Filtyp
The faculty's election of Dean, Pro-Dean and Board for the period 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026 is now closed and the vote count is completed. Agnes Andersson is proposed as Dean and Björn Badersten as Pro-Dean. The proposal will be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor for decision. The following staff members have been elected to the Faculty Board: Tina Mattsson, senior lecturer Åsa Lundqvist, pr
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/we-have-result - 2026-04-29
On Friday 13 October, 22 new professors will be inaugurated in a ceremony held in the Main University Building auditorium. The University’s new professors will be inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor. In connection with the inauguration ceremony, one of the new professors, Anna Houmann, will deliver a short popular science lecture. The chair of Lund University Students’ Unions, Linnea Landegren, wil
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/inauguration-ceremony-new-professors-13-october-2023 - 2026-04-30
This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, have taken the record for the number of conferees. 266 doctors, 15 honorary doctors and 67 jubilee doctors were celebrated. In a solemn ceremony at Lund Cathedral, the doctoral students who completed their doctoral studies in the past year and successfully
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/see-photos-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2026-04-30
Lund University has a tradition of awarding its gold medal to express appreciation for commitment shown to the institution. The medal was awarded for the first time in 1967. The vice-chancellor has now decided to award Lund University’s gold medal to former vice-chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz for great contributions in his role. ‟He tirelessly stood up for the core values of academia in a period
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/torbjorn-von-schantz-awarded-lund-universitys-gold-medal - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The institute will be part of a new International Energy Agency (IEA) Task on energy efficiency. The IEA-DSM ‘Hard-to-Reach’ (HTR) project will generate knowledge, approaches and policy recommendations aiming to identify HTR energy users and effectively engage them in energy efficiency programmes.The research will sup
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-project-iiiee-hard-reach-energy-users - 2026-04-29
Around 250 new students, divided into four educational programs, were present during the intensive introduction days in Forum Medicum. A busy program; information, questions, answers, new friends, , student registration, welcome speech by, among others, Vice Dean Jimmie Kristensson, vegan salad lunch, crazy entertainment with the student orchestra Bleckhornen. We caught some of the new students, a
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nerves-and-festive-vibe-forum-medicum-students-are-here - 2026-04-29
Four of LP3’s staff participated in the first SciLifeLab Lund retreat in Båstad, 14 to 15th November 2024 with the theme: “Achieving Excellence Together”. The retreat was focused on giving the staff from all SciLifeLab site platforms the opportunity to get to know each other through presentations, group exercises and discussions. LP3 presented it’s capabilities in Lund, but also the national resea
https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-first-scilifelab-lund-retreat - 2026-04-29
The Deuteration Network (DeuNet) is an international network which aims to facilitate access to deuteration services. The Deuteration Network (DeuNet) (external webpage) is an international network of deuteration facilities and laboratories which aims to facilitate access to deuteration services and customised deuterium labelling of molecules and biomolecules for use in neutron research and in oth
https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/new-deunet-webpage-now-launched - 2026-04-29
The region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth and its polar bears and melting glaciers have become key symbols of climate change. But the Arctic, it seems, is not as well researched as we think it is. Since the Arctic covers some 14.5 million square kilometers, and conducting research in remote locations is very expensive, time consuming and often dangerous, the result is an extremely u
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/environmental-change-arctic - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants fr
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2026-04-29
Want to stay up-to-date on Asian affairs and research in the Nordics and beyond? Tune in to the Nordic Asia Podcast! The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration between the following academic partners: Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia), Asian Studies, University of Helsinki (Finland), Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Centre for East Asian Studies, Universit
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. TNU:s study on ALS together with Australian collaborators on Lund university's top news today. Åsa Petersén, Sanaz Gabery and collaborators in Australia have, for the first time, shown changes in hypothalamic neurons regulating metabolism, sleep and emotions in ALS patients. Since long, researchers have assumed that c
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-publication-als-tnu-and-australian-collaborators - 2026-04-29
