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News – Lund University

  • Lund University top in survey - Lund University and the University of Gothenburg are the most popular higher education institutions in Sweden, according to a survey by Statistics Sweden among pupils in the final year of upper
     
  • Ingmar Karlsson awarded Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities gold medal - Ingmar Karlsson, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University has been awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities gold medal. He receives
     
  • Ability to tolerate enemies influences evolution - Stay and fight, or flee? These are usually the alternatives facing a victim when it is attacked by an enemy. Two researchers from Lund University have now collected various examples from the animal
     

    • Research and Articles from LUM Magazine

    LUM March 2010 magazine
    Increasingly international – “LU in the World” Series:     The demands on Lund University to become better at internationalisation are growing rapidly, not least in the light of the upcoming introduction of tuition fees for students from non-European countries. However, internationalisation is about more than just sending students back and forth; it is about looking up and seeing the world from new perspectives. LUM is starting a new series to highlight some of the challenges of internationalisation.

    Onion skin could become medication: Waste from agriculture and forestry can be used as a raw material for a number of valuable chemicals. Now a new wide-ranging research project aims to find methods to increase the utilisation of this waste before it is incinerated or thrown into the biogas reactor.

    Help for Self-Help: Climate change in East Africa: Climate change hits the world’s poorest populations hardest. Sara Gabrielsson and Sara Brogaard at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (Lucsas) met farming families in East Africa who live in semi-starvation when the rains don’t come at the right time and the harvests fail. But they also met villagers armed with strength and a will to live who are trying to tackle the problem.