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The University’s work on education has entered an exciting phase, with several important initiatives currently underway. The Education Board has begun work on the Plan of Operations for 2026, which ties in with the University’s revised Education Strategy for 2025-2027. Digitalisation within education and teaching remains a priority. On 11 December the Vice-Chancellor decided on a university-wide A
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lot-going-education - 2026-05-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has, for the first time, reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age. The study shows that the regional climate is influenced by the sun and offers opportunities to better predict future climate conditions in certain regions. For the first time, a research team has b
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/suns-activity-influences-natural-climate-change - 2026-05-01
Make yourself comfortable at home on the sofa and immerse yourself in a symphony orchestra’s magical take on Beethoven´s Fifth Symphony as if you were there inside the concert hall. Change camera angles, zoom, cuts, sound quality and access background information about the piece being played. Or chat with fellow members of the digital audience. “The rapid digitalisation of the performing arts has
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/become-your-own-conductor - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 8 September 2017 The Annual Meeting of the South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) will be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. This year's theme is: Identity, Politics, and Resistance. The issue of identity has been at the heart of several important political developments and social movements over the
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2026-05-01
When Charlotta Turner, Vice-Dean for for first and second cycle education, mentioned that a PhD student from the University of Porto was currently at the Faculty of Science through the EUGLOH collaboration and that she might even be the first to come to Lund University through the network my curiosity was instantly sparked.Despite her busy schedule and persistent rain, I had the chance to meet And
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/first-eugloh-phd-student-arrives-faculty-science - 2026-05-01
In the heart of Lund, anticipation filled the air as over 230 high school students from across Skåne, Sweden, gathered in a bustling auditorium at Lund University on Friday, March 22nd. UniStem Day 2024, an annual event hosted by the Lund Stem Cell Center, was underway, designed to kindle the flames of curiosity and passion for science among the region’s youth. From Söderportgymnasiet to Sjölins G
It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund University suggests. After thirty years, the plant species richness around the cultivated crop had doubled on organic farms compared to conventional farms. It is well known that organic farming benefits biodiversity and ca
https://www.science.lu.se/article/organic-farms-had-doubled-plant-diversity-only-over-time - 2026-05-01
It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund University suggests. After thirty years, the plant species richness around the cultivated crop had doubled on organic farms compared to conventional farms. It is well known that organic farming benefits biodiversity and ca
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organic-farms-had-doubled-plant-diversity-only-over-time - 2026-05-01
This year’s new members of LTH’s Pedagogical Academy, who have thus been awarded the pedagogical competence grade ETP – Excellent Teacher Practitioner – are Jesus Mateo Munoz, Martin Stridh, Pernilla Derwik, Stefan Diehl, Pär Söderhjelm, and Klara Bolander Laksov. This year, LTH has welcomed six new Excellent Teaching Practitioners/ETP. In September, they were highlighted at a lunch attended by re
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/newly-admitted-lths-pedagogical-academy - 2026-05-01
By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win in this year's Research Grand Prix. It is a competition in presentation technique for researchers, and it was held in front of an audience of almost 400 students at Helsingborg's Stadsteater on 1 October. In November,
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/he-won-regional-heat-researcher-grand-prix-now-heading-national-contest-stockholm - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Emilie Öström has written a thesis that increases our knowledge of how airborne particles, so-called aerosols, affect the climate. Globally, eight out of ten people live in environments where the amount of air pollution, in the form of small airborne particles, is above the guidelines set by the World Health Organizat
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/aerosol-particles-impact-climate - 2026-05-01
Directly after birth, the immune system completes production of a subtype of antibody-producing immune cells, B-1, that are to last for a lifetime. No more B1-cells are formed after that point. However, these cells are self-reactive – they produce not only antibodies against foreign substances, but also against the body’s own substances, and it is unclear why the immune system allows for the devel
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-self-reactive-immune-cells-are-allowed-develop - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Directly after birth, the immune system completes production of a subtype of antibody-producing immune cells, B-1, that are to last for a lifetime. No more B1-cells are formed after that point. However, these cells are self-reactive – they produce not only antibodies against foreign substances, but also against the bo
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-self-reactive-immune-cells-are-allowed-develop - 2026-05-01
From a room in the University Building, via AF-borgen and today’s Centre for Languages and Literature, to the current premises at Geocentrum. From being a small part of the Department of History to becoming two distinct academic directions. The story of the Department of Geography is full of twists and chapters—now documented in a new book by Jonas Åkerman. There are two people who, between them,
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/jonas-akermans-last-excursion-and-story-department - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have invented new systems to study the life of microorganisms in the ground. Without any digging, the researchers are able use microchips to see and analyse an invisible world that is filled with more species than any other ecosystem. Under our feet there is life and movement.
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/life-under-surface-live-broadcast - 2026-05-01
Technical and administrative staff at Lund University (LU) are now welcome to apply to participate in an exchange program with Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa. The program is both digital and physical. It is implemented with funding from the Erasmus+ program. The purpose of the exchange program is to offer Lund university technical and administrative staff an opportunity for 1) increa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-exchange-program-stellenbosch-university-south-africa-2025-2026 - 2026-05-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New book release All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2026-05-01
Message Passing is presently a widely deployed programming model in massively parallel high performance computing. Message Passing is suitable for programming a wide range of current computer architectures, ranging from multi-core desk top equipment to the fastest HPC systems in the world, offering several hundred thousand processing elements.This online course is at the beginners level and assume
The jury was out for a long time. But now, we can announce the winner in both categories: “Best visual communication of scientific content” and “Most aesthetically appealing image”. “Not far from the manners of Lennart Nilsson, Sara Davidsson Bencker has captured two pancreatic cells at the end of their cell division cycle, connected to the top of nanotubes. The image clearly visualizes both the c
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-image-competition-we-have-winner - 2026-05-01
