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By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 4 March 2024 Lund University researchers find that individual blood stem cells (depicted as snowflakes in this image) express stress-related transcripts when subjected to experimental procedures involving cell incubation at elevated temperatures. Image // Marcin Minor Changes occur in all cells of the human body as we
Published 4 February 2016 Photo: IIIEE researcher Tareq Emtairah Refugee influx calls for a new university roleHow can Lund University respond to the call for action with regard to the ongoing refugee influx? Tareq Emtairah, back at the IIIEE after three years working on renewable energy in the Arab region, suggests a programme facilitating for refugee students and academics to contribute to post-
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-tareq-emtairah - 2025-08-03
Published 6 March 2015 Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-08-03
Published 13 October 2015 “We have to become much better at actively pursuing human rights issues in the public debate”, says Morten Kjaerum who since last spring is new director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund. His goal is to make the Institute more visible: within the University, locally, nationally and internationally. Morten Kjaerum at Raoul Wallenberg Institute LUM’s meeting with Mo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/raoul-wallenberg-institute-has-become-more-visible-public-debate - 2025-08-03
Published 16 November 2015 For many years, professor of Chinese Michael Schoenhals compiled a substantial archive containing material from the Cultural Revolution in China. He is now donating this unique collection to the Lund University Library. Michael Schoenhals. The Cultural Revolution took place from 1966 to 1976 – a period about which not much has been said for a long time in China. Michael
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/memories-cultural-revolution - 2025-08-03
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pilot-remote-control - 2025-08-03
Published 15 April 2019 Is Lund University doing the right things in the right way? That is the big question that project managers Freddy Ståhlberg and Mats Benner want RQ20 to answer (RQ stands for Research Quality). Photo: Kennet Ruona och Johan Bävman RQ20, the new major research quality evaluation, is underway! It is based on self-evaluations and will involve around 5 000 members of staff. In
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-be-evaluated-without-grades-or-gold-stars - 2025-08-03
Published 4 June 2019 Gate to Harvard. Photo: Willy Gobetz Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, emailed suggesting I vi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2025-08-03
By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 9 June 2025 Photo: Therese Ek Facts and research must carry more weight when planning the greening of cities in the future. A new research article calls for a paradigm shift – from 'arbitrary decisions' to more evidence-based urban planning, where urban nature is managed as a resource for both people and biodiver
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-call-evidence-based-urban-greening - 2025-08-03
By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 7 April 2022 It was a surprise for Anne L’Huillier when she was awarded Wolf Prize. Photo: Evelina Lindén These are busy times for atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier. Earlier this year, she received the prestigious Wolf Prize – perhaps not as widely known among the general public, but within the field of physics it is c
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/prestigious-physics-prize-goes-lund-researcher - 2025-08-03
By sanna [dot] trygg [at] ch [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 22 April 2022 Can fashion ever become sustainable? How do we transition to environmentally smart e-commerce? What role will universities play in future society? These are some of the subjects to be discussed during the research festival Our Future City on 7-10 June at Campus Helsingborg. The event is organised in collaboratio
By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 9 December 2021 Andreas Bergh, Louise Bringselius, Niklas Altermark and Cecilia Cassinger. You have to respect the fact that collaboration takes time and is not always so easy to achieve, according to Louise Bringselius, who recently started the Institute for Public Affairs together with researchers from th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2025-08-03
By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 17 February 2023 A village in Tanzania. Researchers use photos such as this to measure the degree of poverty. The same villages have also been measured using artificial intelligence. Photo: Google Poverty reduction globally is one of the UN’s primary goals. But how can wealth and economic development be mea
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-poverty-ai-and-satellite-photos - 2025-08-04
By malin [dot] sjoberg [at] sol [dot] lu [dot] se (Malin Sjöberg) - published 29 May 2020 "I never would have left Syria if it were not for the war. I had it all. I was teaching a couple of hours per week, working on my research and I had a beautiful farm with space for the whole family", Moheiddin Homeidi says. Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first rese
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2025-08-03
By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 8 November 2019 Curator Jenny Bergman is working to make the Historical Museum’s anatomical collection more ordered and accessible for research and education. Photo:Kennet Ruona What do human remains really have to do with a museum? When Lund University closed the Department of Anatomy of 1995, its collection of human
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-want-shine-light-dark-chapter - 2025-08-03
Published 11 December 2018 "No matter what happens in real time politics, some damage is already done”. Researcher Torsten Krause comments on the newly elected Brasilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s plans for deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon. Bolsonaro takes office on the first of January 2019 and has promised to open protected areas and indigenous territories to mining, to relax enviro
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-exploitation-and-deforestation-brazilian-amazon - 2025-08-03
By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 22 August 2024 Science Village in north-east Lund will be an innovative and international meeting place for students, cutting-edge research and business. A new and expanded nano laboratory is planned in the area to complement Max IV and ESS. Illustration: TMRW/Science V Answers relating to diseases and accurately targeted drugs. Enh
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/world-leading-curiosity-driven-environment-new-nano-lab-one-cornerstones - 2025-08-03
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 16 March 2020 Photo by Camila Cordeiro on Unsplash. We need new ways of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature to protect and preserve our environment. Research from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) strives to diversify ways of measuring and evaluating ecosystem services to take
