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    Upcoming international seminar: Green Economy – the right path for a sustainable economy?

    On Friday, 21 September, the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is organizing an international seminar, titled ‘Green Economy: Managing the transition to a sustainable economy?The seminar is supported by the Swedish Energy Agency and will be held in the premises of the IIIEE in Lund, Tegnérsplatsen 4. The seminar will bring together a selected group of experts to explore and debate such questions. Prof. Dr. Anyl Markandya, a renowned scholar in this area and author of the “A New Blueprint for a Green Economy” (with Ed Barbier) will be

    Cutting edge training developed the human brain 80 000 years ago

    Advanced crafting of stone spearheads contributed to the development of new ways of human thinking and behaving. This is what new findings by archaeologists at Lund University have shown. The technology took a long time to acquire, required step by step planning and increased social interaction across the generations. This led to the human brain developing new abilities.200 000 years ago, small groups of people wandered across Africa, looking like us anatomically but not thinking in the same way as we do today. Studies of fossils and the rate of mutations in DNA show that the human species

    New beamline at MAX II opens for research

    Using the new beamline, 911-4, at MAX-lab in Lund, Sweden, researchers can study a wide range of different types of material with a resolution of a few nanometres. This could be useful for both basic research and industry in general.The facility is the result of a Danish–Swedish collaboration. Now it is opening for research.The new facility is a SAXS beamline, which means that it is used to examine the components of materials and their morphology with the help of an X-ray scattering method. This provides a rough picture of the structure of the sample and makes it possible to see the

    Endogenous Proteins Found in a 70-Million-Year-Old Giant Marine Lizard

    Fossil – just stone? No, a research team in Lund, Sweden, has discovered primary biological matter in a fossil of an extinct varanoid lizard (a mosasaur) that inhabited marine environments during Late Cretaceous times. Using state-of-the-art technology, the scientists have been able to link proteinaceous molecules to bone matrix fibres isolated from a 70-million-year-old fossil; i.e., they have found genuine remains of an extinct animal entombed in stone.With their discovery, the scientists Johan Lindgren, Per Uvdal, Anders Engdahl, and colleagues have demonstrated that remains of type I

    Female Leaders Build Sweden, Gulf Network

    March 31 – April 1 Female Business Leaders, Politicians, and Researchers from Sweden and the Gulf to Discuss Sustainability, Female Leadership and Cross-Regional CommunicationSwedish Trade Minister HE Ewa Björling, Nordea’s Chairman of the Board of Directors Hans Dalborg, and the UAE Ambassador to Sweden HE Najla Al-Qassimi will welcome 150 invited participants to Nordea Headquarters in Stockholm. Nordea and the UAE Embassy are hosting the Summit. Women for Sustainable Growth (WSG) is an outreach project from Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. Jaleh Taheri, the

    Sweden’s Lund University benefiting from Britain’s tuition fee fall-out?

    As Britain raises the level of domestic student tuition fees, one Swedish university has so far received more than double the number of applications from British students compared to last year, during the opening weeks of their international application round. “Although it is still early in the application period, this is an intriguing increase because Britain has not typically been a key country from where we recruit international students. However this year, alongside China and the USA, Britain is suddenly one of the top countries from where we are receiving applications,” says Richard

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