LU i Almedalen On June 26, CMES organised two panels in Almedalen on global water resources and the Israel Palestine conflict. Israel Palestine - an unsolvable conflict?June 26, 2024 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson What are the long-term consequences of the war? How can destructive spirals of violence be prevented in the future? What are the opportunities and obligations of the international commun

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-2024 - 2025-09-05

Different aspects of forest governance were presented as well as landscape approaches to achieve multiple goals were discussed and exemplified. Different aspects of forest governance were presented in the morning by three invited speakers, Erik Sollander from the Swedish Forest Agency, Carina Keskitalo from Umeå University and Marie Appelstrand from Lund University. In the afternoon, landscape app

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/forest-governance-meet-global-challenges - 2025-09-05

Photo of Anne L'Huillier. Photographer: Magnus Bergström/Wallenbergstiftelserna. Anne L'Huillier is one of the winners of the Nobel prize 2023. Anne L'Huillier is Professor at Atomic Physics at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, Pierre Agostini, The Ohio Stat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physics-lund-university - 2025-09-06

There is time for both serious talk about the latest research as well as play when ­Anders Wittrup and Vinay Swaminathan meet up in the playground with their kids. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Five years after the opening of the prestigious Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, nothing has turned out as planned. The “tandem pairs” that were supposed to develop research together are now cheating on ea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cheating-and-interdisciplinary-fun - 2025-09-06

Labubu, the main figure in one of Ming Gao's most-read articles in The Conversation, shows how China's soft power can emerge spontaneously. Photo: Unsplash Geopolitical issues, medical breakthroughs and cultural history topics have dominated the first eight months of the year. Researchers such as Ming Gao, Tabita Rosendal, Martin L Olsson and Jill Storry are behind some of the most read articles o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-million-readers-conversation-so-far-year - 2025-09-06

Andreas Bergh, Louise Bringselius, Niklas Altermark and Cecilia Cassinger. You have to respect the fact that collaboration takes time and is not always so easy to achieve, according to Louise Bringselius, who recently started the Institute for Public Affairs together with researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management. During her years as a research lead

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2025-09-05

Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures on the standard of living, human rights, war, terrorism, climate change, and more.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2025-09-05

SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Four sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.003. Wednesday 21 Sept, 15.30–17.304. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Konsertsalen, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundChairs: Ravinder Kaur, Rajni Palriwala & Sonalde DesaiScheduleDay 1   20 September (Session 1)   Time: 14.30 – 16.30 pmChair – Rajni Palriwala (University of Delhi)Presen

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-6-youthful-modernities-negotiating-past-present-and-future - 2025-09-05

Trots att språkliga och kommunikativa kompetenser spelar en central och avgörande roll i allt mänskligt (sam)arbete uppmärksammas fenomenet sällan i diskussioner om framtidens arbetsliv. Samtidigt behöver vi ställa frågor om förändrade behov av språkkunskaper på arbetsmarknad. Vem behöver kunna vilka språk i framtidens arbetsliv? Språksituationen förändras globalt och nationellt. Medan engelska en

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sprak-och-kommunikation-i-framtidens-arbetsliv - 2025-09-06

The new collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation is of strategic importance to Lund University’s expansion in Science Village, says Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. NanoLund at Lund University has established a long-term strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation, which intends to support the purchase of equipment for Nanolab Science Village to the tune of SEK 100 million over

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strategic-collaboration-olle-engkvist-foundation-100-msek-nanolab-science-village - 2025-09-05

Eleven new competence centers in Sweden get funding from Vinnova – four of them reside in Lund and two of the new ones are directly connected to NanoLund. Foto: Kennet Ruona Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund – adding up to the already existing center C3NiT. New research

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-involved-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-09-05

Göteborg Book Fair 2013 as seen from the second floor. In this year's Göteborg Book Fair there will be two seminars with a South Asian theme. One is a dialogue on contemporary literature in Bangladesh and the other is a talk with Arundhati Roy on her new book, which deals with modern Indian history. SASNET director Andreas Johansson will also be at the fair talking about the camera's role in acade

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-goteborg-book-fair-2017 - 2025-09-05

IIIEE staff, board members, former board members, students and alumni. After nine years, I have decided to leave my assignment as Director at the IIIEE. Together with you I have had the privilege to further develop the Institute in being an innovative and creative arena for interdisciplinary education and research within Lund University. It has been a time of engagement and joy in providing and sh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thank-you-all - 2025-09-05

Researcher Jesica López flew over a fire-ravaged Amazon during fieldwork in Colombia. The fires are a consequence of climate change and expanding cattle breeding. Photo: Private Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for those fighting to protect the rain forest and the environment. Last year, 79 people were killed for that reason, three times as many as in the second most dangerous countr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-important-plan-thoroughly - 2025-09-06

Mattias Magnusson joined the Research School in Stem Cell Biology as its Executive Coordinator earlier in 2023. Photo by: Alexis Luis Lund Stem Cell Center's Research School in Stem Cell Biology has a new Executive Coordinator, Mattias Magnusson. As a researcher with a passion for education and collaboration, he aims to take the research school to new heights by implementing innovative education p

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/meet-new-executive-coordinator-lund-stem-cell-centers-research-school-stem-cell-biology - 2025-09-05

At the Academy of Music in Malmö, Peter Spissky from Czechoslovakia found an opportunity to develop his interest in baroque music – a genre that didn’t suit the political system in his homeland. Through his research on how gestures taken from speech, acting and dance can be compressed into the movement of the bow, he hopes to come closer to the lively, vibrant playing that is at the heart of the g

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/bowing-swing - 2025-09-05

How do you make the regional craft beer industry more sustainable? Through direct collaboration with the sector to create “hyperlocal” solutions say researchers from LUCSUS who are growing hops at a local brewery in Skåne, Sweden. The aim is to test ways to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to regional, circular economies. WATCH VIDEO:  – We are testing different indoor growing alte

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researchers-are-testing-new-ways-make-your-beer-more-sustainable - 2025-09-05

Donald Trump vill införa drastiskt höjda tullar och en omfattande deportationspolitik och Kamala Harris fokuserar inrikespolitiskt på att stabilisera inflationen och stärka medelklassen. Vad kommer hända med ekonomin i USA och världen när en av dem blir president? Maria Persson, docent i Nationalekonomi, tittar närmare på USA:s nästa president ur ett ekonomiperspektiv. I valkampanjen har den tidig

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/kamala-och-trump-valet-och-ekonomin - 2025-09-05

Vårbudgeten, åtaganden för Max IV och ESS, samarbete med Nottingham, uppehållstillstånd för utländska forskare, Max IV-utmärkelse och Futuralkarnevelj är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Vårbudget. I dag är Per i Stockholm för att besöka Utbildningsdepartementet för att få reda på vad som kan förväntas i den kommande vårpropositionen. Vi hoppas att regeringen hörsammar vårt stora behov av 2

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-17-mars - 2025-09-06

Is there any underlying biological explanation for why men are responsible for such a large proportion of sexual assaults compared to women? Or, from a biological point of view, could women just as easily have been the ones to commit this type of harassment and assault, if the social and historical power structure were reversed? In the light of the #metoo movement’s many testimonies, LUM sat down

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biology-could-partially-explain-sexual-abuse-power - 2025-09-05