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A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Since I’m starting my second term as dean, LTH will continue with what we started duri
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2026-07-12
The first two days in Uppsala included a course on machine learning in epidemiology. The third day was a conference day with presentations from the large Swedish cohorts. PhD student Josefine Andreasson participated all three days and was a bit surprised: "Machine learning is more accessible than I thought!" Josefine Andreasson is a PhD student in epidemiology and population studies (EPI@Lund), an
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/lessons-learnt-8th-swedish-cohort-meeting-uppsala - 2026-07-11
Researchers at Lund University have identified a previously unknown precursor stage of leukemia. The discovery may help explain why an especially aggressive form of blood cancer initiates already during fetal life. When we think of cancer, we usually imagine a disease that develops over many years in adults. But for one particular group of leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – it is quit
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-offers-clues-why-leukemia-develops-infants - 2026-07-11
On 18 November, a news item was released that went beyond our wildest dreams: Lund University ranked first in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability. We have been ranked as not just the best in Sweden, or even Europe – we are number one in the entire world! This is most likely the first time that a Swedish or Nordic university has been ranked best in the world in one of the major ranking
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-ranked-best-world-sustainability-according-qs-i-am-speechless - 2026-07-12
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the so far largest clinical study of the development of microbiomes, i.e. intestinal flora, in infants, researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine, USA, have found that development takes place in different phases that can be associated with lifestyle changes during the early stages in life. The findings are base
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-intestinal-flora-development-infants - 2026-07-11
The jury has unanimously agreed to award the Susanne Iwarsson Sohlberg Prize. To be eligible, the candidate must have built up a strong research group and initiated research of great importance for the development of gerontology. The prize will be awarded during the opening ceremony of the Nordic Gerontology Congress - 26NKG - in Odense on June 8. The prize goes to a researcher working in a Nordic
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/susanne-iwarsson-awarded-sohlberg-prize-nordic-regions-largest-prize-aging-research - 2026-07-11
The jury has unanimously agreed to award the Susanne Iwarsson Sohlberg Prize. To be eligible, the candidate must have built up a strong research group and initiated research of great importance for the development of gerontology. The prize will be awarded during the opening ceremony of the Nordic Gerontology Congress - 26NKG - in Odense on June 8. The prize goes to a researcher working in a Nordic
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Second International Conference on Law and Economics will be held in at IIT Kanpur, India on 3 - 4 September 2016. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) jointly organize the conference. The conference seeks to prov
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kanpur-conference-law-and-economics - 2026-07-11
It is 100 years since Lise Meitner was appointed professor of physics. To mark the occasion, LTH is dedicating this autumn’s seminar to Carin Boalt, Lund’s first female professor. Johan Östling, Professor of History, will give a talk on the influential professor of Building Function Analysis, Carin Boalt, who became Lund’s first female professor in 1965 – though not at Lund University, as LTH was
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/lise-meitner-seminar-carin-boalt-14-october - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Håkan Jönson and Tove Harnett, researchers at The School of Social Work, and Annika Taghizadeh Larsson (Linköping University) and Stina Johansson (Umeå University) have received 3.1 million from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) for the project "Would a disability model mean be
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-3-million-research-ageing - 2026-07-11
Roger Hildingsson and Åsa Knaggård has recently published a book chapter on the success of the Swedish carbon tax in the edited volume Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries. Ever since the Swedish carbon tax was introduced in 1991, as one of the first cases in the world, it has provided a pioneering example of carbon pricing. In the chapter, ”The Swedish Carbon Tax: A Resilient Success”
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-knaggard-success-swedish-carbon-tax - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Curiosity, openness and compassion are words to live by for Sylvia Schwaag Serger, who will become the new deputy vice-chancellor as of next year. She believes that we all have a civic duty to be proactive but must also be aware that we might, actually, be wrong. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, new deputy vice-chancellor at Lu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaving-her-comfort-zone-lund-university - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. -
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Tonsättaren Simon Söfelde, diplomand vid Musikhögskolan i Malmö, har blivit uttagen som en av 26 tonsätter av över 572 sökande till Mise-en Music Festival, en av de största festivalerna för ny musik i New York City.Simon Söfelde, född i Göteborg 1988, började redan i unga år intressera sig för komposition. Han påbör
https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/simon-sofelde-uttagen-till-stor-festival-i-new-york - 2026-07-11
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. 3D-utskrifter kommer ha en stor inverkan på hur vi tillverkar saker i framtiden menar Olaf Diegel, ny professor i produktutveckling vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola med speciellt fokus på 3D-skrivare. Tisdagen den 10 juni kl. 15.00 håller han ett seminarium för att berätta om hur 3D-skrivartekniken kan användas för att s
https://www.lu.se/artikel/han-vill-3d-utskriva-framtiden - 2026-07-12
Researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a previously unknown precursor stage of leukemia. The discovery may help explain why an especially aggressive form of blood cancer initiates already during fetal life. When we think of cancer, we usually imagine a disease that develops over many years in adults. But for one particular group of leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leu
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-find-new-clues-why-leukemia-develops-infants - 2026-07-11
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Fredagen den 11 november kl. 13.00-16.15 öppnar Campus Helsingborg dörrarna för alla som är nyfikna på aktuell forskning. Vi bjuder på 16 öppna föreläsningar med så vitt skilda teman som turism, mode, ledarskap, Öresundsregionen, delade transporter och kriskommunikation. Fritt inträde. Inledning13.00-14.00 | Plats:
https://www.lu.se/artikel/valkomment-till-campus-open-2016-i-helsingborg - 2026-07-11
