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Nästa vecka besöker Kevin Anderson Lunds universitet och medverkar i flera olika arrangemang. Professor Kevin Anderson från England är en av världens ledande experter på klimatfrågan. Han har skrivit ett antal uppmärksammade artiklar om hur bråttom det är att agera och minska våra utsläpp av växthusgaser. För allmänheten blir det en föreläsning måndagen 10 april kl 18.00 till 19.30 i Atriumgården,

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/klimatforskaren-kevin-anderson-besoker-lund - 2025-10-09

A few years ago, Maria Ekelin, programme director for our midwifery programme at the University of Texas, taught within the framework of STINT Teaching Sabbatical. "I'm passionate about educational issues and always have the University of Texas and how they did it in the back of my mind". A few years ago, Maria Ekelin, program director for our midwifery education, was in Austin, University of Texa

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/time-apply-teaching-sabbatical-108-among-most-fun-things-ive-done-teacher - 2025-10-09

Welcome to a book launch of the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas with editors Dalia Abdelhady (CMES, Lund University) and Ramy Aly (American University in Cairo) and contributing authors Öncel Naldemirci (Umeå University), Ángela Suárez Collado (University of Salamanca) and Pinar Dinc (CMES, Lund University). Event Information Where: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16, Lund) and on Zoom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-routledge-handbook-middle-eastern-diasporas - 2025-10-09

Welcome to the first "WCMM fireside chat" article. This is a new series is dedicated to highlighting the work of researchers within and around the WCMM in Lund to promote collaboration and communication. We start today with Jacob Vogel, a Data-Driven Life Sciences (DDLS) fellow with a focus on neurodegenerative disease. Although not a member of the WCMM, Jacob is working closely with some of our r

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-jacob-vogel - 2025-10-09

Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/uzbekistan-takes-steps-towards-establishing-welfare-state-and-eradicating-poverty-iron-feast-iron - 2025-10-09

A team of researchers from Lund University and the Lund Stem Cell Center have developed a new memory-efficient tool for single-cell genomic analysis called Scarf. Now available in Nature Communications, this innovative, bioinformatics software has the potential to help researchers navigate a growing treasure trove of data and set them on the path to answering new scientific questions related to hu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/introducing-scarf-memory-efficient-solution-single-cell-genomic-analysis - 2025-10-09

In Tanzania, girls on their period avoid going to school, something that affects their opportunities for education. A new study from LUCSUS shows that the menstrual cup could be a step towards better school attendance, and a life with more freedom. It could also play a part in reducing waste in the country. As a young woman in Tanzania, having your period is associated with great challenges, myths

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-cups-could-help-girls-attend-school-tanzania - 2025-10-09

The Faculty of Medicine’s new knowledge centre, Forum Medicum, has been inaugurated with great pomp and ceremony. During August, staff and students moved into the building and filled the premises. Forum Medicum brings together the University’s health sciences and biomedical research and education at a single knowledge centre in the middle of the Knowledge Highway on Sölvegatan, directly adjacent t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forum-medicum-opens-its-doors - 2025-10-10

Filipe Pereira and his research team have discovered a recipe on how to reprogram cancer cells into antigen-presenting dendritic cells, essential for initiating and enhancing anti-tumour immunity. This approach provides a promising strategy for cancer treatment. The goal of the now awarded project is to engineer the "vehicle" to deliver the instruction converting the cells, utilizing RNA vectors f

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/professor-filipe-pereira-awarded-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2025-10-09

Filipe Pereira and his research team have discovered a recipe on how to reprogram cancer cells into antigen-presenting dendritic cells, essential for initiating and enhancing anti-tumour immunity. This approach provides a promising strategy for cancer treatment. The goal of the now awarded project is to engineer the "vehicle" to deliver the instruction converting the cells, utilizing RNA vectors f

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-filipe-pereira-awarded-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2025-10-09

Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the crowd. Cyberattacks against higher education institutions and other public authorities, as well as against companies, have s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2025-10-09

"Now I dare to rejoice a little", says Sven Lidin, dean of the Faculty of Science. "The uphill task that establishment in Brunnshög had become at times is now much easier, as the whole Department of Chemistry has agreed to join in the move." Another person breathing a sigh of relief is Leif Bülow, who is in his fourth year as head of the department. These years have been marked by extensive discus

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemists-jump-science-village-bandwagon - 2025-10-09

Dr. habil. Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. He is currently a Visiting Professor and tutor in our PhD Program in Fine Arts. We asked him a few questions about his work at Malmö Art Academy. What is your role at Malmö Art Academy, and what is you background?Since last year, 2024, I have been working as a tutor in the PhD Program in Fine Arts. By academic train

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/get-know-dr-andreas-broeckmann-visiting-professor-and-tutor-our-phd-program-fine-arts - 2025-10-09

Just before the summer, the Vice-Chancellor decided on Lund University's Green Travel Plan. It highlights the issues the University needs to work on in the future to further enhance its work on sustainable commuting to work and studies. The University's work within CoAction to promote a carbon-neutral Lund, as well as the previous project on sustainable mobility at Lund University, have now result

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-travel-plan-commuting-decided - 2025-10-10

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2025-10-09

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2025-10-09

As Tova Mark’s presidency comes to an end, she is getting ready to hand over the reins to Agnes Ask. We got a chance to speak with both of them about the past year and expectations of what is to come. Tova, you had been very active in the student life and LundaEkonomerna ever since you started here in Lund. This last year you stepped it up a level and became president just in time for your 30 year

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/one-president-next-one-lundaekonomerna - 2025-10-09

Sustainability Week is an annual event organised in collaboration between Lund University and Lund Municipality. This year, over 60 lectures, guided tours, exhibitions, and more are arranged. Researchers from BECC are part in several of the events – you are all welcome to join! Andas frisk luft och höra fågelsång i en tät stad - hur kommer vi dit? 17 april, 09:00-12:00  Städernas befolkning ut

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/sustainability-week-lund-events-becc-researchers - 2025-10-09

A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between Ingvar Kamprad and Thomas Johannesson, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH)… Thomas Johannesson was

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-10-09

Through her work, Professor Cenci Nilsson has developed preclinical models mimicking the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia, exploiting these models to discover disease mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches. With this motivation, MultiPark’s coordinator was awarded the 2022 Bengt Falck Prize in Neuroscience. In this extensive interview, Angela Cenci Nilsson shares he

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multiparks-coordinator-awarded-bengt-falck-prize-neuroscience - 2025-10-09