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…a Lund University alumna who has taken a new position as director of the Big Data Institute in Oxford! “Thank you! I am very excited about this”, says Cecilia Lindgren. She describes the managerial role at the Big Data Institute (BDI) as a new chapter, but on something in which she is strongly rooted. Ever since she completed her PhD at Lund University, she has used Big Data in her research in va

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/congratulations-cecilia-lindgren - 2025-11-09

“How are you, what seems to be the problem?” asks Ahmed, who is playing Doctor Ali. “Well, I have had a stomach ache for a few days”, says 26 year-old Sadeq who is playing the patient, 50 year-old Bengt. “Can you describe your symptoms?” asks Ahmed/Doctor Ali, and Sadeq/Bengt explains about pain, nausea and vomiting. At Locus Medicus in Malmö. Sadeq al-Ghaffari from Irak with a red jacket, and Ahm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recent-arrivals-practise-their-swedish-medics-language-cafe - 2025-11-09

A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that slows down the disease. But Huntington researcher and psychiatrist Åsa Petersén works

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-11-09

Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund. First published: 2019-05-26Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on genetically-modified babies and where Malin Parmar hopes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-11-09

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse har anslagit över 131 miljoner kronor till fyra olika forskningsprojekt vid Lunds universitet. Projekten bedöms hålla högsta internationella klass med möjlighet till framtida vetenskapliga genombrott. – Projektanslagen är den största årliga satsningen som Stiftelsen gör om man ser till anslagsbeloppet. Anslagen går till excellent, fri forskning i Sverige. Vi vi

https://www.lu.se/artikel/131-miljoner-kronor-forskning-av-hogsta-internationella-klass - 2025-11-10

This year, Sweden celebrates a century of democracy and fair elections are seen as self-evident. How did our democracy develop and how did we get rid of election fraud? One of your researchers has now examined the country’s election fraud history and its underlying causes – from 1719 to the early 1900s. The conclusion? Bureaucrats and political parties are the biggest factors influencing election

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-sweden-became-one-worlds-most-stable-democracies - 2025-11-09

Att anställa en barnflicka eller au pair har blivit ett vanligare sätt för barnfamiljer att få vardagen att gå ihop och se till att jämställdheten mellan föräldrarna ökar. Införandet av statliga subventioner har bäddat för en ny marknad som tycks leda till att det jämställda föräldraskapet alltmer blir en klassfråga. Nanny, au-pair eller barnflicka. Att betala någon för att ta hand om barnen är et

https://www.lu.se/artikel/au-pairer-och-barnflickor-loser-livspusslet-men-okar-ojamlikheterna-i-samhallet - 2025-11-10

Eléonor studies strategic communication and lived in Helsingborg for the first two years of her studies. Read on to find out what she thinks the best things to do in Helsingborg during the summer! Are there any activities or events that you would recommend to others? The summer in Helsingborg is full of concerts so even though the semester has ended there is plenty of life in the city. This year H

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/there-lot-going-helsingborg-all-time - 2025-11-09

Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, reflects on in two highly read articles on the news platform, The Conversation. One of Tony Ingesson’s articles, on military conscription, has 26,000 reads and the other, about Morse code, has over 40,000 r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/morse-code-russia-path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-11-10

The current telephony contract will end on 31 March 2026, and a call for tenders is now being launched so that a new contract can enter into force the following day. The new contract will involve changes taking place. Therefore, a project is now being launched to get everything in place. Find out what you need to do to be ready. Two suppliers become oneLund University's current telephony solution

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-procurement-telephony-underway-landline-telephones-are-being-phased-out - 2025-11-10

He began by renting out his sofa, then gave his blessing to a military tent on the LTH campus and later made it possible to transport and erect prefabricated housing from China. Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson has done a lot to highlight the shortage of student accommodation, and last year ended in a triumph for housing policy, when he, Akademiska hus and Lund Municipality presented a new constructio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellors-perseverance-pays-student-housing - 2025-11-09

Mohamad Hariri is studying a bachelor’s in Business and Economics and the past 10 weeks he has done an internship at Nordea in Malmö. LUSEM Career Services had the opportunity to visit him at Nordea to learn more about what a typical day as an intern looks like. What have you been doing during your internship?”I’ve mainly been writing a report on customers who have left the bank, and why they deci

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/internship-experience-nordea - 2025-11-10

Just like self-driving cars, we can expect autonomous ships to become more common in the coming years. However, two safety challenges which need to be solved along the way, and which are different for ships compared to cars, are navigation without GPS and remote control. In his research, Mårten Lager has developed user interfaces for remote control of ships, as well as positioning using water dept

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/improving-conditions-autonomous-ships - 2025-11-09

Insekters DNA går att fånga in och upptäcka via luften. Det visar forskning från Lunds universitet. Tekniken, som är ny på insektsområdet, kan få stor betydelse för att kartlägga biologisk mångfald framöver och väntas komplettera den traditionella metoden, att samla in insekter med fällor. Fabian Roger, som tog fram tekniken under sin tid som forskare på Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/luftburen-dna-forskarnas-nya-metod-att-kartlagga-insekter - 2025-11-09

Why is the Stringhyllan bookshelf considered a design classic but not the Billy? And what makes the Lamino armchair into the furniture design of the century while Norrgavel’s Länstol chair isn’t even considered a classic? “I believed, rather naively, that it was quality that determined whether a piece became a Anna Wahlöö has her personal favourite among the design classics in her own garden. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-knows-what-makes-design-classic - 2025-11-09

Markus is currently enrolled on our one-year international Master's Programme in Information Systems. He majored in Cyber Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Having completed his first semester with us, we asked him a few questions about his experience so far. Why did you choose Lund?“Professionally, I chose Lund because of the University’s academic reputation and long history

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/msc-student-portrait-markus-richardson - 2025-11-10

In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equipment at centre’s Preclinical Nuclear Medicine platform. The funds will be used to enhance the positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-26-million-sek-nuclear-medicine-imaging-equipment-upgrade - 2025-11-09

During the fetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the fetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University demonstrate that one of these fetal programs appears to protect against acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). “We have used an experimental mouse model that always results in this type of leukaemia.

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-fetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia - 2025-11-09

For hundreds of years, people have made a living from livestock herding in rural Kenya. Today, their traditional way of life is increasingly burdened by the effects of climate change and population growth. In his doctoral thesis, Billy Jones examines why development aid projects in the region often fail – and how sustainable progress could instead be achieved with the help of local actors. Thirtee

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/research-shows-sustainable-development-requires-locally-rooted-aid - 2025-11-09

Nudging: A tool for sustainable behaviourSometimes, a gentle nudge is all it takes for us to do the right thing. With a report written by three IIIEE researchers, nudging as a behavioural tool has gained interest among a broad Swedish audience.Most of us wish to make sustainable choices and do well for ourselves as well as for society. Yet, we fail, over and over again. Sometimes though, a gentle

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-oksana-mont - 2025-11-09