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Antidiabetics that also provide cardiovascular benefit is a key unmet need in diabetes treatment. ApoA-l is a protein shown to have both glucose lowering and cholesterol-lowering effects and has been investigated by Jens Lagerstedt and Karin Stenkula for its therapeutic potential. They have now received 2,5 million Danish kroner from the Novo Seeds for taking innvoation a step further. The goal is

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lagerstedt-and-stenkula-receive-novo-seed-grant - 2025-12-17

Change brings development and is a part of life. Sara Novakov has guided LUSEM through changes while maintaining continuity since 2007, but this fall, she will be retiring. Sara joined LUSEM in 2007, having already been employed at the university since 1994, including working as an internal auditor. Coming to a faculty full of economists as an economist herself has worked well, she says with a smi

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusems-very-own-head-finance-retiring-what-happens-now - 2025-12-15

The current recession is affecting everyone, and the University and central administration are no exceptions. We, like many other organisations, are affected by cutbacks and a tough economic climate. The entire university sector is being asked to make savings of 0.5%. This is coming as inflation is high and many things have become more expensive: rents, equipment, licences, etc. Like other LU orga

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tougher-times-everyone-including-universities - 2025-12-16

Workshop held at the Department of Human Geography, 6-7th February 2019. Following the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Goal 11, making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable will be the focus of the workshop’s discussions. Swedish and Turkish scholars contribute to the subject matter from the angle of an advanced capitalist country context and an emergi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-financialisation-housing-and-violation-housing-rights-global-north-and-south - 2025-12-15

https://www.medicinhistoria.lu.se/artikel/20th-biannual-conference-german-polish-society-history-medicine - 2025-12-17

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/alumni-andreas-franzen-selma-sjostedt - 2025-12-15

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/populism-och-vit-nationalism - 2025-12-17

Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand. She sees patterns that might explain other right-w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2025-12-15

PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can address many of the problems connected to agriculture, and hopes to challenge incumbent power structures and spur radical transformations in food and farming in his research. What attracted you to LUCSUS and this PhD?Workin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-stefan-schuller-explores-prospects-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-12-15

Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on travel behaviors? What can be attributed to economic factors, changed social norms or a combination of both is unclear - but air travel in Sweden has decreased by 20 percent compared to before the pandemic. – The movement seeks to achieve change by making visible other ways of traveling, and in a large

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-dissertation-explores-how-swedens-flight-free-movement-challenges-social-norms-around-flying - 2025-12-15

Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pattern, but we can't say for sure that this particular event is worse because of climate change"? Weather attribution is a new phenomenon that is changing this. Climate scientist Wilhelm May at Lund University helps us ge

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-12-15

Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pattern, but we can't say for sure that this particular event is worse because of climate change"? Weather attribution is a new phenomenon that is changing this. Climate scientist Wilhelm May at Lund University helps us ge

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-12-17

29th of May, it will be 70 years since one of the world’s tallest mountains, Mount Everest, was climbed for the very first time. An important moment to bring attention to how glacial melt not only threatens the tourism industry in the region, but the livelihoods of over a billion people depending on the Himalayas for water, according to sustainability researcher Mine Islar. Mine Islar, senior lect

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/70-years-mount-everest-was-climbed-first-time-glacial-melt-now-threatens-more-just-tourism-industry - 2025-12-17

A new research project led by LUCSUS will examine immobility as an adaptation strategy. Through a novel research approach, and field work in different areas affected by sea level rise and erosion, it will shed light on the communities who are unable – or unwilling – to move despite negative effects on their environment. Average sea levels have swelled about 23 cm since 1880, with about 7 cm in the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-project-examines-immobility-adaptation-strategy - 2025-12-17

Benjamin Clareus is one of five new PhD students at the Department of psychology. Find out what he´s up to for the next four years. "I’m writing my thesis about the process of cessation of intentional, non-suicidal self-harm between adolescence to young adulthood. Specifically, I will study which factors predict cessation of self-harm, and current psychological well-being in young adults with adol

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/meet-our-phds-benjamin-clareus - 2025-12-17

E-sport är benämningen på det alltmer populära fenomenet med tävlingsinriktade dator- och tv-spel, där individer eller lag spelar mot varandra i diverse onlinemiljöer. En ny analysmodell utvecklad av forskare i Sverige, Danmark och Tyskland ger såväl spelutvecklare som åskådare möjlighet att analysera stora mängder data i realtid och i många fall korrekt förutspå resultatet av en match. Kognitions

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-analysmodell-e-sport-forutspar-vem-som-vinner-och-varfor - 2025-12-16

I första presidentvalsdebatten den 25 september 2016 var det många som fäste sig vid Donald Trumps snörvlande. Det gav upphov till en twitterstorm under hashtaggen #TrumpSniffles och ett intensivt medieintresse kring presidentkandidatens hälsa. Lisa Flower, doktorand i sociologi vid Lunds universitet som forskar om känslor, har dock en alternativ förklaring: – Min forskning visar att sniffande kan

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/varfor-snorvlade-donald-trump - 2025-12-15

I första presidentvalsdebatten den 25 september 2016 var det många som fäste sig vid Donald Trumps snörvlande. Det gav upphov till en twitterstorm under hashtaggen #TrumpSniffles och ett intensivt medieintresse kring presidentkandidatens hälsa. Lisa Flower, doktorand i sociologi vid Lunds universitet som forskar om känslor, har dock en alternativ förklaring: – Min forskning visar att sniffande kan

https://www.lu.se/artikel/varfor-snorvlade-donald-trump - 2025-12-16

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-pa-topp-100-i-times-highers-rankning-0 - 2025-12-16

Vi är glada att kunna presentera institutionens seminarieserie för våren 2025, som kommer att bjuda på en spännande rad talare från hela världen. Seminarierna äger rum varje torsdag kl. 13.15 i Blå hallen i Ekologibyggnaden. Efter föreläsningarna finns det möjlighet för fika och mingel.Nedan hittar du det fullständiga schemat för våren 2025:Alla länkar, utom den till BLAM, leder till personliga we

https://www.biologi.lu.se/internt/artikel/seminarieserien-varen-2025-klar - 2025-12-17