Published 22 May 2014 "IN the world of higher education, we professors like to believe that we are free from the racial and gender biases that afflict so many other people in society. But is this self-conception accurate?"Read the whole story in the NY-times here

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/professors-are-prejudiced-too - 2025-07-01

Published 4 June 2014 In memory of Professor Cecilia Hägerhäll, our colleague and role-model, has left us too early after a long period of illness. Cecilia was a remarkable person and her work made a great impression and imprint. Her research focussed on fundamental details of the structure and function of enzyme complexes in mitochondria and has greatly increased the understanding of the respirat

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/memory-prof-cecilia-hagerhall - 2025-07-01

Published 16 June 2014 Yesterday the Nordic forum 2014 agreement was handed to all the Equality ministers in the Nordic countries and also to the UN Woman Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka. She encourages the Nordic countries to lead the way and be good examples in the common work for gender equality in the World by 2030.Read the agreement here (Swedish, pdf)

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/nordic-forum-2014-agreement - 2025-07-01

Published 30 June 2014 The EPWS Paris Conference “New Perspectives on Women Scientists Careers in Europe” was held on June 11th 2014, and followed by the EPWS General Assembly. On the link below you can find a summary of the meeting including all presentations (EPWS website): http://home.epws.org/EPWS-Paris-Conference-2014

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-2014-summary - 2025-07-01

Published 3 July 2014 Is the gender-agenda the hero or enemy of equal opportunity in science? The gender-agenda is still-going-strong and in the news….all over the news. Sweden has a political party dedicated to gender equality and a couple of weeks ago the Nordic Forum 2014 was held in Malmö. Recently, and more locally the faculties (at least the faculty of medicine) have seen the gender-agenda  

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-2014-report-wings - 2025-07-01

Published 15 July 2014 September 10-11, Medicon Village is organizing an open event to support you and your research group with internationalization Would you like to know how your company, your organization or research group can get help to work internationally?September 10-11, Medicon Village is organizing an open event with the main objective to support our members and other life science player

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/medicon-village-go-global-event - 2025-07-01

Published 22 July 2014 WINGS together with Lund Postdoc Society and Future Faculty are organizing a workshop on grant writing with Dr. Dan Csontos from Elevate Scientific, read more here.

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/grant-writing-workshop - 2025-07-01

Published 18 August 2014 Do you have experience with Life Science? Are you looking for new challenges? Then you can't afford to miss this event! This unique Career Fair will exclusively target Life Science competences. We are gathering the most interesting companies under one roof and giving professionals the opportunity to actively promote themselves. Science Skills will provide a chance for you

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/science-skills-career-fair - 2025-07-01

Published 8 October 2014 Blog post from an attendant at the September 19th grant writing workshop with Dan Csontos from Elevate Scientific "One especially helpful suggestion from Dan was to start research proposals with just four sentences, articulating the background, statement of need, purpose or objective, and impact for your project. Starting here can really help you keep your focus and see th

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/grant-writing-workshop-report - 2025-07-01

Published 14 October 2014 Dr. Brigitte Mühlenbruch honoured with Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for pioneering work in the promotion of women in science. EPWS President Dr. Brigitte Mühlenbruch has been honoured with the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany in acknowledgement of her pioneering work in the promotion of women in science at national as well a

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-president-receives-order-merit - 2025-07-01

Published 22 October 2014 Dear Colleagues and Friends,The EPWS Newsletter of October 2014 is now available. You can read it by following this linkBest wishes,European Platform of Women Scientists 

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-newsletter-october-2014 - 2025-07-01

Published 20 November 2014 The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden, invites applications for Director for Neutron Scattering Facilities. Description of positionReporting to the Director General, the Director for Neutron Scattering Facilities provides leadership and professional direction to the staff within the Directorate, and manages the planning and implementation of the Directorat

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/job-ad-director-neutron-scattering-facilities - 2025-07-01

Published 27 November 2014 Lack of funding from LTH and Medical Faculty - WINGS in danger of shrinking to include Science faculty only Please help us spread this petition! Currently, WINGS runs on annual funding from the Faculty of Science. If the Medical Faculty and LTH don’t help pull their weight to fund our organization, we will have to shut WINGS to members from those faculties. We have given

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/petition-support-wings - 2025-07-01

Published 12 December 2014 Apply for travel grants to attend womENtourage 2015! womENcourage is a scientific event, and also an event aimed at networking and exploring career opportunities for women in computer science and related disciplines. The program includes technical presentations and also discussions related to career issues in academic and industrial research. Following the success of the

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/womentourage-2015 - 2025-07-01

Published 15 December 2014 Registration closed The aim of the seminar is to provide effective strategies on how to write successful grant applications. What are the elements of a successful grant application? How should these be structured to contextualize your proposed research to the reviewer? How can you create a coherent, concise, and compelling narrative that engages the reviewer and clearly

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/grant-application-seminar - 2025-07-01

Published 14 January 2015 Welcome to a seminar with focus on how and where to apply for funding to go on a post-doc! Where should I go?How do I fund it?Do I need to choose between family and work?How much can I earn - financially? Strategically? In published papers?Date and venue: Tuesday 20 January 2015, Elite Hotel Ideon, Lund (room Tera)Please sign up here before Friday 16 January 2015, kl 10.0

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/seminar-planning-post-doc - 2025-07-01

Published 6 March 2015 Join us to discover the potential of PhD studies for your career path! Registration closed Program 12:30-13:00   Registration13:00-13:10   Welcome to StepUP: “What is a PhD”                         Linnéa Taylor, WINGS13:10-13:30   A PhD career in research and business                          Ursula Hultquist-Bengtsson, Medicon Village13:30-13:45   3 PhD students - 3 reason

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/stepup-meeting-what-phd - 2025-07-01

Published 12 March 2015 What is in your pocket? Imagine if your pocket were filled with easily transportable sophisticated filmmaking equipment that you could make films with at any time. Luckily, the mobile in your pocket can do just that! Mobile phone filmmaking is a viable and creative way to visually communicate your ideas, messages, and research. As more communication entities move online, vi

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/mobile-phone-filmmaking-workshop - 2025-07-01

Published 12 April 2015 Women IN Great Sciences (WINGS), Lund Postdoc Society (LPS) and Forskningsservice would like to welcome you to an afternoon seminar on ERC grants! Planning is key when applying for big grants - so we’ve gathered ERC grant recipients, ERC grant evaluators and Lund University’s Forskningsservice experts to answer all your questions and give you advice on how to create a succe

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/seminar-erc-grants - 2025-07-01

Published 12 April 2015 Welcome to a MAX IV tour and lectures on the 12th of May! Women in Great Sciences (WINGS) is proud to welcome you to afternoon seminars and atour of MAX IV! Sara Thorin, project manager for the linear accelerator at MAX IV, andUlrika Hallengren, VD ML4, and head of the MAX IV building project, will give talks onMAX IV project. After the lectures, Sara, Ulrika and Annika Nyb

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/max-iv-tour - 2025-07-01