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Applicants for the Master's Programme in Sustainable Urban Design must submit a digital portfolio, showing your best design works in architecture, urban design and/or landscape architecture. The digital portfolio must be submitted as a single PDF file – maximum size 10 MB – and in the file you must also include a statement of purpose and your CV, maximum one page each. Read the instructions below

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-tasud/portfolio-instructions-masters-sustainable-urban-design - 2024-11-01

Published 14 October 2016 Small-scale farmin in Southeast Asia is threatening surrounding forests reports new study. Photo: Y. Clough An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to environmental impact, biodiversity and the economy, ov

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-scale-agriculture-threatens-rainforest - 2024-11-01

By emma [dot] holm [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Holm) - published 14 October 2016 75 percent of all people with haemophilia around the world are left untreated, which causes a great deal of suffering and many severe disabilities. But it is possible to lead a healthy life. This is what the internationally known contract education Haemophilia – from diagnosis to therapy is about. Some 10 y

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pioneering-course-decreases-suffering-people-haemophilia-around-world - 2024-11-01

Applicants to the Master's Programme in Industrial Design are required to submit a digital portfolio, including an application summary, statement of purpose and CV. To be considered for admission, prepare the required documents and submit the PDF file directly to Lund University following the instructions below. Do not upload it to University Admissions in Sweden.InstructionsCompile the following

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-taide/portfolio-instructions-masters-industrial-design - 2024-11-01

Students admitted to the Master’s Programme in Industrial Design can apply for one or two different scholarships depending on their country of origin. Scholarship for living expensesThe scholarship was founded in 2001 and is aimed at students with difficulties affording living costs in Sweden.The two scholarships awarded every year are for SEK 124 200 per year (about EUR 10 600) each, and aim to c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-taide/ingvar-kamprad-scholarship - 2024-11-01

Published 14 October 2016 A skeleton was found during construction work at Leine castle in Niedersachsen, Germany in the summer of 2016. This is where Swedish count Philip Christoph Königsmarck disappeared 322 years ago – could it be him? Lund University in Sweden follows the dangerous love story between Philip Königsmarck and Georg Ludwig’s wife Sophia Dorothea through the love letters they wrote

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-could-300-year-old-murder-mystery-finally-be-solved - 2024-11-01

Published 14 October 2016 The image shows how the negative pressure treatment of a wound works. Illustration: Stine Høxbroe, Copenhagen, Denmark Shorter wound healing time, fewer dressing changes and the opportunity for earlier discharge from the hospital. These are some of the benefits of negative pressure wound therapy to treat wound infections in connection with vascular surgery at the groin. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/faster-and-better-healing-infected-wounds-using-negative-pressure-technique - 2024-11-01

Published 17 October 2016 Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Saha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa-0 - 2024-11-01

Published 17 October 2016 In the first US presidential debate there were many who noticed Donald Trump’s sniffling. It created a twitter storm under the hashtag #TrumpSniffles and the media became extremely interested in the presidential candidate’s health. However, Lisa Flower, a doctoral student in Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, who is currently doing research on emotions, offers an alter

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-was-donald-trump-sniffling - 2024-11-01

Published 17 October 2016 Professor Oksana Mont discusses the the concept of Sustainable Welfare, a key topic in the newly released anthology Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare. Photo: K. Ruona There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are conside

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2024-11-01

Published 20 October 2016 Warm relationship between students and teachers is linked to decreased bullying. Photo: I. Oggiono Warm and caring student-teacher relationships can be linked to students’ motivation to intervene in cases of bullying. Behind those who remain passive bystanders or accomplices to bullying there is often a conflict-filled situation between the student and the teacher. This h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/warm-relationship-between-students-and-teachers-linked-decreased-bullying - 2024-11-01

 Agnė Raščiūtė from LithuaniaWhat were you looking forward to the most before you came to Sweden?"I was waiting to get my views broadened, to get to know more, not only about media and communication, which I chose to study, but also about myself – living abroad, creating new contacts, adjusting to a different culture, the language, and more. I was also looking forward to finding my place within ac

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-samkv/what-agne-says-about-masters-media-and-communication - 2024-11-01

Published 25 October 2016 Research shows how stem cells are negatively affected by oxidation and rust. Photo: L. Harboe Oxygen in the air is well known to cause damaging rust on cars through a process known as oxidation. Similarly, a research group at Lund University in Sweden, has now identified that certain cells during embryonic development also are negatively affected by oxidation. This oxidat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cells-also-rust - 2024-11-01

Published 28 October 2016 Common swift. Photo: N. Camilleri The common swift flies ten months on end without landing. The hypothesis on these birds’ life in the air was presented by British researcher Ron Lockley back in 1970, but it is only now that researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to prove the extreme lifestyle of the species. No other bird species remains in the air for as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-bird-can-stay-ten-months-air-without-landing - 2024-11-01

Published 29 October 2016 Malin Parmar (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The first transplantation of stem cells in patients with Parkinson's disease is almost within reach. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to control stem cells accurately in the lab in order to achieve successful and functional stem cell therapies for patients. - In our preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-production-dopamine-neurons-parkinsons-disease - 2024-11-01

Finding accommodation is a vital step in preparing for your academic journey. There are attractive and affordable housing options close to our campuses in Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg. There are several ways to find great student accommodation in Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg. How to find housingUnless you are a student with a housing guarantee (read more below), you are responsible for finding your

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/student-life/housing - 2024-11-01

Published 4 November 2016 Tuukka Ervasti/ imagebank.sweden.se What connection is there between food and drink with added sugar and coronary artery disease? Until recently, the question had been inadequately answered by research, but an extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has now contributed important clues. The study in question focuses on sucrose. Sucrose occurs naturally in fruit and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/association-between-sugary-diet-and-coronary-artery-disease - 2024-11-01

Published 11 November 2016 Propionibacterium acnes (Photo: Matthias Mörgelin, Lund University) There are more and more examples of the ways in which we can benefit from our bacteria. According to researcher Rolf Lood from Lund University in Sweden, this is true for the skin as well. He has shown that the most common bacteria on human skin secrete a protein which protects us from the reactive oxyge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skin-bacteria-could-protect-against-disease - 2024-11-01

Published 14 November 2016 Photo: Arne Sjöström Seven years ago divers discovered the oldest known stationary fish traps in northern Europe off the coast of southern Sweden. Since then, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Stone Age site. They now believe the location was a lagoon environment where Mesolithic humans lived during parts of the year.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped-out - 2024-11-01

Published 18 November 2016 Lund University’s 350th anniversary is highlighted with two stamps produced by PostNord, Sweden’s postal authority. Although the stamps were first released on 10 November in Stockholm, today was the official ceremonial launch in Lund. The ceremony that took place in the main University building was attended by the Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz, designer Gustav Mår

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-honoured-jubilee-stamps - 2024-11-01