Published 3 April 2025 Among other things, the researchers were surprised to find that the hedgehogs contained so many different environmental toxins and such high levels of lead. Photo: Istockphoto/Maren Winter. Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they

https://www.science.lu.se/article/surprising-number-environmental-pollutants-hedgehogs - 2025-07-05

Published 21 January 2016 Photo: IIIEE researcher Mikael Backman From waste to green gold: Lund's role in the transition of one of Europe's most polluted citiesMalgorzata Mańka-Szulik, mayor of Zabrze in Poland, was impressed with what she saw – a city with a waste management system resulting in as little as 3 per cent waste going to landfills.“She looked at me and said: ‘I want my city to be like

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-mikael-backman - 2025-07-05

Published 4 June 2018 Photo: INGEMAR EDFALK/SVERIGES RIKSDAG The Sweden Democrats’ pivotal position in the Riksdag has not led to chaos and inefficiency, as many predicted after the last election. On the contrary, the parties have adapted and decisions are made through new coalitions and cross-party cooperation. However, there are other causes for concern, according to political scientist Johannes

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/expected-parliamentary-chaos-never-materialised-storm-clouds-are-looming - 2025-07-05

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallén-Widung) - published 13 December 2024 The tense global situation is a challenge for the university's internationalisation work, says International Coordinator Pär Svensson. Photo: Minna Wallén-Widung Internationalisation has become more important – and more complex – in recent years. In a world where democracy and acade

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internationalisation-important-comprehensive-and-complex - 2025-07-06

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 13 February 2025 Vanya Darakchieva is a professor of solid state physics at LTH. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LT

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-07-06

Av anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - publicerad 9 december 2024 Juliana Dänhardt och Anna-Karin Poussart leder arbetet med Policylabb Storkriket. Bild: Anna Maria Erling Hur kan man bäst arbeta över kommun- och sektorsgränser för att stötta klimatanpassning genom naturbaserade lösningar på landsbygden? Det är en av flera frågor som Policylabb Storkriket, ett

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/policylabb-storkriket-klimatanpassning-over-granserna-genom-naturbaserade-losningar - 2025-07-05

Av petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - publicerad 11 oktober 2022 Enming Zhang gör mätningar av insulinutsöndringen hos langerhanska öar från friska människor där Piezo1 har blockerats. Foto: Petra Olsson Vid typ 2-diabetes försämras bukspottskörtelns förmåga att tillverka och utsöndra insulin, en komplex process som ännu inte är helt klarlagd. En ny studie av forskare v

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-visar-att-jonkanalen-piezo1-har-betydelse-insulinutsondringen - 2025-07-05

Publicerad 16 juni 2014 Almedalen, doktorspromotionen, enklare utbildningssamarbeten, ESS, Afrikastrategi, Universitetsstyrelsen, Lärosäten Syd, Delegationsresa till Stanford och Berkeley samt Kunskapsveckan är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Doktorspromotion den 5 juni blev en fin och minnesvärd högtid. Rektors högtidstal vände sig till de nya doktorerna, jubeldoktorer och hedersdoktorer.

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Published 2 May 2013 Animal ecologist and pike researcher Anders Nilsson was the first doctor of the Millennium at Lund University. Now, 13 years later, he has just been appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecology. We caught up with him to find out what had happened since our last meeting, and had a long discussion on careers, creativity and the value of colleagues who provide a helping hand when times

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/journey-doctor-professor - 2025-07-05

Published 3 February 2014 The children are poor, the problems are extensive and school resources are minimal. However, in the midst of the poverty, there is pride and a strong sense that it is possible to change the situation for these schoolchildren. LUM has met alumni in South Africa and Malawi from the Sida programme ‘Child Rights, Classroom and School Management’. Headmistress Amelia Nthokgoan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-alumni-reform-schools - 2025-07-05

Published 4 June 2018 With VR goggles and a manual control, Elisabeth Dalholm Hornyánszky is wandering on a summer beach and in a flowering garden. She takes a boat trip on a calming expanse of water and meets butterflies on a rolling field. “Goodness, how close that butterfly is! Can I open the gate?” Her spontaneous outbursts and observations make us share her experiences even though we are not

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/could-virtual-nature-make-elderly-people-healthier - 2025-07-05

By filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - published 4 July 2024 Carin Alegre Castegren When entering the lower gallery (KHM1) of Malmö Art Academy to see the MFA exhibition entitled “Tremeluz” by Carin Maria Alegre Castegren, I was met by numerous paintings, which all seemed to be in a state of flux. They had a lightness to them, an openness as well as something allus

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-iii-carin-alegre-castegren-and-my-sjoberg-0 - 2025-07-05

Published 20 March 2020 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

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/forest-governance-meet-global-challenges - 2025-07-05

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 29 September 2022 Rita Charon, M.D. PhD, Professor and Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Narrative medicine provides tools for clinicians to read patients better. 2022 Sandblom Prize Lecture will be given by pioneering Professor Rita Charon of Columbia University on the disci

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sandblom-prize-expanding-creativity-clinical-worlds-through-narrative-medicine - 2025-07-05

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 4 July 2024 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-2024 - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 28 September 2020 “Great efforts must be made so that we transform rather than cancel activities”, says Malin Bruce, president of LUS, and Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS since June. Photo:Jenny Loftrup LU managed the transition to digital teaching. But the spring Coronavirus crisis had a negative impact on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/transition-worked-now-we-need-more-even-quality-teaching - 2025-07-05

Published 10 October 2023 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, Pier

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physics-lund-university - 2025-07-06

Av anna [dot] mansfeld [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Mansfeld) - publicerad 7 juni 2024 Sommaren är en tid för återhämtning och avkoppling - ge dig själv tillåtelse att koppla av, ladda om och njuta av solen. Ta hjälp av tipsen nedan för att kunna koppla ned och av ordentligt under ledigheten. I god tid före semesternSemester: Ansök om semester i god tid före semestern, enligt den rut

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/att-tanka-pa-infor-sommaren-2024 - 2025-07-06

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 1 February 2023 Torsten Krause is leading a newly started research project which will shed light on the various moral and legal dilemmas that can arise in the fight to defend and protect nature and human rights. Photo: Pixabay. In mid-January, protesters and police clashed in the village of Lützerath in Germany after the villa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-are-environmental-human-rights-defenders-new-research-project-lucsus - 2025-07-05

Published 4 May 2020 Street scene in Kathmandu on the first day of lock-down of the city. Photo: Hanna Geschewski. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic con

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-07-05