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When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completely correct or all wrong!

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2026-05-15

Som en del av Globalt dynamiskt engagemang (GDE) erbjuder universitetet medel för att stödja internationella samarbeten och aktiviteter inom forskning, utbildning, innovation och samverkan. Fem utlysningar går nu att söka till. Följande fem utlysningar är aktuellaFyra av utlysningarna har sista ansökningsdag 17 april och en femte utlysning har deadline 31 mars. Samtliga aktiviteter ska vara genomf

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/internationella-satsningar-2025-aktuella-utlysningar - 2026-05-16

Sustainability Week has attracted over 4,000 visitors to around 70 program items around Lund in previous years. The University's Sustainability Forum is now accepting expressions of interest to organize events during the week (April 13–18). Register by February 9 at the latest. The 10th Sustainability Week will be held on April 13–18, 2026, and as a university employee, you have the opportunity to

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/contribute-our-sustainability-week-reach-wide-audience-your-research - 2026-05-15

The University is extending the Edulab – Experimental Platform project by one year in order to meet future challenges in education. Edulab – Experimental Platform was established in 2022 as a way to rapidly develop new courses and programmes with a particular focus on lifelong learning. The initiative was a response to today’s fast-moving world in which the need for new expertise and interdiscipli

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/extension-edulab-experimental-platform-project - 2026-05-16

Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal fluid test. The studies are published in Nature Medicine, where the researchers also demonstrate that reduced sense of smell is strongly linked to Lewy body disease even before ot

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/lewy-body-disease-can-be-detected-symptoms - 2026-05-15

Megan Andrews is in her second semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “I am originally from Canada, but moved to Sweden four years ago to live with my fiancé. In my home country, I studied psychology

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-megan-andrews - 2026-05-16

Academic misconduct has increased with about 200% during the past covid years. As a precaution Lund University has started a project to prevent deception and misleading in examination, whether it’s unauthorized cooperation, plagiarism, or non-allowed aids. In every study environment there is a unique culture, with boundaries to what is considered acceptable and unacceptable by the students themsel

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/ai-forces-teachers-change-way-courses-are-examined - 2026-05-15

A new collaborative research project led by researchers Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter will investigate the global value chains of cattle (meat / leather), gold, tin and palm oil - commodities that are all imported to the European market, and originally produced in Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia. What is the project about? The project EPICC: Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity C

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-value-chains-meat-gold-tin-and-palm-oil-spotlight-new-research-project - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments.

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. USV is the umbrella term for the University’s specialised centres which are gradually moving into the faculties. But the process is not painless – the specialised centres are keen to safeguard their identities and their low overhead costs. The faculties and departments, on the other hand, do not want to take on financ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/usv-shrinking-centres-are-moving-faculties - 2026-05-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Seminarium inom modellering av kritisk infrastruktur den 23/6 kl 11.00-12.00. Talare är Associate Professor Kash Barker från University of Oklahoma, USA. Seminariet är anordnat av Jonas Johansson inom ramen för CenCIP. Den 23/6 kl 11.00-12.00 hålls ett seminarium vid CenCIP inom ämnesområdet kritisk infrastruktur. T

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-med-assoc-prof-kash-barker - 2026-05-15

During two well-attended days, researchers, healthcare professionals and interested members of the public gathered in Malmö and Lund to take part in the latest research in the field. Research Day 2025 with the theme "Children's minds taken seriously – About Children's and Young People's Mental Health", offered a wide-ranging program of lectures, discussions and films. Moderator Lisa Kirsebom led t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/young-peoples-mental-health-focus-research-day - 2026-05-15

During two well-attended days, researchers, healthcare professionals and interested members of the public gathered in Malmö and Lund to take part in the latest research in the field. Research Day 2025 with the theme "Children's minds taken seriously – About Children's and Young People's Mental Health", offered a wide-ranging program of lectures, discussions and films. Moderator Lisa Kirsebom led t

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/mental-health-children-and-young-focus-research-day - 2026-05-15

See the exhibition at Skissernas Museum where Gunilla Klingberg is highlighting her latest public art projects for two much-discussed public environments in Stockholm, and some of her international projects. For the exhibition Klingberg has also created new works generated from the material she has saved during her processes. Klingberg’s work Virvelvind (Whirlwind) at Sergels Torg is fully integra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-wringwrenchwhirlweave - 2026-05-16

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. NYTT FRÅN VÅRA FORSKARE: Karin Aggestam, Fabio Cristiano och Lisa Strömbom har författat artikeln ”Towards agonistic peacebuilding? Exploring the antagonism-agonism nexus in the Middle East Peace Process" publicerad i Third World Quarterly.  Abstract på engelska:Many contemporary conflicts are framed as antagonistic

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/aggestam-cristiano-och-strombom-om-agonistiskt-fredsbyggande - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding. The Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) has appointed Hampus Nilsson's master thesis from LTH and Lund University's GIS Center to be the best master thesis within hydrology in 2017. Hampus

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/master-thesis-awarded-world-water-day - 2026-05-15

In English: Welcome Day for new employees Den 11 oktober hälsas alla nya medarbetare vid Lunds universitet välkomna till sin nya arbetsplats. Välkomstdagen återkommer äntligen i fysisk form, och bjuder på såväl information, inspiration som möjlighet att mingla med nya kollegor. Mer information om dagen och registrering hittas i Kompetensportalen   Information för medarbetare, om Välkomstdagen, fin

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/valkomstdag-nyanstallda-11-oktober - 2026-05-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Professor Helle Rydström är redaktör för boken "Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications" som kommer ut i sommar och har även skrivit kapitlet "Crises, Ruination and Slow Harm: Masculinized Livelihoods and Gendered Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam". Boken ges ut på Routledge och Catarina Kinnvall, prof

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/helle-rydstroms-projekt-med-ny-bok - 2026-05-15

In 2011, Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin became an honorary doctor at Lund University School of Economics and Management. Her honorary doctorate was conferred along with the other new doctors in Lund Cathedral. In 2023, she becomes the first female researcher ever to solely, in their own name, receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Maria Stanfors is a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/professor-maria-stanfors-nobel-economics-prize-laureate-claudia-goldin-great-inspiration - 2026-05-15