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Professor Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society and the environment. Fioretos receives the award for his pioneering work in blood cancer research and his ability to translate scientific discoveries into life-
In early December, the University’s new plan for gender equality and equal opportunities was approved. It extends over a six-year period and is based on the University’s strategic plan. Its aim is to meet the government’s gender mainstreaming requirements as well as the EU Commission’s requirements for a gender equality plan. Above all, the plan reflects the goals towards which Lund University int
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-gender-equality-and-equal-opportunities-approved - 2026-05-10
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The yellow vest movement in France brings to the fore growing tensions between implementing global climate policy and social, economic and regional concerns. Nation states could learn a lot from identifying pockets of resistance says LUCSUS researcher Mine Islar who studies just transitions and social movements. Mine
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/recognizing-resistance-crucial-sustainable-and-just-transition - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/energy-advances-open-door-more-aggressive-climate-policies - 2026-05-10
Lund University continues its climb towards the top of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at universities around the world. The University is now ranked 3rd in the world out of approximately 1,750 ranked universities. This places the University second in Europe, and number one in Sweden. QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking - 2026-05-10
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The official figures for forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2020 show a slight decrease from last year. But researchers at the Brazil's Space Research Institute, Inpe, warn that data may need to be corrected so much that they instead reveal the worst fires in a decade. Torsten Krause, researcher in forest
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-fires-brazilian-amazon-august-2020 - 2026-05-09
All the faculties have now concluded their elections of new deans and faculty boards. At some faculties the present dean will continue, but in most cases new people will take up the posts. See the list below of the new faculty managements for the next term of office 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. School of Economics and Management Joakim Gullstrand, new dean Andreas Inghammar, new deputy dean
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deans-faculties - 2026-05-10
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Wait, wait, come here! And then you go under there, good, and now you can jump…” instructs Daniela Chiang and bursts out laughing when coursemate Malaley Rahmani stumbles and collapses in a giggling heap on the floor. It is Monday afternoon at the Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and about 40 Master’s st
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/project-reports-lth-have-improved-thanks-sports-psychologist - 2026-05-09
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fund excellent research and innovation. This March, the MSCA awarded €242m to the 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowships applicants – among them, a researcher from Lund University, Camila Vazquez Echegaray, aiming to uncover regulators of plasticity in cell fate decision. The MSCA are the EU’s flagship funding programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral train
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-awarded-camila-vazquez-echegaray - 2026-05-09
“My stay here has not only given me practical access to sources and libraries. Being in a different academic environment has also given me new ideas and perspectives on what we do in Lund.” These are the words of historian Marie Cronqvist, who moved to Berlin with her husband and children last summer. Now it will soon be time to go home, but before that LUM had time to meet them and find out about
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finding-new-inspiration-berlin - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2026-05-09
In December the students on the Master's programme in strategic communication organized their traditional Christmas potluck at Campus Helsingborg. The party was held on the top floor C-7, which was decorated for the occasion by the specially appointed party committee. The Christmas tree was dressed, the Christmas cloths unrolled, and the light garlands hung up. As darkness began to fall over Helsi
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/christmas-feeling-masters-programme - 2026-05-09
Ekatherina Zhukova, Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article ”Feminist foreign policies (FFPs) as strategic narratives: Norm translation in Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico” in the journal Review of International Studies (RIS). The article compares the Feminist Foreign Policies (FFPs) in Sweden, Canada, France and Mexico in their attempts to translate gender norms int
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feminist-foreign-policies-strategic-narratives - 2026-05-09
A new Campus Plan covering all campuses in Lund, Malmö, Helsingborg and Ljungbyhed has been drawn up with a view to 2050. The Plan is a strategic tool designed to support the University's development in a changing world, contribute to a more efficient use of premises and outdoor environments, and enable future expansion in the coming decades. The Campus Plan is aimed at everyone involved in campus
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-campus-plan-sights-set-2050-adopted - 2026-05-10
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From the coordinator:As we approach Midsommar, we in MultiPark can reflect on the extraordinary last few months and hope that our environment can return back more to meetings, seminars and productive exchanges after the summer. Although neurodegenerative diseases were less in the news because of Covid-19, people with
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/message-coordinator - 2026-05-09
Superconductors are a cornerstone of quantum computers and particle detectors, among other things. However, a common problem is that their efficiency is degraded by various interferences. Now, researchers have come one step closer to explaining what is happening through high-precision measurements. The results are now being published in Nature Physics. Superconductivity depends on the presence of
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/moments-silence-point-way-towards-better-superconductors - 2026-05-09
The Sustainability Fund offers an opportunity to explore innovative potential and fund activities outside the scope of existing research projects. Its purpose is to support the development of early innovative ideas from research projects that have an impact on sustainable development. The second call for applications attracted a diverse range of applications, out of which five were granted funding
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-new-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-fund - 2026-05-10
Congratulations to Gemma Atkinson, Roni Odai and Vasili Hauryliuk at the Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, and their collaborators, on their study “The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes” that is published in the high impact scientific journal Science Advances. This study con
https://www.virology.lu.se/article/ai-powered-viral-protein-models-advance-global-health-research - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was mad
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A forest management method different to those practised today would contribute to greater welfare and wellbeing for society in general, compared with current methods that mainly benefit the forestry industry. This has been shown in a new study by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden. There is an intensive de
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-values-society - 2026-05-09
