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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-hold-syria-my-heart - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Jean-Pierre Filiu, Professor in Middle East Studies at Sciences Po., who visited Lund last week during the conference “Everyday Life in the Middle East”, hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. He is a former diplomat with long experience from the Middle East. This summer he visited Syri
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syria-waiting-enough-enough - 2026-06-25
CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has co-edited the Special Issue "Agonistic Peace: Advancing Knowledge on Institutional Dynamics and Relational Transformation" in the journal Third World Quarterly, together with Isabel Bramsen (Lund University). The special issue contains several articles focusing specifically on the MENA region. The Special Issue is comprised of empirical studies from a wide range of c
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-peace-middle-east - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Cancer cells in children tend to develop by following four main trajectories – and two of them are linked to relapse of the disease, research led by Lund University in Sweden shows. The four strategies can occur simultaneously in a single tumour, according to the study that is now published in Nature Genetics. The res
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/childhood-cancer-four-survival-strategies-tumour-cells - 2026-06-25
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has released its list of ongoing Swedish research projects with the potential to create societal benefit, dubbed the “100 list”. This year, nine projects from Lund University were included. IVA's ‘100 list’ was launched in conjunction with its 100th anniversary in 2019. The selection committee consists of over 60 qualified individuals from ac
Small passerine birds, such as blue and great tits, avoid breeding in urban areas where there are many non-native trees. Chicks also weigh less the more non-native trees there are in the vicinity of the nest. This is shown in a long-term study from Lund University, Sweden. City trees contribute to several important ecosystem services such as lowering local temperature and purifying air but are als
https://www.science.lu.se/article/urban-birds-prefer-native-trees - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Currently, all around the world, urgent research initiatives are underway in the fight against Covid-19 to find both better treatments as well as a vaccine that creates immunity. At Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, researchers have quickly launched two dedicated SARS-Cov2 labs, which are now conducting research o
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sars-cov2-labs-operation-lund-university - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At LUCSUS, we have two articles released today, 25th September 2017, in Nature Climate Change.LUCSUS Director Professor Emily Boyd and Dr. Rachel James (ECI, Oxford University) and Dr. Richard Jones (UK Met Office) with colleagues Otto (Oxford) and Young (Reading) present the first academic empirical study of expert o
LU Accommodation has now sent out the first 500 or so housing offers. In the beginning of next week we will send out approximately 250 more. Tenants who have not yet received an offer are urged to seek housing through other means, if they do not have a guarantee. Today (Friday 14 June) approximately 500 housing offers were sent out. At the same time a couple dozen applications were removed from th
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/first-student-housing-offers-sent - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University’s 350th anniversary is highlighted with two stamps produced by PostNord, Sweden’s postal authority. Although the stamps were first released on 10 November in Stockholm, today was the official ceremonial launch in Lund. The ceremony that took place in the main University building was attended by the Vic
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-honoured-jubilee-stamps - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The most comprehensive star catalogue in the history of astronomy has been released, mapping out an impressive 1.7 billion stars. The catalogue is based on observations made by the European satellite Gaia, and contains the exact distances, luminosity, temperatures and colours of millions of stars in the Milky Way. Ast
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-detailed-star-catalogue-ever-released - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are looking for a Communications Intern for the autumn 2021. Read more and send us your application! The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) is an international and interdisciplinary centre within Lund University. We are committed to produce rigorous, impactful, and solution-orie
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/communications-intern-iiiee - 2026-06-25
Researchers have investigated whether there is a correlation between hip osteoarthritis and alcohol habits in women. Alcohol habits have been studied many times before, and both benefits and drawbacks have been discussed from various health perspectives. According to the researchers, no specific correlation between osteoarthritis and alcohol has been found. However, it has been found that alcohol
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a current research study. For the first time, researchers have identified the link between the orbiting times of certain binary stars and the amount of iron in in their interiors. Binary s
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iron-binary-stars-reflects-galaxys-chemical-evolution - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The discovery that free electrons can move asymmetrically provides a deeper understanding of one of the basic processes in physics: the photoelectric effect. It was first described by Albert Einstein and explains how high frequency light releases electrons from a material. The results have been published in Physical R
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/intriguing-discovery-provides-new-insights-photoelectric-effect - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With two articles published in quick succession from his time as a research fellow at Cambridge University, UK, Christopher Douse has moved to Lund Stem Cell Center to develop a research programme on newly-discovered guardians of the human genome. More than half of the human genome consists of transposons, DNA sequenc
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/hush-and-morc2-new-players-transposon-regulation-during-human-development - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck Prize in Neuroscience. He receives the award for his many years of research on stroke, presented to him by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Erik
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever. At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2026-06-25
75 percent of all people with haemophilia around the world are left untreated, which causes a great deal of suffering and many severe disabilities. But it is possible to lead a healthy life. This is what the internationally known contract education Haemophilia – from diagnosis to therapy is about. Some 10 years ago, a discussion began outside of Sweden about the difficulty in recruiting physicians
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pioneering-course-decreases-suffering-people-haemophilia-around-world - 2026-06-25
