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Foto: Nick Fewings på Unsplash As a teaching staff member working in Canvas, you are responsible for ensuring that the content you share with your students is adapted for accessibility. In this article, you will find tips from The Project group for web accessibility on what to bear in mind for all types of information published online and on digital platforms. You will also find links and informat

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/5-tips-making-your-course-canvas-more-accessible - 2026-07-15

Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview, the former aid worker told the reporter: “My pain is under control and I’m terribly happy – it sounds weird to say, but I’m as happy as I’ve ever been in my life.”It may seem odd that a person could be happy as the end draws near, but in my experience as a clinical psyc

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/why-are-some-people-happy-when-they-are-dying - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our researchers Goran Basic, Sophia Yakhlef and Malin Åkerström have published two new reports on their Project Turnstone. Turnstone is a study of the cooperation between the border police and coastguards in the Baltic Sea area.Based on empirical material (interviews and field observations), the purpose is to map and

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/passenger-safety-and-police-and-coastguard-collaboration-baltic-sea-area - 2026-07-15

How can companies make sustainable decisions that also take nature’s worth into account? The research program Mistra BIOPATH at Lund University will now receive 50 million SEK from Mistra for another four years to examine this question. The programme focuses on how biodiversity can become a natural part of corporate strategies and financial decision‑making. Today, the value of nature is often miss

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/millions-research-how-businesses-can-promote-biodiversity - 2026-07-14

Edstrandska Stiftelsen has decided to award practising artists Lena Bergendahl, Nicklas Randau and Johan Österholm each a scholarships of SEK 400,000. Graduating students from Malmö Art Academy, Louise Hammer, Olle Helin, Fanny Hellgren and Dag Kewenter are each awarded scholarships of SEK 100,000. The scholarships will this year be handed out by the foundation's board on October 29 in connection

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/edstrandska-stiftelsen-scholarships-2021 - 2026-07-15

LUMES student Carolina Sandoval Marmolejo organised a workshop on how to densify Lund during Lund Sustainability Week together with fellow student Sari Nomura. With their stand in the city centre, they aimed to start a conversation on how the public would like to see their buildings and public spaces used. Passers-by were invited to place sticky notes on a map of Lund on spaces and areas they thin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-students-aim-densify-city-lund-preserve-green-spaces-and-build-community - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The LUMES elective course, Sustainability and Inner Transformation, examines if personal sustainability can have a bearing on driving change for sustainability. The course is part of a research initative, The Contemplative Sustainable Futures Program, a platform for related research, education and networking activitie

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-elective-course-focuses-inner-dimensions-and-transformation-drive-sustainable-change - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Wednesday October the 9:th we were happy to take part of VentureLab in cooperation with LU Innovation and their "Breakfast & Ideas" -concept at Mindpark, Helsingborg. This morning our students Rebecca Arfwedson and Endang Ghani Ashfiya talked about Strategic Communication hands on. They were focusing on strategic c

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/communication-hands-having-careers-start-ups-and-dilemma-change - 2026-07-15

Johan Mauritsson is a professor of atomic physics and a frequent guest at Gerdahallen, Lund University’s foundation-run gym. Now he has taken the step to also qualifying as an instructor. What made you want to become a yoga instructor?“I’ve been doing yoga since I was little, with my mother. Then I found my way back to yoga here at Gerdahallen eight or ten years ago after an injury when I hadn’t p

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/atomic-physicist-who-turned-yoga-instructor - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-ch

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-union-st - 2026-07-15

The Christmas Gift of the Year is chosen to represent the time we live in. It should be either a new product or one experiencing a resurgence in interest, and it must generate significant sales revenues or sell in large quantities. Perfumes date back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, where they symbolized status rather than gender. While fragrances became more gender-specific during the 20th cen

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/hui-presents-christmas-gift-year-unisex-fragrance - 2026-07-15

Last year's Nobel celebration was a digital version, but this year David Julius, who won the Nobel prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2021, will travel to Stockholm for the festivities. In this interview he talks about what such a prize leads to, about the joy of curiosity-driven research that, although lacking guardrails, is full of creativity and opportunities – and about the similarity between

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/his-interest-natural-products-led-nobel-prize - 2026-07-15

2024 LU eScience Hub Event on Thursday 14 March:  Presenting the InfraVis visualisation infrastructure - visualisation experts at your service Programme:13:15 Alexandros Sopasakis - welcome on behalf of the LU eScience hub 13:20 Emanuel Larsson, Node Coordinator for InfraVisTitle: "Introducing Infravis @LU and application experts" 13:35 Jonas Lindemann, LUNARCTitle: "Visualising dams with Python a

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/presenting-infravis-visualisation-infrastructure-march-142024 - 2026-07-15

Dick Harrison is 57 years old and has written 105 books. He lectures all over the country, is a regular expert on TV and radio, runs a podcast, and writes articles for magazines and two columns a week in one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. “Teaching is my calling, though, the thing closest to my identity.” It’s winter and muddy on the drive in front of the Harrisons’ Art Nouveau villa in Åkarp. On

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dick-harrison-brand - 2026-07-14

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 - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. - We discussed questions of how people are geographically affected, who is affected, and therefore who might support or resist a particular political arrangement, and what this means for forests as ecosystems, Emily Boyd, Director at LUCSUS, says. She recently took part in a BECC (Biodiversity and ecosystem services i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/governance-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-global-forestry-sector-emily-boyd-comments-workshop - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Metformin is the first-line drug that can lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. One third of patients do not respond to metformin treatment and 5 per cent experience serious side effects, which is the reason many choose to stop medicating. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now identified bi

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/metformin-type-2-diabetes-patients-or-not-researchers-now-have-answer - 2026-07-15

Kultur och ekonomi förenas allt mer i näringslivet. Sveriges regering och EU slår fast att den kulturella och kreativa sektorn bidrar till ett innovativt klimat. Arkitektur, musik, film, litteratur, konst, datorspel, design och mode lyfts fram som lönsamma branscher. Nu satsar Region Skåne och Lunds universitet på en uppdragsutbildning för att ge Skånes kommuner träning i att driva utvecklingen av

https://www.lu.se/artikel/uppdragsutbildning-satter-fart-pa-kultur-och-innovationer-i-skane - 2026-07-14

Över en fjärdedel av Sveriges kommuner har krympt sedan år 2000. Samtidigt blir befolkningen i dessa kommuner allt äldre, medan antalet unga och personer i arbetsför ålder minskar. Trots det har kommunernas ekonomiska bärkraft hittills hållits uppe bättre än den demografiska utvecklingen tyder på eftersom fler i arbetsför ålder jobbar, visar en ny rapport. Men det kan vara på väg att ändras. I rap

https://www.lu.se/artikel/krympande-kommuner-far-allt-aldre-befolkning-men-ekonomin-har-hittills-hallit-emot - 2026-07-14

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Till vardags omger vi oss av elektroniska produkter utan att egentligen tänka på det. Vi tar bilen eller tåget till jobbet, reser med flyg på semestern och har ett nära förhållande till vår mobiltelefon, iPad och laptop. Vi tar produkternas funktioner för givna tills den dag de plötsligt slutar att fungera. Faktum ä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/eu-projekt-ska-ge-palitligare-elektronik-0 - 2026-07-15