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Dean's blog: An open university
Last week kicked off with the first Science and Innovation Talks event at Tetra Pak. It’s an initiative with the aim of creating new touch-points between private companies and the university’s researchers. Olaf Diegel, Professor at the Department of Design Sciences, gave a lecture on 3D printing and the amazing opportunities this exciting [...]
Using nanotechnology to create parallel computers
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have utilised nanotechnology to create a biological computer that can solve certain mathematical problems far faster and more energy-efficiently than conventional electrical computers. The research results will be published later this week in the prestigious publication Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]
Adapted Trombe wall now used to both cool and heat buildings using renewable energy sources
Researcher Marwa Dabaieh from Lund University in Sweden has come up with a way to adapt the so-called Trombe wall – a passive solar building design from the 19th century – to not only heat but also cool buildings, while drastically reduce associated carbon emissions. The new design is now being tested by locals in Saint Catherine, Egypt.
Solar cells help purify water in developing countries
The order was done by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and his organization Yunus Centre. In October, the first unit was installed and by now, another 9 units have been delivered to the pilot project in Bangladesh.The portable water purification facilities, so-called Micro Production Centres (MPC), are managed by local suppliers and help create [...]
Understanding ultrafast electron dynamics
Why do electrons behave the way they do? Atomic physicist Per Johnsson has received a grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, through their Future Research Leaders programme, to help him find the answer. When a molecule undergoes a chemical reaction, it is the movement of the electrons that keeps the atoms in the molecule [...]
Photo competition on Instagram
What does your LTH look like? Get snapping while you're out and about on the LTH campus. Take a photo, share it on Instagram and tag it using #LTHnow. The winner gets 5 cinema tickets and a bag full of LTH goodies. The ten submissions with the most number of likes will also get one cinema ticket each. Rules:The competition is open to everyone and [...]
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.