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A new international commission will pave the way for a global boost in maternal and newborn health. The project is led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, whose motivation stems from a formative experience witnessing a woman bleed to death unnecessarily during childbirth. “The time has come to put maternal and newborn health back at the heart of the global health agenda,” says Mehreen Za

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-global-initiative-maternal-and-newborn-health-be-led - 2025-10-07

A new international commission will pave the way for a global boost in maternal and newborn health. The project is led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, whose motivation stems from a formative experience witnessing a woman bleed to death unnecessarily during childbirth. “The time has come to put maternal and newborn health back at the heart of the global health agenda,” says Mehreen Za

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-global-initiative-maternal-and-newborn-health-be-led-sweden - 2025-10-08

With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a campus area in Heleneholm where the Malmö Academy of Music is already located. It would be something completely new in Scandinavia, and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-10-08

Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trillion tonnes of carbon from the air, storing it in the t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-10-07

Up to 45 per cent of all deaths in industrialised countries are caused by fibrotic diseases. Through boundary-crossing research and the high-tech MAX IV laboratory in Lund it is possible to increase the knowledge of fibrosis – bringing a cure closer. ”Fibrosis is a form of scarring that can affect all types of damaged organs and tissues in the body. When this process takes place in an out of contr

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/high-tech-collaboration-supports-fibrosis-research - 2025-10-07

https://www.odeum.lu.se/en/article/digital-halsningsgillet - 2025-10-07

She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in northern Norway. “The present can be terrible. It’s more a matter of affecting the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-10-07

Between Februray 28 and April 4, Malmö Academy of Music is co-hosting an international panel series about 'Freedom in Music Education'. Organised by piano student Iveri Kekenadze. What is the context of the panel series? -It is a collaborative project between myself, the international office at Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia) and Malmö Academy of Music. The aim is to open up and widen the ho

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/interpreting-freedom-music-education - 2025-10-07

Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your uncertainty in your running time in which way you want! After the race on May 13th and the actual running times are known, we will evaluate the performances of all predictions. The results will be presented in June, where we will hand out several awards. Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your uncertainty in your running time in whi

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/lundaloppet-predictive-challenge-2017 - 2025-10-07

Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on solid evidence”, he says. A lot of the criticism against vaccines occurs on social

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-10-07

People who trust others are less likely to die than those who are distrusting, conclude sociologist Jan Mewes and colleagues in “Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey”, published in Social Science & Medicine. The effects of generalised trust - the belief that others, including strangers, can be trusted – were specifically noticeable regarding mortal

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/survival-advantages-people-who-trust-strangers - 2025-10-07

To understand what happens in the brain when Alzheimer's disease develops, researchers need to be able to study the molecular structures in the neurons affected by Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have tested a new imaging method for this purpose. The research is published in the journal Advanced Science. In Alzheimer's disease, so-called beta-amyloid plaques are forme

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-07

What should you do when the urge to buy just rolls over you? The sale will end shortly, stock is running low and the “Buy Now - button” screams your name. Leading up to Black Friday, consumption researcher Carys Egan-Wyer from LUSEM has some advice for you. It's all about convincing us that we have short-lived access to a special price, which in reality might not be true at all. Pushy patterns are

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/black-friday-ultimate-pushy-pattern - 2025-10-08

The SNIC Large Fall 2021 and LUMI Sweden Fall 2021 calls are open. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2021 at 3 PM CEST. Please note that there are three calls–one each for Large compute, Large storage, and LUMI Sweden. SNIC Large compute call The call for compute at the SNIC website: https://snic.se/allocations/compute/large-allocations/ The call for compute in SUPR: https://supr.snic.se/

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/snic-large-and-lumi-sweden-fall-2021-calls-are-open - 2025-10-07

LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-10-07

LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2025-10-07

On Saturday 16 September, there will be Lund Culture Night with a lot of activities from Lund University open for everyone. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme. Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of the activities i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-16-september - 2025-10-07

At the turn of the year, the Department of Gender Studies became the Division of Gender Studies alongside the Divisions of Social Anthropology and Sociology in a new larger Department. The work with the merger include reviewing all system technical aspects so that the transition will take place as smoothly as possible. “We have also set up a committee with representatives from the various discipli

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-year-new-department - 2025-10-07

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/eventful-spring-awaits - 2025-10-07

The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many billions of years. When this gas suddenly collapses under its own weight, new stars are able to arise

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-10-07