Charlotte Leire and Kes McCormick are responsible for the MOOCs produced at IIIEE. Photo: Jan Olsson The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, IIIEE, is taking the lead on open, month-long online courses, known as MOOCs. The investment in MOOCs has been quite a success. In recent years, every sixth student has stated that the online courses influenced them to apply for on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/moocs-more-popular-during-pandemic - 2025-09-03

Oskar Hansson and Sara Linse collaborate across faculties and their research has recently localised a drug that could potentially slow the progress of Alzheimer’s and be made available to the market next year. Photo: Johan Joelsson 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

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2025-09-03

 To achieve the University’s emissions targets, students and employees must for example, reduce how much CO2 they produce when commuting . Cycling is one alternative. Photo: Kennet Ruona By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-09-03

LU has fine laboratories with advanced equipment. But one RQ20 panel wonders how these are to be used and by whom? PHOTO: Kennet Ruona Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-09-03

Head of planning, Tim Ekberg, is amazed with the swift digitisation at LU. Photo:Britta Collberg The coronavirus pandemic has not put Lund University in any financial difficulty. There is money in the University's coffers, assures the head of planning Tim Ekberg. The agency capital currently amounts to SEK 1.7 billion. "It is money that could be useful to support affected areas of activity", he co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/no-threat-lund-universitys-finances-thanks-agency-capital - 2025-09-03

"I never would have left Syria if it were not for the war. I had it all. I was teaching a couple of hours per week, working on my research and I had a beautiful farm with space for the whole family", Moheiddin Homeidi says. Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first researcher the University has received through the network Scholars at Risk. Despite the start

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2025-09-03

“What the whole University has done is amazing. How much we can achieve when we gather our strengths and collaborate. Everyone worked towards the same goal – to make it work – and we succeeded!” Photo: Kennet Ruona Getting important information out fast to the right target group has been a challenge for the crisis management group, which has now entered a calmer phase after an intensive spring. “N

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-successful-quick-digital-restart - 2025-09-03

Space contains staggeringly more than we can see or measure. The universe is estimated to consist of 5 per cent visible matter, 27 per cent dark matter and 68 per cent dark energy. Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2025-09-04

Märta Wallinius is motivated by seeing people succeed in their journey towards a life without crime. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist You are at the shop to buy food for the weekend. The shop’s security guard is keeping a close eye on you and you start to get nervous. He approaches you and you feel that you are starting to break out in a sweat. What the heck does he really want? This is not happening for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivating-vr - 2025-09-04

The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute sustainably by investments in public transport and measures to promote cycling on campus.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2025-09-04

Photo: Max Böhme When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2025-09-04

Rainwater is collected and purified with an existing technique but in a new way before it is used to flush a couple of toilets. Photo: Jenny Leyman It is not every day that the inauguration of a toilet draws a hundred spectators. Such a toilet would have to be pretty special – and this one is. It is special because it is flushed using rain water gathered from the roof of Kemicentrum. LUM was able

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rain-roof-restroom - 2025-09-04

ChatGPT comes with challenges – and possibilities. How will the university handle the new technique? Photo: Rolf van Root/Unsplash There is a lot of talk about ChatGPT just now – one of the chat-based AI services delivering answers to all possible questions in matter of seconds. But the new technology is not merely generating answers, but also raising many questions. In order to get insight into w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dialogue-chatbot - 2025-09-04

Ester Barinaga studies local currency initiatives. Photo: Juan Ocampo Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barina

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-09-04

Mikael Akke studies how protein molecules move and how other molecules bind to them – important knowledge in the development of the medicines of the future. Photo: Kennet Ruona Protein researcher Mikael Akke has been showered with grants recently: a total in excess of SEK 130 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the European Research Council. But who is the Faculty of Engineer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-researcher-receives-major-grants - 2025-09-04

Inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population. Photo: Stefan Holm/Mostphotos and Carina Andreasson/Mostphotos That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2025-09-04

Sign interpretation demands a lot of concentration. There are usually two interpreters in place during a lecture to relieve each other every 15 minute or so. Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University sociology student Julia Grahn is among those who receive learning support. She is deaf and is provided with sign-language interpretation during her studies. Cilla Riber Alm is one of the sign-language inter

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-studies-depend-interpretation - 2025-09-04

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-soon-time-total-closures-e22-and-road-108 - 2025-09-04

I den aktuella studien skapade forskarna en AI-modell som tränats till att analysera mammografibilder. I ett projekt vid Lunds universitet tränas en AI-modell till att hitta de bröstcancerpatienter som kan avstå ingrepp i armhålan. Modellen analyserar tidigare outnyttjad information i mammografibilder, och ringar med hög träffsäkerhet in den individuella risken för metastaser i armhålan. I en nyli

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-ai-modell-fran-lund-med-stor-potential-att-minska-kirurgi-i-armhalan-vid-brostcancer - 2025-09-04

Egen batteriproduktion kan rädda Europas bilindustrin – liksom klimatmålen. Foto: Mostphotos. Den viktigaste mineralen i dagens elbilsbatterier är litium. Kina totaldominerar marknaden och ingen utvinning sker i Europa. Men en ny studie visar att det finns en stor potential för europeisk litiumproduktion, till gagn för konkurrenskraft, klimat och säkerhet. Studien påvisar också komplexa internatio

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-litiumgruvor-kan-halvera-eus-importbehov - 2025-09-04