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Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems. According to a study published today in Nature Communications, solar storms could be much more powerful than previousl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2025-10-01

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-now-starting-identify-profile-areas - 2025-10-01

Market economics, not degrowth, will enable sustainable societies. For economist Fredrik N G Andersson the answer is crystal clear – researchers advocating for degrowth are wrong. “They miss the mark by attacking growth instead of the actual problem,” he says. The subject of degrowth awakes a lot of interest. Its critics are as vocal as its proponents. Fredrik N G Andersson, assistant professor at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocates-degrowth-miss-mark - 2025-10-02

The government has instructed public authorities, including Lund University, to save as much energy as is possible and reasonable over the short term. We have also been tasked with reducing electricity consumption at peak times. The aim is to try and limit electricity price rises ahead of the coming winter. Between October 2022 and April 2023, the University must submit a report every month on the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/save-energy - 2025-10-02

The EU Commission has presented the New European Innovation Agenda designed to strengthen European competitiveness through the green and digital transitions. At Lund University, we are well placed to take advantage of this and to raise our ambitions in deep tech innovation and solving today’s societal challenges. The EU Commission’s Agenda will involve many financial investments in innovation. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eus-innovation-agenda-applies-us-too - 2025-10-02

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overlooked-supervisors-receive-further-training - 2025-10-02

The faculties have now presented their honorary doctors for 2023 and there are many well-known names among the recipients such as Johannes Anyuru, Timbuktu (Jason Diakité), Rita Charon, Mimi Abramovitz and Jan Dohnt. The honorary doctors will be honoured at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 26 May. See the full list and visit the relevant faculty website to see if/when there are special r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-honorary-doctors-2023 - 2025-10-02

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunarc-universitys-powerhouse - 2025-10-01

… Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded projects which I have now joined as a cancer researcher. Work is already being ca

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2025-10-01

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/urban-birds-prefer-native-trees - 2025-10-01

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2025-10-01

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-making-nature-fredrik-strid - 2025-10-02

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-co-organiser-equality-forum-2025 - 2025-10-02

Over 1,300 people have applied for the 25 positions advertised in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Among the candidates are researchers from world-leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford. “The initiative has generated great interest among highly qualified researchers,” says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University.The call for applications refers to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-largest-ever-international-recruitment-drive-attracts-great-interest - 2025-10-02

A week-long event from 19-23 May will bring together 45 representatives from EUGLOH universities to collaborate on cultural issues in teaching and research. Participants will attend from Tromsø, Porto, Hamburg, Alcalá, Munich, Szeged and of course Lund. We have also invited speakers from Singapore and Melbourne. "Culture is an important part of the University’s soul. In May, around 40 colleagues f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cultural-networking-event-and-smask - 2025-10-02

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-research-highlighted-media - 2025-10-01

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/peter-arnfalk-sydsvenskan - 2025-10-01

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/are-you-manager-register-lus-new-university-wide-forum-managers - 2025-10-02

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/food-health-science-centre-lund-university - 2025-10-01

An international research project led from Lund University is now awarded 33 million SEK by the European Innovation Council, EIC Pathfinder. The idea behind the project is to use drugs to reprogram cancer cells into immune cells, in order to increase the body's natural anti-tumor response and fight cancer. And it is small molecules that will do the work. The research project that has received fund

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/enemy-friend-33-million-reprogramming-cancer-cells - 2025-10-01