Published 19 May 2022 After many years, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has sequenced and characterized the entire genome of oats. This opens up for breeding healthier oats with even better nutritional content, and growing oats in a more environmentally sustainable way. The detailed genetic analyzes also strengthen the evidence that oats are safe in a gluten-free diet. The results

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/entire-oat-genome-mapped - 2025-06-09

Published 11 June 2023 Once again LUSEM has strengthened its position as an attractive school for studies in finance. Photo: Ludvig Nybogård LUSEM has climbed to an even higher position in the Financial Times annual ranking of the world's best master's programmes in Finance and has thereby once again strengthened its position as an attractive school for studies in finance. Today (12 June 2023) the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-climbs-again-ft-masters-finance-ranking - 2025-06-09

Published 2 April 2020 Our students and teachers share their stories on how to learn and teach in Sweden during the coronavirus outbreak. Better than expected, but not without its challenges, especially socially. That’s how a couple of our students and staff tell the story of how we went from campus education to distance learning methods in a matter of days. Wednesday 18 March. The campus is still

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/students-and-teachers-share-their-stories-distance-learning-due-covid-19 - 2025-06-09

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 22 March 2024 Climate change, gender and peace are closely linked, according to Agenda 2030 Award winner Christie Nicoson's research. She is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science and part of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Sara Håkansson While we are inundated with data on rising temperatures, ca

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-student-christie-nicoson-agenda-2030-award-winner-2024 - 2025-06-09

Published 3 October 2024 Marie Sydoff, PhD, Medical Radiation Physicist is working with imaging in nuclear medicine at LBIC, using techniques such as PET/SPECT/CT. Photo: Lisa Karlsson In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equ

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-26-million-sek-nuclear-medicine-imaging-equipment-upgrade - 2025-06-09

Published 18 September 2017 Photo: Roger Lundholm Hospitals should design premises and adapt their infection control routines to a society that no longer has effective antibiotics, and that is vulnerable to fast-spreading global pandemics. This is argued in a new dissertation from Lund University in Sweden. “Many hospitals in Sweden and the world are becoming old and worn out. Therefore, we now ha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hospital-design-and-innovative-cleaning-can-protect-patients-resistant-bacteria - 2025-06-09

Published 12 March 2024 The IIIEE has the pleasure to welcome Bert Keirsbilck as a visiting fellow in the spring 2024.  Bert is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of KU Leuven. He lectures Commercial law, EU Law and European Economic Law in Brussels, Leuven and Kortrijk. He is a co-director of Consumer Competition Market (CCM) and is a co-promotor of the CE Center – Steunpunt

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/visiting-fellow-bert-keirsbilck-ku-leuven - 2025-06-09

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 15 January 2025 The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2025-06-10

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallén-Widung) - published 25 October 2024 Photo: Max Böhme When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear tha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2025-06-10

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 12 May 2025 Betty Saenyi. Betty Saenyi is in her last semester of her doctoral studies at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her PhD journey so far. Betty, why did you choose to pursue a doctoral education?“Funny enough, a PhD was never my dre

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/meet-betty-saenyi-doctoral-student-department-informatics - 2025-06-10

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 25 November 2024 Kristian Riesbeck, professor of clinical bacteriology at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analysed. The study, which attracted a lot of attention, showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance to antibiotics. No

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/pandrug-resistant-bacteria-war-ukraine-are-extremely-pathogenic - 2025-06-09

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 2 May 2020 Wood anemones may get new competitors. Photo: Hanna Gamdrup. In recent decades, the climate in Sweden has become about two degrees warmer on average and this year we have seen an unprecedentedly mild winter and early spring. How is nature responding – animals, insects, plants – to an increasingly mild

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unusually-early-spring-how-nature-sweden-responding-increasingly-warm-climate - 2025-06-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 6 October 2022 Barry Ness and Darin Wahl hope that their insights can both enhance other ongoing research in the field, as well as deepen comprehensions of transdisciplinary processes. Sustainability science is about making impact for societal transformations. Building transdisciplinary relationships for the co-creation of kno

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-build-transdisciplinary-and-trusting-relationships-societal-transformations - 2025-06-09

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 28 September 2023 In Sweden, aquathermal energy is still quite unexplored, except for some local initiatives such as the heat pump plant, Rya Värmepumpverk, in Gothenburg. Photo: Edvin Johansson, Unsplash. How can aquathermal energy systems support a sustainable energy transition in the European Union? This

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-eu-project-aims-pave-way-sustainable-heating-and-cooling-solutions - 2025-06-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 June 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in Nor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-06-09

Published 23 October 2023 Photo: Dean Drobot/MostPhotos Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This according to a new report from Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-06-09

Published 3 March 2021 Through its third accreditation, LUSEM achieves "Triple Crown" status and can be counted among the business schools in the world that maintain absolute top quality. Lund University School of Economics and Management has received its third accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and thereby joins the ranks of top business schoo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-joins-ranks-top-business-schools-worldwide-awarded-triple-crown - 2025-06-09

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 25 November 2024 Kristian Riesbeck, professor of clinical bacteriology at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analysed. The study, which attracted a lot of attention, showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance to antibiotics. No

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pandrug-resistant-bacteria-war-ukraine-are-extremely-pathogenic - 2025-06-10

By fritzliselotte [at] gmail [dot] com (Liselotte Fritz) - published 25 May 2021 Kajsa Brolin, doctoral student in Translational Neurogenetics at Lund University, is using the biobank in her doctoral thesis. Photo: Kennet Ruona Around 20 000 Swedes are currently suffering from Parkinson’s disease, yet there are still only treatments to alleviate symptoms. Through a new biobank, researchers gain ac

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-biobank-provides-insights-parkinsons-disease - 2025-06-09

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 25 May 2021 Researchers and/or local government can use the knowledge gaps identified in the study to develop data collection protocols that can help better monitor and assess the HAP impacts and improve them, says Maryam Nastar. Photo: Unsplash. In a new study, LUCSUS researcher Maryam Nastar, identifies ke

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/heat-action-plans-urban-cities-risks-excluding-most-vulnerable - 2025-06-09