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On Wednesday 27 May, the Faculty of Science officially inaugurated its new Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo) with music, panel discussions, seminars and an exhibition on minerals important for the green transition. Almost five months after the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Geology and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sci
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some peopl
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Economy packs of Danish meat and potato chips or venison and hand-picked lingonberries? The new Nordic green cuisine has become one of our most important marks of identity. Eating like a foodie – organic, ethical, modern and innovative food, is a way of acquiring status. Sofia Ulver, Associate professor of marketing
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-nordic-green-cuisine-has-become-mark-identity - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Biohackers experiment with their own bodies to upgrade themselves. They try to acquire a supermemory, increase their metabolic rate or affect some other biological mechanism. Now an interdisciplinary project is investigating how biohacking will come to influence our view of the human body and bioscience. : Interdiscip
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biohackers-crack-human-bodys-programming-code - 2026-06-17
Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid-like, which leads to its rapid injection into the cell,” says Alex Evilevitch who led the stud
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2026-06-17
Lund University has recruited Trevor Forsyth to lead the development of LINXS, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. He also takes up the position as professor of biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine. This strategic recruitment is part of Lund University's efforts to develop new research using neutron and synchrotron light techniques - and is an important step to maximise the pote
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/top-international-researcher-will-maximise-potential-max-iv-and-ess - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Urban Living Labs: Visiting researcher James Evans in search of success factors Can urban living labs create more sustainable urban development? Manchester researcher James Evans and colleagues at the IIIEE are studying and comparing four Scandinavian cases, seeking common drivers of success – and of failure. – Today
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-visiting-iiiee-researcher-james-evans - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with separate Director and Chair of the Board will strengthen CEC. The Dire
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-year-new-name-new-director-and-new-organisation-cec - 2026-06-17
An atmosphere of anticipation and excitement filled the air as the Principal Investigators (PIs) and the management of the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) gathered for this year’s Scientific Advisory Board meeting. The discussions of the meeting focused on achievements to date, future challenges and advancements both regarding the centre itself and at a national perspective, and st
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/highlights-wcmm-scientific-advisory-board-meeting - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Bladder cancer is as common as malignant melanoma. However, in the past three decades, the death rate has remained high and the treatment has been the same since the 1970s. Yet only a very small part of research funding goes to bladder cancer. Through a unique collaboration, researchers now want to transfer new resear
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-cancer - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowled
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and the University of Copenhagen. Ma
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2026-06-17
Early in the morning there was the sound of explosions and the sky lit up. Since 24 February 2022, Lund University has stood in solidarity with Ukraine’s universities. Are there lessons to be learned from the period when Kiev’s largest university had to rapidly adapt to war and a humanitarian crisis? This is an article from LTHIn (the Faculty of Engineering). LTH and Lund University recently recei
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lessons-ukraine-running-university-while-war-rages - 2026-06-18
I and many others are ambivalent when it comes to the ranking of the world’s universities. But Lund University has made the ranking lists and that does have an impact, at the very least for international marketing purposes. We must be active, rather than passive, in relation to the ranking bodies. Small margins can make a university climb or tumble down the lists, so there is a need to be modest w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-moving-forward-grants-innovations-and-top-ranking - 2026-06-18
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a novel target for the expansion of human blood stem cells ex vivo and shed light on the mechanism of action of a stem cell promoting molecule, currently in phase II clinical trials. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a curative therapy for many patients s
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-ex-vivo-expansion-transplantable-human-blood-stem-cells - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University have developed a promising new method for delivering biomolecules into human blood stem cells using nanotechnology. With little to no detrimental effects on target cells, this novel approach has great potential for research and clinical applications. The discovery and development of th
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/nanostraws-used-deliver-biomolecules-stem-cells - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2026-06-17
