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The 13,400 who applied for a programme in the spring have now received their first admission decision. The programme that requires the highest admission score after the first selection is the Medical Programme with 21.88. More than 33,100 people applied for a programme at Lund University for the spring semester of 2024. The first selection has now been made and more than 13,400 students have been

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/highest-admission-score-lund-medical-programme - 2025-12-13

Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson have received funding from the Research Council Formas for the project "Putting a price on carbon emissions: what makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?". The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbon taxes and emissions trading systems), by mapping the states and sub- and supran

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/grant-money-two-projects - 2025-12-13

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marie-larsson-has-defended-her-thesis-contraceptive-work-and-now-doctor-sociology - 2025-12-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson has published a new book together with Ann-Marie Ekengren at the University of Gothenburg called The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-making and Humanitarian Intervention and published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information about the book is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137544605This book provides a systematic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/foreign-policy-adjusting-media-logic - 2025-12-13

Peace-building, mediation and justice issues are on the agenda for Karin Aggestam who holds the prestigious Pufendorf chair, which provides the holder the opportunity to devote most of her time to research. – The chair is a research position but I have made sure to retain some teaching. Interaction with the students is very rewarding, says Karin Aggestam to the magazine LUM, Lund University Magazi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-first-woman-and-political-scientist-appointed-pufendorf-chair-0 - 2025-12-13

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-one-main-speakers-symposium-bullying - 2025-12-13

The University is now taking the next step towards a more secure IT environment. To protect ourselves against today's increased threats, secure passwords alone are not enough; we also need strong authentication to log in to our IT services. According to a Vice-Chancellor’s decision on 16 January this year, strong authentication is to be used for the shared IT services at Lund University. Strong au

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/coming-soon-strong-authentication - 2025-12-14

A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and simultaneously presented at

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-13

A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. It is a journey that is not over yet. However, with another prestigious research grant from Formas she feels secure in Lund for the next three years.   “I would be able to begin research on anything at all in Turkey, however, if I were to present results tha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-found-sanctuary-lund - 2025-12-13

Researchers at Lund University have identified a previously unknown precursor stage of leukemia. The discovery may help explain why an especially aggressive form of blood cancer initiates already during fetal life. When we think of cancer, we usually imagine a disease that develops over many years in adults. But for one particular group of leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – it is quit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-offers-clues-why-leukemia-develops-infants - 2025-12-13

Obesity and excess weight increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but individuals of normal weight can also develop the disease. Researchers at Lund University have discovered that it is possible to identify at-risk individuals by measuring BMI in a new way. The authors of the study have identified metabolic alterations associated with obesity that can increase the risk of developing type

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-way-measuring-bmi-can-predict-risk-type-2-diabetes-individuals-normal-weight - 2025-12-13

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/high-exposure-perfluorinated-compounds-drinking-water-and-thyroid-disease - 2025-12-14

New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent more cases of cancer compared with traditional screening. More invasive cancers were also clearly detected at an early stage using AI. Now the final part of the research study will focus on breast cancer missed by screeni

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2025-12-13

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/initiatives-aimed-children-widen-participation - 2025-12-13

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-values-society - 2025-12-13

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2025-12-13

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/simple-diagnostic-tool-predicts-individual-risk-alzheimers - 2025-12-13

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/psychedelics-treatment-anorexia-new-pilot-study - 2025-12-13

On 4 November there is an opportunity for researchers at Lund University to participate free of charge in the annual meeting of the Medicon Valley Alliance. Petter Hartman, CEO, talks about the benefits for both society and individual researchers when life science networks are strengthened and cooperation flourishes across national boundaries. It is said that people build too many walls and not en

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/power-networking-within-life-science - 2025-12-13

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/think-tank-seeks-solutions-health-crisis - 2025-12-13