Published 13 November 2015 Video of the Debate in Lund Who are the winners and losers in the scramble for Africa’s resources?  Africa is home to some of the fastest growing economies in the world while juggling an expanding interest from especially China and India to invest in the continent. Financial investments from these actors are have already turned into new roads and train tracks along with

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-are-winners-and-losers-scramble-africas-resources - 2025-02-23

Published 16 November 2015 Research shows pupils learn poorly with the help of computer programs. Photo: R. Stropek “Most digital learning tools used in schools are unsatisfactory and only test the knowledge the pupils already have”, says Björn Sjödén a PhD researcher at Lund University, who has reviewed a large number of computer programs in his doctoral thesis “What Makes Good Educational Softwa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pupils-learn-poorly-help-computer-programs - 2025-02-23

Published 16 November 2015 Journal highlights women in science, and evolutionary biology in particular. A Special Issue celebrates the outstanding achievements and contributions of women in evolutionary biology by highlighting a sample of their research and accomplishments. “To my knowledge, this is the first time a scientific journal has devoted a whole Special Issue to celebrate and showcase the

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Published 17 November 2015 The scholarly book isn't dead. Researchers have long been under pressure to publish articles rather than monographs, but complex issues call for a larger format than the article provides. The new Lund University Press testifies to that fact. In collaboration with the third largest University Press in Britain, it will spread top-class Lund research world-wide, publishing

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Published 19 November 2015 New data presented by researchers at Lund University and others in the journal Oceanologia show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but also biomass combustion, industries and natural particles from the sea.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2025-02-23

Published 25 November 2015 Photo from one of the school visits in Rwanda, East Africa. Photo: C. Morand In late October, Lund University arranged a follow-up seminar in Rwanda on children’s rights at school. Some 30 representatives from the school sector in six different countries in West and East Africa participated and presented change projects that they have been working on with professional su

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-helps-strengthen-school-pupils-rights-africa-1 - 2025-02-23

Published 4 December 2015 Rude behaviour in the workspace can be picked up by co-workers and spread across the office like a virus. Photo: Artis Pupins Workplace incivility should be treated with the utmost seriousness. This is the finding of three psychologists at Lund University in Sweden who surveyed nearly 6 000 people on the social climate in the workplace. Their studies show that being subje

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/rudeness-work-contagious - 2025-02-23

Published 26 November 2015 Four promising young top researchers from the Faculty of Science at Lund University get over 1 million Euro each in so-called "Starting Grants" from the European Research Council, ERC. These are the biologists Jessica Abbott and Helena Westerdahl, the physicist Caterina Doglioni and the mathematician Erik Wahlén. Read briefly about their research areas below, which also

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-young-researchers-receive-european-research-council-grants - 2025-02-23

Published 27 November 2015 Photo: Tobin Jones (UN) “For us in the social sciences, it is very important to highlight that there is no simple link between climate change and migration”, says Dr. Angela Oels, a visiting professor at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). “In fact, multiple factors influence the decision to migrate.” Angela Oels is the lead organiser of a sid

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-migration-focus-official-cop21-side-event - 2025-02-23

Published 4 December 2015 Open house: A unique chance to see the mummy of Peder Winstrup On Wednesday 9 December all those who are interested can visit the Historical Museum and meet the founder of Lund University, Bishop Peder Winstrup (1605-1679). Peder Winstrup’s mummy and several fascinating artefacts from the coffin will be exhibited at the museum 10:00-20:00. Admission is free.“This is a uni

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Published 11 December 2015 Vegetables for a healthy mind For 25 years Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson at Lund University in Sweden has conducted research on appetite control, the energy balance of the body, and how we should eat to stay healthy and happy – both our bodies and our brains. Here’s her dietary advice captured in one compelling film. We eat too much, too often, and more sugar, salt and f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/video-shows-food-body-and-brain - 2025-02-23

Published 10 December 2015 Students Niklas Johannesson, Ida Nilros, Erika Gräns och Leonard Bergström from Lund University who won the KPMG International Case Competition. Foto: KPMG The KPMG International Case Competition is one of the largest case competitions in the world for economics students. The top eight teams from eight different business schools and universities in Sweden compete every y

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-are-best-casework-all-sweden - 2025-02-23

Published 11 December 2015 Sara Snogerup Linse och Anne L'Huillier - two Nobel Committee members from Lund University. Photo: rika Weiland, Apelöga Anne L'Huillier and Sara Snogerup Linse chair their respective Nobel Committees at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Anne for Physics and Sara for Chemistry. Both have worked extensively at Lund University and are among the few women who are, or h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/they-choose-years-nobel-prize-winners - 2025-02-23

Published 16 December 2015 Our drinking water contains millions of "good" bacteria. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered that our drinking water is to a large extent purified by millions of “good bacteria” found in water pipes and purification plants. So far, the knowledge about them has been practically non-existent, but this new research is about to change that. Watch video

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-our-water-pipes-crawl-millions-bacteria - 2025-02-23

Published 15 December 2015 Psychiatric patients have a very different view on what effects their mental illness might have compared to the forensic psychiatric staff. Photo: Alex Proimos Offenders sentenced to forensic psychiatric care do not consider their mental illness to be the main reason for their crime. Instead, they point to abuse, poverty or anger toward a particular person. This is shown

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/psychiatric-patients-and-staff-have-different-views-effects-mental-illness - 2025-02-23

Published 21 December 2015 The study on horizontal gene transfers was conducted on the Swedish island Öland. Photo: Stefan Andersson Can "borrowed" genes contribute to ecological adaptation in plants? A recently published article in the scientific journal Proceeding of the Royal Society B suggests that this may be the case. Transgenes are genes that have moved from a donor to a recipient organism

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/natural-transgenes-could-help-plants-adapt-local-conditions - 2025-02-23

Published 22 December 2015 Former Lund student Jean-François Trinh Tan and Alvina Eman attending Lund University's first alumni event in Washington DC, US. Photo: Maria Lindh “I am so happy to be here”, says Alvina Erman, this evening’s perhaps newest alumnus. She completed her studies in Lund in Sweden last year and, together with her Canadian friend and former Lund student Jean-François Trinh Ta

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-holds-its-first-ever-alumni-event-washington-dc - 2025-02-23

Published 23 December 2015 A Massive Open Online Course on sustainable cities and ways to green the economy starts on 18 January 2016. The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is launching a new Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) in the Greening the Economy series in January. How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/open-online-course-focusing-sustainable-cities-starts-18-january - 2025-02-23

Published 11 January 2016 Lund University Arrival Day Arrival Day will be held at Lund University on Monday 11 January. About 650 international students will participate, most of whom are exchange students here to study for at least one semester. The reception on Arrival Day will take place between 09:00 and 19:00. The students will be greeted by their international mentors at Copenhagen airport K

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-students-around-world-arrival-day - 2025-02-23

Published 12 January 2016 Graph of how audio affects people's mood Researchers have created a digital audio platform that can modify the emotional tone of people’s voices while they are talking, to make them sound happier, sadder or more fearful. New results show that while listening to their altered voices, participants’ emotional state change in accordance with the new emotion. “Very little is k

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/way-you-sound-affects-your-mood - 2025-02-23