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Lund University Diabetes Centre has entered into a collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center LLC (RGC) and the University of Helsinki involving exome-sequencing and whole genome array genotyping of greater than 9,000 individuals. The collaboration will involve the largest sequencing study in diabetes families to date and aims to help generate knowledge about how to predict diabetes, causes

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lund-initiates-genetic-sequencing-study-diabetes-families-provide-new-insights-what-causes-disease - 2025-11-19

Under the title The Buzz of Europe - a Day in the Spirit of Art, Culture, Science and Innovation, we will showcase the breadth of the University and our fantastic collaborations with cultural and creative actors and industries from all over the world. Creativity is one of our watchwords, and our creative juices have been flowing in the extensive Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) application

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/buzz-europe-new-sides-creative-university - 2025-11-20

Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), has been awarded the Lund University Silver medal and is recognised for his work in climate research and commitment to international climate issues. Professor Cecilia Jarlskog, Lund University, is also being awarded for her pioneering work in theoretical particle physics. Marrku Rummukainen – A clim

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-markku-rummukainen-cec-receives-lund-university-silver-medal - 2025-11-20

Elisabet Londos, professor and chief physician, takes multitasking to a new level. She researches cognitive diseases, teaches the doctors of the future, supervises doctoral students and is GU prefect at the department of clinical sciences in Malmö. But what does it mean to be GU prefect? GU stands for undergraduate education, education on bachelor's level, and the largest undergraduate education a

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/gu-assistant-head-department-ensures-doctors-future-get-best-training - 2025-11-19

Global Responsible Engagement is the University's overall framework for international collaboration. For many years, our international collaborations have been entirely positive and have contributed to the emergence of new research findings. As geopolitical pressures increase, so too do demands to balance the positive aspects of international collaboration with more careful consideration of which

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/working-gre-more-turbulent-world-demands-careful-consideration-international-collaboration - 2025-11-20

A new group, the Ad Hoc Group, has been formed with the task of supporting all staff members in developing their expertise in digitalisation and AI. The work is in full swing and the first phase will focus on the following in AI:Basic course in AI for all staff members The first initiative is a basic course in AI aimed at those who have just started, or not yet begun, to use generative AI in their

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/support-those-who-want-develop-expertise-ai-and-digitalisation - 2025-11-20

All students, staff and friends are welcome to the University’s annual academic ceremony on 27 January 2023. The programme includes musical entertainment, award presentations and speeches, and concludes with refreshments. Lund University’s anniversary is celebrated with an academic ceremony that highlights first and second-cycle education. The prizes presented during the ceremony include Lund Univ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/annual-academic-ceremony-27-january-2023 - 2025-11-20

Scientific researchers are not usually known for their entrepreneurship. However, at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, there is an innovative group of experts who have developed a tool that can help stakeholders in society when flooding occurs. The sun is beating down on Sölvegatan as a barefooted Professor Petter Pilesjö opens the door to the GIS Centre. It has not raine

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scientists-new-flood-analysis-product-goes-against-flow - 2025-11-20

Several recent surveys indicate high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. Together with reports that PhD studies are often characterized by, among other things, a high workload, long working hours, and future job insecurity, this evidence has given rise to a broad discussion about a mental health crisis in graduate education. However, since survey evidence often relies on smaller a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/phd-studies-may-trigger-mental-health-problems - 2025-11-20

Since 2018, Lund University has had a special focus on integrating the arts and culture in teaching, research and external engagement through the “Strategy for Cultural Collaboration”. Is LU a culture university? Can everyone utilise the arts and culture in their activities? We will examine these questions at LU’s first major Culture Meeting on 24 November.” One of the goals of the Strategy is to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tinder-cultural-collaboration-lus-first-major-culture-meeting - 2025-11-20

The major autumn exhibition at Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art – is a selection of the hundreds of acquisitions added to the museum’s collection in recent years. The exhibition shows models and sketches of some 50 designs for schools, parks, squares, multistorey car parks, sports centres, underground stations and various service facilities. The sketches provide exciti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-come-you-are-and-other-new-acquisitions - 2025-11-20

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-ten-horizon-europe - 2025-11-20

Linguist Sara Farshchi's research was plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers who published it as their own. Five months have passed since Professor Carita Paradis discovered that parts of her former doctoral student Sara Farshchi's five-year-old thesis had been plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers and that the plagiarism had been published by international publishers Springer, among othe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-was-plagiarised - 2025-11-20

For the first time in the University’s history, a Vice-Chancellor’s decision exists concerning how we are to work on educational qualifications throughout the entire University, as reported in the previous LU News. Half of the University’s faculties have offered the opportunity to apply for recognition as an excellent teaching practitioner or similar for several years. A framework is now being int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-now-forefront-work-educational-qualifications-higher-education - 2025-11-20

According to our Platform for Strategic Work, we are to endeavour to be an international university and strive to recruit the best staff from all over the world. However, recruiting staff from other countries is complicated. There are many rules and laws to consider if everything is to be done correctly, particularly in the area of migration. I am therefore proud that we offer much appreciated sup

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/our-university-wide-support-international-recruitment-much-appreciated-and-unique - 2025-11-20

Ten years’ work has paid off – UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. This means the Ravensbrück Archive is recognised as an example of cultural heritage of great value to humanity.   On 10 April, UNESCO decided to add the Ravensbrück Archive to the Memory of the World Register. “It is a great honour for the Rave

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-11-20

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-benefits-can-shared-office-spaces-bring-new-study-based-pilot-project-public-agencies-0 - 2025-11-19

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/canvas-wins-procurement-learning-platform - 2025-11-19

Dr Sanaz Gabery is one of 14 to receive Hjärnfonden's (Brain Foundation) stipend for postdoctoral researchers during 2019. Her project is focusing on white matter alterations in Huntington's disease. Earlier research has shown that grey matter is reduced in Huntington patients’ brains, which can be one explanation to these patients’ motor symptoms. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown that chang

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sanaz-gabery-hjarnfonden-stipendee - 2025-11-19

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-11-19