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Students invent alarm that protects your unattended bag
Leave your bag unsupervised without running the risk of thieves stealing it? That could be the case as a unique idea of a small, high-tech alarm from Master students at Lund University is now coming to life.
Lund University Faculty of Engineering awards three new honorary doctorates
In December 2015 the board the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University (LTH) decided to awards three new honorary doctorates: Professor Keith Trigwell from the University of Sydney, Dr. Heike Riel at the IBM research laboratory in Zürich, Switzerland, and Professor Takehiko Kitamori at the University of Tokyo.
Our water pipes are crawling with millions of 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. A glass of clean drinking water actually [...]
They choose the year’s Nobel Prize winners
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 LU/LTH and are among the few women who are, or have been, committee chairs. The position as chair rotates and the current presence of three women as [...]
International ambassadors at LTH
The Faculty of Engineering LTH at Lund University has recently launched a student ambassador initiative for its international Master’s programmes. The ambassadors will help give prospective students an idea of what it is like to study in Lund. The ambassadors’ main responsibilities include answering questions from prospective students and writing [...]
“The idea is that climate policy will become more rigorous as time goes on”
The world’s leaders will be gathering in Paris soon to make sure that the rise in global temperature will be as far below two degrees as possible in order to prevent dangerous climate changes. A fateful issue, but Max Åhman, Reader in Environmental and Energy Systems Studies at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) considers that ”learning by doing” can [...]
Scala will be a beginner programming language at LTH
The Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University is the first higher education institution in Sweden to make the programming language Scala the beginner language on the introductory course in programming, on the MSc programme in Computer Science and Engineering.
Sausages with antioxidants from berries to prevent cancer
An EU-funded research project is to make sausages, patties and other meat products healthier in the future. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and four other European research institutions have launched a joint project to reduce the risk of colon cancer – the most common cancer of the [...]
Stefan Diez - visiting industrial design professor
Award winning designer Stefan Diez is a new visiting professor at the School of Industrial Design at Lund University, teaching on the international Master's programme.
New research gives more efficient Wi-Fi in crowded areas
Researchers from the MAPCI research institute in Lund have developed a new solution for making Wi-Fi networks more efficient in highly dense environments. The solution is a new backoff scheme and will be presented at an academic conference in December.
Dean's blog: Time to travel, time to think
September was a month full of travel. It started with a meeting about ESS in Bilbao, where I represented Lund University. There is plenty going on with ESS right now, and it’s high time for a strategic collaboration – not just at Lund University, but also on a national level! The following week it was off to Graz for a conference (ESSCIRC) within [...]
Laser to help premature babies
Premature babies, born before 30 weeks of pregnancy, often need help breathing in order to survive. X-ray is currently used to diagnose the condition of the lungs, but the technology involves risks and X-ray images can only be taken occasionally.
Lund University back in the top 100 in THE ranking
Lund University has climbed from #119 to #90 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 out today.
Hopes of improved brain implants
Neurons thrive and grow in a new type of nanowire material developed by researchers in Nanophysics and Ophthalmology at Lund University in Sweden. In time, the results might improve both neural and retinal implants, and reduce the risk of them losing their effectiveness over time, which is currently a problem.
Inspiring workshop on System Design on Silicon
Many interesting talks and spontaneous meetings took place at the Lund Circuit Design Workshop at Grand Hotel in Lund, hosted by the Vinnova Industrial Excellence Center in System Design on Silicon (SoS) and by the SSF-projects DISTRANT and DARE. EITs own researchers delivered new findings in different research fields and we also heard inspiring [...]