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With the arrival of spring, bumblebee queens take their first wing beat of the season and set out to find new nesting sites. But they are flying earlier in the year, as a result of a warmer climate and a changing agricultural landscape, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. “We risk losing additional bumblebee species, and having less pollination of crops and wild plants”, says

https://www.science.lu.se/article/earlier-take-could-lead-fewer-bumblebees-and-less-pollination - 2026-05-13

PhD student Juan Antonio Samper hopes that his research some day can play a role in emancipatory causes currently happening in the territory of Putumayo, and make a difference for social life in specific places. He explores the relationship between collective identity and place, and the ways in which this relation is mobilised by different groups in the Colombian Andean-Amazonia to resist extracti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-juan-antonio-samper-explores-relationship-between-collective-identity-and-place - 2026-05-13

Joan Yuan, researcher and associate professor in immunology, receives the Eric K. Fernström prize for younger, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University in 2024. Her research is about how the immune system is formed and how it affects us throughout life. Award justification: "For her decisive discoveries that have changed our understanding of hematopoiesis and the immune

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstrom-award-young-successful-researchers-goes-joan-yuan - 2026-05-13

Erika has both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the Department of Informatics at Lund University. She finished her master's degree during spring 2021. Editor's note: This interview is from 2024 and translated from Swedish.Tell us about what you do today!“I work as a Senior Analyst in cyber security at Accenture in Malmö. Since joining the company two years ago, I have worked on sever

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erika-hultman-alumna-msc-information-systems-2021 - 2026-05-13

Within third-cycle education, as in the University as a whole, we are all different and as such we need to work according to the different subject conditions of the faculties. At the same time, we are more alike than we sometimes believe and there are advantages to having the same procedures and rules where possible, particularly when we see more interdisciplinary projects crossing departmental an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-comprehensive-approach-third-cycle-education - 2026-05-14

International mentors welcome new students on the platform at Lund Central Station. They help with bags, lifts and loading luggage onto the bus that takes them on to the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre (IKDC). On 12 January, 412 international students arrived for Spring Arrival Day with a packed welcome programme – this year with a special focus on recovery. More will arrive in the coming days, with

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-students-all-over-world-are-now-arriving - 2026-05-14

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I år är det totalt 23 forskare i Sverige som får ERC Starting Grant (StG), varav 6 stycken vid Lunds universitet Rik Ossenkoppele, biträdande universitetslektor vid Klinisk minnesforskning, Medicinska fakulteten, får 1,5 miljoner euro under fem år arbeta med projektet TAU-NOW ”Tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease: S

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-far-dela-pa-100-miljoner-kronor-fran-europeiska-forskningsradet - 2026-05-13

Två tematiska forskningsgrupper, en rad framgångsrika publikationer och nya finansieringsinitiativ inleder en ny fas för Institutionen för informatik. Forskningen inom informationssystem vid institutionen fortsätter att utvecklas i takt med nya tekniska och samhälleliga utmaningar. Med etableringen av forskningsgrupperna Digital societies och Hybrid intelligence skapar forskarna vid institutionen

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/framgangar-och-nasta-steg-forskning-i-informationssystem - 2026-05-13

Masteruppsatser som utmärker sig genom originalitet och akademisk kvalitet, som ger ny kunskap med stark relevans och praktiska konsekvenser för samhället i samband med den gröna omställningen - det är de kvaliteter som belönas med SSCEN Sustainability Prize for Master´s theses. Vinnarna för 2024 är nu utvalda av juryn och priset tilldelas ett examensarbete utfört vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola respe

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/vinnarna-av-sscens-hallbarhetspris-masteruppsatser-2024 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Natural solutions to combat climate change are perceived as beneficial to both nature and people simultaneously. But claims that natural solutions also bring about empowerment, gender equality and inclusion are problematic, especially when issues of power, agency and marginalisation are ignored. This is according to n

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/natural-solutions-combat-climate-change-may-ignore-power-marginalisation-and-local-agency - 2026-05-13

