Published 14 May 2025 Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, part of the global economic elite (Photos: Wikicommons) Who are the people that make up the world’s economic elite – and do they differ between countries? In a new, unique database, an international team of researchers has compiled individual data from 16 countries that together account for a third of the world’s population and more

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ten-things-research-tells-us-about-global-economic-elite - 2025-07-05

Published 18 September 2020 Stephan Reber (Photo: Seth Burdick) Stephan Reber has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for Acoustics - for a 2015 study that involved an alligator inhaling helium. This was done to understand if crocodilians have resonances in their vocalizations, something that certain animals use to communicate body size. “I am extremely happy and grateful for this prize. As we all know

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-researcher-receives-ig-nobel-prize-alligator-helium-study - 2025-07-05

Published 20 December 2021 The first virtual G20 summit took place on March 26th, 2020 During the pandemic, physical summits were replaced by Zoom meetings, and global political leaders had to quickly adjust. How did they visually convey their status in this new world of digital diplomacy? A new study from Lund University in Sweden analysed over 50 photos from the first virtual G20 meeting in 2020

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-politicians-project-their-status-virtual-meetings - 2025-07-05

Published 21 April 2015 This week around 40 Swedish researchers are visiting Korea to meet Korean colleagues in a series of interdisciplinary round table discussions within the framework of the two-day Korea–Sweden Excellence seminar, to reinforce existing contacts and to develop new ones. Issues regarding creativity and innovation, environment and welfare are high on the agenda. The seminar coinc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sweden-reinforce-its-research-contacts-south-korea - 2025-07-05

Published 15 August 2016 Tuesday 16 August 2016 is "Arrival Day" for over 2,000 new international students at Lund University. Arrival Day is a dedicated day to welcome international students to their new environment at Lund University. Students are greeted by international mentors at Copenhagen Airport and at the Lund train station, before being driven to the Academic Society building to be ‘chec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-welcomes-students-around-world-arrival-day - 2025-07-05

Published 29 June 2023 Photo: iStock/Scharvik Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have assisted microbiologists in Ukraine in investigating bacterial resistance among the war-wounded patients treated in hospitals. The results, which were recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reveal that many of the patients were affected by bacteria that exhibited an extremely high level o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alarming-antibiotic-resistance-discovered-war-torn-ukraine - 2025-07-05

Published 12 May 2015 Jiang Qian (Photo: Simon Helmersson) Jiang Qian is currently designing vacuum cleaners for Electrolux, but it wasn’t too long ago that he studied Industrial Design at Lund University. Today, in a ceremony at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, he will be named a ‘Global Swede’ by the Swedish Minister for Trade. The Global Swede diploma ceremony honours foreign students who have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-student-selected-global-swede-2015 - 2025-07-05

Published 20 August 2024 On Tuesday, 20 August, Lund University welcomed new international students for the autumn semester. A total of 4,500 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University for the autumn of 2024. Among them, 1,000 are exchange students, while the remaining 3,500 include degree-seeking students at both undergraduate and advanced levels, as well as particip

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-students-arrive-lund-university - 2025-07-05

Published 18 September 2019 Illustration: Don Davis An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created drastic changes to life on Earth. The breakup of a major asteroid filled the entire inner solar system with enormous amounts of dust leading to a unique ice age and, subsequently, to higher levels

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gigantic-asteroid-collision-boosted-biodiversity-earth - 2025-07-05

Published 31 January 2024 Photo: Kennet Ruona During a French state visit to Sweden, President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund University on Wednesday, where he spoke directly with students at Studentafton. The President addressed challenges, possibilities and the future of the European cooperation. It was a long wait for vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and the audience inside the main University build

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/french-president-emmanuel-macron-visits-lund-university - 2025-07-05

Published 22 January 2015 Lund University remains the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round, choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 43,817 students who applied to autumn 2015 Master’s programmes at Swedish universities, 14,821 applied to Lund University programmes. Thi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-attracts-13-all-international-students-applying-swedish-universities - 2025-07-05

Published 19 January 2017 Lund University is once again the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 74,620 students who applied to autumn 2017 Master’s degree programmes at Swedish universities, 26,223 chose Lund University programm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-choice-sweden-international-applicants - 2025-07-05

Published 18 January 2016 Lund University remains the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 64,317 students who applied to autumn 2016 Master’s programmes at Swedish universities, 21,448 chose Lund University programmes. This is a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-most-popular-choice-international-students-applying-sweden - 2025-07-05

Published 10 March 2015 Established ways of measuring carbon emissions can sometimes give misleading feedback on how national policies affect global emissions. In some cases, countries are even rewarded for policies that increase global emissions, and punished for policies that contribute to reducing them. “We have developed a new method that provides policy makers with more useful information, in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-carbon-accounting-method-proposed - 2025-07-05

Published 2 May 2016 As demography changes, more and more people will be affected by forest fires study shows. Photo: André Bessa In many parts of the world, grass and forest fires pose a threat to animals and humans. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, while climate change is likely to cause more and larger fires, in the future, more and more people will become directly affec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/demographic-changes-increase-risk-natural-fires - 2025-07-05

Published 11 January 2016 Lund University Arrival Day Arrival Day will be held at Lund University on Monday 11 January. About 650 international students will participate, most of whom are exchange students here to study for at least one semester. The reception on Arrival Day will take place between 09:00 and 19:00. The students will be greeted by their international mentors at Copenhagen airport K

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-students-around-world-arrival-day - 2025-07-05

Published 15 August 2023 Photo: Ida Thelander Tuesday 15 August is Arrival Day, the day when Lund University welcomes new international students. In autumn 2023, 4,000 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University. About a quarter of those are exchange students studying at Lund for a semester or a year. The remaining 3,000 include program students at undergraduate and ad

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/arrival-day-4000-new-international-students-admitted - 2025-07-05

Published 16 June 2020 Fay Stensson and Martin Jönsson (Photo: Kristina Lindgärde) There are plenty of protein drinks on the shelves of supermarkets these days. However, a vegan, fermented version made from locally grown field peas is definitely unique. That’s exactly what a group of food technology students came up with for an assignment. “One aim with this drink was to increase the absorption of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/students-make-fermented-protein-drink-ancient-peas - 2025-07-05

Published 18 August 2014 Photo: NASA A new study from Lund University in Sweden has, for the first time, reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age. The study shows that the regional climate is influenced by the sun and offers opportunities to better predict future climate conditions in certain regions. For the first time, a research team has been able to reconstruct the solar activity a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/suns-activity-influences-natural-climate-change - 2025-07-05

Published 20 December 2024 Now that Christmas is just around the corner, thoughts inevitably turn to an expectant Mary in the stable. However, she is not alone in the sphere of life-giving without the involvement of both sexes. In the animal kingdom, there are many species that engage in immaculate conception. What we refer to as virgin birth means that an unfertilized egg can develop into a new i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/virgin-birth-beyond-biblical-legend - 2025-07-05