Published 4 June 2024 Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award. QS has published annual university rankings since 2004. On 4 June, QS published its latest

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-ranking-wins-sustainability-award - 2025-01-01

Published 9 June 2024 The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, can spread dengue fever, Zika virus and chikungunya. Photo: James Gathany/CDC/Wikimedia commons. Global warming has meant that diseases such as West Nile fever, NTM infections, and new tick-borne viruses are on their way or have already taken hold in Sweden. People are being affected by new diseases, and challenges for the health sy

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-diseases-tropical-sweden - 2025-01-01

Published 10 June 2024 A record number of doctors received their hat or laurel wreath during the University’s ceremonial highlight of the year – the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony – on 31 May. A total of 266 doctors received their laurel wreath or hat together with 15 honorary doctors. At the same time, 67 doctors became jubilee doctors. A record number of doctorates were conferred this year,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pernilla-august-named-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2025-01-01

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 18 June 2024 Jonas Ljunggren began to examine the data on historical consumer price indices in several popular databases. He found that in several cases the figures had been distorted compared to what was stated in the original source. (AI-generated image/Firefly) New research from Lund University found several inaccur

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/errors-detected-several-historical-consumer-price-indices - 2025-01-01

Published 11 July 2024 Filipe Pereira and Per Augustsson have been awarded Proof of Concept grants. Photos: Håkan Röjder and Kennet Ruona Per Augustsson at LTH and Filipe Pereira at the Faculty of Medicine have been awarded Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in the first round of 2024. The ERC today announced 100 new Proof of Concept grants, of which a total of three

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Published 28 July 2024 Film: Johan Nyman, Lund University. A commercially available blood test has now been trialled in routine healthcare. “The blood test showed about 90% reliability even in primary care. This may have major implications for all those individuals who seek help for memory loss and suspected Alzheimer’s,” say the researchers at Lund University in Sweden behind the study. Alzheimer

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/groundbreaking-alzheimers-blood-test-proves-highly-effective-primary-healthcare - 2025-01-01

By lena [dot] bjork_blixt [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Lena Björk Blixt) - published 14 August 2024 In the study, each bumblebee had a small tag attached to its back so that the researchers could distinguish the various individuals when testing their navigation ability. Photo: Rickesh Patel. Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new re

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-01-01

Published 20 August 2024 Lund University School of Economics and Management has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and The Association of MBAs (AMBA). The triple accreditation, or the Triple Crown, is the combination of accreditations held by around 130 business schools worldwide (less than 1 per cent of all business schools). It is awarde

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-retains-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2025-01-01

Published 20 August 2024 On Tuesday, 20 August, Lund University welcomed new international students for the autumn semester. A total of 4,500 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University for the autumn of 2024. Among them, 1,000 are exchange students, while the remaining 3,500 include degree-seeking students at both undergraduate and advanced levels, as well as particip

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-students-arrive-lund-university - 2025-01-01

Published 23 August 2024 Photo: Diego Cambiaso, CC BY-SA 2.0 The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature, not whether they live in a city or the countryside. This is the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at Lund University, Sweden. The results run counter to the assumption that growing up in the countryside automatically increases o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/socioeconomics-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2025-01-01

Published 27 August 2024 In animal studies, researchers have developed an injectable cardiac stimulator for emergency situations. The illustration shows how the injectable heart stimulator is supposed to work when fully developed and tested. Figure: created with biorender.com. By injecting a solution of nanoparticles around the heart, a temporary heart stimulator self-assembles, which can correct

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/injectable-heart-stimulator-emergency-situations-1 - 2025-01-01

Published 2 September 2024 Photo: Melanie Karlsson It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund University suggests. After thirty years, the plant species richness around the cultivated crop had doubled on organic farms compared to conventional farms. It is well know

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organic-farms-had-doubled-plant-diversity-only-over-time - 2025-01-01

Published 5 September 2024 Illustration of an exoplanet (Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser) A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be considerably more complex than researchers have previously thought. The newly discovered planet TOI-1408c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-discover-space-oddity-exoplanet-moving-mysterious-ways - 2025-01-01

Published 5 September 2024 Sociologist Lisa Flower, biologist Øystein Opedal, economic historian Ingrid van Dijk and linguist Karolin Obert have received the prestigious grant from the EU. Their research focuses on video links in court cases, plant adaptation to pollinators, health inequalities over time, and language change in hunter-gatherer societies as they move around. The ERC Starting Grant

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-researchers-lund-university-receive-erc-starting-grant - 2025-01-01

Published 12 September 2024 Photo: Hugo Fernandes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Donald Trump’s background in professional wrestling paved the way for his political career. By using the wrestling concept “kayfabe” – the art of making staged events seem real – Trump embodies the message that politics was always fake, while masquerading as authentic. This has tapped into an already existing di

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-trump-turned-elections-wrestling-match - 2025-01-01

Published 12 September 2024 Photo: iStock/kali9 There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that received oxygen therapy at home for 24 hours a day, and a group that received the same therapy for 15 hours a day, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. “Thi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-benefits-24-hour-compared-15-hour-oxygen-therapy - 2025-01-01

Published 17 September 2024 Photo: Mostphotos/MARILYN BARBONE Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar and starch as for those who followed FODMAP – the diet currently recommended to patients. The results, presented in a new study from Lund University in Sweden, also show that weight loss is greater and sugar cravings are reduced among those

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cutting-out-sugar-and-starch-effective-ibs-current-recommendations - 2025-01-01

Published 19 September 2024 Dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world. They also possess an exceptional ability to cooperate. Research shows that female and male spider dung beetles together are able to move large dung balls across difficult obstacles. However, same-sex attempts to do the same always ended in aggressive fights. Dung beetles live in and on animal droppings. By break

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/beetles-cooperate-tricky-dung-moves - 2025-01-01

Published 23 September 2024 Recruiter Academic Work annually conducts the Young Professional Attraction Index (YPAI) survey, in which they ask young people in various occupations which employer they would most like to work for. The annual survey is based on data from over 4,740 respondents and reveals what the target group considers most important when choosing an employer.The study aims to help c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-8th-most-attractive-employer-according-recruitment-agency - 2025-01-01

Published 26 September 2024 Grazing zooplankton, daphnia, which are an important source of food for fish, were found to be particularly vulnerable (Photo: Erik Selander/Lund University) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. The results are surprising and the researchers are the first to show that some species are being

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/grazing-zooplankton-severely-impacted-nanoplastic-particles - 2025-01-01