Andreas Edsfeldt, docent i experimentell kardiologi vid Lunds universitet, får Bundy Academys stora pris 2025. Prissumman är 3 miljoner kronor, och forskningen som prisas handlar om hur hjärtkärlkomplikationer i samband med typ 2-diabetes kan förebyggas – i förlängningen både med läkemedel och förbättrad bilddiagnostik. År 2016 fick Andreas Edsfeldt Bundy Acedemys lilla pris, även då för att stude

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/2025-ars-pristagare-av-bundy-academys-stora-pris - 2026-05-14

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat en lovande nanoteknikbaserad metod för att leverera biomolekyler till mänskliga blodstamceller. Metodens förmåga att bibehålla cellernas funktion utan någon negativ påverkan har stor potential inom både grundforskning och kliniska tillämpningar. Utvecklingen av nya terape

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nanoteknik-skapar-nya-vagar-till-stamcellernas-inre - 2026-05-14

Tre forskargrupper vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum har tilldelats nya forskningsanslag för projekt inom precisionsmedicin. Målsättningen är att utveckla individanpassade behandlingar för personer med typ 2-diabetes. Ett av de nystartade projekten handlar om att undersöka nya metoder som kan göra det möjligt att individanpassa behandlingen i samband med typ 2-diabetes. Projektet EPIPREDIA le

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/forskning-om-individanpassad-behandling-vid-typ-2-diabetes-och-demens-far-stod - 2026-05-14

Varför gör människor motstånd mot åtgärder som ska skydda dem mot klimatrisker? Denna fråga utforskas i en studie från Lunds universitet som kartlägger var, och i vilka sammanhang, olika grupper motsätter sig klimatanpassningar.  – Klimatanpassning ses alltmer som något nödvändigt och bra, där brist på pengar eller kapacitet är det enda hindret för framgångsrika lösningar. Människor som inte vill

https://www.lu.se/artikel/global-kartlaggning-av-motstand-mot-klimatanpassning - 2026-05-14

Lotta Gränse, ophthalmologist and researcher Lund University and Skåne University Hospital has demonstrated that eye drops containing cortisone can prevent the development of the very serious eye disease ROP in infants. This has revolutionised treatment and means that the majority of children in Sweden’s Southern Healthcare Region with severe ROP do not need conventional treatment under anaesthesi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/drop-saves-eyesight-infants - 2026-05-13

Soroor Mansouryar has been a LUSEM student for five years, first in the bachelor's programme in International Business and then in the master's programme in International Strategic Management. When she graduated in 2023 she felt ready to step into her dream job as a management consultant. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Hi Soroor! Can you share a bit about what you have been up to since

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/soroor-mansouryar-alumna-international-strategic-management-2023 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It is well known that type 2 diabetes raises the risk of dementia. The reasons for this are less clear, but one explanation could be insulin resistance in the brain, according to Malin Wennström, a researcher at Lund University´s Molecular Memory Research Unit. She has received EUR 700,000 from the Swedish Research Co

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-link-dementia-be-examined - 2026-05-13

Master's student Hannes Olsson is currently studying his last semester at the civil engineering programme of Industrial Management and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering. He is studying a Master's in Supply Chain Management and did his degree project within Artificial Intelligence – without earlier knowledge in the field. Six months ago, Hannes was asked by his friend Joel from the Computer

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/hannes-olsson - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu kan forskare i Lund avslöja vad danske kung Hans tänkte bjuda på när han skulle göra anspråk på den svenska tronen i Kalmar år 1495: en två meter lång atlantisk stör. De välbevarade fiskdelarna hittades i ett vrak på Östersjöns botten förra året och har nu kunnat artbestämmas genom DNA-analys. Vid midsommar år 14

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/atlantisk-stor-i-kungens-matforrad-unikt-fynd-i-ostersjovrak-fran-1495 - 2026-05-13

A study center, a unified library, a student café, and an office for faculty management—plus a towering venue for events. Project manager and library director Kristina Holmin Verdozzi has grand visions for the Astronomy Building, which is set to undergo a complete transformation over the next three years. Anyone visiting Sölvegatan 27 on a September day in 2028 will hardly recognize it. Students w

https://www.science.lu.se/article/she-wants-create-space-scientific-curiosity - 2026-05-13