Published 16 May 2019 "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong project, Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2025-05-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 October 2021 SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-05-13

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 5 January 2021 History and European studies Docent Sanimir Resic, now on leave from the joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology in Lund, is taking over as Rector of Malmö Academy of Music after Ann-Charlotte Carlén. How does it feel? -Good, the new year has now officially started with my first day here at the Academ

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/sanimir-resic-new-rector-malmo-academy-music - 2025-05-13

Published 28 May 2015 Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-05-13

Published 2 December 2016 The BECC board has decided to strengthen the ongoing interdisciplinary development of BECC research by announcing a call for funding salary of up to 6 two-year postdoctoral researcher positions. The aim is to promote the development of BECC research by creating and strengthening interdisciplinary interactions. Application deadline is January 27st 2017, 12.00. This is an a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/announcement-call-salary-funds-6-becc-postdoctoral-positions-lund - 2025-05-13

Published 19 December 2024 Juan Ocampo's research examines how complementary currencies are implemented in communities, drawing on observations from a collaboration in Kenya. Photo: Sara Håkansson What does it take to implement a complementary currency in a community, and how does it reshape social, technical, and economic dynamics? Juan Ocampo, a PhD graduate from Lund University’s School of Econ

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/juan-ocampo-researched-organizing-money-places-where-money-assumed-be-scarce - 2025-05-13

Published 14 April 2023 Never before so much data has been produced within life sciences. At the same time, computing power, artificial intelligence and other technology necessary to handle data have been greatly improved. The theme of this year’s WCMM Research Day held on April 12th in Lund, was artificial intelligence (AI) in medical research. A widely discussed topic that has opened up endless

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-day-2023 - 2025-05-13

Published 4 September 2023 As you probably know, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted funding of SEK 20 million to the Program for Academic Leaders in Life Science (PALS). The program is a collaborative effort with the four WCMM Centers, SciLifeLab and the DDLS program and follows the success and track record of the previous WCMM and SciLifeLab collaboration termed NMMP (National Molec

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/program-academic-leaders-life-science-pals - 2025-05-13

Published 6 December 2022 Another decade of deforestation means more biodiversity lost, greenhouse gas emissions and forest degradation, fragmentation and conversion to other land-uses. Photo: Unsplash Just a month after the UN climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world meet again, at COP15 in Montreal, to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. Torsten Krau

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-un-conference-cop15 - 2025-05-13

Published 19 September 2013 She is a new ‘Hedda’ professor, but has a long career behind her. Biologist Ellen van Donk now hopes that she can serve as a role model for female students who dream of a future career in research. Biologist Ellen van Donk is a new professor in Hedda Andersson’s name. LUM meets ecology researcher Ellen van Donk on a beautiful summer’s day. She comes from the Netherlands

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-professor-wants-be-role-model-female-students - 2025-05-13

Published 19 September 2013 For the next four years, Lund University will coordinate a new exchange programme with India. Over 100 Indian scholarship recipients will get the chance to study or do research in Europe. Lund University hopes that many of them will choose Lund as their destination. “We are pleased that the European Commission has put its trust in us again. We can now further develop th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-coordinate-new-eu-exchange-india - 2025-05-13

Published 19 June 2024 The Science Village area is developing. To the left is building Space and to the right the almost finished The Loop. Möllan in the middle. Image by Cecilia Schubert. The Science Village Establishment (Phase 2) project team wishes everyone a great summer with lots of well-deserved rest! Before work starts again in August, we want to share what we have been working on during t

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/summer-greetings-and-update-science-village-project-team - 2025-05-13

https://www.science.lu.se/article/scientists-have-solved-damselfly-colour-mystery - 2025-05-13

Published 12 April 2024 Sharp-sighted bristle worm. Photo: Michael Bok. The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has completely unique vision

https://www.science.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-05-13

https://www.science.lu.se/article/soft-tissue-183-million-year-old-jurassic-plesiosaur-analysed - 2025-05-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 20 May 2022 Jesper Schwarz, Aleksandra Ilic and Kenneth Wärnmark demonstrate their red iron complex inside a hydrogen balloon in front of a light reactor. Missing are Reiner Lomoth and Catherine Johnson from Uppsala University. Photo by Johan Joelsson. A research group at Lund University has succeeded in creating a hydrogen-prod

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-step-towards-large-scale-fossil-free-hydrogen-production - 2025-05-13

https://www.science.lu.se/article/how-disorderly-young-galaxies-grow-and-mature - 2025-05-13

Published 2 July 2019 Photo: Chris Collingridge. Researchers have shown for the first time that an animal uses different directional sensors to achieve the highest possible navigational precision in different conditions. When the sun is high, dung beetles navigate using the wind. The discovery of the dung beetles’ wind compass and how it complements the sun compass was made by an international res

https://www.science.lu.se/article/dung-beetles-use-wind-compass-when-sun-high - 2025-05-13

Published 4 June 2024 James Pamment och Jesper Falkheimer. Photo: Alessandra Sossini In an ideal world, perhaps the Psychological Defence Research Institute in Helsingborg would not even exist. But the global situation has brought attention, increased research funding and significant interest in collaboration from wider society. “The entire research institute is built around the idea that the worl

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/psychological-defence-research-institute-we-could-be-ten-times-size-we-are - 2025-05-13

Published 23 March 2021 Performance at a school council in Zambia, 2014. Photo: Per Wickenberg For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in schools and education in 16 countries around the world. The effort enrolled more than 500 people from 29 countries, who initiated hundreds of local projects to bet

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/looking-back-and-forward-furthering-rights-children - 2025-05-13