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On June 13 we celebrated the students’ completion of the Master’s programme in Environmental Management and Policy. After two years of pandemic, we could finally have a traditional ceremony in the university assembly hall, with graduates, family and friends gathered. The ceremony started with a procession with flags and graduates and teachers walking from the IIIEE building to the main university
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-batch-27 - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its newly established Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Consideration begins immediately and open until filled. The Department aims to not only complement the IT focus of the unive
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professorship-it-university-punjab - 2026-06-19
Lund University’s common web accessibility guide has now been translated into English and can be accessed via the short address staff.lu.se/web-accessibility. The web accessibility guide contains practical tips on how to create accessible web content, which applies whether you work in Drupal, Typo-3 or some other type of content management system. “We have received very positive feedback on our we
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/web-accessibility-guide-now-available-english - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. För första gången är fler än hälften av svenskarna feta eller överviktiga, ett tillstånd som leder till ökad risk för typ 2-diabetes och hjärt-kärlsjukdom. Samtidigt visar en ny svensk studie, som presenteras i Hjärt-Lungfondens årliga Hjärtrapport, att gastric bypass-operationer kan göra diabetespatienter friskare.
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/fetmaoperation-kan-motverka-diabetes - 2026-06-19
Lund University continues to rise in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is rated number 72 in the world. That is three places higher than last year and means that Lund University is the top-ranked higher education institution in Sweden. QS has published annual university rankings since 2004. In the latest QS rankings (2026), 8,467 higher education institutions were evaluated, of which 1,501
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-rises-qs-rankings-2026-now-ranked-72nd-world - 2026-06-19
Three biology researchers from Lund University have won an Ig Nobel Prize for their sensational studies of dung beetles’ ability to navigate using the light of the stars. The winners were announced at a humorous gala ceremony in the US on Thursday evening. Prizewinning dung beetle research Earlier this year, Lund University researchers Marie Dacke, Eric Warrant and Emily Baird published their ne
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-researchers-win-ig-nobel-prize - 2026-06-19
Lund University continues to rise in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is rated number 72 in the world. That is three places higher than last year and means that Lund University is the top-ranked higher education institution in Sweden. The QS World University Rankings has published annual university rankings since 2004. In the latest QS rankings (2026), 8,467 higher education institutions
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-72nd-qs-world-rankings-2026 - 2026-06-20
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ghana’s “overall best student 2018” is studying Sociology of Law in Lund. Labiks’s story shows how far hard work and perseverance can get you. Ghana’s Inter Tertiary Excellence Award 2018 for Overall Best Student 4th Year in the academia category went to Thomas Duke Labik Amanquandor, who is studying the second semest
A team of researchers, led from Lund, has discovered a small planet that has a peculiar way of moving in its orbit. The wobbling planet TOI-1408c, located 455 light years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be far more complex than scientists previously thought. The newly discovered planet has a mass equivalent of eight Earths and orbits very close to a larger planet, the hot gas giant TO
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-discovery-planet-wobbles - 2026-06-19
“Novel nonlinear optical platforms for advanced materials” – and ”Beyond binary quantum communication”. Those are the two projects that brought associate senior lecturers Anne-Lise Viotti and Armin Tavakoli, both PI:s at NanoLund, to being appointed Research Leaders of the Future by SSF, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. For the ninth time, the Foundation for Strategic Research has ap
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lise-viotti-and-armin-tavakoli-are-appointed-research-leaders-future - 2026-06-19
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 - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers in Sweden and the UK have discovered the largest known avian sex chromosome. The giant chromosome was created when four chromosomes fused together into one, and has been found in two species of lark. “This was an unexpected discovery, as birds are generally considered to have very stable genetic material w
https://www.science.lu.se/article/record-size-sex-chromosome-found-two-bird-species - 2026-06-19
Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy metals in hedgehogs from other urban areas in Europe and found simi
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/surprising-number-environmental-pollutants-hedgehogs - 2026-06-19
A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity. The arc
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2026-06-19
With this call, the Program for Academic Leaders in Life Science (PALS) wants to support and promote scientific interactions between fellows from the different PALS programs and/or different centers. The supported collaborations can involve research or other related activities in all areas of the different programs such as molecular medicine or different areas of life science and can be technology
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/pals-call-no-3 - 2026-06-19
När ”Quick Bites for Researchers” lanserades våren 2025 var det ett försök att skapa en ny kontaktväg mellan forskarna och bibliotekets expertis. Ett år senare kan bibliotekarierna Fredrik Larsson och Anja Zimmerman summera en satsning som inte bara överlevt sitt första år utan nu växlar upp.– Vi ville hitta ett enkelt och avdramatiserat sätt att ge forskare stöd i allt det som rör deras arbete, u
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/bibliotekets-forskningsstod-quick-bites-vaxer-vidare-med-nya-teman - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu börjar det närma sig första kvartalsbokslutet för 2017. Vi har här ställt samman datum och information om några extra viktiga uppgifter. Du får också en övergripande tidplan för kommande tre bokslut i år. Nu börjar det närma sig första kvartalsbokslutet för 2017. Vi har här ställt samman datum och information om
https://www.ekonomiwebben.lu.se/artikel/infor-bokslut-1a-kvartalet-2017 - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt have not generally affected the number of impacts with Earth to any gre
https://www.science.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt have not generally affected the number of impacts with Earth to any gre
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2026-06-19
More than half of our genome consists of transposons, DNA sequences that are reminiscent of ancient, extinct viruses. Transposons are normally silenced by a process known as DNA methylation, but their activation can lead to serious diseases. Very little is known about transposons but researchers in an international collaboration project have now succeeded for the first time in studying what happen
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-sheds-light-darker-parts-our-genetic-heritage - 2026-06-19
