboliska-egenskaper-kan-paverka-barnets-halsa-over-tid - 2025-08-28

Anna Marseglia will lead a multidisciplinary research team, with expertise in geriatric epidemiology, psychology, medical sociology, neuroscience, and engineering. Photo: Jesse Orrico/Unsplash SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant. Assistant Professor Anna Marseglia at Karo

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/millions-sweah-alumni-projects - 2025-08-27