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Professor Ingemar Wadsö passed away on November 6th, 2025 at the age of 95 years. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1954 and his PhD in 1962, both at Lund University. Ingemar then remained scientifically active at his Alma Mater throughout his whole career, where he was appointed Professor in Thermochemistry in 1981, a position he kept until he retired in 1995.During his whole scientific career
https://www.physchem.lu.se/article/ingemar-wadso - 2026-05-19
From historical hardships to modern resurgence. In a recent co-hosted SASNET seminar, Professor Knut A Jacobsen uncovered the story of Hindu diasporas and their influence on sacred spaces beyond South Asia. On 20 March, Professor Knut A. Jacobsen from the University of Bergen visited Lund to hold a seminar on the subject of “Hindu Diasporas and Hindu Sacralization of Space Beyond South Asia”. Prof
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/beyond-south-asia-diasporas-and-sacred-geography-hinduism - 2026-05-19
Who is the lecturer, Yulia Vakulenko? What does she have to say about the Master’s programme in Service Management, specialising in Supply Chain Management? What is she currently working on in terms of research projects? And what will students be surprised to find out about her? What is your academic background and what did you do before you started teaching at Lund University? I have a Master’s i
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-teachers-yulia-vakulenko - 2026-05-19
Around 40 physicians from different specialist areas are now being trained in team-based learning, TBL, a pedagogical approach that will better equip future medical students for a complex reality. “We work according to a vision of how healthcare should work," says programme director Sara Regnér. The new six-year medical programme, launched in autumn 2021, has a new curriculum and new qualitative t
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/training-trainer-team-based-learning - 2026-05-19
Digital tools and teaching are the focus of a new unit aimed at coordinating and developing assistance, support and training for learning environments – digital as well as campus-based. The unit is a permanent continuation of the project Teaching and Learning online. The unit’s director is Bo-Anders Jönsson. Today’s students have good digital skills and expect a seamless education, in which the ph
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-central-unit-teaching-support-now-place - 2026-05-20
Efforts to strengthen leadership and protect academic freedom are underway, including new leadership programmes and a management forum. A project for academic leadership has also been established. Efforts to strengthen leadershipSome years ago, we completed a study on the leadership of the future at Lund University. The study gave rise to a number of recommendations, resulting in the introduction
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strengthening-leadership-and-redoubling-efforts-academic-freedom - 2026-05-20
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A Malmö Trilogy: Shepherdess and Other Exilic Vernaculars Sara Lindeborg, Selma Sjöstedt, Angelica Falkeling 21 november–13 december 2020 & 14 januari–14 februari 2021 Signal, Malmö One single scene is told from a number of different perspectives. We recognise this approach from the world of cinema, theatre, literatur
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/malmo-trilogy-shepherdess-and-other-exilic-vernaculars - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the health c
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards: “Usually there is always some kind
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mona Hemmaty at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”On the Margins. Migrants, Status Mobility and Recent Turns in Swedish Migration Politics” today, 26 April at 10:15 in the Kulturen Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Barcelona Centre fo
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mona-hemmaty-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University Board has today decided to recommend Erik Renström as the new vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021 to 2026. Renström, a physician and professor of Experimental Endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-proposed-lund-universitys-new-vice-chancellor - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A great deal of moral courage or a really desperate situation – these are the requirements for someone to disclose state secrets. And life will most certainly never be the same again. This is what emerges from the experiences of the Cold War’s first major defectors, Mr and Mrs Petrov, as from those of Edward Snowden,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spy-novel-way-present-new-research - 2026-05-19
2018-08-21 The post-Arrival Day waiting list Housing applicants present at our Housing lottery on Arrival day, that did not receive a housing offer, have been placed on the post-Arrival day waiting list. This new waiting list follows the order established through the Housing lottery process. This list is now considered as the new LU Accommodation waiting list for the Autumn 2018 academic term. If
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2018 - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Steen, researcher at LUCSUS, was recently in Zimbabwe researching land and land use issues, with particular focus on women. You research women’s rights to soil and land; do you believe the regime change could affect their rights?It is too early to say how much of a change the transfer of power will bring. But ev
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/will-regime-change-zimbabwe-affect-situation-women-karin-steen-womens-rights-soil - 2026-05-19
It is now time for Lund’s University’s traditional celebrations in Lundagård to mark 30 April and 1 May. In keeping with tradition, there will be the donning of student caps on 30 April and on 1 May you can attend the students' May Day speech to the Vice-Chancellor and hear the Lund Student Singers welcome the spring in song. The donning of student capsTime: 30 April 17:20 to 18:00Place: Tegnérspl
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/its-time-celebrate-spring-lundagard - 2026-05-20
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards: “Usually there is always some kin
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-05-19
The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail. KELT-9 b is the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, orbiting its distant star about 670 light years from Earth. The celestial body, with an average temperature of a sta
https://www.science.lu.se/article/scientists-discover-rare-element-exoplanets-atmosphere - 2026-05-19
The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail. KELT-9 b is the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, orbiting its distant star about 670 light years from Earth. The celestial body, with an average temperature of a sta
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-discover-rare-element-exoplanets-atmosphere - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University Board has today decided to recommend the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Erik Renström, as the new vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021 to 2026. "This is a big step. I am humble and it is with deep respect I am looking forward to this task", comments Erik Renström.He is also h
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-proposed-new-vice-chancellor - 2026-05-19
