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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Susanne Åkesson, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize. The prize, which she shares with six other researchers from Hungary and Spain, was presented to them for their discovery that white horses aren’t particularly bothered by blood-sucking hors

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-biologist-receives-ig-nobel-prize - 2026-10-07

A pied flycatcher from Siberia flies over 4,500 kilometres farther than necessary to reach its wintering grounds in Africa. The reason is that the birds’ migration route is still guided by genetic instructions from the last Ice Age. How migratory birds find their way to their wintering grounds and back to their breeding sites has long been one of biology’s great mysteries. In a new study published

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/genes-ice-age-guide-migratory-birds-detours-africa - 2026-10-07

Since its launch in 2024, the Social Science Methods Centre has been led by Åsa Lundqvist. Lars Coenen has now taken over as director. He will divide his time equally between the Methods Centre and his position as Professor at the Department of Human Geography. Lars Coenen sees significant potential in the role of the Lund Social Science Methods Centre within the Faculty of Social Sciences.– The M

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-lars-coenen-new-director-lund-social-science-methods-centre - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Intestinal bacteria can create an electric current, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The results are valuable for the development of drugs, but also for the production of bioenergy, for example. It is already known that bacteria can create an electric current outside their own cell, known as ex

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/intestinal-bacteria-produce-electric-current-sugar - 2026-10-07

Vinicius recently defended his dissertation in Economic History: Familiar territory – Neighborhood effects on union formation and fertility in Sweden 1905-2022. After obtaining his Master's degree in Demographics in his native Brazil, Vinicius moved to Sweden in 2021 to pursue his PhD in Economic History.  His thesis is about how social interactions and relationships with non-family members  throu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-vinicius-de-souza-maia - 2026-10-08

Jesica López wins the Agenda 2030 Award for her research on the endangered Amazon rainforest. Carbon capture, end-of-life care and death cafés are also recognised in this year's edition. When the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University had to choose this year's winner of the Agenda 2030 Award, the steering board was faced with a difficult choice between many qualified entries. This year's a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-rainforests-death-cafes-and-seafloor-carbon-storage-wins-sustainability-award - 2026-10-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has received a grant from Magnus Bergvall's Foundation for his research on Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the United States and Sweden. The grant is in the amount of 30,000 SEK and is to be used for field research in the Afghan community in New York. The project titel is "Restricti

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/admir-skodo-received-research-grant - 2026-10-07

All teaching staff must submit a report concerning secondary employment by 31 March at the latest. Teaching staff who do not hold secondary employment are also to report this. Reporting and assessment is done in Primula. Be careful to choose the current year (2024) in the report. Heads of department are to have assessed and explained decisions on secondary employment by 30 April at the latest. Tea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-teaching-staff-report-secondary-employment - 2026-10-08

Två forskare vid medicinska fakulteten får anslag, 61 miljoner, för forskning om immunologiskt långtidsminne och omprogrammering av tumörceller. Forskningen ska leda till effektivare vaccinationsstrategier och immunterapier. Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse har beviljat 835 miljoner kronor till 30 olika projekt inom medicin, naturvetenskap och teknik som bedöms ha potential att bana väg för fr

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/yuan-och-pereira-far-anslag-av-wallenbergstiftelse - 2026-10-08

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Under de senaste åren har såväl forskare vid Lunds universitet som flera andra internationella forskargrupper framgångsrikt publicerat nya rön kring tidig och korrekt diagnostik av demenssjukdomar. Men fortsatt tar diagnostiken lång tid och kräver dyr och avancerad teknik. Nu har lundaforskarna utvecklat en prognost

https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/ny-studie-enkelt-diagnostiskt-verktyg-forutsager-risken-alzheimer-pa-individniva - 2026-10-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Cecilia Lenander, doktor i medicinsk vetenskap vid Lunds universitet medverkar på plats på årets Bokmässa i Göteborg 23-26 september. Andra medverkande är Bertil R Persson, professor emeritus i medicinsk strålningsfysik och Boel Bengtsson, professor i oftalmologi. Cecilia Lenander är redaktör för boken ”Efter antibi

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/bokmassan-om-antibiotika-cancerbehandling-och-synfaltsmatning - 2026-10-07

Nu är det bara några veckor kvar till Lundakarnevalen 2026. Från och med 4 maj påbörjas etablering i Lundagård och delar av kvarteret Paradis. Här är en översikt – datum för datum – över vad som händer och hur det kan påverka dig som arbetar i området. Det stora avgränsningarna till området sker från och med klockan 13 den 22 maj. Men redan från den 4 maj kommer Lundagård att intas med stängsel oc

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/lundakarnevalen-intar-lundagard-och-paradis-praktisk-information - 2026-10-08

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his “discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. We had the great pleasure to listen to Svante Pääbo in a fantastic presentation entitled “Archaic Genomics” at the NMMP event in Ystad in May this year. His research team develops method

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine-2022 - 2026-10-07

What makes a university a university? The simple answer would be that the institution hosts teaching and research. Yet a university is so much more than that; it might be easiest to capture the essence of the universe that is a university by summarising the year that has just ended. It is a razor sharp, teeming, testing, reflective universe that pushes boundaries in disruptive, eloquent and powerf

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/past-year-showcases-universe-lund-university - 2026-10-08

Betty Saenyi is in her last semester of her doctoral studies at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her PhD journey so far. Betty, why did you choose to pursue a doctoral education?“Funny enough, a PhD was never my dream. After my undergraduate studies, I worked in industry for quite a while and only decided to retur

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/meet-betty-saenyi-doctoral-student-department-informatics - 2026-10-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Of course there’s a bit of apprehension, just like when two people move in together. This is five families who have moved into the same building. We don’t know each other and our daily routines yet. We’ll have to find out as we go along”, said Therese Whass, a student at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-departments-installed-lux - 2026-10-07

After graduating from International Strategic Management at LUSEM, Sofie Bjerling has built a career combining business strategy with sustainability. Today, she helps companies turn sustainability data and frameworks into meaningful business action. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Sofie, tell us about what you do today!I'm working with sustainability data and encourage companies to meas

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/sofie-combines-business-strategy-and-sustainability-drive-change - 2026-10-07

In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services can be described as the benefits humans gain from nature’s ecosystems, for example regarding the food we eat, the air we breathe, purification of the water we drink, the bioenergy we use to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2026-10-07

With the arrival of spring, bumblebee queens take their first wing beat of the season and set out to find new nesting sites. But they are flying earlier in the year as a result of warmer climate and changing agricultural landscape, new research shows. – The risk is that we will lose additional bumblebee species and have reduced pollination of crops and wild plants, says researcher Maria Blasi Rome

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-means-early-flight-start-risk-fewer-bumblebees-and-reduced-pollination - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2026-10-07