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Maria Ekelin med dottern Sigrid i Austin, Texas. Privat bild. För några år sedan undervisade Maria Ekelin, programdirektör för vår barnmorskeutbildning, på University of Texas, inom ramen för STINT Teaching Sabbatical. – Jag brinner för utbildningsfrågor och har alltid University of Texas och hur de gjorde där i bakhuvudet. Sök STINT senast 10 augusti! För några år sedan var Maria Ekelin, i Austin
Universitetet är med i klimatsamarbetet CoAction Lund och i vår kommer alla deltagande organisationer tävla mot varandra inom hållbar pendling. För att tävla kan du välja på att cykla, åka kollektivt, samåka bil eller gå till arbetet. Tävlingen sträcker sig över fem veckor, 28 april – 30 maj och avslutas med prisutdelning och fest den 3 juni. Nu är anmälan till CoAction Lunds tävling i hållbar pe
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/gor-din-pendling-till-en-vinnande-vana-var-med-och-tavla-om-fina-priser - 2025-08-26
Lista, teckningar, anteckningar från koncentrationsläger. Ur "Röster från Ravensbrück", arkiv på UB med vittnesmål från ca 500 koncentrationslägersfångar under andra världskriget. Foto: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg. I ett unikt arkiv på Universitetsbiblioteket förvaras 500 djupintervjuer med överlevande från koncentrationslägret Ravensbrück, gjorda direkt efter att de ankom till Sverige våren 1945. Nu
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/ravensbruckarkivet-vid-universitetsbiblioteket-nominerat-som-varldsminne - 2025-08-26
“Even with the simpler method of analysis, the blood test gives highly accurate results for Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” says Sebastian Palmqvist, associate professor and senior lecturer in neurology at Lund University. Photo: iStock A simpler method of analysing blood samples for Alzheimer’s disease has been tested in a large multicentre study, led by Lund University in Sweden. “This is a majo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-opportunities-test-alzheimers-using-new-analytical-method - 2025-08-25
Anders Lindskog and Johan Pettersson are sifting sand. The dinosaur they are looking for died on the beach, swelled up in the heat and eventually floated out into the water and sank to the bottom of the sea. Photo:Johan Joelsson Somewhere in an abandoned chalk quarry in northeastern Skåne lurks the skeleton of an 84 million-year-old dinosaur. A group of geologists is convinced of it. Now that a nu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hunt-missing-dinosaur - 2025-08-25
“Great efforts must be made so that we transform rather than cancel activities”, says Malin Bruce, president of LUS, and Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS since June. Photo:Jenny Loftrup LU managed the transition to digital teaching. But the spring Coronavirus crisis had a negative impact on students in Lund. They found the digital exams to be stressful and sometimes unfair. This is what emerges
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/transition-worked-now-we-need-more-even-quality-teaching - 2025-08-25
The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of education. "It does not maintain the high and even quality that we would like", says Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS. The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of education. "It does not maintain the high and even quality that we would like", says Ella Sjöbeck, vice pres
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-criticise-quality-assurance-education - 2025-08-25
Dr. habil. Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. He is currently a Visiting Professor and tutor in our PhD Program in Fine Arts. We asked him a few questions about his work at Malmö Art Academy. What is your role at Malmö Art Academy, and what is you background?Since last year, 2024, I have been working as a tutor in the PhD Program in Fine Arts. By academic train
Jimmie Kristensson observes the lack of a clear plan for how to take care of people affected in different ways by a misconduct case. Photo: Kennet Ruona Threats and hate speech from outside are certainly very trying. But could they be even worse when they come from within the organisation? What if you barely dare to go to work because you get threatened – or you are not even allowed in to work bec
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/its-hard-deal-threats-within-ranks - 2025-08-25
Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Different values, cultures and language. Leading an international research group comes with additional challenges. Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner are deliberately developing the emotional expertise in their group. "It pays off in terms of energy, even if it takes time. Furthermore, the doctoral students develop not just as people
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/focus-improving-groups-eq - 2025-08-25
Nurul Izzati is teaching at Sumbawa University of Technology in Indonesia. Photo:Jenny Loftrup Just over a year has passed since LU was awarded funds by the Swedish Institute (SI) to implement three of the five announced capacity building programmes focusing on Agenda 2030. Professional course participants from all over the world are currently pursuing their continuing professional development act
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professional-development-lund-inspired-agents-change - 2025-08-25
The study is particularly relevant given the Swedish Work Environment Authority's recent proposal to lower the limit for exposure to hexavalent chromium from 5 to 1 microgram per cubic metre of air. Photo: iStock Unchanged since 1996, Sweden's hexavalent chromium exposure limit is higher than in several other countries. A research study from Lund University in Sweden shows that even workers expose
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cellular-changes-occur-even-below-hexavalent-chromium-limit - 2025-08-25
“Even with the simpler method of analysis, the blood test gives highly accurate results for Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” says Sebastian Palmqvist, associate professor and senior lecturer in neurology at Lund University. Photo: iStock A simpler method of analysing blood samples for Alzheimer’s disease has been tested in a large multicentre study, led by Lund University in Sweden. “This is a majo
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/more-opportunities-test-alzheimers-using-new-analytical-method - 2025-08-25
Charlotte Ling and colleagues want to develop a kit for clinical use to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes: a simple blood test that measures DNA methylation and a scoring scale that predicts the risk of disease. Photo: K Ruona. An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2025-08-25
Members of the project group. From left: Jenny Hallström, head of office at the Department of Library Services, Håkan Carlsson, head librarian, Elisabeth Stålesjö, project manager and Christel Holmberg, communication officer. Photo: Jan Olsson The ground floor of the University Library will be refurbished and preparations will start in the summer. During the renovation, the public section will be
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renovating-university-library-will-take-year - 2025-08-26
An external view of the spherical teaching space ‘Teknodrom’. Photo: Kennet Ruona Back then, the red brick buildings rose like a lonely wall against the open fields of eastern Lund. Now, the buildings are a hub in the middle of the knowledge highway that links the centre of the city with the research facilities on the outskirts of Brunnshög. We are talking, of course, about the buildings on the Fa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-time-move-newly-renovated-m-building - 2025-08-26
Vanya Darakchieva is a professor of solid state physics at LTH. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-08-26
Erik Ahlberg uses modern equipment to measure air pollution on the roof of Malmö Town Hall. Photo: Jessika Sellergren Investigating air pollution is not for researchers afraid of heights. One of the fearless is Erik Ahlberg, a combustion physicist at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH). His working days are often spent far above ground – currently on the roof of Malmö Town Hall, where the instruments
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-high-altitude-when-air-under-scrutiny - 2025-08-26
The 'Sustainable Idea Exploration' call is an opportunity for researchers at Lund University to explore the innovative potential of their research and finance activities outside the scope of existing research projects. Its aim is to support the development of early innovative ideas from research projects that can contribute to sustainability. Four projects have now been granted funding in the call
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-related-research - 2025-08-26
A few hours after the announcement: Anne L'Huillier surrounded by media, colleagues and students. Photo: Andreas Hillergren/TT The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the first time a researcher at Lund University has received a Nobel Prize, and atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier is only the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2025-08-26
