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CATE-projektet har utnämnts till ett av de mest innovativa projekten i Europa och har av EU-kommissionen därför utsetts till finalist i det så kallade Regio Stars 2014. Claes Fahlander, professor vid fysiska institutionen, har blivit inbjuden att presentera projektet i Bryssel på finaldagen, 8 oktober. Läs de senaste artiklarna från LUM, Lunds universitets magasin
https://www.lu.se/artikel/fysikprojekt-gar-till-eu-final - 2025-12-15
Vattenhallen Science Center LTH får fyra miljoner kronor i utvecklingsbidrag från Sparbanksstiftelsen Färs och Frosta. Pengarna blir det första tillskottet till en planerad utbyggnad, vilket kommer göra det populära besöksmålet mer än tre gånger så stort som idag. Just Färs och Frostas bidrag öronmärks till högteknologisk AV-teknik för ett helt nytt auditorium och en ny utställning om mag- och tar
https://www.lu.se/artikel/stort-utvecklingsbidrag-till-vattenhallen-0 - 2025-12-15
Vilka genvarianter ökar risken för hjärtinfakt, och på vilket sätt? Kan man sålla fram personer med hög risk så att de får en förebyggande behandling? Och finns det mer att göra, genom speciella koständringar eller nya läkemedel, för dem som bär på riskgenerna? Det är huvudfrågorna i den forskning som bedrivs av professor Olle Melander. För denna får han nu Fernströmstiftelsen pris för yngre, särs
https://www.lu.se/artikel/fernstrompriset-i-lund-till-hjartforskare - 2025-12-15
Att beröring är viktigt för vår överlevnads skull är kanske ingen nyhet. Men nu visar en ny avhandling i psykologi att barn som växer upp utan kärleksfull beröring från sina föräldrar får svårt med beröring som vuxna. Forskaren bakom avhandlingen, Caroline Johansson, visar att människor som haft en otrygg anknytning, som inte känt sig uppskattade och älskade som barn, oftare är rädda för att bli a
https://www.lu.se/artikel/kramlos-barndom-ger-radsla-att-rora-vid-andra-0 - 2025-12-15
Lundakonferensen Innovation in Mind firar femårsjubileum den18-19 september. Tema för årets upplaga är What´s Next och syftet är att fånga upp viktiga trender och utmaningar som kommer att prägla vår framtid. Tio internationella talare har bjudits in, bland dem Europas ledande futurist, Ray Hammond, den kontroversiella vetenskapsjournalisten Annalee Newitz, Innovation Management-gurun Hal Gregerse
https://www.lu.se/artikel/raketbyggare-framtidsspanare-och-londonbussar-pa-innovation-mind - 2025-12-15
Ann-Charlotte (Lotta) Carlén heter hon och som regelverket vid Lunds universitet påbjuder har hon utsetts av dekanen vid Konstnärliga fakulteten efter förslag från personalen vid Musikhögskolan. Bytet på rektorsposten föranleds av att Musikhögskolans tidigare rektor, Staffan Storm utsetts till prodekan vid Konstnärliga fakulteten i Malmö. Före rektorsuppdraget arbetade Lotta Carlén som utbildnings
https://www.lu.se/artikel/musikhogskolan-har-fatt-sin-forsta-kvinnliga-rektor - 2025-12-15
I början av veckan hölls årets högtidliga stipendieceremoni för att hedra de internationella studenter som har tilldelats ett stipendium för att studera vid Lunds universitet. Ceremonin gick av stapeln i Universitetshuset aula, som var full av stipendiater och donatorer. Stipendiaten Xinyu Hu från Kina med rektor Per Eriksson. I år utdelades sammanlagt 183 stipendier till studenter som påbörjar si
https://www.lu.se/artikel/glada-stipendiater-traffade-sina-donatorer - 2025-12-15
A detective work that reflects society in terms of both working life and fashion trends. This is how you could describe Cecilia Svedman’s task as a dermatologist and researcher, specialising in contact allergies. Cecilia Svedman. Cecilia Svedman is the director of the main hospital in Helsingborg, who at the same time manages a research group at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Derma
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-looking-what-itches-stings-and-peels - 2025-12-15
Supervisors who do not have time for their doctoral students, or research which is used without giving the doctoral student credit as an author…. Aleksandra Popovic hopes that the newly established Research Programmes Board will result in increased initiative when it comes to dealing with the doctoral students’ problems. This is a recurring issue for many doctoral students, according to a survey,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/some-doctoral-students-find-their-supervisors-unreliable - 2025-12-15
In the autumn, Lund University will be introducing a major educational initiative on e-learning and blended learning. It is intended for teaching staff who are curious about testing digital tools in their teaching activities. “For the University, integrating digital technology in physical teaching is a matter of survival – that is why we are making this extra investment”, says Bo-Anders Jönsson, p
