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Recently, a new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile captured its first starlight. This marks the start of a new era in astronomy, where researchers will map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument, called 4MOST (Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, it collects spectra or colour

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2026-07-21

Henrik Smith tilldelas Marsh Awards for Ecology av British Ecological Society. Priset uppmärksammar hans långvariga insatser för att utveckla ekologisk forskning och för att stärka kopplingen mellan vetenskap och samhälle. Han själv betonar vikten av att forskningen interagerar med samhället – tiden är förbi när det räckte att skriva en tung studie som sedan stod och samlade damm. Motiveringen til

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/miljopionjar-prisas-forskare-maste-interagera-mer-med-samhallet - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some peopl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2026-07-21

Här hittar du forskare som kan analysera och kommentera den pågående konflikten samt den humanitära krisen i Gaza och andra delar av området. Dalia Abdelhady, sociolog, expert på Migration i Mellanöstern och Egyptendalia [dot] abdelhady [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se, 046-2228848 Dalia Abdelhadys profil i Lunds universitets forskningsportalKarin Aggestam, statsvetare, Israel-Palestina konflikten, dipl

https://www.lu.se/artikel/experter-med-anledning-av-krisen-i-israel-och-palestina-0 - 2026-07-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Per Nordén is not really new to the job of chief security officer. He started working at Lund University’s security division seventeen years ago, staying until 2007, when he took a break. During his twelve-year absence, he worked in the municipality of Kävlinge and most recently at Tetra Pak. The reason for his return

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nordens-new-job-old-one-chief-security-officer-lund-university - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever.  At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2026-07-21

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forskare vid Lunds universitet och Skånes universitetssjukhus har i nyligen publicerade studier tagit fram beräkningsmodeller för bättre anpassad behandling av lymfkörtlar hos bröstcancerpatienter. De senaste resultaten som nu publicerats i Clinical Cancer Research och BMC Cancer visar att upp till var tredje operat

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/farre-lymfkorteloperationer-vid-brostcancer-med-nya-berakningsmodeller - 2026-07-22

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forskare vid Lunds universitet och Skånes universitetssjukhus har i nyligen publicerade studier tagit fram beräkningsmodeller för bättre anpassad behandling av lymfkörtlar hos bröstcancerpatienter. De senaste resultaten som nu publicerats i Clinical Cancer Research och BMC Cancer visar att upp till var tredje operat

https://www.lu.se/artikel/farre-lymfkorteloperationer-vid-brostcancer-med-nya-berakningsmodeller - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the thesis work, a view supported by a survey conducted by the Swedis

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cannot regulate their own

https://www.science.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2026-07-21

CMES will offer several part-time internships for Lund University students during the spring of 2025. Are you a Lund University student with an interest in the Middle East region? The Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies (CMES) offers internships in several projects during the spring semester of 2025. Who We AreCMES supports, coordinates and expands interdisciplinary research on the Middle East

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/come-work-us-student-internships-cmes-spring-2025 - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Urban Arena is a network for sustainable urban development research at Lund University and is gathering almost 200 researchers. On June 15th, an Urban Arena wake-up seminar focusing on the theme “Smart Sustainable Cities” was held.Last year the Strategic Innovation Agenda “Smart Sustainable Cities” was accepted, with

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/first-wake-seminar-about-smart-sustainable-cities - 2026-07-21

On 15 April this year, digital degree certificates were introduced at the University and a considerable improvement has already been noted. It has become faster, more secure and more efficient, which has meant a reduced workload for many staff members and shorter waiting times for students. Up to and including 15 April, all degree certificates were sent out in a printed version and there was only

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-degree-certificates-save-time - 2026-07-22

Lund university has the privilege of inviting you to four lectures by the Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry for 2021 and 2022 and also one Nobel Laureate in Physics 2022. Professor David MacMillan Nobel prize 2021 Nobel prize 2021 for his work on "asymmetric organocatalysis". December 1, 16:00-17:00, Lux, Helgonavägen 3, Lund A public arrangement by the Chemical Society in Lund. Read more: Nobel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-laureates-give-lectures-lund - 2026-07-21

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Forage Potential of Cereal–Legume Mixtures as an Adaptive Climate Change Strategy under Low Input Systems" together with Rajia Kchaou (Tunisian National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry), Salah Benyoussef (National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia), Sihem Jebari (Tunisian National Research Inst

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mixed-cropping-systems-and-climate-change-tunisia - 2026-07-21

Metformin är ett läkemedel som ska sänka blodsockret vid typ 2-diabetes. En tredjedel av patienterna svarar inte på behandlingen och en tredjedel upplever allvarliga biverkningar, varför många väljer att sluta medicinera. Nu har forskare vid Lunds universitets Diabetescentrum utvecklat, och sökt patent på, en markör som genom ett enkelt blodprov i förväg visar hur patienten kommer att svara på beh

https://www.lu.se/artikel/metformin-diabetespatienter-eller-ej-nu-vet-forskare-svaret - 2026-07-22

Neuroblastom är en tumörsjukdom som främst drabbar små barn. Överlevnaden är den lägsta av alla barncancerformer. Nu har en forskargrupp vid Lunds universitet upptäckt att en specifik gen är kopplad till sämre prognos. Studien publiceras i tidskriften Science Advances. Varje år insjuknar runt tjugo barn i Sverige i tumörsjukdomen neuroblastom. Tumörerna växer i det sympatiska nervsystemet som börj

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/genen-som-styr-prognosen-vid-neuroblastom - 2026-07-21

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Ibland förändras maktbalansen mellan världens stormakter mitt framför ögonen på oss – som när muren föll för 30 år sedan eller som de senaste veckorna när USA drog sig bort från i de kurdiska områdena i Syrien. Ibland sker förändringarna så långsamt att vi inte märker det. Under Framtidsveckan lät vi fem experter –

https://www.lu.se/artikel/vem-kommer-att-bestamma-i-framtiden - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and o

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nicholas-loubere-china-today-40-years-after-reform-and-opening - 2026-07-21

LUND SPRING SYMPOSIUM – When Katherine A. High began working with gene therapy, the field was new, promising – and riddled with uncertainty. Three decades later, she is a visiting professor at The Rockefeller University, CEO of RhyGaze AG, and former President and Head of R&D at Spark Therapeutics. Her research has led to life-changing treatments for patients with inherited diseases. But the road

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/rewriting-genetic-fate-katherine-high-and-rise-gene-therapy - 2026-07-21