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In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Sciences will start a new Swedish Master's Programme in Comprehensive Defence and Civil Preparedness at Campus Helsingborg. The programme meets the increasing demand for expertise in the field of total defence and provides students with interdisciplinary knowledge of how society can withstand and manage crises – from security policy challenges to climate chang

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-comprehensive-defence-and-civil-preparedness - 2026-06-21

On October 6-8 MERGE researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to meet in Kalmar. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting in Kalmar 6-8 October 2014.We are looking forward to meet all MERGE researchers in Kalmar for three exciting days of presentations and discussions on our MERGE science. We are now at the end of the first 5-year period of MERGE and at the door of a new time of collabora

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/welcome-merge-autumn-meeting-2014 - 2026-06-21

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/staffan-michelson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Curiosity, openness and compassion are words to live by for Sylvia Schwaag Serger, who will become the new deputy vice-chancellor as of next year. She believes that we all have a civic duty to be proactive but must also be aware that we might, actually, be wrong. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, new deputy vice-chancellor at Lu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaving-her-comfort-zone-lund-university - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The 45th Annual Madison Conference on South Asia was held 20–23 October 2016. This year's theme was DECAY. The conference, sponsored by the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this year attracted over 750 scholars and specialists on South Asia, coming from countries all over the world and muc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-reports-45th-madison-south-asian-studies-conference - 2026-06-21

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/focusing-chronic-lung-disease - 2026-06-21

“Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his doctoral thesis, titled “Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institut

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-research-swedens-industrialisation-process-receives-lusem-award-best-doctoral-thesis-2023 - 2026-06-21

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-astrocytes-role-frontotemporal-dementia - 2026-06-21

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/urban-great-tits-have-paler-plumage-their-forest-living-relatives - 2026-06-21

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/can-metformin-reduce-risk-osteoarthritis - 2026-06-21

In the podcast series "Meet our scientists", young MultiPark researchers interview our research group leaders about their academic journey and main scientific focus. Listen to the new episode where Professor Malin Parmar describes the experimental road to the ongoing stem cell trials in Lund. I the latest episode (nr. 14), Lluís welcomes the renowned Professor Malin Parmar. She leads the different

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/meet-our-scientists-continuation-parkinsons-revolution - 2026-06-21

Since antiquity, humans have been fascinated by birds’ intercontinental migratory journeys. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that two areas in their genome decide whether a willow warbler flies across the Iberian Peninsula to western Africa, or across the Balkans to eastern and southern Africa. Researchers have long known that the behaviour that causes songbirds to migrate in a spe

https://www.science.lu.se/article/genes-decide-willow-warblers-migration-routes - 2026-06-21

A new study conducted by researchers in Europe shows that urban great tits have paler plumage than their countryside counterparts. Since the yellow pigment of the breast feathers of great tits comes from the food they eat, the paler yellow plumage of urban birds indicates that the urban environment affects the entire food chain. As urban areas expand, animals increasingly find themselves living in

https://www.science.lu.se/article/urban-great-tits-have-paler-plumage-their-forest-living-relatives - 2026-06-21

Since antiquity, humans have been fascinated by birds’ intercontinental migratory journeys. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that two areas in their genome decide whether a willow warbler flies across the Iberian Peninsula to western Africa, or across the Balkans to eastern and southern Africa. Researchers have long known that the behaviour that causes songbirds to migrate in a spe

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/genes-decide-willow-warblers-migration-routes - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Statins are a cholesterol-lowering drug that almost one million Swedes take to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease. But could perhaps statins also be used against breast cancer? Cancer researcher Signe Borgquist at least hopes so. Signe Borgquist and her colleagues found that statins had a tumour-inhibiting ef

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/common-drug-may-have-effect-breast-cancer - 2026-06-21

The Aurora group are young people who recently initiated a process against the state of Sweden for not taking action and treating the climnate crisis as a crisis. More than 1600 researchers and teachers including researchers from our department, agreeing with the Aurora, have signed a debate article in Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Many researchers and teachers from academies all over Sweden have

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/academics-debate-article-young-people-are-right-sue-state - 2026-06-21

ACTRIS is the European Research Infrastructure for the observation of Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases. On 10 March 2016, it was accepted as one of the EU’s strategically important research infrastructures by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, ESFRI. Six new areas have been defined as especially important for the European research society, one of which is atmospheric researc

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/swedish-researchers-build-new-european-infrastructure-atmospheric-research - 2026-06-21

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-and-damage-most-critical-question-cop27 - 2026-06-21

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/nominate-honorary-doctors-2026 - 2026-06-21

CMES will offer several part-time internships for Lund University students during the spring of 2024. Internships will be offered in several projects at CMES during the spring semester of 2024. All positions are temporary, unpaid and part-time. You can only apply if you are a registered student at Lund University for the duration of the internship. The internships run between 1 February and 2 June

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/come-work-us-student-internships-cmes-spring-2024 - 2026-06-21