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It is important for Lund University that its students have a good work environment for their studies. Read more here about what the student work environment entails in different situations and who is responsible for ensuring its proper functioning. Rights and responsibilitiesThe concepts of study environment and student work environment are used synonymously in many contexts. At Lund University we

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/student-rights-and-responsibilities/study-and-work-environment - 2025-11-07

Lund University celebrates its 350th anniversary by organising the first out of five science weeks, starting with the topic: Is the World Becoming a Better Place? The week takes place 6–12 March 2017 in Lund, Sweden, and includes almost 20 open seminars, activities and debates. It almost seems as if there is no end to the major global challenges that we face, including global warming, growing gaps

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/science-week-world-becoming-better-place - 2025-11-07

A unique trove of bone material from the 9,200 year old coastal settlement Norje Sunnansund in Blekinge, Sweden, has revealed that surprisingly sophisticated hunting strategies were used at the time. One key find was that the early Mesolithic humans practiced so-called selective hunting – seemingly in order to maximise gain and preserve the local population of certain species. ”A telling example i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-selective-hunting-strategies-and-delayed-return-lifestyle-among-ancient-foragers - 2025-11-07

In the QS World University Rankings by Subjects 2017 released today, Lund University once again reinforces its position as a top 100 University. Four Lund University subjects are ranked in the top 50 in the new QS 2017 subject ranking: geography (26th) environmental sciences (38th) development studies (32nd) nursing (49th) An additional 16 subjects are ranked in the top 100 and seven are ranked in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/top-100-rank-20-lund-university-subjects-new-qs-subject-ranking - 2025-11-07

When David Gisselsson Nord, a cancer researcher at Lund University in Sweden, read a history book last summer, he was struck by the similarities between how cancer and insurgencies evolve over time. Could military strategy be used as inspiration for cancer treatment? He teamed up with Robert Egnell at the Swedish Defence University to find an entirely novel approach to his field. ‟There are actual

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-what-cancer-research-can-learn-military-strategy - 2025-11-07

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used the MAX IV synchrotron in Lund – the strongest of its kind in the world - to produce images that predate the formation of toxic clumps of beta-amyloid, the protein believed to be at the root of Alzheimer’s disease. The unique images appear to contradict a previously unchallenged consensus. Instead of attempting to eliminate beta-amyloid, or so-cal

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/never-seen-images-early-stage-alzheimers-disease - 2025-11-07

Rarely do we encounter a scientific fact that stirs public controversy and distrust in science as much as climate change. However, the theory is built on honest reporting of facts. This emerges from a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The study in question investigates whether there is a so-called publication bias within climate research, i.e. a statistically skewed distribution of the way

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-publication-bias-found-climate-change-research - 2025-11-07

Crashing computers or smartphones - and security loopholes that allow hackers to steal millions of passwords - could be prevented if it were possible to design error-free software. To date, this is a problem that neither engineers nor current supercomputers have been able to solve. A major reason for this is the computing power required to verify large programs. Today’s computers use vast amounts

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/biological-supercomputers-be-powered-molecular-motors - 2025-11-07

We may soon get better insight into the microcosm and the world of electrons. Researchers at Lund University and Louisiana State University have developed a tool that makes it possible to control extreme UV light - light with much shorter wavelengths than visible light. The new method uses strong laser pulses to direct the short bursts of light. Something very exciting happens when light hits elec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/electrons-used-control-ultrashort-laser-pulses - 2025-11-07

Studentlund – your key to student life in Lund Studentlund membership gives you access to social, cultural and political student life in Lund. Lund University is well-known for its unique student life and fantastic campus atmosphere. The variety of student organisations, including the famous 'nations' of Lund, provides excellent opportunities for you to experience student life and to join in stude

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/student-life/student-organisations - 2025-11-07

Lund University is a world top 100 university and the most popular choice for international students coming to study in Sweden. Located in southern Sweden, just 40 minutes from Copenhagen, Lund University gives international exchange and study abroad students the chance to experience:The number 1 choice for international students in Sweden, attracting students from more than 130 countriesAn educat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/admissions/exchange-and-study-abroad - 2025-11-07

This webpage presents a list of links to websites that offer useful academic resources, such as tips for academic writing, referencing and thesis writing. All links open in the same window and take you to the website of that resource.  Lund University-specific guides’Academic Writing in English at Lund University’ (AWELU) is an excellent online resource for all students and staff writing texts in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/current-students/student-services-and-support/support-study-skills-language-and-academic-writing/academic-support-centre/academic-resources - 2025-11-07

DPP-4 inhibitors are a group of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes that lower high blood sugar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that DPP-4 inhibitors are also effective against low blood sugar levels. The study, which was carried out on mice, has been published in the journal Diabetologia. “If these inhibitors also

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2025-11-07

A group of Lund University students are behind a ’universal remote control’ called Unified Remote, an app that enables you to control your computer with your smart phone. After millions of downloads, they’re now looking at breaking into the the gaming world - by turning your phone into a joystick. WATCH VIDEO STORYTwo Swedish students who say they were ”too lazy to get off the couch” to manage the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-behind-successful-remote-control-app-eye-gaming - 2025-11-07

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a previously unknown effect of vitamin A in human embryonic development. Their findings show that vitamin A affects the formation of blood cells. The signal molecule, retinoic acid, is a product of vitamin A which helps to instruct how different types of tissue are to be formed in the growing embryo. For the first time, Professor Niels-Bjarn

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/previously-unknown-effect-vitamin-identified - 2025-11-07

A new research study has shed light on the underground interaction between tree roots and fungi. In order to understand how this important symbiosis came about, an international team of researchers have sequenced the genomes of different fungi that live underground. The study shows that in the course of evolution, the symbiotic fungi have lost many genes present in their free-living ancestors, and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lost-genes-make-fungi-dependent-trees - 2025-11-07

New research shows that it is possible to predict the development of type 1 diabetes. By measuring the presence of autoantibodies in the blood, it is possible to detect whether the immune system has begun to break down the body’s own insulin cells. “In the TEDDY study we have found that autoantibodies often appear during the first few years of life”, said Professor Åke Lernmark from Lund Universit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/early-signs-young-children-predict-type-1-diabetes - 2025-11-07

Researchers from institutions including Lund University have taken a step closer to producing solar fuel using artificial photosynthesis. In a new study, they have successfully tracked the electrons’ rapid transit through a light-converting molecule. The ultimate aim of the present study is to find a way to make fuel from water using sunlight. This is what photosynthesis does all the time – plants

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/supersonic-electrons-could-produce-future-solar-fuel - 2025-11-07

Absens (in absentia)Absens is Latin for absent, and indicates a promovendus being awarded a degree without being present at the actual ceremony, or in absentia. During the ceremony, the person’s name is read out, with the addition of 'absens'.PhD graduate‘Doktor efter avlagda prov’ (EAP) is the official Swedish denomination for the Latin doctor iuvenis, pl. doctor iuvenes, i.e. new doctoral gradua

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/academic-traditions/doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony/degree-conferment-ceremony-glossary - 2025-11-07

The ceremonial highlight of the academic year Doctoral degree conferment ceremony In a solemn ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the doctoral students who completed their research studies in the past year and successfully defended their doctoral theses at Lund University have their degrees conferred. At the ceremony, degrees are also conferred on the faculties' honorary doctors. Doctors who completed the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/academic-traditions/doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony - 2025-11-07