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Thomas Sterner, professor of environmental economics at School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg,and BECC PI, has been ranked as no 9 of the most 101 influential opinion leaders in Sweden for sustainable development. The ranking is made by the sustainability magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet. Motivation: The professor's engagement is most noticeable internationally; As a visiting

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thomas-sterner-no-9-swedens-most-influential-opinion-leaders - 2025-11-27

Det är omöjligt att säga vilken slags forskning som leder till stora genombrott: – Både fri grundforskning och riktade satsningar behövs. Viktigt är att behålla bredden även i den tillämpade forskningen och ge förutsättningar att arbeta långsiktigt, menar idéhistorikern Anna Tunlid. Hur vi uppfattar miljöproblem styrs i hög grad av experter, menar idéhistorikern Anna Tunlid. Anna Tunlid var en av

https://www.lu.se/artikel/mix-av-fri-och-riktad-forskning-behovs - 2025-11-28

Onsdag 9 december kan alla intresserade besöka Historiska museet och möta grundaren av Lunds universitet, biskop Peder Winstrup (1605-1679). Peder Winstrups mumie och flera spännande föremål från kistan kommer att visas upp på museet klockan 10:00-20:00. Det är fri entré hela dagen.– Det här unika tillfället ska man inte missa. Winstrup var en äkta renässansmänniska med stor bredd och han har haft

https://www.lu.se/artikel/oppet-hus-unik-chans-att-se-peder-winstrups-mumie - 2025-11-26

När det vardagliga inte känns igen, när samtalet tystnar, när minnen försvinner. 160 000 i Sverige är drabbade av Alzheimers sjukdom. Något botemedel finns inte, men forskningen har kommit långt i att diagnosticera i ett tidigt skede. – De senaste 10 åren har det skett en revolution när det gäller våra möjligheter att ställa säkra diagnoser. Vi kan nu med moderna metoder påvisa om en person verkli

https://www.lu.se/artikel/pa-jakt-efter-tidiga-tecken-pa-alzheimers-sjukdom - 2025-11-28

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-book-thoughts-swedish-rural-development-programme-and-rural-development-co-authors-cec - 2025-11-28

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, is hereby announcing three tenure track positions; Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern Japan (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern South-East Asia (application now closed) Please follow these instructi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tenure-track-positions - 2025-11-27

Our latest study on COVID-19 transmission risk among healthcare professionals, a collaboration between Prof Magnus Rasmussen (Dep. of Infection Medicine) and Associate Professor Yang De Marinis (Dep. of Clinical Sciences).  The study was conducted on ~500 healthcare professionals and staff members from 9 units at the Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and Lund, as well as non-medicine related depa

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-covid-19-among-healthcare-professionals - 2025-11-27

In order to be able to prescribe the appropriate dose of physical activity to patients, healthcare professionals need to consider a range of individual factors. There is a need to facilitate the assessment of aerobic capacity i. e. maximal oxygen uptake capacity (VO2max), as well as to calculate the intensity of training according to the WHO recommendations for physical activity. Now, researchers

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/my-aerobic-capacity-rpc - 2025-11-27

Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. As usual, researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences participate in several interesting events. Come and listen to your colleagues! The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-scientists-sustainability-week-8-13-april - 2025-11-27

Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s International postdoc-proj

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2025-11-27

Macchiarinis luftstrupar är en av de största skandalerna inom universitetsvärlden på senare tid. Ärendet visar brist på etik och moral ur flera perspektiv. – Detta hände förvisso vid Karolinska institutet, men vid varje lärosäte görs dagligen bedömningar som kan få stora konsekvenser, säger vicerektor Bo Ahrén, ordförande i universitetets nyinrättade Etikrådet. Universitetet har många verksamheter

https://www.lu.se/artikel/etikrad-haller-ragangen-mot-tvivelaktigt-handlande - 2025-11-28

Get to know Ann-Catrin Johansson, the new coordinator at the Unit for Educational Support since the beginning of the year. Ann-Catrin has previously worked as a librarian at LTH with a focus on teaching information literacy as well as reading and writing support for students. Over the next two years, Ann-Catrin will work to strengthen the forms of accessible and inclusive teaching through the proj

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ann-catrin-johansson - 2025-11-27

De humanistiska, teologiska, juridiska och medicinska fakulteterna har utsett följande hedersdoktorer som kommer att promoveras vid jubelpromotionen den 25 maj. Humaniora Timothy Snyder, professor i historia vid Yale University i USA blir hedersdoktor för sina enastående insatser inom forskningsfältet europeisk historia samt för sitt stora engagemang i den internationella forsknings- och samhällsd

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-hedersdoktorer-2018-utsedda - 2025-11-28

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-and-bengtsson-government-communicator - 2025-11-27

The next-door neighbour whose home you’ve never been inside. That was how Jason Diakité, also known as hip hop artist Timbuktu, felt about the University while growing up in Lund. Today, he feels differently – having been awarded an honorary doctorate and now taking his seat as one of LU’s external Cultural Council members. Inside the historic Old Bishop’s House, final preparations are underway fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/timbuktu-universitys-cultural-council-glimpse-under-bonnet - 2025-11-28

The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies offers two different types of interdisciplinary groups: Our Themes, where researchers from different disciplines and faculties at Lund University work on and are paid by the institute one day a week for an entire academic year. And then the flexible meeting format for interdisciplinary research where researchers have the opportunity to work together on

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/four-new-advanced-study-groups-be-welcomed-september - 2025-11-27

A café discussion about energy and how to heat our homes in a sustainable way in the future. This event is part of the Future Week at Lund University, 14-20 October. During Future Week at Lund University, the IIIEE is organising Walking energy, talking energy, a café discussion, that aims to encourage the participants of the event to share experiences and visions of how to heat our homes in a sust

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/walking-energy-talking-energy - 2025-11-28

The final report of how to achieve a cost reduction of SEK 40 million in the animal house organisation by 2027 including an action plan to reach this goal has now been presented. "The main message is that it is now time to act, we urgently need to do something", investigator Bo Ahrén said. According to the report, the challenge for the Faculty is a large over capacity of animal houses and a declin

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/final-report-new-organisation-and-reduced-costs-animal-house - 2025-11-27

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-media-analyses-latest-developments-middle-east - 2025-11-27

This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse goes to Vinay S. Swaminathan at Lund University. He is awarded five million SEK for his research on how healthy breast tissue develops into tumors and spreads. Vinay S. Swaminathan’s research group has developed 3D models that mimics the tumor microenvironment in the laboratory. The technology opens new opportuniti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/healthy-sick-3d - 2025-11-27