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Dust storms used to be a weather phenomenon associated with aridity and desert. This has now changed, and today they are occurring in places all over the Middle East, and more frequently than before. This peaked the interest of researcher Hossein Hashemi, who says that dust storms are one of the most pressing sustainability, economic, and health challenges currently facing the region. – When a dus
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eye-dust-storm - 2026-05-05
Depression, dizziness, difficulty focusing the gaze and balance problems. Many professional athletes who have sustained head trauma in sports have lingering symptoms that affect everyday life. Little help has been available as the cause has been unknown. A clinical study from Lund University in Sweden can now show that the problems originate in an injury to the vestibular nerve. Athletes in contac
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/damaged-nerve-behind-athletes-post-concussion-issues - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Digital Master Exhibitions 2020 Fear is a feeling that I have lived with ever since I learned my rights as a human. And understood that achieving them is a struggle. For us as citizens, and for me as woman, who live where these rights can't be taken for granted.Fear of being violently suppressed, or ending up in priso
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/samaneh-roghani-silenced-forgotten - 2026-05-05
The organisational project was launched in 2023 and will run for almost seven years until 2029. The revised project plan sets out the direction of the project for the coming year. Since the project started, the number of departments within the Faculty has gone from 11 to 9. The revised project plan summarises the work and sub-projects carried out so far and describes the direction for the upcoming
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/revised-project-plan-organisational-project-outlines-direction-year - 2026-05-05
All employees now have the opportunity to increase their awareness around academic freedom and influence the University’s work in the area. Invitations to discussions at faculties and divisions will be sent out during the spring. Are we overly influenced by the demands of financiers and politicians? Are we muted by self-censorship and the Overton Window? What does academic freedom really mean, and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/take-opportunity-express-your-opinion-academic-freedom - 2026-05-06
With 89 defibrillators, Lund University has more defibrillators than any other Swedish higher education institution. These are to cover a campus area of around 550,000m2 and be available for about 39,000 staff and students. The magazine Universitetsläraren has conducted a survey to find out how many defibrillators there are at Sweden higher education institutions (HEIs). They sent out a questionna
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-most-defibrillators-1 - 2026-05-06
One in three patients is asked about their lifestyle habits when they visit the outpatient healthcare clinics. This figure really ought to be higher, according to Professors Hanne Tønnesen and Inger Kristensson Hallström, who are in charge of the WHO Collaborating Centre at Lund University. Lifestyle should concern the health care system even more than it does today,stresses Hanne Tønnesen: “We qu
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-mission-creating-evidence-how-health-care-can-prevent-disease - 2026-05-05
Huntington’s disease is hereditary, genetic and usually begins between the ages of 30 and 50. In Sweden, around 1,000 people have the diagnosis and several thousand live with the risk of getting the disease. Even more people have a connection to the disease as its symptoms also affect those close to the patient to a high degree. The disease leads to premature death and there are no treatments that
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/huntingtons-complex-brain-disease-affects-movement-thoughts-and-feelings - 2026-05-05
Her journey has taken her from medieval archaeology to leading assignments in evaluation, education, and research. Now Tina Josefson is bringing her experience and passion for structure, dialogue, and creativity to LTH. Her agenda right now is to listen, learn, and continue exploring the faculty. Tina Josefson has been Head of faculty office at LTH since May 2025. But her academic career began twe
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/medieval-thinking-academy-future-meet-lths-new-head-faculty-office - 2026-05-05
The chances of being cured of breast cancer have increased in recent decades, however if the tumour has metastasised, the disease remains essentially incurable. One reason for this could be that the metastases are detected late, after they have grown enough to cause symptoms or be seen on a radiological scan. If they could be found sooner, it might be possible to treat the new tumours. Research fi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-test-early-detection-breast-cancer-metastasis - 2026-05-05
Nearly four in ten female upper secondary school students suffer from iron deficiency. Among vegetarians and vegans, seven in ten have low iron levels, according to a new study led by Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff. The research has received considerable attention in the press, radio and television. "We were surprised by the results," says Anna Stubbendorff. The past two weeks have been
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/nearly-four-ten-female-students-suffer-iron-deficiency - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many Swedes have large debts, and being in debt is often expected to lead to poor health. However, economist Therese Nilsson at the School of Economics and Management finds that we still do not know enough to determine whether it is the debt itself that leads to ill health – or if ill health leads to debt. Economist T
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/does-debt-create-ill-health-or-does-ill-health-create-debt - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He is checking out at the same fighting weight as when he checked in, and does the same number of push-ups (40!) now as he did then. He has been through several tough rounds and had to fight to defend his convictions and his views on the University’s development. Per Eriksson summarises his time as vice-chancellor as
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When Lund University switched to digital teaching there were many challenges both for the teaching staff and students. How exams and assessment were to be conducted now that the students were not on-site was an important question and a very difficult challenge. The existing tools for digital on-campus exams were teste
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-exams-campus-and-remote-solutions - 2026-05-05
The WCMM Lund IGNITE Postdoc Fellow Program was officially launched with a welcoming dinner on Wednesday, 21 January, marking the start of a new postdoctoral initiative in regenerative medicine. The event gathered WCMM Fellows, clinical researchers, supervisors, IGNITE Fellows and members of WCMM Lund management for an evening focused on connection and collaboration. Set in a relaxed and inspiring
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcoming-dinner-marks-official-launch-wcmm-lund-ignite-postdoc-fellow-program - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Where did all the carbon on earth really come from? How do you discuss climate change and mass extinctions without scaring children? and What positive examples do we have of mitigating human impact on the climate? These are some of the questions we have had to deal with in the process of collaborating with Vattenhalle
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/communicating-climate-science-global-scale-young-and-interactive-audience - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Where did all the carbon on earth really come from? How do you discuss climate change and mass extinctions without scaring children? and What positive examples do we have of mitigating human impact on the climate? These are some of the questions we have had to deal with in the process of collaborating with Vattenhalle
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/communicating-climate-science-global-scale-young-and-interactive-audience - 2026-05-05
Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn In KHM1 gallery IreneMargrethe Kaltenborn´s MFA exhibition Choreographies towards loss set the stage for the audience to enter artworks which echoed loss and a void, full of wonderment and poetics. The gallery was dimly lit and kept minimal, leaving room for the viewer to enter the web of interconnectedness between animals, humans and nature. What has the process b
Researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain’s support cells into parvalbumin-positive cells. These cells act as the brain’s rapid-braking system and are significantly involved in schizophrenia, epilepsy and other neurological conditions. Parvalbumin cells play a central role in keeping brain activity in equilibrium. The
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-create-cells-help-brain-keep-its-cool - 2026-05-05
Victoria O’Bryan is in her fourth semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “After graduation, I chose to study a technical foundation year at Malmö University, where mathematics was my favorite subject
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-victoria-obryan - 2026-05-06
