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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carbon offsetting is an environmental strategy based on financing climate measures in developing countries to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions in industrialised countries. In recent years, it has become a popular strategy among companies as well as private individuals to reduce their carbon footprint.Tree-plant

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/planting-trees-africa-dubious-environmental-strategy-study - 2026-04-25

Christmas is approaching and we’re all starting to look forward to some relaxation and Christmas spirit. But before you wind down, here are a few reminders. Service Desk: opening hoursService Desk and the telephone switchboard will be closed from 24 December to 28 December and from 31 December to 6 January.Please note that the staffing level may vary regarding Service Desk and other support servic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/christmas-coming-first-few-tips-ahead-break-0 - 2026-04-26

Margaret-Anney Storey, professor of computer science at the University of Victoria in Canada, and Semmy Rülf, an entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to the management of research from Lund University and LTH, have been appointed honorary doctors at LTH. Semmy Rülf is a prominent entrepreneur and innovator with strong links to Lund University and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), an

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/semmy-rulf-and-margaret-anne-storey-new-honorary-doctors-lth - 2026-04-25

Several Nobel laureates, renowned scientists, and successful biotech entrepreneurs are coming to Lund in May to participate in the Lund Spring Symposium, an international pharmaceutical symposium sponsored by MultiPark. Sarah Tabrizi, a high profile Huntington researcher, and some of MultiPark's own researchers will speak. Medications are the physician's primary tool when treating their patients,

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/superstars-coming-lund-pharmaceutical-symposium-sponsored-multipark - 2026-04-25

On 14 October 2022, Jessica Giacomoni will defend her Ph.D. thesis. With the ultimate goal to develop a possible, future alternative to cell transplantation for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, her research efforts have focused on the direct conversion of human glial cells into therapeutic neurons directly within the brain. Here, she tells us about future possibilities with this emerg

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/turning-glia-neurons-inside-brain-phd-interview-jessica-giacomoni - 2026-04-25

One in three patients is asked about their lifestyle habits when they visit the outpatient healthcare clinics. This figure really ought to be higher, according to Professors Hanne Tønnesen and Inger Kristensson Hallström, who are in charge of the WHO Collaborating Centre at Lund University. Lifestyle should concern the health care system even more than it does today,stresses Hanne Tønnesen: “We qu

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-mission-creating-evidence-how-health-care-can-prevent-disease - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson hope to be able to lay the foundations for the medicines and diagnostic methods of the future. It is one of those unusually clear mornings in late Nove

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. It is a journey that is not over yet. However, with another prestigious research grant from Formas she feels secure in Lund for the next three years.   “I would be able to begin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-found-sanctuary-lund - 2026-04-25

Now they are here, to scrutinize SWEAH’s operations inside and out. Yesterday three external evaluators landed in Lund, to review the Swedish National Graduate School on Ageing and Health. During tuesday and wednesday this week, they will meet with Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Lena Eskilsson, the SWEAH management, alumni and about 30 students who are s

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/evaluators-we-want-learn-about-all-your-secrets - 2026-04-25

A few questions for CASE doctoral student Jens Offerman, who recently published about the use of technology during the pandemic. What does it reveal?- The result of our study highlights both the preparedness and the ability to adapt to an unfavorable situation, such as a pandemic among people from three different generations, 30-39, 50-59 and 70-79 years. Six out of ten respondents increased their

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/large-increase-technology-use-among-oldest-during-pandemic - 2026-04-25

Antanas Bukartas' thesis is now officially on the wall together with the others Dissertation September 17th, 2021 Mobile measurement data analysis in radiological emergency situation using BAyesian statistical methods Faculty opponent: dr Tzany Kokalova Wheldon, University of Birmingham Antanas Bukartas is inviting you to a scheduled LU Zoom meeting TOPIC: Antanas Bukartas' PhD Defense WHEN: Sep 1

https://www.msf-malmo.lu.se/article/antanas-bukartas-thesis-and-dissertation - 2026-04-25

The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings-2025 - 2026-04-25

The program is called "Longer-living older adults: Multidisciplinary approaches to a growing area of research on aging" and is hosted by the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging at Mount Saint Vincent University and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Aging. The SWEAH PhD Aber Sharon Kagwa, a second year PhD. student at the Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Science

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/three-sweah-affiliated-researchers-are-going-canada-summer-program-aging-spa-2023 - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Doctoral education in Service Studies at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies is interdisciplinary and focuses on services as an object of study. But what is it like being a doctoral student at ISM, what can a normal working week look like and what kind of research areas are our doctoral students i

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/job-lets-me-grow-many-ways - 2026-04-25

In January, the university director will make a decision on adopting a new remit and organisation for Corporate Communication within the Central Administration. Corporate Communication must be able to meet new needs at no extra cost. In this situation, other activities need to be deprioritised. The University Management has identified LUM as an activity that should be reprioritised in favour of ot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/proposal-reprioritisation-leads-closure-lum - 2026-04-26

To researchers at the Faculties for Humanities and Theology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law and the School of Economics and Management. The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes during the autumn semester 2024 and/or spring semester 2025.The theme must have a clear connect

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-european-themes-4 - 2026-04-25

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes to be organized at Lund University during the autumn semester 2025 and/or spring semester 2026. The funds can be used for inviting guest speakers or lecturers to seminars, lectures, symposia and similar events. The theme must deal with Europe, Europea

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-0 - 2026-04-25

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes to be organized at Lund University during the spring and autumn semester 2026. The funds can be used for inviting guest speakers or lecturers to seminars, lectures, symposia and similar events. The theme must deal with Europe, European conditions, and

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-autumn-2025 - 2026-04-25

Did you miss the chance in the spring to apply for funds to develop a commissioned education course at your department, or would you like to try again? Now, the University is opening another round of applications, starting on 1 September. In order to provide further support for organisations within LU in the development of new commissioned education courses, a second round of applications for stra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-opportunity-apply-funds-develop-commissioned-education-courses - 2026-04-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first round of applications for strategic funding to develop commissioned education closed on Thursday 14 May. “We are very satisfied with the large number of submitted applications, especially in the prevailing Covid-19 situation. The great interest in the call for applications shows that there is an increased am

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-departments-show-considerable-interest-developing-new-commissioned-education-courses - 2026-04-25