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This year, MultiPark has the pleasure of welcoming two new research groups. The Mackenzie Lab aims to decode the neurobiological underpinnings of emotion through experimental studies in animal models. Jacob Vogel’s team uses AI to analyze clinical data for improved understanding as well as patient-tailored diagnosis and care of neurodegenerative disease patients. Say hello to Åsa Mackenzie and Jac

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-grows-new-research-groups - 2025-12-23

On the 9 October, Times Higher Education (THE) published its latest ranking and Lund University has retained its position at 95. “It’s very gratifying that we have retained our position, despite tougher global competition. A university is never better than its staff and students. This is therefore an acknowledgement of the skilled work everyone performs to create a top-class university and confirm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-100-times-higher-education-ranking - 2025-12-24

Lund University’s Administrative Prize 2026 is awarded to Digitalisation Coordinator Håkan Håkansson and Library Assistant Tomasz Lesniak of the Lund University Library. Through far-sighted and innovative work on the Ravensbrück Archive, they have developed a unique research resource which has been recognised internationally and added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register. The Lund University

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/universitys-administrative-prize-2026-recognises-work-ravensbruck-archive - 2025-12-24

All University employees can now apply for an M365 Copilot license via Lucat. The offer is primarily aimed at employees working in administration in the faculties and departments. The license (“paid version” of Copilot) will be free of charge throughout 2026. Improve the efficiency of your work using AIUsing M365 Copilot, you get AI in your usual work tools – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/get-copilot-free-charge-2026 - 2025-12-24

During the week 9-13 September 2013, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund visited universities in London, networking with researchers working on South Asia related projects. The universities included Westminster University, London School of Economics and Political Science, and SOAS at University of London.  University of WestminsterWeb page:www.westminster.ac.ukLars first went to Westminster Univers

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-lars-eklunds-visit-london-universities-september-2013 - 2025-12-23

High blood pressure damages our blood vessels. It also damages our heart, our brain and our kidneys. A high blood pressure increases the risk of suffering a heart attack and stroke. However, it is not known exactly why a high blood pressure is so dangerous. – The reason is that we have effective antihypertensive medications. So why bother how pressure-induced damage occurs. We feel that this posit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/high-blood-pressure-bloody-serious - 2025-12-23

Raquel Garza Gómez is a Ph.D. student at Lund University, who will be defending her thesis on January 19, 2024. With a background in computational biology, Raquel's research focuses on studying the role of transposable elements in the human brain. Transposable elements refer to DNA sequences capable of moving from one part of the genome to another. Her research aims to provide a better understandi

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/transposable-elements-healthy-and-diseased-human-brain-phd-interview-raquel-garza-gomez - 2025-12-23

Call for applications: 17 Fully-Funded PhD Positions within the project "SOCIAL" funded by the European Commission's MSCA DN programme. Programme Title: Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia (SOCIAL)Funding: Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Doctoral NetworksStart: September 2026 | Duration: 48 months | Deadline: January 31, 2026Consortium: 14 leading universities across E

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/call-applications-17-fully-funded-phd-positions-within-msca-dn-social-project - 2025-12-23

No 43, 21 June 2025 The NAISS training team hopes you had a good summer break and feel refreshed for the autumn term.In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the beginning of the autumn term.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website:OverviewNAISS trainingOn-site workshop: "Awk Workshop", Uppsala, 28-29 August, 2025Online training semi

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter - 2025-12-23

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-maintain-town-centre-retail-times-crisis - 2025-12-23

Several inaccuracies in historical CPIs in popular online databases have been discovered, according to new research by Jonas Ljungberg at Lund University, published in Cliometrica. This can have major consequences for both research and the decisions politicians make regarding economic policy. Jonas Ljungberg needed access to different European countries' consumer price indices (CPIs) for the last

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/errors-detected-several-historical-consumer-price-indices - 2025-12-24

The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2025 have been announced and they will receive their honorary doctorates at the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony on 23 May. Information on the honorary doctors’ lectures will be updated regularly during the spring. The title of honorary doctor, doctor honoris causa in Latin, is a distinction which is awarded by a faculty. The honorary doctors are people who h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/full-list-faculties-honorary-doctors-2025 - 2025-12-24

Long-term effective methods are needed to curb the negative effects of coastal erosion. Within the LIFE Coast Adapt project, researchers from Lund University, together with officials from Region Skåne and several coastal municipalities in Skåne, have tested various nature-based methods to contribute to a practice in the field. The project has now come to an end with promising results. In the LIFE

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/collaboration-led-methods-can-protect-our-coastal-environments-erosion - 2025-12-23

Get to know our MA students who started fall 2025 and will graduate in spring 2027. Elena BinerElena Biner is a Swiss artist living and working in Copenhagen. With a background in visual communication and a strong foundation in storytelling, her practice sits at the intersection of visual arts and performative spaces, specialising in immersive experiences. In her work she blurs the line between re

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/presentation-our-master-students-performing-arts-critical-practice-programme - 2025-12-23

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-12-23

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 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 shown

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-parents-metabolic-traits-can-affect-childs-health-over-time - 2025-12-23

He is checking out at the same fighting weight as when he checked in, and does the same number of push-ups (40!) now as he did then. He has been through several tough rounds and had to fight to defend his convictions and his views on the University’s development. Per Eriksson summarises his time as vice-chancellor as “six years of incredibly great joy, development, pressure and intensity”. There w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2025-12-23

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-maintain-town-centre-retail-times-crisis - 2025-12-23

The research quality evaluation, RQ20, is now in full swing. The evaluation-fatigue that project leaders Freddy Ståhlberg and Mats Benner expected to see among their university colleagues has not materialised. “We have encountered a strong engagement and interest!” The 200 or so external advisors for the 32 panels are appointed and the 156 research environments are organised. In January, the self-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-engagement-rq20 - 2025-12-23

This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:2) by Lisa Strömbom focuses on the global responses to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In February 2025, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into force, briefly easing the intense humanitarian crisis in Gaza after months of devastating conflict. The truce was structured in three phases. The first stage was implemented and included the ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-global-responses-escalating-humanitarian-crisis-gaza - 2025-12-23