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Published 19 December 2024 Juan Ocampo's research examines how complementary currencies are implemented in communities, drawing on observations from a collaboration in Kenya. Photo: Sara Håkansson What does it take to implement a complementary currency in a community, and how does it reshape social, technical, and economic dynamics? Juan Ocampo, a PhD graduate from Lund University’s School of Econ
Published 14 April 2023 Never before so much data has been produced within life sciences. At the same time, computing power, artificial intelligence and other technology necessary to handle data have been greatly improved. The theme of this year’s WCMM Research Day held on April 12th in Lund, was artificial intelligence (AI) in medical research. A widely discussed topic that has opened up endless
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-day-2023 - 2025-07-05
Published 4 September 2023 As you probably know, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted funding of SEK 20 million to the Program for Academic Leaders in Life Science (PALS). The program is a collaborative effort with the four WCMM Centers, SciLifeLab and the DDLS program and follows the success and track record of the previous WCMM and SciLifeLab collaboration termed NMMP (National Molec
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/program-academic-leaders-life-science-pals - 2025-07-05
Published 3 October 2022 From the left: Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre. Photo: Skånes universitetssjukhus A large number of lungs donated yearly cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University have conducted an animal study with results that give hope that more donor lungs could be used to save lives in the future. The researchers
Published 28 May 2015 Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-07-05
Published 2 December 2016 The BECC board has decided to strengthen the ongoing interdisciplinary development of BECC research by announcing a call for funding salary of up to 6 two-year postdoctoral researcher positions. The aim is to promote the development of BECC research by creating and strengthening interdisciplinary interactions. Application deadline is January 27st 2017, 12.00. This is an a
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/announcement-call-salary-funds-6-becc-postdoctoral-positions-lund - 2025-07-05
By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 14 March 2025 Photo: Emma Nyberg. 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
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-grows-new-research-groups - 2025-07-05
Published 10 August 2020 Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy. Meet the department's Qualified Teaching Practitioner Veronika Burcar Alm as she talks about her views on teaching and why she applied to the faculty's teaching academy.The faculty’s Teaching Academy is
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2025-07-05
By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 August 2024 Megan Hill, Jesús Carrero Robles, Jesper Wallentin, Ingrid Klint, Jesper Larsson, Aksel Mihailov, Filip Lenrick, and Huaiyu Chen are the four supervisors and four students in the Summer School Deep Dive into Synchrotron Analysis. Photo: Evelina Lindén A few sharp minds working together for almost an enti
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2025-07-05
Published 4 June 2024 James Pamment och Jesper Falkheimer. Photo: Alessandra Sossini In an ideal world, perhaps the Psychological Defence Research Institute in Helsingborg would not even exist. But the global situation has brought attention, increased research funding and significant interest in collaboration from wider society. “The entire research institute is built around the idea that the worl
https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/psychological-defence-research-institute-we-could-be-ten-times-size-we-are - 2025-07-05
By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 9 November 2023 To create a more inclusive and safe work environment for everyone, the Department of Laboratory Medicine invites all faculty employees to a digital lecture on norms and lgbtqi issues on 21 November. Sign up in advance to ge access to the lecure. Those who do not follow the norm, depending on, for example,
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lgbtqi-conversations-about-inclusive-workplace - 2025-07-05
By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 30 July 2021 Claudia Tocco, researcher at Lund University, performing experiments with dung beetles at a light-polluted site in central Johannesburg. Photo: Marcus Byrne For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky
https://www.biology.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2025-07-05
By Johan [dot] Joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 11 June 2024 The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has
https://www.biology.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-07-05
By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 20 June 2023 Håkan Axelson anresearch group is part of the large EU-funded KATY project, which focuses on the most common type of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, which is one of the ten most common types of cancer worldwide. Image: iStock. What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers w
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kicking-kidney-cancer - 2025-07-05
Published 8 November 2022 Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Lund University The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics suc
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-07-05
Published 11 April 2024 Lights on for our new interdisciplinary Themes. Photo: Å. Thormählen At yesterday’s meeting, the board of Pufendorf IAS decided to invite four new Themes to the institute this fall. We received ten theme applications in December 2023, six of these were sent on to external experts for review and four of these are now invited to start in September 2024. The chosen Themes are
https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/four-new-themes-during-2024-2025 - 2025-07-05
By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 5 January 2021 History and European studies Docent Sanimir Resic, now on leave from the joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology in Lund, is taking over as Rector of Malmö Academy of Music after Ann-Charlotte Carlén. How does it feel? -Good, the new year has now officially started with my first day here at the Academ
https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/sanimir-resic-new-rector-malmo-academy-music - 2025-07-05
