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Jonna Bornemark, professor of philosophy at Södertörn University, Sara Heyman, foreign correspondent at Radio Sweden/Ekot, and Roger Barker, professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, have been appointed honorary doctors for 2026 at the Faculty of Medicine. A philosopher who deepens and renews the public conversation on ethics, judgement, and views of humanity within health

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/philosopher-journalist-and-leading-neuroscientist-appointed-new-honorary-doctors - 2026-07-01

NanoLund at Lund University has established a long-term strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation, which intends to support the purchase of equipment for Nanolab Science Village to the tune of SEK 100 million over five years. Through this collaboration, the foundation wishes to support the very strong, leading interdisciplinary research environment that is to be found at NanoLund.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strategic-collaboration-olle-engkvist-foundation-100-msek-nanolab-science-village - 2026-07-01

NanoLund at Lund University has established a long-term strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation, which intends to support the purchase of equipment for Nanolab Science Village to the tune of SEK 100 million over five years. Through this collaboration, the foundation wishes to support the very strong, leading interdisciplinary research environment that is to be found at NanoLund.

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/strategic-collaboration-olle-engkvist-foundation-100-msek-nanolab-science-village - 2026-07-01

Kerstin Enflo is a professor of economic history at Lund University School of Economics and Management. For the past year, she has been a member of The Economic Sciences Prize Committee. We catch up with her just after Claudia Goldin, professor of economic history at Harvard University, was announced as this year’s winner. Hi there, Kerstin Enflo! You are an economic historian and in your first ye

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/kerstin-enflo-her-first-year-economics-prize-committee - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is water a dangerous substance? Can water scarcity lead to armed conflict? And what does the term shit matters actually mean? These and other issues will be discussed by 350 high school students from Spyken high school when LUCSUS and Lund University is marking World Water Day on 22nd March.A programme of educational

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-celebrates-world-water-day-hundreds-high-school-students-lund - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Leonidas Milios defends his doctoral dissertation the 23rd of April, 13.15-16.15 On April 23rd Leonidas Milios will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Policy Framework for Material Resource Efficiency - Pathway towards a circular economy paradigm".The opponent will be Prof. Raimund Bleischwitz from University

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Pollination is more important for strawberry growth than previously thought. A rich pollination gives better strawberry harvesting with strawberries that grow faster and weigh more. This is shown in a recently published study from the Center for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC. Three out of four cultivated cro

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/rich-pollination-improves-strawberry-harvesting - 2026-07-01

You now can have your say on how Lund University approached the development of the profile areas over the course of 2021-2022. Together with the Research Board, I have created a survey so that we can systematically collect feedback and opinions for the future. The survey is designed to give everyone who participated in the process, as well as those who did not choose or see an opportunity to parti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/have-your-say-process-selecting-universitys-profile-areas - 2026-07-02

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old. Thomas Mathiesen received his doctorate from the University of Oslo in 1965 with the dissertation The Defenses of the Weak, which examined the Norwegian prison service. Three years later, he founded the Norwegian Asso

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/honorary-doctor-faculty-social-sciences-has-passed-away - 2026-07-01

For the autumn semester of 2025, more than 72,000 people applied to programmes at Lund University — and LUSEM continues to stand strong in the competition. LUSEM’s programmes remain highly attractive. According to the recently published application statistics from the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR), the Swedish Bachelor’s Programme in Business and Economics (Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/top-application-numbers-lusem - 2026-07-02

Keivan Javanshiri’s Ph.D. project explores cardiac and vascular pathologies in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease. January 20, he defends his thesis. Here, he shares the most important findings and why sudden cardiac arrest is a common cause of death in patients with Lewy body disease. Tell us about your research! “My research focuses on cognitive disorders, which you may envision like a t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cognitive-disease-beyond-brain-phd-interview-keivan-javanshiri - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Development Research Day is an inter-disciplinary arrangement that was initiated in order to form a meeting ground for all researchers and students at Lund University who share an interest in development issues. About Development Research Day, DRD The first DRD The event was launched in 2002 by the Department of P

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/development-research-day-2020 - 2026-07-01

All researchers at Lund University now have the opportunity to share their research through the international news platform, The Conversation. The Conversation is a politically independent news site where researchers from member universities write popular science news articles, analyses, and opinion pieces in English within their areas of expertise, with the support of an editor. Lund University h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-conversation-autumn-and-reach-international-audience - 2026-06-30

It is half past three in the morning on one of the last nights of October. Storm Babet is raging and most people are trying to sleep through the sound of the wind, but coastal researchers at LTH are wide awake. Strong winds combined with high water levels are a warning sign for communities on the south coast of Skåne, and that’s where the researchers are heading, to the heart of the action. They a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chasing-storm - 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the time of the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s, the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere increased dramatically. Now researchers from Lund University have developed a method for measuring the carbon-14 content in atherosclerotic plaques in patients. The measurements reveal how old and da

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nuclear-weapons-tests-provide-information-dangerous-atherosclerosis-plaque - 2026-07-01

Continuous-cover forestry methods are gaining attention as a way to enable forests to deliver a broader range of benefits. The aim is to make forestry more sustainable, but significant challenges remain. These will now be addressed in a new project where five organisations are testing continuous-cover forestry in practice. In Bockeboda, just outside Kristianstad, the future of continuous-cover for

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/continuous-cover-forestry-testing-methods-future - 2026-07-01

Continuous-cover forestry methods are gaining attention as a way to enable forests to deliver a broader range of benefits. The aim is to make forestry more sustainable, but significant challenges remain. These will now be addressed in a new project where five organizations are testing continuous-cover forestry in practice. In Bockeboda, just outside Kristianstad, the future of continuous-cover for

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/continuous-cover-forestry-testing-methods-future - 2026-07-01

How regional, local and national governments decide to develop coastal regions affects 21st century flood exposure more than climate threats according to a new study, focusing on China. The research, which for the first time integrates projected land use change under different policies, sea-level rise, extreme events, and land subsidence, identifies that strategic coastal planning can have huge ef

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/coastal-development-planning-matters-more-21st-century-flood-risk-climate-change - 2026-07-01

Continuous-cover forestry methods are gaining attention as a way to enable forests to deliver a broader range of benefits. The aim is to make forestry more sustainable, but significant challenges remain. These will now be addressed in a new project where five organizations are testing continuous-cover forestry in practice. In Bockeboda, just outside Kristianstad, the future of continuous-cover for

https://www.science.lu.se/article/continuous-cover-forestry-testing-methods-future - 2026-07-01

Continuous-cover forestry methods are gaining attention as a way to enable forests to deliver a broader range of benefits. The aim is to make forestry more sustainable, but significant challenges remain. These will now be addressed in a new project where five organizations are testing continuous-cover forestry in practice. In Bockeboda, just outside Kristianstad, the future of continuous-cover for

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/continuous-cover-forestry-testing-methods-future - 2026-07-01