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https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-include-human-connection-nature-biodiversity-goals - 2026-06-27

Many developing countries are making progress, whereas others are stalling or falling behind. In the latter cases, transformation capacity needs to be reinforced to enable the countries to meet present and future societal challenges. In view of this, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has now signed a four-year agreement with Lund University in Sweden regarding commiss

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/focus-sustainable-development-new-sida-course-africa-and-lund - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund researchers Anna Sundlöv and Katarina Sjögreen-Gleisner have developed a method to personalise treatment using a newly approved radioactive cancer drug – by taking images of the drug’s dispersion inside the patient. Their article won the best publication of the year prize awarded by the journal EJNMMI Physics. Th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-lund-receive-prize-publication-year - 2026-06-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cell-researcher-wins-prestigious-prize - 2026-06-27

More than half of teenage girls experienced heavy bleeding and 40 per cent had an iron deficiency. The research, led from Lund University in Sweden, also shows that young teenage girls who experience heavy menstrual bleeding – and are therefore at greater risk of iron deficiency – can be identified using a simple questionnaire. As many as half of the teenage girls in the study published in PLOS On

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/heavy-menstruation-common-among-teenage-girls-questionnaire-reveals-risk-iron-deficiency - 2026-06-27

For many people who suffer from depression, the condition is not just about feeling down, but also about a loss of motivation and difficulty finding pleasure in activities they used to enjoy. A study conducted in Sweden at Lund University and Region Skåne shows that a medicine used to treat Parkinson’s disease can be used as an add-on therapy to alleviate these symptoms in some patients with treat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/parkinsons-medication-shows-promise-treating-treatment-resistant-depression - 2026-06-27

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 - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers can now explain how asteroids are formed. According to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden, our own planet also has its origins in the same process, a cosmic ocean of millimetre-sized particles that orbited the young sun. WATCH VIDEO STORYFragments of asteroids regularly land on Earth as meteorite

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-millimetre-sized-stones-formed-our-planet - 2026-06-27

On January 12, around 700 international students will arrive at Lund University during Arrival Day for the spring semester. A packed welcome programme awaits – this year with a special focus on recovery. "Arriving in a new country can be overwhelming. A balanced schedule with time for both activities and recovery creates better conditions for social interaction and well-being," says Hanna Gustafze

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hundreds-students-around-world-arriving-lund - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How successful is Sweden when it comes to innovation? How good are we at integrating people who were born abroad? And what is it like in Great Britain and in Spain? A research project about integration, job quality and employment in the European labour market is launching an interactive map with which you can test you

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-do-you-want-work-test-your-ideas-about-european-labour-market - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Not only migratory birds use a built-in magnetic compass to navigate correctly. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that non-migratory birds also are able to use a built-in compass to orient themselves using the Earth’s magnetic field. The researchers behind the current study have received help from a gro

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/even-non-migratory-birds-use-magnetic-compass - 2026-06-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/professor-anne-lhuillier-awarded-wolf-prize-physics - 2026-06-27

Lund University has secured a spot on the Financial Times Master’s in Management 2020 ranking, with the fairly new Master’s in International Strategic Management programme placing 73rd. The Master’s in International Strategic Management was launched in 2016, and is based on a long tradition of education and research in strategic management. This is Lund University's second programme ranked by Fina

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/masters-international-strategic-management-ranked-among-worlds-best - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can insulin taken as an infant in small doses together with food render the immune system used to insulin and thus prevent type 1 diabetes? Can a gluten-free diet and probiotics prevent celiac disease (so called gluten intolerance)? These questions will be asked by two separate studies that are being planned at Lund U

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newborn-babies-be-screened-studies-type-1-diabetes-and-celiac-disease-gluten-intolerance - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Hutu militia FDLR, who were behind the genocide in Rwanda, now live in eastern Congo, one of a number of rebel groups in the war-torn country. Lund University social anthropologist Anna Hedlund has lived with the group and describes the systematic attacks on the Congolese population, as well as a hopeless situatio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exile-warriors-social-anthropological-study-about-violence-and-community-eastern-congo - 2026-06-27

In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services can be described as the benefits humans gain from nature’s ecosystems, for example regarding the food we eat, the air we breathe, purification of the water we drink, the bioenergy we use to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “I was somewhat shocked when I received the message”, says Bishop Anders Arborelius who, in addition to his degree in theology from Rome, has a Master’s degree in modern languages from Lund University. His studies in Lund have enabled him to translate books and give sermons in other languages as a priest and a bishop.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-alumnus-anders-arborelius-become-swedens-first-cardinal - 2026-06-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-sustainability-award-agenda-2030-goes-degrowth-economist - 2026-06-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/language-key-understanding-diversity-our-senses - 2026-06-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-manufacturing-method-produces-more-appealing-vegan-meat - 2026-06-27