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Plants in tropical dry areas have developed an unusual strategy for survival. Instead of using their water supply during the dry season, they hold on to the last drops until the very end in order to quickly get started on photosynthesis as soon as the rainy season has begun. Using satellite technology, researchers have now managed to investigate the storage of water in plants worldwide. The resear

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clever-strategy-sets-photosynthesis-flying-start - 2026-05-05

Sustainability Week is an annual event organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The program offers discussions and actions, exploring both societal challenges of today and hopeful visions for the future. Now you have the chance to contribute! With a programme of over 50 events held in Lund and online, the week has grown over the years into a well-attended and apprecia

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-week-2023-great-opportunity-present-your-research - 2026-05-06

Since its foundation, the WCMM research school has encouraged young scientists to exchange ideas and foster collaborations while keeping up with the latest techniques. Delving into its origins, coordinators Paul Bourgine and Nick Leigh reflect on the genesis of the WCMM Research School. As this year marks the fifth anniversary of the WCMM Research School, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on t

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-school-origins-and-evolution - 2026-05-05

When LINXS moved from its old premises at Ideon to The Loop in Science Village in March, the institute became the first research environment from Lund University to make the move to Brunnshög. Since then, activities have more than doubled, new collaborations have emerged, and the team’s mood is distinctly optimistic.I met with Anna Ntinidou, Head of Administration, Noomi Egan, Communications Offic

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/home-linxs-pioneer-paving-way-science-village - 2026-05-05

During the summer, Kristina Lång's research received a lot of attention in the media, nationally as well as internationally. The study showed that AI-assisted breast cancer screening is a safe alternative to radiologists' double-reading, reducing the workload of the overburdened profession by as much as 44 percent. We asked Kristina Lång about her experiences. Also, tips on how to increase outreac

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/increasing-outreach-cancer-research-about-ai-assisted-screening-attracts-media - 2026-05-05

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mona-hemmaty-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-05

Several Nobel laureates, renowned scientists, and successful biotech entrepreneurs are coming to Lund in May to participate in the Lund Spring Symposium, an international symposium on drug research. Medications are the physician's primary tool when treating their patients, and understanding how drugs work is fundamental to being a good doctor, according to Lars Grundemar, adjunct professor of clin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/superstars-coming-lund-drug-and-pharmaceutical-symposium - 2026-05-05

On Friday, 21 October, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden". For the past five years, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal studied why women in Sweden start, continue, and sometimes stop using drugs. Her thesis explores female drug experiences and what they mean to the users; how users

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-05-05

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-adi-conference-2017 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hermann Grimmeiss, who founded the research field of Semiconductor Physics in Lund, has been awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. In 1965-1996,  Prof. emerit. Hermann Grimmeiss was appointed as first professor in Solid State Physics and Head of the Department at the Te

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/medal-founder-semiconductor-physics-research-lund - 2026-05-05

Future Week has become Future Days. It will continue to showcase innovative research with focus on the big questions of the future. The popular science programme will now be formed around the pioneering visions of researchers and teaching staff from all the University’s faculties. For the past three years, Lund University’s Future Week has presented ground-breaking research; research that has its

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-days-2022-future-week-new-guise - 2026-05-06

In their latest study, published in Nature Communications, the Parmar Lab has established midbrain organoids using silk microfibers as scaffolds, offering a refined in vitro model of human midbrain development. They have studied their silk midbrain organoids using single cell sequencing, proteomics and functional assessment in order to shed light on the developmental trajectory, maturation and sub

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/human-midbrain-organoids-grown-silk-recapitulate-midbrain-development-and-support-functionally - 2026-05-05

Our MSc in Finance climbs further in the Financial Times global ranking. The latest Financial Times Masters in Finance ranking is now live (today, 16 June 2025), and the programme has improved its position — from #45 (2024) to #42 this year. The ranking includes the top 70 pre-experience finance programmes in the world. The improved position reflects the programme’s continued development and stron

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/financial-times-recognition-msc-finance - 2026-05-06

Vikarierande universitetslektor Katharina Kehls avhandling “The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness” har recenserats i lambda nordica och har tilldelats medel från Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin för att omvandlas till bok. Avhandlingen “The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness” undersöke

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/avhandling-om-queera-diskurser-i-sverige-far-positiv-feedback-och-gors-om-till-bok - 2026-05-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. NYTT FRÅN VÅRA FORSKARE: Niklas Altermarks artikel 'The Post-Institutional Era: Visions of History in Research on Intellectual Disability' finns med i 30-års jubileumsutgåvan av den ledande tidskriften för funktionshinderforskningen Disability & Society. Altermark analyserar i sin nyskrivna artikel hur historieskriv

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/blickar-tillbaka-pa-studier-om-intellektuella-funktionshinder - 2026-05-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Hur hanterar olika samhällen mobbning och kränkande beteende som sker i skolmiljön? Antoinette Hetzler och Colm Flaherty har undersökt detta genom att titta på hur Sverige och USA garanterar sociala rättigheter för elever i skolan. Deras artikel har publicerats i European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/hetzler-och-flaherty-om-sociala-rattigheter-elever-i-amerikanska-och-svenska-skolor - 2026-05-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Rikard Warlenius will defend his thesis named "Asymmetries. Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange" on the 10th of February at 1 pm in Världen, Geocentrum 1. Opponent will be Joan Martínez Alier of UAB, Barcelona. In this compilation thesis, consisting of six

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/thesis-defense-rikard-warlenius-10th-february - 2026-05-05

Ian Manners huvudartikel om 'Normative power in the planetary organic crisis' i kommande specialnummer av Cooperation and Conflict finns nu online open access . Observera att texten nedan endast är på engelska. The lead intervention article argues that the new reality of the planetary organic crisis awaits a normative critical social theory of planetary politics, a means of understanding the shari

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/professor-ian-manners-forskning-om-normativ-makt-och-planetens-organiska-kris - 2026-05-05

Our brains are "programmed" to learn more from people we like – and less from those we dislike. This has been shown by researchers in cognitive neuroscience in a series of experiments. Memory serves a vital function, enabling us to learn from new experiences and update existing knowledge. We learn both from individual experiences and from connecting them to draw new conclusions about the world. Th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/brain-programmed-learning-people-we - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For three weeks the royal warship Gribshunden (1495) has been excavated on the seabed of the Baltic Sea off the coast of southern Sweden. Among others things, a very early firearm - one of the earliest to be found on a ship anywhere in the world - as well as a beautifully formed drinking tankard, with a crown-like eng

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/spectacular-discoveries-during-excavation-unique-flagship-gribshunden - 2026-05-05