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Oxygen fluctuations on ancient shallow seabeds may have been crucial for the evolution of animal life. Photo: Mostphotos/MIRMAXSTOCK In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the rise of animal life. Their findings offer new insights as to how dramatic daily shifts in oxyge
Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2025-09-13
Professor Oskar Hansson, professor in neurology at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood marker that reflects the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain. This discovery may play a key role in determining who is most likely to benefit from the new Alzheimer’s drugs. In brief:A newly discovered blood marker, MTBR-tau
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-reliable-blood-marker-reveals-extent-alzheimers-pathology-brain - 2025-09-13
Maria Hedin and Joakim Eriksson have developed the “dementia simulator”. Photo: Alma Fager What does it feel like to live with dementia? The answer is offered by the “dementia simulator” developed by virtual reality researchers at the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. The simulator takes the user into a virtual world to experience different aspects of life with a cognitive disorder. LTH researchers Joa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-commercialisation-dementia-simulator - 2025-09-14
For many years there has been an on-going discussion about how academic freedom is being challenged in many parts of the world, including Sweden. And when even some of the strongest academic bastions in the world such as Harvard are now fighting for their independence against the American federal administration’s political directives, it is clear that academia has not been crying wolf. Academic fr
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/storm-clouds-gather-usa-institutional-freedom-and-independent-academia-are-essential - 2025-09-14
Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take shape and much of the work from the project “Building the e-Infrastructure Unit” has been transformed into a permanent and long-term plan for how we will work with research data management in the future. Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-takes-shape - 2025-09-14
Professor Oskar Hansson, professor in neurology at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood marker that reflects the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain. This discovery may play a key role in determining who is most likely to benefit from the new Alzheimer’s drugs. In brief:A newly discovered blood marker, MTBR-tau
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-reliable-blood-marker-reveals-extent-alzheimers-pathology-brain - 2025-09-14
Project managers Lena Christensen and Rachel Forsyth have focused on ways to make evaluating teaching in academic career progression easier. Photo: Minna Wallén-Widung Teaching is to be as highly valued as research when it comes to appointments and promotions. Despite this ambition, it has rarely worked that way in practice. A recently completed project provides a new framework which will help fac
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2025-09-14
In the interdisciplinary REICOR project, researchers will map the ground with the help of drones and other tools. Here, Lars Beckel from the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) is seen preparing a drone. SGU is a collaborative partner. Photo: Tina Martin Through an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with industry, a group of researchers hope to identify a more efficient way of asses
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improving-efficiency-construction-railway-future - 2025-09-14
Anne L'Huillier in the laboratory. Photo: European Research Council Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpret
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2025-09-14
Margareta Johansson (second from the right) visiting a Russian research station in the Altai Mountains in 2016 alongside Russian and Canadian colleagues. Photo: Sergey Kirportin Climate research in the Arctic is being hit hard as collaboration with Russian researchers is put on ice. “It’s impossible to get an overall picture of the Arctic without looking at Russia. If this becomes permanent, we wi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/negative-impact-arctic-research-russia-excluded - 2025-09-14
Julia Weber’s Siberian cat Hera is one of five cats who will appear on Postnord’s new stamps. At work, Julia Weber’s focus is on insects and other pollinators, and their survival. At home, it is her cat Hera who has grabbed attention. When Postnord announced a competition to find cats to grace their new stamps, Julia Weber did as over 18,000 other cat owners and sent in a photo along with a short
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doctoral-students-cat-became-stamp - 2025-09-14
The seminars with LU give the students in Ukraina well needed respite and inspiration. The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowl
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2025-09-14
None of the technologies, except the medication robot, helped ease staff shortages, in the study. Photo: Sebastian Scholtz/Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes SWEAH PhD student Samantha Svärdh, Lund University. Her second article gives us informatio
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/welfare-technology-not-solution-without-user-engagement - 2025-09-13
Projektdeltagarna samlade inför konferensens öppnande. Onsdag 8 januari till fredag 10 januari samlades nästan 40 forskare och yrkesverksamma socionomer till det tredje internationella Global-ANSWER-konferensen i Granada. Projektdeltagarna är aktiva inom området socialt arbete och mobilitet och har rest från Rom, Florens, Palermo, Lund, Madrid, La Rioja och Lugo för att prata om projektets framste
https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/forskning-och-profession-mots-pa-internationell-konferens-om-migration-0 - 2025-09-13
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos och Mark Zuckerberg, toppskiktet av världens rikaste. Foto: Wikicommons Vilka är människorna som utgör världens ekonomiska eliter – och vad skiljer dem åt mellan länder? I en ny databas har forskare från hela världen samlat individuppgifter om ekonomisk makt i länder som tillsammans står för över hälften av världens BNP. Håkan Johansson, professor vid Socialhögskolan och en a
https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/varldens-ekonomiska-eliter-samlade-i-ny-databas - 2025-09-13
Ekonomihögskolans Case Competition 2024 Ekonomihögskolans långa tradition av case-tävlingar är nu tillbaka efter några års uppehåll, ett välkommet evenemang både för studenter och samarbetspartners. Den 21 november samlades nio lag för att visa upp sina färdigheter under en intensiv dag av förberedelser och problemlösning! Caseundervisning är en av hörnstenarna i Ekonomihögskolans nuvarande och fr
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/arets-case-competition - 2025-09-13
Oskar Hansson, professor i neurologi med särskild inriktning mot minnesforskning. Foto: Tove Smeds Forskare vid Lunds universitet och Washington University har upptäckt en blodmarkör som visar hur mycket av Alzheimers sjukdom man bär på i hjärnan. Fynden kan hjälpa att se vem som kan ha mest nytta av de nya läkemedlen som godkänts i bland annat USA, Japan och Kina – och som är på väg att godkännas
https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/ny-markor-i-blodet-visar-mangden-alzheimer-i-hjarnan - 2025-09-13
The Nordic-Baltic Sound Residency Network gathers institutions, programmes and shares opportunities for international sound artists on behalf of 8 network partners. Representing a growing number of partners in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Lithuania, The Nordic-Baltic Sound Residency Network is an initiative across the Nordics and Baltics. The partners within the network all offer residency program
