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Researchers from Lund University interested in understanding how aging affects the brain have made a new discovery that will help make it easier to study age-related brain diseases and potential treatments in the future. The key to this? human skin cells. The human brain is often likened to the night sky. Look up and one will see billions upon billions of stars. Our brains are similar in that with

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/how-our-skin-cells-might-be-key-better-understanding-human-brain - 2025-11-07

During her Ph.D. studies, Yiyi Yang has been investigating the role of microglia in the pathological development of Alzheimer’s disease. On the 3rd of June, it is time to defend her work supervised by Prof. Tomas Deierborg. Now, Yiyi tells us about her research in the Experimental Neuroinflammation Laboratory as being a part of MultiPark. Can you tell us about your Ph.D. research? The focus of our

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-yiyi-yang - 2025-11-07

Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a whole and for the Chinese people? Can you give any

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nicholas-loubere-china-today-40-years-after-reform-and-opening - 2025-11-07

Following his graduation from the bachelor's programme in Economy and Society in 2023, Ondrej Gomola bid farewell to the halls of LUSEM and took a quick bike ride downtown Lund to continue his studies at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE). His undergraduate studies in Economy and Society had deepened his interest in addressing global challenges and had grante

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ondrej-gomola-alumnus-bsc-economy-and-society-2023 - 2025-11-07

Academic misconduct has increased with about 200% during the past covid years. As a precaution Lund University has started a project to prevent deception and misleading in examination, whether it’s unauthorized cooperation, plagiarism, or non-allowed aids. In every study environment there is a unique culture, with boundaries to what is considered acceptable and unacceptable by the students themsel

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/ai-forces-teachers-change-way-courses-are-examined-0 - 2025-11-07

A new app will make it easier for people on sick leave due to anxiety and depression to get back to work. In the project mWorks, Professor Ulrika Bejerholm and her research colleagues focus on what strengths, abilities and new strategies can help people on sick leave successfully transition back to working life. The research team wishes to move away from the current focus on diagnosis and disabili

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-app-help-people-return-work-following-sick-leave-due-mental-illness - 2025-11-07

A galactic journey spanning the history of the Milky Way. The supernatural powers of migratory birds. The art of seeing and controlling electrons. Three exciting research projects will soon commence at Lund University thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK 25 million

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/research-projects-galaxies-migratory-birds-and-electrons-awarded-grants - 2025-11-07

Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Esther Githumbi and Johan Lindström use pollen from the ice age to the present to inform vegetation models and find crucial an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/old-pollen-seed-can-predict-tomorrows-climate - 2025-11-07

With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a campus area in Heleneholm where the Malmö Academy of Music is already located. It would be something completely new in Scandinavia, and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-11-08

The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about their future plans for this center of research excellence. What have been your first steps since taking over the reins at Lund Stem Cell Center? JJ: We have been

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/plans-future-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-11-08

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-type-solar-cell-being-tested-space - 2025-11-08

Gases used in anaesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been known. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health led by Lund University shows that greenhouse gas emissions from anaesthetic gases have decreased by 27% over the last ten years. By swapping out the anaesthetic gas with the highest climate impact, the climate impact of anaesthetic gas

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reduced-climate-impact-anaesthetic-gases-worrying-trend-middle-income-countries - 2025-11-08

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nocturnal-pollinators-just-important-their-daytime-colleagues - 2025-11-08

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/surprise-discovery-leads-treatment-common-infection - 2025-11-08

One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those are two of the metaphors that Anna Jonsson and Olof Hallonsten use to explain the relationship between supervisor and student, the v

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/comic-strips-and-metaphors-help-students-reflect - 2025-11-08

Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-11-08

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has been interviewed for an article about the Lebanese election in Göteborgs-Posten. Lebanon’s fraudulent elite predicted to remain in power For the first time since 2018, at a time when one crisis was followed by another in Lebanon, the country holds a general election. Although a majority of the population has been thrown into poverty, of which the current lead

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-interviewed-about-lebanese-election-goteborgs-posten - 2025-11-08

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-political-mobilization-opportunity-european-democracy - 2025-11-08

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cities-will-need-more-resilient-electricity-networks-cope-extreme-weather - 2025-11-08

A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Since I’m starting my second term as dean, LTH will continue with what we started duri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-11-08