By axel [dot] fegeant [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Axel Fégeant) - published 26 March 2025 The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes to be organized at Lund University during the autumn semester 2025 and/or spring semester 2026. The funds can be used for inviting guest speakers or lecturers to

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-0 - 2025-06-07

Published 11 January 2023         Four new thematic collaborative initiatives havereceived SEK 1 million per year for the period 2023-2025 by Lund University. One of the funded initiaives is The Pandemics and Alertness collaborative initiative.   The overarching objective of this initiative is to create the multidisciplinary platform Pandemics and Alertness that aims to facilitate cooperation betw

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-and-alertness - 2025-06-07

Published 31 May 2016 The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the 15th Development Research Day: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030 Date: Thursday November 10, 2016. Time:  9.30-17.00 | Geocenter I, Sölvegatan 10, LUNDThe Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share an

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/15th-development-research-day-end-hunger-and-achieve-food-security-2030 - 2025-06-07

Published 16 June 2022 Colm Flaherty and his supervisors Charalambos Demetriou (left) and Bo Isenberg (right). Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski On Thursday, June 16, Colm Flaherty successfully defended his thesis A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left, and is from here on out a doctor of sociology. Flaherty spent his doctoral studies exploring changing fo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/welcome-doctorhood-colm-flaherty - 2025-06-07

Published 28 September 2018 What are the challenges within diabetes research today? And what are the strenghts of Lund university Diabetes Centre (LUDC) to meet those challenges? A powerhouse for diabetes research - Diabetes today is one of the largest global health problems that we have. I think that one of the main challenges we have is to make sure that we consider the patient and make sure we

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/exodiabludc-irc-powerhouse-diabetes-research - 2025-06-07

Published 19 January 2022 LU intends to extend and broaden its commitment to the European university initiative EUGLOH. Work on writing an application for continued European university collaboration beyond 2022 started just before Christmas. The EUGLOH initiative is now in its third and final year within the framework of the EU’s first pilot round. The continued collaboration will build on our exi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/opportunities-and-challenges-european-collaboration-education - 2025-06-07

Published 8 November 2024 Illustration: Inger Ekström/Pixabay. A research team led by Lund University has developed an AI tool that traces back the most recent places you have been to. The tool acts like a satellite navigation system, but instead of guiding you to your hotel, it identifies the geographical source of microorganisms. This means you can use bacteria to determine whether someone has j

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-gps-system-microorganisms-could-revolutionise-police-work - 2025-06-07

Published 2 June 2017 Andra Jugånaru comes from the threatened CEU university in Hungary. After three months as a visiting doctoral student at LU, she is not sure whether she will have any university to return to. Andra Jugånaru and Samuel Rubenson. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “If the university is closed down, it is a very big step backwards, a step towards the higher education of the Communist era in t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-community-deplores-threat-closure-hungarian-ceu - 2025-06-07

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 19 March 2024 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have led a study involving osteoporosis patients with hip fractures. The results show that it is possible to increase bone formation around surgical implants. Photo: iStock New research shows that it is possible to induce new bone formation around orthopaedic i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/making-bone-alive-ceramic-material-transforming-new-bone-tissue-osteoporotic-patients - 2025-06-07

Published 29 May 2019 Henrik Jörntell and Jonas Enander After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and the

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-06-07

Published 29 April 2019 Henrik Jörntell and Jonas Enander After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-06-07

Published 13 October 2023 Photo: iStock/NoSystem images International law supports women’s right to breastfeed in the public. However, women report having been subjected to negative responses and judgmental looks when breastfeeding outside the home. This is according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, based on surveys answered by women living in Sweden, Ireland and Australia. The resea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/negative-attitudes-towards-breastfeeding-public-still-issue - 2025-06-07

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 29 May 2022 Faith, Nahid, David and Pamla came from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Photo: Anna Löthman 18 delegates traveled from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2025-06-07

Published 31 May 2022 Faith, Nahid, David and Pamla came from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Photo: Anna Löthman 18 people came from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all this way? And what knowledge will they bring back? Meet Pamla, Faith, Nah

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2025-06-07

Published 14 January 2016 New findings indicate that the risk of developing COPD is twice as high for women as it is for men. Photo: MostPhotos A new study by researchers at Lund University, Sweden shows that women can have a considerably higher risk than men of developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Using a new diagnostic method, researchers have now shown that the risk of devel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/women-higher-risk-develop-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease - 2025-06-07

Published 12 July 2017 A new study has identified the four actions that would have the greatest impact on an individual’s greenhouse gas emissions: eating a plant-based diet, avoiding air travel, living car free, and having fewer children. The comprehensive study analysed 39 peer-reviewed articles, carbon calculators and government sources to quantify the most high-impact personal lifestyle choice

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lifestyle-choices-most-reduce-your-carbon-footprint - 2025-06-07

Published 25 May 2022 Satellite image showing fires in an agricultural area in the southwestern part of Chernobyl. Satellite image by Lina Eklund. In the wake of climate change and an increasingly warmer and drier climate, wildfires are becoming more common. In Ukraine, the war further increases the risk. Already in March this year, fires broke out around Chernobyl. CMES researcher Lina Eklund fea

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-warn-increased-fire-risk-war-torn-ukraine - 2025-06-07

Published 12 October 2016 Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledge of the actual causes and the interplay between genetics and lifestyle factors. By studying how our genes expre

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/review-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-06-07

Published 16 September 2016 “Sweden is currently making a lot of progress in issues concerning sustainability. The country is at the forefront and it is exciting to be a part of it”, says the new director of LUCSUS, Emily Boyd. Emily Boyd believes that working at LUCSUS and Lund University will provide good opportunities to help solve these challenges. She enters through the magnificent doors of t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sweden-forefront-sustainability - 2025-06-07

Published 27 November 2013 A recently discovered HIV strain leads to significantly faster development of AIDS than currently prevalent forms, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. Patrik Medstrand The period from infection to development of AIDS was the shortest reported among HIV-1 types, at around five years.There are over 60 different epidemic strains of HIV-1 in the world,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-aggressive-hiv-strain-leads-faster-aids-development - 2025-06-07