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The University's Sustainability Plan has been revised. It now includes new sustainability requirements for purchasing and procurement. Logistics and communication have also been given greater emphasis. The aim of the plan is to accelerate the pace of transition to sustainable development – both within the University and in society. At the same time, it aims to make use of the knowledge and skills

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-sustainability-plan - 2026-05-02

The World Economic History Congress (WEHC) is an international and interdisciplinary event, taking place every third year, and this year, it’s being held in Lund. With the congress fast approaching, we naturally wanted to learn more — and who better to ask than Professor Mats Olsson serving as host on behalf of the Department of Economic History. What makes the World Economic History Congress uniq

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-world-economic-history-congress-three-quick-questions - 2026-05-02

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/steady-top-lusem-keeps-its-ranking - 2026-05-02

For the 9th time, the university is organising Sustainability Week together with Lund Municipality. With up to 90 programme items over six days, sustainability issues will be highlighted in different ways within social, ecological and economic sustainability. It is a week of discussion and action, serious issues and hopeful visions of the future. The programme consists of everything from lectures,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/5-10-may-its-time-sustainability-week - 2026-05-02

Rachel Forsyth of the Unit for Educational Services has been selected to be one of the EU's experts in the Digital Education Content (DEC) Expert Group, which is a sub-group of the EEA, the European Education Area. What issues does DEC work with, specifically? “The Digital Education Content (DEC) expert group has been set up by the European Commission. The group works with the Digital Education Ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rachel-forsyth-elected-eu-digital-education-content-expert-group - 2026-05-02

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine. “It feels very exciting and a l

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-be-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2026-05-01

We begin 2024 with changes in the e-infrastructure project and in information security management. E-infrastructure has a new project manager and an updated assignment, while information security management has been reorganised. E-infrastructure is a much-anticipated project that concerns developing and coordinating research data and making it accessible to our researchers. The work is now proceed

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changes-affecting-e-infrastructure-project-and-information-security - 2026-05-02

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 «Geopolitics, Migrations and Identities in Central Eurasia» featured Professor Timur Dadabaev from the Inst

https://www.mars.lu.se/article/participation-joint-conference-cess-and-escas - 2026-05-03

October 25, 2023HAIDI participated in the CASE dayCASE (Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments) is a research centre at Lund University that works to develop knowledge on ageing and health. Helena Sandberg and Fredrika Thelandersson participated in their annual popular scientific conference to talk about the ongoing research within HAIDI.October 11, 2023HAIDI participated in Hässleholm's "d

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-activities-2022-2023 - 2026-05-03

Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what researchers have observed in a major eleven-year international study of the birds. “Our study is very significant for understanding how organisms, in this case the common swift, can migrate from one part

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/rare-pattern-observed-migrating-common-swifts - 2026-05-03

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bees-pesticide-risk-species-and-landscape-dependent - 2026-05-03

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/songbirds-extreme-desert-migration-mapped - 2026-05-03

The project, "A unified web experience for education", is now going into an intense phase at all Lund University faculties. The aim of the project is to create a university-wide, modern and quality-assured service website that guides prospective students in their choice of education. Today, information about the university's programmes and courses is spread across many different websites at univer

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/moving-towards-unified-web-experience-students - 2026-05-03

Students within the master’s programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) have created a card came for children about the different sustainability issues connected to the lake Vombsjön and its surroundings. The game was developed within the course, Knowledge to Action (K2A), where students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. – We developed a card game whic

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/student-innovation-teaches-children-about-sustainability - 2026-05-03

The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) and Lund University are set to welcome Professor David Fenyö, a world-leading expert in computational biology and precision medicine, in a strategic recruitment co-funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). This appointment will strengthen Lund University’s position in data-driven life sciences, bioinformatics and oncology, while o

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-and-lund-university-recruit-internationally-renowned-professor-david-fenyo - 2026-05-03

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 carbon dioxide, regardless of whether or not the plants’ growth is

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-levels-air-restrict-plants-ability-absorb-nutrients - 2026-05-03

Deliang Chen, MERGE researcher at the University of Gothenburg, along with colleagues from four other European universities have published a book that shows the development of European extreme weather for the period 1801-2000. It has involved a huge amount of work to collect and analyse all the meteorological data for the book, entitled European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/europes-extreme-weather-over-200-years-presented-new-book - 2026-05-03

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. “This is the first time an

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2026-05-03

Every year Agora, the Helsingborg section of the Social Science Union, organises a job fair at Campus Helsingborg, where students have the opportunity to network and make contact with future employers. This year's edition will take place on 5 February. Inspiring, interactive and worthwhile - three words that sum up the upcoming event Agora Day at Campus Helsingborg, according to this year's projec

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-opportunities-students-and-companies-agora-day - 2026-05-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 SIDA and Makerere University that targeted teaching staf

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-thesis-gis-and-spatial-methods-epidemiology - 2026-05-03