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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Denna medicinhistoriska kongress, som alternerar mellan de olika nordiska länderna vart annat år, slog i år ner i Köpenhamn. Nedslag är nog det mest adekvata ordet, eftersom kongressen bestod av olika disparata ämnen som oftast penetrerade ämnen på djupet, snarare än att försöka finna en gemensam röd tråd, som inte
The Econometric Game in Amsterdam is a competition known as the ”World Championship in Econometrics”. And now, after many years of Top 3 positions, the competing LUSEM student team has won the 2021 Game! LUSEM was represented by master’s students Ester Trutwin and Natalie Irmert, and doctoral students Devon Spika and Matthew Collins. They all study Economics at Lund University School of Economics
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-team-wins-world-championship-econometrics - 2026-06-01
Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview, the former aid worker told the reporter: “My pain is under control and I’m terribly happy – it sounds weird to say, but I’m as happy as I’ve ever been in my life.”It may seem odd that a person could be happy as the end draws near, but in my experience as a clinical psyc
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/why-are-some-people-happy-when-they-are-dying - 2026-06-01
In a research system where publishing success can shape scientific careers, targeted support can make a decisive difference. Sofie Mohlin, Associate Professor at Lund University and a research group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center has received a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Award from the Life Science Editors Foundation. Today’s publish-or-perish research culture means that
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/may-publishing-be-you-sofie-mohlin-receives-international-jedi-award - 2026-06-01
Metformin is often described as the first-line medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. However, not all patients respond to the drug. Researchers at Lund University have discovered a combination of biomarkers that can predict which patients will benefit from the treatment. This work is now continuing in order to confirm the results in a larger patient group, with the intention of developi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/diabetes-research-collaboration-can-pave-way-innovation - 2026-06-01
We should not be afraid to joke about one another’s ethnic background. Used with sensitivity, such jokes can instead help to challenge the stereotypical image of immigrants, according to Lund University sociologist Henriette Frees Esholdt, who has studied humour at a multi-ethnic workplace in Denmark. Henriette Frees Esholdt’s study was carried out in a large organisation in the hospitality sector
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-humour-multicultural-workplaces - 2026-06-01
A mapping conducted at Lund University shows that 40 per cent of all adults that has the disease got it at an average age of 67. Bo Hansson received his diagnosis the year before he retired during a routine visit to the Occupational Health Service. “The doctor said, ‘You have diabetes, I will prescribe you some pills.’” Today, thirteen years later, Bo and his wife Gerty receive us at their home in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/risk-type-2-diabetes-increases-age - 2026-06-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South During the spring semester 2017 the course The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South initiated by professor Sarat Maharaj will take place at Malmö Art Academy.The start-up for the project is a recons
https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/kursstart-world-turned-upside-down - 2026-06-01
In the past week, several reports of the human rights protests in Iran have reached the wider world. Lund University has also been touched by these protests, which have spread and are now visible in the West, on the streets, in social media and the European Parliament, for example. Lund University stands up for and safeguards democracy, freedom of opinion, respect for everyone’s equal value, and h
Celebrate Culture Night with Lund University! Browse among all our activities for young and old, which extend from morning to late evening. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme.Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-20-september - 2026-06-01
Colourful illustrations shone in Forum Medicum's foyer when WCMM inaugurated Fusion 2025 – an exhibition format where art and science meet. Last autumn, WCMM announced a competition in which researchers at WCMM units around Sweden were invited to contribute their best scientific illustrations. 21 entries were submitted and on Friday it was time for the opening in Forum Medicum's foyer. In addition
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/marvel-forum-medicum-art-meets-science-wcmm-fusion-2025-exibit - 2026-06-01
Do you have a lot of ideas but nobody and no time to pursue them? Do as Nicole van Der Burg and get an intern through Jobbsprånget ("job leap"). Why did you apply to Jobbsprånget?– As a small lab we have a lot of big ideas with hardly any free time to pursue them, especially with patients sample collection taking up half our week. We knew that if we had a little more time to get some preliminary d
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/internship-programme-jobbspranget-was-just-kickstart-we-needed - 2026-06-01
In May, Salma Mahamed, Gustavo Cadenas Delascio, Marta Pitino and Ismail Bazine participated in our third doctoral course, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg: ‘Making Foreign Aid Work: Managing tensions between top-down and bottom-up approaches’. The participants took part in online literature seminars, but also our onsite workshop in Gothenburg. The course brought together both doctoral
Associate Professor Frans-Jan Parmentier has been awarded in Norway for his article about climate and permafrost. Our researchers continue to recieve awards (see previously awarded dr Oskar Löfgren). This time it is Frans-Jan Parmentier who is acknowledged, who has received the Fægri award in Norway. The Fægri award goes to the best popular science articles published in 'Naturen', Norway's oldest
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/awarded-popular-science-article - 2026-06-01
