Published 21 December 2015 New data presented by researchers at Lund University and others in the journal Oceanologia show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but also biomass combustion, industries and natural particles from the sea.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2025-05-09

Published 19 April 2010 All diabetics who developed the disease before the age of six months should be tested for a certain genetic mutation. Some of them might not need insulin injections but could manage their disease just as well, or better, with a simple tablet. “Neonatal diabetes is an uncommon form of diabetes caused by a genetic mutation, which means that insulin is not secreted in the righ

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/many-diabetics-could-manage-without-insulin-injections - 2025-05-09

Published 6 November 2019 From the left: Monica Porzionato & Isabelle Karlsson In the beginning of October we welcomed two of our three new doctoral students; Isabelle Karlsson from Germany and Monica Porzionato from Italy. Isabelle Karlsson did her Master’s in Strategic Communication at the Department between 2016-2018. After her Master’s she has worked within communication in various sectors, bu

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/isabelle-and-monica-our-new-doctoral-students - 2025-05-09

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/15-researchers-lund-university-diabetes-centre-receive-millions-funding - 2025-05-09

By stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - published 5 June 2020 The new collaboration will strengthen the national climate and biodiversity research. Photo by Ars Buchatski on Unsplash. The graduate research schools ClimBEco and the Bolin Centre Climate Research School (CRS) have recently initiated a collaboration with multiple climate-focused intentions. The join

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-strengthens-climate-and-biodiversity-research - 2025-05-09

Published 13 February 2019 Researcher Karin Steen is leading a new Formas project on love, gender and agriculture in Zimbabwe. – I wanted to pursue research that took a different approach to sustainability, gender, power and agriculture. Usually, you look at things like ownership and access to land. By focusing on immaterial values such as love, I believe that you can gain new insights into existi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/whats-love-got-do-it-place-gender-and-agriculture-zimbabwe - 2025-05-09

Published 11 September 2015 Kurds, human rights, nationalism and democracy are sensitive subjects. At least in Turkey today. When political scientist Umut Ozkirimli engages in his third mission as an academic, i.e. taking part in public debate, he gets death threats. At the moment, he receives as many as ten such threats per day. Umut Ozkirimli. Umut Ozkirimli, a political scientist from Turkey sp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/people-are-trying-silence-me - 2025-05-09

By chekhros [dot] kilichova [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Chekhros Kilichova) - published 10 January 2025 MARS project members participated in the joint conference of the CESS and ESCAS on January 8-10, 2025 in Lisbon A few MARS project members presented their research at the joint CESS and ESCAS conference, which took place on January 8–10, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. The international Conference

https://www.mars.lu.se/article/participation-joint-conference-cess-and-escas - 2025-05-09

Published 11 June 2015 Rice in Japan. Photo: Kazuhiko Kobayashi The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption of nitrogen, which is the nutrient that restricts crop growth in most terrestrial ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now revealed that the concentration of nitrogen in plants’ tissue is lower in air with high levels of car

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-levels-air-restrict-plants-ability-absorb-nutrients - 2025-05-09

By Olle [dot] Dahlback [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Olle Dahlbäck) - published 13 November 2020 Zaal Kokaia receiving Bengt Falck's award from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Erik Renström, at a distance. Photo: Olle Dahlbäck Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck P

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2025-05-09

Published 6 March 2016 ”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who have spent two months in Lund from mid-November 2015 as e

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2025-05-09

Published 22 May 2023 Visit to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) office in Tunis. Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2025-05-09

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2025-05-09

Published 12 November 2020 Augustus Aturinde, to the left, nailing his thesis in the Geolibrary accompanied by supervisor Ali Mansourian. Augustus Aturinde, PhD candidate, recently nailed his thesis “GIS and Health: Enhancing Disease Surveillance and Intervention through Spatial Epidemiology”. Augustus Aturinde is a PhD candidate at our department, who came here through a bi-lateral scholarship by

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-thesis-gis-and-spatial-methods-epidemiology - 2025-05-09

By emma [dot] lord [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 7 June 2017 Last week some 60 people gathered in the conference room at Palaestra in Lund for the seminar ”Universities' role in sustainable change work” hosted by Lund University Commissioned Education, Child Rights Institute at Lund University and partners. The event marked the start of a new online global platform aiming t

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/change-agents-child-rights-told-their-stories - 2025-05-09

Published 10 October 2019 Two research projects at the department have been granted funding from Formas, from the announcement: "From research to practice - methods and tools". Both projects will receive approximately SEK 2 million in funding over the next three years. A model for developing and building places through human memoryElisabeth Högdahl, Anja Petersén och Ola ThuvfessonAbout the projec

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/millions-research-place-development-and-sustainable-coastal-development - 2025-05-09

By ase [dot] lugner [at] mhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Åse Lugnér) - published 30 March 2021 Excerpt from the score Professor Michael Edgerton in exciting and new collaboration with ESS   Why do you collaborate with ESS and when did the collaboration start? The collaboration began a little more than a year ago. For years I have collaborated with scientists on both artistic and research projects, and just

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/new-and-exciting-collaboration-between-ess-and-academy-music - 2025-05-09

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/five-nordic-universities-among-top-100-according-world-university-ranking-list-2016-17 - 2025-05-09

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 6 September 2024 From left: Jan Lexell on site at the Paralympics in Paris as medical officer during the Games. In the background we see the Paralympics' official mascot in medical clothing. The mascot is inspired by a Phrygian cap, a historical symbol of freedom. The Paralympics, the parasport's equivalent of the Olympics

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/paralympics-paris-our-man-site-great-commitment - 2025-05-09

By maria [dot] persson [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Persson) - published 6 November 2024 Donald Trump aims to introduce sharply increased tariffs and an extensive deportation policy, while Kamala Harris is focused on domestic issues like stabilizing inflation and strengthening the middle class. What will happen to the U.S. and global economy when one of them becomes president? Maria Persson,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/harris-and-trump-economy-and-election - 2025-05-08