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Lund University was recently named number one in the world in the QS Sustainability Rankings. The Agenda 2030 Graduate School is now opening nominations for the annual Agenda 2030 Award. All university staff and students have the opportunity to highlight early-career researchers whose innovative work contributes to a more sustainable future. Sustainability has long been a clear priority for Lund U
The final report of how to achieve a cost reduction of SEK 40 million in the animal house organisation by 2027 including an action plan to reach this goal has now been presented. "The main message is that it is now time to act, we urgently need to do something", investigator Bo Ahrén said. According to the report, the challenge for the Faculty is a large over capacity of animal houses and a declin
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/final-report-new-organisation-and-reduced-costs-animal-house - 2026-04-25
It’s time to nominate the Faculty's Honorary doctors for 2026. In recent years, other faculties have appointed Honorary doctors such as Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse, musician Timbuktu and actress Pernilla August. We at the Faculty of Medicine now want to find more of our own "stars" and associate them with us through Honorary doctorates. Do you have a prominent person in your network who you think
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/do-you-have-honorary-doctor-stand-nominate-now - 2026-04-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-ch
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-central-administrator - 2026-04-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-ch
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-students - 2026-04-25
After a trip from Portugal, the new exposure chambers have arrived in Lund. LTH’s aerosol and climate scientists welcome the lab delivery with great expectations and are getting ready for a four-week construction project. Several years of preparation are now bearing fruit. The aerosol and climate labs at LTH have merged into one laboratory, and in the process the infrastructure is being improved w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unique-combo-lab-paves-way-new-research-breakthroughs - 2026-04-26
Over 1,300 people have applied for the 25 positions advertised in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Among the candidates are researchers from world-leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford. “The initiative has generated great interest among highly qualified researchers,” says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University.The call for applications refers to
Professor Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society and the environment. Fioretos receives the award for his pioneering work in blood cancer research and his ability to translate scientific discoveries into life-
On January 18th the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) organized an information and discussion meeting about the profile areas. The general sentiment was that the new task provided surprisingly little direction for how the financing of the profile areas should be developed. On January 13th the Swedish government (U2022/00168) gave the Swedish Research Council and the other
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-level-funding-profile-areas-has-moved-forward - 2026-04-25
For a long time, there has been a lack of concentrated efforts among researchers focusing on taxation, but that is about to change. On June 5th, plans for a new Taxation Centre will be presented. "The idea of an interdisciplinary taxation centre and the need for it have existed for many years, and several of us researchers were given the opportunity to concretize our thoughts—especially regarding
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-taxation-centre - 2026-04-26
In a new observational study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden looked at all children listed for heart transplants in the Nordic countries between 1986 and 2023. A total of 597 children were included in the study, 461 of whom received a transplant. The results show that survival rates have increased significantly over time despite the modest volumes in the region – a development that the r
She grew up in oil-rich Norway, with a father who travelled the world working in the oil sector. Little did Lina Lefstad know that just two decades later she would be a researcher at the forefront of efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and tackle the climate crisis. What if we could easily capture carbon dioxide from combined heat and power plants and industrial sites, cool it to liqu
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/can-oil-industrys-know-how-help-solve-climate-crisis - 2026-04-25
In a new observational study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden looked at all children listed for heart transplants in the Nordic countries between 1986 and 2023. A total of 597 children were included in the study, 461 of whom received a transplant. The results show that survival rates have increased significantly over time despite the modest volumes in the region – a development that the r
En studie vid Lunds universitet visar att svår hjärnskada påverkar strukturen i hjärnans små blodkärl och leder till en ansamling av amyloid-beta – ett kännetecken för Alzheimers sjukdom. Upptäckten typer på att kärlförändringar kan driva på neurodegenerativa sjukdomar snarare än att de uppstår som en följd av nervcellsskador. En ökad risk för demens hos personer som utsatts för svår hjärnskada, s
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/sa-kan-en-hjarnskada-bidra-till-alzheimers - 2026-04-24
Universitetets gemensamma förvaltning befinner sig i en period av viktigt utvecklingsarbete. För att stärka stödet till forskning och utbildning och säkerställa långsiktig hållbarhet, både ekonomiskt och organisatoriskt – behöver vi fortsätta att utveckla stödet. Några av de viktiga frågor som den gemensamma förvaltningen arbetar med under 2026 är:Stöd till mottagning av nya internationella medarb
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/pagaende-utvecklingsarbete-i-gemensamma-forvaltningen - 2026-04-24
Hallå Magnus Wärja, verksamhetsutvecklare på universitetets tentamensavdelning. Tusentals Lundastudenter behöver varje år olika anpassningar när de tenterar. I höst införs förändringar som förenklar institutionernas arbete, men vid årsskiftet höjs priset rejält. Vad gör ni på tentamensavdelningen?– Vi arrangerar ungefär hälften av alla salstentor, runt 100 000 tentor skrivs varje år i våra salar,
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tentamensavdelningen-satsar-och-hojer-priset - 2026-04-24
Tio års arbete gav resultat - Unesco utser det unika arkivet med 500 djupintervjuer från Förintelseöverlevare till världsminne. Ravensbrückarkivet får därmed status som ett kulturarv av stort värde för mänskligheten. Detta uppmärksammas med en filmvisning. Den 10 april beslutade Unesco om att utse Ravensbrückarkivet till världsminne. Arkivet innehåller vittnesmål från överlevare av Förintelsen. –
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/ravensbruckarkivet-pa-ub-blir-varldsminne - 2026-04-24
Egentid, partid och mer fritid i vardagen. Många bär på en önskan om mer tid – men finns det ett hållbart förhållningssätt till tid? Under Hållbarhetsveckan i Lund möts historiken David Larsson Heidenblad och tidsikonen Bodil Jönsson i ett fördjupande samtal. I många svenska hem finns ett vältummat exemplar av Bodil Jönssons bok Tio tankar om tid, en bok som för 20 år sedan såldes i över 600 000 e
