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In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon. More efficient use of existing pastures and alternative livelihoods are some of the factors needed to protect the rainforest, according to a new thesis by Jesica López. Colombia's rainforest is part of the Amazon and i
A lab where you can “craft” new materials on the atomic level, bringing together cross-disciplinary scientists to produce nanomaterials and semiconductor components. A neighborhood with major research infrastructures, complementary to each other. And most important: an open environment where academia, industry, and society can meet and collaborate, finding solutions for a sustainable world. Intrig
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-it-big-nano-crafting - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is continuing its three short-term summer courses for Nordic students. The courses are as follows:Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Introduction CourseUniversity of Hyderabad, Hyderabad2nd to 29th July 2017Capacity: 50 studentsApproaching the Environment in India: Issues and Met
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/summer-courses-india-nordic-students - 2026-06-29
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Marion von Osten som doktorerade med 'In The Making : Traversing the project exhibition In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After' vid Konsthögskolan i Malmö 2018, avled tragiskt nog i cancer under helgen som gick. Hennes kollegor i doktorandgruppen samt hennes handledare har skrivit ihop några minneso
https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/minnesord-marion-von-osten - 2026-06-29
Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm received the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research at the annual LUDC Diabetes Research Day. "This award allows me to to rest in the feeling that all the work I have done is good enough, at least for a short while,” said the recipient. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg is this year’s recipient of the Leif C. Gro
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/diabetes-event-highlighted-findings-may-lead-new-treatments - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf File nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf High-powered living DNA cannonWe all know that a viral infection can be developed extremely quickly, but in factit's even more dramatic than that - the process is literally explosive.The pressure inside a virus is 40 atmos
https://www.virus-biophysics.lu.se/article/high-powered-living-dna-cannon - 2026-06-29
A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions across Sweden from varied disciplines such as international relations, political science, sociology, strategic communication and law. The conference is planned to become
https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/psychological-defence-research-conference - 2026-06-29
Disputation vid Stockholms Konstnärliga HögskolaDoktorand Mette Ingvartsen försvarar sitt doktorsarbete i Koreografi den 22 oktober.Mette Ingvartsen är som doktorand antagen vid Lunds universitet, Konstnärliga fakulteten, men anställd av Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola där också studierna bedrivits. Titel: EXPANDED CHOREOGRAPHY: Shifting the agency of movement in The Artificial Nature Project and
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/disputation-mette-ingvartsen-2210 - 2026-06-29
Artificial intelligence has gone from horror visions on film to a tool in everyone’s pocket. From spelling advice to shopping tips – and now to assigning work and measuring performance. What’s next? We met with organisational researcher Sverre Spoelstra to talk about algorithmic leadership and management. You may not have your boss in an app, yet. But the idea is not as futuristic as it may sound.
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/he-researches-algorithmic-leadership - 2026-06-29
The Research and Innovation Bill of December 2024 promised substantial new funding through a number of targeted calls for applications. At the same time, it was also decided that new core funding for research would be allocated to universities based on indicators, external grants received and the number of highly cited publications per institution. We are now beginning to see some of the results a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-outcomes-increased-research-funding-and-new-colleagues - 2026-06-30
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Everyone knows about source criticism, but researchers Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin want to emphasise source confidence. “There has been an intensive focus on the critical aspect. Pupils leave school with the attitude that you cannot trust anything, so source confidence is an important complement to source criticism.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-strike-blow-source-confidence - 2026-06-29
Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. In his research, he is also investigating how diet changes can improve brain function in connection with diabetes. He will be awarded this year's Medeon stipend on the World Diabetes Day Skåne event in Malmö on November 14. "I hope that my research can contribute to an increased awareness of the importan
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/praised-research-diabetes-and-dementia - 2026-06-29
Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. In his research, he is also investigating how diet changes can improve brain function in connection with diabetes. He will be awarded this year's Medeon stipend on the World Diabetes Day Skåne event in Malmö on November 14. "I hope that my research can contribute to an increased awareness of the importan
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/praised-research-diabetes-and-dementia - 2026-06-29
Ett nytt större EU-finansierat forskningsprojekt ska undersöka arbetsvillkoren för så kallade ”care workers”. Projektet CARE4CARE ska undersöka arbetsvillkoren för "care workers", vilket omfattar ett urval av arbetstagare i vård och omsorg som sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor, och hur dessa arbetstagare själva ser på sin arbetssituation. Projektet ska också resultera i förslag på hur man kan frä
https://www.jur.lu.se/artikel/arbetsvillkoren-inom-vard-och-omsorg-ska-studeras-i-eu - 2026-06-29
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. OUTREACH FÖR VÅRA FORSKARE: Tobias Nielsen håller föredraget Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? vid ett sido-event till FN:s klimatkonferens i Peru (4/12). REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms f
https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/nielsen-forlaser-om-sydamerikanska-forebilder - 2026-06-29
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor och en rad andra ämnen som ofta är aktuella. Medicin, mat och hälsaFästingsmitta och malaria Kristina Persson svarar på frågor om malaria och babesia – en fäst
https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2019-massor-av-experter-pa-sommarens-fragor - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RQ20, the new major research quality evaluation, is underway! It is based on self-evaluations and will involve around 5 000 members of staff. In contrast to the last time, in 2008, there is no extra money for the fields of research that come out best. There will be no grades or gold stars. “However, the evaluation wil
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-be-evaluated-without-grades-or-gold-stars - 2026-06-29
