Filetype
It was 17 December 1944. The American B-24 bomber aircraft, better known as the Tulsamerican, was circling the island of Vis off the coast of Croatia. The plane was damaged following an attack by the Germans and finally crashed into the sea. Seven of the ten crew members survived but three died, among them the pilot, Eugene Ford. Now, the marine archaeologist Brendan Foley has brought him home for
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/deep-diving-history - 2025-11-07
Where is the debate on the Strut inquiry's proposals and their consequences? That is the question being asked by the three researchers Kristian Pietras, Hanna Isaksson and Emma Sparr who are particularly worried by one of the proposals. – An increase in direct government funding at the cost of weakened research councils may mean that research loses its freedom and international competitiveness. Th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-call-debate-future-distribution-resourcesresearch-freedom-danger - 2025-11-07
Everyone knows about source criticism, but researchers Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin want to emphasise source confidence. “There has been an intensive focus on the critical aspect. Pupils leave school with the attitude that you cannot trust anything, so source confidence is an important complement to source criticism. There must be confidence in our social institutions”, says Jutta Haider. Olof Sun
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-strike-blow-source-confidence - 2025-11-07
The newly established Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity (ABC), at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), and led by Professor Daniel Hjorth, is thrilled to announce its collaboration with the Malmö Academy of Music (MHM), the Inter Arts Center (IAC) and the research cluster on “Creativity, AI, and the Human” at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI), University of E
On 2 April, it was time for the the annual FEK Table Tennis Tournament again, and this year also marked its 10th anniversary! The competition first started in 2013 but has had three breaks over the years, which is why the 10-year celebration is taking place this year. (See the fact box for more details on past years and winners.)A total of 22 players battled fiercely until the very end, and this y
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/who-made-it-podium-years-fek-table-tennis-tournament - 2025-11-07
New research at Lund University shows that the biological parents’ genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be used to to develop preventive treatments that reduce the child's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Previous research by diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad has sh
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-parents-metabolic-traits-can-affect-childs-health-over-time - 2025-11-07
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have conducted a clinical study to show how a woman’s genetic profile provides information on which hormone treatment is most effective for in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The researchers have now developed a simple oral swab test that shows which hormone therapy is the best option for IVF treatment About 15 per cent of all couples of reproductive age are inv
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/higher-success-rate-using-simple-oral-swab-test-ivf - 2025-11-07
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. “This digital test, which patients perform on their own with minimal involvement from healthcare personnel, improves the primary care physician's ability to determine who should be further examined by blood tests for Alzheimer's pathology ear
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-digital-cognitive-test-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease - 2025-11-07
This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse goes to Vinay S. Swaminathan at Lund University. He is awarded five million SEK for his research on how healthy breast tissue develops into tumors and spreads. Vinay S. Swaminathan’s research group has developed 3D models that mimics the tumor microenvironment in the laboratory. The technology opens new opportuniti
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/healthy-sick-3d - 2025-11-07
This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some people with obesity develop type 2 diabetes. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at University of Gothenburg is spurred to find new answers when observations in the lab do not agree with the general view. Justification for awarding"I
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2025-11-07
Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq. Employing far-reaching means, Charlotta Turner managed to get them back to Lund unharmed. Now they have written a book together about the rescue. The new authors expectantly open a large cardboard box full
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-11-07
By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air travel is the biggest CO2 villain. The number of flights booked between April and October 2020 fell by 97 percent compared with 2019. Based on average emissions of previous travel, this me
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-11-07
Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologist and media studies researcher Mia-Marie Hammarlin, who is in the early phase of
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-11-07
Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed by the start of the new year. There are five such panels divided into recruitment, leadership and organisation, infrastructure, major an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-11-07
The coronavirus pandemic has not put Lund University in any financial difficulty. There is money in the University's coffers, assures the head of planning Tim Ekberg. The agency capital currently amounts to SEK 1.7 billion. "It is money that could be useful to support affected areas of activity", he comments. The agency capital currently amounts to SEK 1.7 billion. The University will primarily lo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/no-threat-lund-universitys-finances-thanks-agency-capital - 2025-11-07
Getting important information out fast to the right target group has been a challenge for the crisis management group, which has now entered a calmer phase after an intensive spring. “Now it is mostly a question of coordination and we are also considering opening the group up to representatives of education and research”, says Susanne Kristensson, who manages the group. When the University directo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-successful-quick-digital-restart - 2025-11-07
Lund University has a world-class art collection worth hundreds of millions of Swedish crowns. But many of the less valuable paintings are currently hidden in attics and cellar storage rooms. “With the initiative entitled ‘When collections come to life’ and a new open warehouse, we want to highlight the art collection and make it more accessible”, says Annie Lindberg, archivist and acting director
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/art-treasures-taken-out-hiding - 2025-11-07
Who are you – a separator or an integrator? Mobiles and laptops have created a working life where it is possible to work anytime and anywhere. In a major study, work environment researchers have identified how seven different personality types set boundaries – or not – between work and free time. "Everyone has their own standard which they think is right. However, there are often different views i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/who-are-you-work - 2025-11-07
Every year Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt and Ellinor Martin dissolve five to ten tonnes of limestone with highly dangerous chemicals. The aim is to find microscopic grains from fossilised meteorites that are many millions of years old, which can provide important clues to the development of life on Earth. LUM was given a tour of the world-unique acid laboratory. There is a smacking sound as Fr
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemically-empowered-hunt-space-grains - 2025-11-07
By analysing the growth rings from trees that are several thousand years old, preserved in peat bogs, geologist Johannes Edvardsson is creating a unique timeline of Sweden’s historical climate. The buried time capsules also hold clues that could help us to better understand how our forests will be affected by future climate change. With a screaming noise, the sharp blade of the chainsaw cuts thro
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chainsaw-geologist-studies-historical-climate-change-growth-rings - 2025-11-07
