Published 13 December 2013 Nowadays, the ability to write computer code is almost as fundamental as writing and arithmetic. Björn Regnell is passionate about getting programming onto school timetables, preferably from the very start. Björn Regnell. Photo: Mats Nygren He works practically towards this goal with children at Vattenhallen and by trying to influence public opinion and lobbying the auth

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Published 13 December 2013 Mikael Lund is a chemist who doesn’t wear a lab coat. Instead, his research involves computer models of atoms and molecules. Being named a Future Research Leader means both freedom and new challenges. “Using computer models, we can zoom in on molecular details to gain insights that are difficult to achieve with classic experiments”, says Mikael Lund, a theoretical chemis

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Published 13 December 2013 Everything from practical problems such as where to locate a suddenly much larger research team to how to make the terms of employment so good that you don’t lose your most competent colleagues to the private sector – these are the questions buzzing around the mind of a newly appointed future research leader. LUM has met two of the four young researchers at LU who have r

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Published 13 December 2013 Success with grant applications leads to problems of an unexpected although pleasant kind. If your research team is almost doubled in size, where are all your colleagues supposed to work? And how are they to get access to laboratory equipment which is already fully booked? Johan Jakobsson in an unusually empty lab (the rest of his group were at a conference). After major

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Published 13 December 2013 The first time she came to Lund, Rafah Barhoum only stayed for a couple of months. It was 2011 and she was an Erasmus Mundus scholar and taught Arabic. She returned home to Syria, but the war soon drove her back. Now Rafah Barhoum has come to Lund to stay. Rafah Barhoum is happy in Lund, where she teaches Arabic, but misses and worries about her family at home in war-tor

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Published 31 January 2014 He began by renting out his sofa, then gave his blessing to a military tent on the LTH campus and later made it possible to transport and erect prefabricated housing from China. Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson has done a lot to highlight the shortage of student accommodation, and last year ended in a triumph for housing policy, when he, Akademiska hus and Lund Municipality p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellors-perseverance-pays-student-housing - 2025-03-01

Published 3 February 2014 Political scientist Johannes Stripple sees major potential for research, development and innovation in Africa and welcomes the idea of an Africa strategy at LU. He recently attended the official opening of the Clean Tech Centre at Botswana Innovation Hub – a centre that he helped establish. Political scientist Johannes Stripple has a lot of experience of living and workin

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Published 3 February 2014 Some people say it’s about time, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Eva Wiberg agrees that the time is now ripe. After an intensive week in South Africa and Botswana, with visits to seven universities, alumni events and official openings, it is time for Lund University to put its Africa strategy down on paper. The delegation in Pretoria. Back row l-r: Isabel de Necker (from Preto

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-visits-first-step-towards-africa-strategy - 2025-03-01

Published 3 February 2014 The children are poor, the problems are extensive and school resources are minimal. However, in the midst of the poverty, there is pride and a strong sense that it is possible to change the situation for these schoolchildren. LUM has met alumni in South Africa and Malawi from the Sida programme ‘Child Rights, Classroom and School Management’. Headmistress Amelia Nthokgoan

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Published 3 February 2014 In the heart of the beautiful wine-producing region of Stellenbosch is the STIAS research institute. It welcomes researchers from around the world to spend a number of months working with a focus on Africa. LUM visited cognitive science researcher Peter Gärdenfors and his project team at Mostertsdrift farm. “It’s a privilege to be here. You have peace and quiet to concent

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Published 3 February 2014 Lund University is strong in terms of publications. Stellenbosch University has very good equipment. Doctoral student Ahmed Fawzy is part of a research group in Chemical Physics that is collaborating with South Africa to find efficient catalysts in chemical processes. Ahmed Fawzy is a doctoral student in Lund, but uses equipment at Stellenbosch University for his research

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Published 5 February 2014 Previous EU framework programmes have focused largely on engineering, medicine and science, but over the next seven years, the EU wants to see more interdisciplinary research and collaboration, as well as more social science and humanities. But will Horizon 2020 be the breakthrough that the humanities have hoped for? “We are heading in the right direction, but we’re not t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/humanities-late-joining-horizon-2020-train - 2025-03-01

Published 28 February 2014 Lund University offers over 100 Master’s programmes and a growing number of Bachelor’s programmes in English. In order to recruit more international, fee-paying students who have the prerequisites to complete their studies, the Education Board has decided to investigate the possibility of offering preparatory English language training. Similar programmes can be found in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-considers-international-foundation-year - 2025-03-01

Published 28 February 2014 Lund University has allocated almost SEK 500 000 of strategic education funding for a new course created in a collaboration between the faculties of Law and Medicine and Loyola Law School in the US. The course will be on how to ensure legal protection of innovations at the intersection of law and medical technology, and of European and American law. It will be offered as

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/law-and-medicine-create-innovation-course - 2025-03-01

Published 28 February 2014 This autumn, Lund University will offer its first three free open online courses, known as MOOCs. They will be in green economy, global health and European business law. Despite this decision, opinions are still partially divided. Some see MOOCs as a motor for development that will rejuvenate and adapt higher education to new methods of learning. Others fear that the hyp

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Published 28 February 2014 Royal climate change researcher Harriet Bulkeley doesn’t believe that directives from above cause us to change our behaviour. On the other hand, she believes in the creative and fumbling environmental experiments that she has seen popping up in cities around the world. Now she is going to study climate-friendly initiatives in Sweden. Harriet Bulkeley at the royal lunch f

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Published 28 February 2014 Geologist Charlotte Sparrenbom could be called a water detective. In her research, she searches for facts about underground water and its age in order to investigate and minimise the risk of pollution in groundwater. She is very concerned about insufficient monitoring of water quality by Swedish authorities. Senior lecturer Charlotte Sparrenbom is participating in the ne

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Published 28 February 2014 Meet Ingvar Wirfelt – the new managing director of Gerdahallen, the university sports centre, from 1 March. What do you think is lacking at Gerdahallen at the moment? “I think there are a good range of activities and that the centre is good at picking up new trends. ‘Indoor walking’ is something I’d like to see – but it requires a lot of space. ‘Crossfit’ is another new

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-lacking-gerdahallen - 2025-03-01

Published 28 February 2014 Enzymes developed in Lund could be used in university and industry labs worldwide in the future. This is what Professor Eva Nordberg Karlsson hopes; her research group has signed a contract with an Icelandic biotech company that is going to sell their products. Eva Nordberg Karlsson wants to give other researchers reliable access to enzymes. Photo: Ingela Björck The cont

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Published 3 March 2014 Patients with diabetes or Parkinson’s disease can be cured with stem cells at a clinic in China. Multiple sclerosis, stroke and cerebral palsy are treated at a stem cell clinic in Mexico, and in Thailand, the deadly disease ALS can be cured with stem cells... at least according to advertising from these and other clinics around the world. Desperate individuals travel there i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hyped-hope-shady-stem-cell-clinics-take-advantage-desperate-patients - 2025-03-01