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Another academic year at the WCMM Research School has come to an end, and students and PIs alike had the chance to celebrate the success of yet another dynamic year during a well-deserved and well-organized retreat. The WCMM Research School retreat continues to strike a fine balance between an inspiring scientific program, featuring both external speakers and WCMM researchers, and engaging social

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/building-community-through-science-reflections-2025-wcmm-research-school-retreat - 2026-05-05

Caroline Karlsson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders'. Congratulations! AbstractThis dissertation explores the political nature of the incest taboo, with an analytical focus on its object of prohibition: incest. From the perspective of political philosophy, the incest taboo appears as proble

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/caroline-karlsson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-05

The Workplace of the Future project has now presented its first report to the Vice-Chancellor. It concluded with concrete suggestions for LU to continue working on in order to become an attractive and sustainable workplace for the long-term. The report describes what emerged from a total of eleven workshops with employees and managers from different categories of staff, who were asked what they th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/workplace-future-project-has-finished-its-first-report - 2026-05-06

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Recurrent threats via telephone, email and letter – often in conjunction with being published. That is part of everyday research for gender researcher Diana Mulinari and many of her colleagues. “It is almost systematic. Those who hate and make threats are aggressively sexist and racist. Their hate ideology is based on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gender-researcher-threats-and-hate-are-part-everyday-life - 2026-05-05

For 40 years, students, employees and other Lund residents have flocked to Gerdahallen for training and exercise. After some tough years, the enthusiasts behind the fitness centre are now looking to the future. “Are you ready? Let’s go! Roll your shoulders back, bend your knees, weight on your heels and look forward. Bend and stretch, come on!” Some 25 people have gathered in one of the group exer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/40-years-name-fitness - 2026-05-06

When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclusively in a crime context.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2026-05-05

Vid foten av bergen, bland över 200 vingårdar, ligger Stellenbosch University, som Lunds universitet samarbetar med. Här tillbringar nu Daniella Rylander Ottosson och Göran Karlsson, lektorer vid Lunds universitetets Stamcellscentrum, sin sabbatical, en sabbatstermin. Under hösten har de varit knutna till STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study), ett tvärvetenskapligt forskningsinstitut d

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/fran-lund-till-sydafrika-vetenskap-vardag-och-vingardar - 2026-05-06

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierz

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the main purposes of Mohammadhassan Safavi’s PhD thesis is to leverage machine learning algorithms to predict where users activities should be done to incur minimum cost. Cost could be energy consumption, service quality degradation, service delay and so on. The thesis also covers many other aspects from reduci

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/how-use-machine-learning-decide-where-do-what-edge-networks-0 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-05-05

Kristina Lång, överläkare på Unilabs mammografienhet i Malmö och docent vid Lunds universitet får 3,3 miljoner kronor från RCC, Regionala cancercentrum i samverkan för att undersöka datorstödd mammografi i screeningen. Masai står för Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence, och är en randomiserad studie som ska utvärdera om AI kan förbättra mammografiscreeningen. Studien påbörjades unde

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/forskningsprojekt-far-medel-fran-rcc-att-anvanda-ai-inom-mammografiscreening - 2026-05-05

Jörgen Dahlqvist är aktuell med avhandlingen In Dialogue with Society: Democratic Engagement through Theatre som undersöker teaterns potential i att skapa demokratiskt engagemang berättar mer om sin forskning. På vilket sätt kan man använda sig av teater för att närma sig frågor om demokrati och socialt engagemang?I min avhandling beskriver jag hur det är möjligt att använda sig av teater för att

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/teater-som-demokratiskt-verktyg - 2026-05-05

Att sova mycket på natten och att ta långa tupplurar på dagen kan vara kopplat till sämre kognitiva förmågor visar ny forskning där 5631 deltagare medverkat från fem olika nordiska studier från ”the National E-infrastructure for Aging Research” (NEAR)*.(Overton et al., 2023) Människan sover nästan en tredjedel av livet och sömnen är en grundläggande faktor för vår hälsa och välbefinnande. Förekoms

https://www.geriatrik.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-visar-att-langa-tupplurar-pa-dagtid-associeras-med-samre-kognition-hos-aldre - 2026-05-05

The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until Friday, November 1, is focused on how countries will fulfil previous pledges to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water and restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030. It’s a noble aim, yet Colombia itself shows just how far we have to go. If you travel south east fr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/colombia-hosts-un-biodiversity-summit-its-own-amazonian-rainforest-crisis - 2026-05-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Genombrott är ett ofta missbrukat ord när media rapporterar om forskningsresultat. Men den här gången, när forskare från Harvarduniversitetet, Boston, publicerar nyheten att de lyckats massproducera celler som i djurförsök tillverkar insulin, är det ett potentiellt genombrott. På sikt kanske en ny effektiv behandlin

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/stort-framsteg-stamcellsbehandling-vid-diabetes - 2026-05-05

The Econometric Game in Amsterdam is a competition known as the ”World Championship in Econometrics”. In 2021 LUSEM won the game and now it is time again! LUSEM was represented by a team of four: two first-year PhD students in Economics, Christina Maschmann and Tilman Bretschneider, as well as two master’s students Ida Haggren and Benjámin Olivér Maday who are currently embracing their final month

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-team-wins-world-championship-econometrics-0 - 2026-05-05

Hållbarhetsveckan har under de sju senaste åren etablerats som en självklar mötesplats för att diskutera omställningen till ett hållbart samhälle. I år samlar Lunds universitet tillsammans med Lunds kommun över 70 event i programmet. Där lyfts frågor som rör allt från biologisk mångfald och klimatfrågor till demokrati, stadsutveckling och kulturella uttryck. 8–13 april är det dags att diskutera vä

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/8-13-april-ar-det-dags-hallbarhetsveckan - 2026-05-06

A new study from LUCSUS shows that the UN's sustainable development goals as a whole do not contribute to making us more resilient to cope with disruptive changes, such as climate change. The researchers behind the study believe that the next global agenda should put the relationship between ecosystems and humans in focus and start from flexible goals that promote transformative leadership and are

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/scientists-critical-uns-sustainable-development-goals-do-not-make-us-resilient-withstand-changing - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new method to treat human herpes viruses. The new broad-spectrum method targets physical properties in the genome of the virus rather than viral proteins, which have previously been targeted. The treatment consists of new molecules that penetrate the protein s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/antiviral-method-against-herpes-paves-way-combatting-incurable-viral-infections - 2026-05-05

On 17 April, the annual FEK Table Tennis Tournament unfolded. A total of 20 players battled fiercely until the very end, and the final match of this year may well be remembered as the most thrilling and of the highest quality ever! A set of quick questions for the winnersCongratulations! How do you feel?Djevdet: “Amazing!""She was amazing. It was all thanks to her!" (points at Yuqing)Yuqing: "I al

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/fek-table-tennis-tournament-2024-meet-winners - 2026-05-05