By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 15 December 2022 Ingvar Kamprad Design Center, IKDC. Photo: Kennet Ruona A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-06-24

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 14 December 2021 The research team from LTH and Tetra Pak - Mathias Wallin, Sara Johansson and Johan Tryding. Photo: Kennet Ruona There are many requirements on the food packaging of the future. They must be better and safer than today, while also environment-friendly, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-better-packaging - 2025-06-23

Published 22 December 2021 It is time to summarise 2021, a year in which nothing was the same as before, if a year can ever be like another. For me personally, it has been transformative to take over as vice-chancellor of Lund University together with a new management team: deputy vice-chancellor Lena Eskilsson and the five pro vice-chancellors Per Mickwitz, Kristina Eneroth, Ann-Kristin Wallengre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-ring-out-old-year-and-ring-new - 2025-06-23

By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 1 June 2021 Torna Hällestad. Researchers have placed 170 owl nesting boxes included in their multiyear project aiming to find out as much as possible about how tawny owls are affected by living in proximity to humans. Photo: Kennet Ruona The owlet, little over three weeks old, squints slightly as Hannah Watson lays it on its

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tracking-owls-send-sms-their-nests - 2025-06-23

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 7 October 2021 Niclas Nilsson does not need injections after being treated with gene therapy for haemophilia . Photo: Åsa Hansdotter If you look carefully at Niclas Nilsson’s hands and arms, you can still see the scars from all the injections he has received through the years for his haemophilia, although they have fad

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-wore-hockey-helmet-until-i-was-four-years-old - 2025-06-23

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 15 December 2023 Sign interpretation demands a lot of concentration. There are usually two interpreters in place during a lecture to relieve each other every 15 minute or so. Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University sociology student Julia Grahn is among those who receive learning support. She is deaf and is provide

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-studies-depend-interpretation - 2025-06-24

Published 27 February 2024 Photos from the procession at the ceremony 2023. The Faculties’ honorary doctors for 2024 have been announced. They will be honoured at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 31 May 2024. Below is a summary of each faculty's choice of honorary doctors. Lund University School of Economics and Management Martha Bailey (to the left) and Anna Breman will both attend the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-honorary-doctors-2024 - 2025-06-24

By jan [dot] olsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 30 May 2024 Mozhgan Zachrisson, head of The Department of Strategic Communication, and Ulrika Holgersson, head of the Department of Communication and Media. In January the two departments will merge. Photo: Jan Olsson Several faculties have merged different departments or are about to do so. The Faculty of Engineerin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/concern-when-departments-are-merged - 2025-06-24

By cecilia [dot] schubert [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia Schubert) - published 6 April 2025 From the left: Ruth Pöttgen, Martin Leijnse, Sara Brogaard, Emma Kritzberg and Erik Selander. Photo: Cecilia Schubert Although emissions from air travel at Lund University have slightly decreased compared to last year*, longer journeys remain a major source of emissions. Now, a group of five resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-aim-change-travel-norms-and-reduce-air-travel-lund-university - 2025-06-24

By nina [dot] nordh [at] bygg [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Nordh) - published 15 January 2025 The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2025-06-24

Published 16 February 2024 The University building. Photo: Mikael Risedal 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 Annika Olsson. Photo: Kennet Ruona What’s the first thing you will b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-06-24

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 27 May 2021 Yiyi Yang defends her PhD thesis on Thursday 3rd June 2021. 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 a

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-yiyi-yang - 2025-06-23

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 10 February 2025 In a large international study the researchers found that analysis by the AI led to 14 times fewer missed diagnoses of severe arrhythmias. Photo: Bild: iStock/alexaldo. In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-06-23

Published 25 September 2017 Photo: Gustav Mårtensson The Fernström Foundation’s Grand Nordic Prize – one of the largest medical research prizes in Scandinavia – goes this year to the stem cell researcher, Jonas Frisén. His research concerns stem cells, primarily how they are transformed and renewed in mature organs. Jonas Frisén, professor at the Karolinska Institute, has been awarded the 2017 Gra

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cell-researcher-wins-prestigious-prize - 2025-06-23

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 6 December 2021 The cover of Giulia Beneventi's thesis illustrates all of the different RNA types in cells. She defends his thesis on the 8th of December. Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2025-06-23

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 24 June 2022 A graphical image depicting the reprogramming of human skin cells to astrocytes. Image credit: Cathrine Ahlenius 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

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-our-skin-cells-might-be-key-better-understanding-human-brain - 2025-06-23

Published 16 October 2014 Political scientist Hanna and psychologist Emma have more in common than their surname, Bäck. They are sisters but also make up an interdisciplinary research team. By combining their subjects, they are attempting to gain a complete picture of what motivates people to take part in political protests and why some of them resort to political violence. The research indicates

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/keeping-it-family-sisters-form-interdisciplinary-research-duo - 2025-06-23

By catrin [dot] jakobsson [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Catrin Jakobsson) - published 23 August 2018 Parkinson’s disease, a condition whose complications worsen as the years go by, can mean that getting older becomes particularly challenging. How can life be made easier for these individuals, so that they can continue to be active and participate in society? This is the aim of a multi-year study tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/living-parkinsons-challenge-everyday-life - 2025-06-23

Published 23 August 2018 MERGE research team has studied drill cores up to three kilometres deep taken from the Greenland ice sheet. Photo: NEEM gallery A three-kilometre-long cylinder of ice sheds light on what the climate was like one hundred thousand years ago. The ice contains traces of periods of higher or lower temperatures on Earth, but also of whether there were violent volcanic eruptions

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tracing-climate-back-100-000-years-greenland - 2025-06-23

Published 23 April 2019 Niklas Mattsson (Photo: Björn Martinsson) A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. The researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Recently published in JAMA Neurology, the study suggests that the NFL concentration in the blood co

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-evidence-blood-tests-can-detect-risk-alzheimers - 2025-06-23