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/teaching-staff-learn-more-about-blended-learning - 2025-12-15
Forum Medicum – the new major construction of the Faculty of Medicine at the top of Sölvegatan – will become a reality. For a while, things looked bad, but by making small adjustments here and there, the project can now be pursued to begin construction in the winter of 2018/2019. The idea of Forum Medicum is to establish a joint biomedical and health sciences centre for research and knowledge. The
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-slimming-down-construction-plans-forum-medicum-now-underway - 2025-12-15
At a pub in Yokohama, history of religions scholar Andreas Johansson by chance came in contact with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. For two weeks, he was hanging out with the mafia, and will soon publish a book on the tattoos of the Yakuza and what they symbolise. It requires over 200 hours of painful pricks by hand, with a metal pin attached to a bamboo stick, to achieve the tattoos that are comm
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researcher-intrigued-mafia-tattoos-japanese-mafia-photographed-lund-researcher - 2025-12-15
Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some people and stress to others, says Mikael Ottoson. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson Our working h
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2025-12-15
The Ravensbrück archive at the University Library is unique in the world. Nowhere else is there a collection of 500 testimonies from concentration camp survivors, recorded so soon after their terrible ordeal. Now, their stories from Ravensbrück will be made available in digital form, so that anyone can search the archive. Drawings. Several of the women imprisoned at Ravensbrück subsequently became
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/important-testimonies-digitised - 2025-12-15
82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that fill a gap of 50 years. Emma Kritzberg In Sweden and many other countries in the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2025-12-15
Love poems, playing cards and secret notes. For half a millennium, people who have attended mass at Lund Cathedral have found ways to pass the time when the sermons felt too slow. In a few years, the Lund University Historical Museum will introduce a new cabinet of curiosities, containing notes and strange objects which have fallen down or been hidden between the choir stalls inside the Cathedral.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2025-12-15
Is the world becoming a better place? Carlota Perez does not respond to this question. Instead, she explains how we are making it better. And hope is ignited in the eyes of the young members of the audience during Debatt i Lund. “The threat of climate change can be turned into an opportunity. Green economic growth will provide lots of new jobs and a good life for people, not only in the West but a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-brings-hope-better-world - 2025-12-15
When Jonas Hafström swings his gavel at the board meeting in June, he will do so in front of an almost entirely new University Board. He himself maintains his seat, comfortable in his role as chair which he began two years ago. Jonas Hafström, chairman of the University board. When former chair Margot Wallström resigned, in the middle of her term of office, to become Minister for Foreign Affairs,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/donald-trump-and-brexit-affects-agenda-board - 2025-12-15
A few weeks after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, researchers caution against describing reality as a black-and-white struggle between good and evil. If you want to protect society against extremism, it is important that you understand how and why it occurs. Although radicalised youth who return from the terror group ISIS is a threat to security, the threat must not be exagger
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/segregation-graver-threat-isis-returnees-long-run - 2025-12-15
How does digital technology affect our work situation? Could data collected to measure our performance lead to old-fashioned micromanagement? Should higher education take after healthcare with regard to the boundary between work and spare time? These are some of the questions discussed by researchers involved in the research theme Digiworks at the Pufendorf Institute. Researcher in business admini
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-revolution-changes-work-environment - 2025-12-15
