Filetype
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-04-23
The LU Faculty of Social Sciences will offer five Autumn Workshops in Methods and Methodologies this year. These are for teachers, researchers, and PhD candidates from all fields and faculties who desire to continue to broaden and deepen their knowledge of research methods. You may sign up for more than one workshop: their schedules do not conflict. And they are FREE for all Ph D students at Lund
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/autumn-methods-workshops-2023 - 2026-04-24
Eight researchers will be awarded visiting professorships at the faculty during 2026–2027. Dean Per Persson is very pleased with the high quality of the applicants and that half of those recruited are women. When the faculty's research committee began reviewing the 86 applications, it quickly became clear that there were many highly qualified candidates among the applicants. The list included, for
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/equal-representation-faculty-science - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Ellen Hillbom, the economic historian, who, in cooperation with a Dutch and a German colleague, has created an online textbook on trends in Africa’s economic history. The book, which can be downloaded free of charge from the internet, has so far reached over 4,000 readers. Ellen Hillbom. Where did you get the ide
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ellen-hillbom-about-free-digital-textbook-about-africa - 2026-04-23
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. CenCIP anordnar en gemensam ISF-workshop med Skövde Högskola med inriktning mot Kritiska Infrastrukturer. Joint ISF Workshop on Protection of Critical InfrastructuresStockholm, 7A Centralen, Vasagatan 7, 2018-10-16, 9:00-16:00Critical infrastructure such as the power grid, the traffic network, healthcare,water suppl
https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/joint-critical-infrastructure-workshop - 2026-04-23
Students are enrolling in large numbers at LUSEM, particularly in Sweden's most popular BSc in Business and Economics taught in Swedish: Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet. When the application numbers from the first and second selection rounds for eligible applicants are compiled, our Ekonomie kandidatprogram ranks as the clear number one among all undergraduate programmes in business and economics taug
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/most-popular-swedish-bsc-business-and-economics-student-magnet - 2026-04-23
Katarina Olsson, Professor Emerita of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, has been awarded the Medal for Significant Deeds for her many and varied contributions to Sweden's foundations. Nine medals were awarded during the Royal Patriotic Society's annual ceremony on 21 May at the Royal Swedish House of Knights. HRH Prince Daniel presented the medals. Katarina Olsson's contributions to the Swedish Fou
https://www.law.lu.se/article/katarina-olsson-has-been-awarded-medal-significant-deeds-0 - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate-KIC summer school and ICOS Sweden's research station in Hyltemossa have been featured in the media this summer. Climate-KIC Summer School "The Journey" attracted students from all corners of the world. Among other locations, the students visited the ICOS research station in Hyltemossa, where they learned more
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/studies-and-research-hyltemossa - 2026-04-23
Are you curious about the Arctic, and what it is like to work there? INTERACT is a network of stations around the Arctic that is building capacity for research and monitoring in the Arctic. INTERACT has earlier published several books, and this autumn they had a film premiere, and released short films in collaboration with BBC, giving interested a great opportunity to learn more about the Arctic.
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/interact-docu-series-and-bbc-short-films-about-arctic - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CyberOrient welcomes Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University in Sweden as a new Managing Editor along with Vit Sisler at Charles University. An expanded CyberOrient, an official open-access journal of the American Anthropological Association, is now up and ready for surfing. The renewed website, cyberorient.net, now has ar
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-anders-ackfeldt-new-editor-journal-cyberorient - 2026-04-23
With the objective of digitizing Swedish printed material from the 1400s to modern times, a collaboration has been established between the National Library of Sweden and the five university libraries in Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Umeå. The undertaking lays the basis of a long-term digitization undertaking. The material included in the digitization is composed of books, newspapers, m
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-library-collaboration-will-digitize-swedish-printed-material - 2026-04-23
After a huge response with over 60 creative name suggestions from students and staff at the faculty, the decision has now been made: the Astronomy Building is getting a new name and will step into the future as Universum! In the coming years, the building will be developed into a natural meeting place for the natural sciences, bringing together the study centre, faculty management, the faculty off
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/astronomy-building-gets-new-name-welcome-universum - 2026-04-23
Dealing with heat is about more than implementing technical solutions such as cold rooms, access to water, green areas and communication systems. Equally, if not more, important is to strengthen social networks, reduce income disparities and eliminate social vulnerability. Sustainability researcher Maryam Nastar comments on the heat wave in Canada and North America based on her research on extreme
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reduced-inequality-and-better-social-networks-crucial-dealing-heatwaves - 2026-04-23
Outside the different examining rooms at paediatric oncology unit 64 hang laminated name signs with rainbows, unicorns and tractors that the young patients have made themselves. Each year, the unit receives around 60 new paediatric cancer patients from southern Sweden requiring examination or treatment. Of these, 85 per cent survive. Kees-Jan Pronk shares his time between being a doctor in paediat
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/all-energies-fighting-pediatric-cancer - 2026-04-23
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 - 2026-04-23
On Friday the 4 March, the university's anniversary was celebrated. Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström began with a speech on the current world situation: Honoured emeriti vice-chancellors, honoured deans, students, colleagues and guests, In the foreword to the annual academic ceremony programme, you will see a summary of what this speech was intended to be about. Today, after a dark week that will cha
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/speech-annual-academic-ceremony-4-march-2022 - 2026-04-23
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. 14 november är Världsdiabetesdagen, därför att det är Frederick Bantings födelsedag. Den kanadensiske läkaren Banting som har gått till historien som insulinets upptäckare. diabetesportalen.se uppmärksammar dagen med en artikel om Diabetesförbundets kamp under den första tiden för de sockersjukas sak. I mitten av ma
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/riksforbundets-kamp-de-sockersjuka - 2026-04-23
This fall and winter Skissernas Museum present a selection of the more than 500 works of art by 350 artists that Public Art Agency Sweden acquired in 2021 in support of the Swedish art world during the pandemic. Skissernas Museum invites all employees at the university to a lunch showing. The Corona Collection includes works of art by artists of different generations and diverse backgrounds from t
The Humanities Lab has received SEK 19 million from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in order to develop a new laboratory – GoLab. GoLab is an investment in mobile technology that makes it possible for researchers from all disciplines to study cognition, communication and culture outside the conventional lab, in real life. Researchers from many of the University’s disciplines study the ways in which
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/golab-brings-lab-object-study-not-other-way-around - 2026-04-24
The first offers for the first autumn application has been sent. Login to your housing account to see if you have received an offer. The deadline to respond is Sunday, 25 May. Yesterday we have sent out offers for our available housing. All applicants who have received an offer will have received an e-mail informing them that they have received an offer and are urged to log in to their housing acc
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/first-autumn-application-offers-sent - 2026-04-23
