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When the Swedish Research Council announced funding for so-called "centres of excellence" almost three years ago, a total of 15 new initiatives were approved across Sweden. Only one of them was awarded to Lund: COMMONS – Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions.A year has now passed since COMMONS was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Department of Chemistry. What has happened si

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/commons-centre-excellence-focus-common-ground - 2026-06-25

At the end of March, the first cases of acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children were reported in the UK. Since then, the number has increased to more than 300 in around 20 countries; there are now reports of nine suspected cases in Sweden. The acute liver infection mainly affects otherwise completely healthy children under the age of 16, which puzzles researchers who are now searching

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-search-answers-increase-acute-severe-hepatitis-children - 2026-06-25

Snow still lies like a soft white quilt over Lund as I meet Sofie Ceberg, Senior Lecturer and the Faculty’s new Coordinator for gender equality and equal opportunities. After a long winter break, she is full of energy and eager to take on the assignment. The role is intended to strengthen the Faculty’s long-term work on gender equality and equal opportunities (shortened to "JoL" in Swedish), with

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/meet-facultys-coordinator-gender-equality-and-equal-opportunities-increase-our-attractiveness-we - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the upper or lower ai

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2026-06-25

The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) has produced statistics for international student mobility at undergraduate and graduate level for all Swedish higher education institutions during the academic year 2022/23. Lund University is high in a national comparison. UKÄ's report states that the pandemic led to a sharp decline in international student mobility in terms of both incoming and outgo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/increase-both-incoming-and-outgoing-exchange-students - 2026-06-26

In its third consecutive year, LUSEM’s capacity-building programme 'Innovation, Transformation, and Resilience for Sustainable Development' attracted 19 participants from across Africa. Developed at the Department of Economic History, administered by LUCE and funded by SIDA, the programme is led by Senior Lecturer Martin Andersson and executed in cooperation with PhD students Clara Dallaire-Fortie

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/driving-sustainable-change-lusems-annual-innovation-programme-draws-global-attention - 2026-06-25

Stay updated on what is happening within the organisation project this autumn. Revised project planThe organisation project will present a revised project plan to the Faculty Board in September. Among other things, the new plan clarifies how the project relates to education and research. The description of planned activities for the coming year has also been updated.The organisation project will r

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/september-news-organisation-project - 2026-06-25

We are thrilled to announce the Department's Spring 2025 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting lineup of speakers from across the globe. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 13:15 in the Blue Hall in the Ecology Building. After the talks, there will be time for fika and mingling.Here is the complete schedule for spring 2025:All links, except the one to BLAM, lead to personal web pages on

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/spring-2025-seminar-series-announced - 2026-06-25

In this winter’s and spring’s major exhibition at Skissernas Museum, Gunilla Klingberg's latest artistic commissions for two renowned public spaces in Stockholm are presented, along with a selection of her international projects. For the exhibition Klingberg has also created new works generated from the material she has saved during her processes. Klingberg’s work Virvelvind (Whirlwind) at Sergels

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-wringwrenchwhirlweave-0 - 2026-06-26

Seven PhD and postdoctoral projects at NanoLund are awarded funding in the second academic call from WISE. In total, 54 projects across the country will share SEK 166 million. WISE, Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is Sweden’s largest-ever investment in materials science. The aim is to enable sustainable development through basic and needs-driven materials science at the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/seven-wise-grants-nanolundians - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As part of the Sustainability and Popular culture course in the master programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUMES), students have created a series of videos analysing the representation of sustainability within popular culture. The videos examines issues such as ecofeminism

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/representation-sustainability-within-popular-culture - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are te

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2026-06-25

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Joshka Wessels arbetade för holländska SIDA med ett jordbruksprojekt på syriska landsbygden när hennes man en dag kom hem och sa att han hittat något som hon bara måste se. I en närliggande by hade maken som är hydrolog hittat ett underjordiskt bevattningssystem från romartiden som fortfarande var i bruk. Upptäckten

https://www.lu.se/artikel/med-kameran-som-forskningsredskap - 2026-06-25

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) – tidigare kallat UFO – har fascinerat mänskligheten i århundraden – från mystiska ljus på himlen till sensordata och närkontakter som trotsar konventionella förklaringar. Dessa händelser utmanar vår förståelse av naturen, tekniken och till och med vår plats i universum. Kan en nystartad interdisciplinär forskargrupp vid Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/det-okanda-dar-ute-ar-inne-igen - 2026-06-25

Sätt dig skönt i soffan hemma och låt dig absorberas av en symfoniorkesters magiska tolkning av Beethovens femma med samma upplevelse som om du var på plats i konsertsalen. Välj kameravinkel, inzoomning, klippning, ljudkvalité och extra bakgrundsinformation om verket som spelas. Eller chatta med andra i den digitala publiken. – Den snabba digitaliseringen av scenkonsten har öppnat upp nya världar

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/bli-din-egen-dirigent-0 - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. USI, Universities and Swedish Institutes in Collaboration for Internationalisation, has held its annual meeting in Athens. Collaboration with partner universities in the host countries around the Mediterranean is intensifying. The new thematic seminars initiative has proved fruitful and it is hoped it will become a pe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fieldwork-across-disciplines-and-borders-inspires-new-research - 2026-06-25

It is important that doctoral students, regardless of category and financing, have the same opportunities and conditions, as far as possible, for their admission to and conducting of third-cycle education. Unfortunately, that is not the case today, as the situation varies between the faculties. Sometimes this is due to factors related to the subjects, but in some cases, it is because there has bee

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/are-opportunities-and-conditions-same-all-universitys-doctoral-students - 2026-06-26

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to professors Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Simon Johnson also of MIT and James Robinson of Chicago University. “For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity” "Three well-known and widely read Nobel laureates in Economic Sciences, relevant to several fields. The book “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/nobel-economics-prize - 2026-06-25

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete has been a doctoral student at Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will soon be defending his dissertation project “Plastic Extension of Music” (22 May 2025). Part of his doctoral defence is a large exhibition that will take place at IAC (16–23 May 2025). What is your dissertation project about?My research is called “Plastic Extension of Music” and it's quite

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/if-your-music-was-sculpture-what-would-it-look-meet-bertrand-chavarria-aldrete-find-out-more - 2026-06-25

The invitation applies to current and prospective 1st year PhD students studying Bioinformatics We have decided that MedBioInfo, the Swedish National Graduate School in Medical Bioinformatics, will take applications for an  incoming class in 2026. The deadline is 28 February, 2026.MedBioInfo was established in 2017, with the support of 42 Bioinformatics faculty, to provide advanced training in bio

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/call-applications-national-graduate-school-medical-bioinformatics-medbioinfo-2026 - 2026-06-25