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Lund University is among the most renowned institutions of higher learning in the Nordic countries and is rarely ranked below 100 in the world by the most influential ranking agencies.
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When Nils was admitted to the University of Lund, he had to take on a family name.
Statue of Linnaeus as a University student in Lund
In 1727, Linnaeus, age 21, enrolled in Lund University in Skåne.
The first video images of an electron's energy distribution were captured by a team at Lund University in Sweden, February 2008.
* Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy at Lund University
Lund University () is one of Europe's most prestigious universities and Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.
Lund University has eight faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with 47, 000 students in more than 280 different programmes and around 2, 250 separate courses.
Lund University main building, built in 1882, drawn by Helgo Zettervall.
After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the Scanian lands came under the possession of the Swedish Crown, which quickly founded the Lund University in 1666 as a means of Swedification.
The name was in some formal use until the late 19th century, when Lund University became the widespread denomination.
Lund Institute of Technology was established in 1961 but was merged with Lund University eight years later.
In recent years, Lund University has been very popular among applicants to Swedish higher education institutions, both nationally and internationally.
In 1992 Boel Flodgren, Professor of Business Law, was appointed rector magnificus ( or, strictly speaking, rectrix magnifica ) of Lund University.
Lund University has a satellite campus in nearby Malmö, Sweden's third largest city.
The city is also the location of Skåne University Hospital, where Lund University performs a considerable amount of research and medical training.
Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.
Education and research in the health sciences at the university is operated in cooperation with Skåne University Hospital, located in both Lund and Malmö.
Lund University is divided into eight faculties:
* Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies ( LUCSUS )
* Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University
* International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University ( IIIEE )
* Lund University Diabetes Centre ( LUDC )
Notable exchangees include United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spent time at Lund University in the 1960s conducting research.
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Campus Helsingborg is, as the name suggests, located in the city of Helsingborg, almost 50 km from Lund.
Lund University is well known as one of Scandinavia's largest research universities.
The EU is the university's second largest external research funder and Lund is the 23rd largest receiver of funding within the union's Seventh Framework Programme.
Lund student life is based on three central structures: the student nations, the Academic Society ( AF ) and the student unions.
To this day, AF is the center of student life in Lund, featuring many theater companies, a prize-winning student radio ( Radio AF ), and organizing the enormous Lundakarnevalen ( the Lund Carnival ) every four years.
The Delphi residential area, located in the northern part of Lund, is one of the large student housing complexes run by AF Bostäder.
The following is a select list of some of the most notable people who have been affiliated with Lund University as students or academics, please refer to the main article for more information.
* Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, of which Lund University Library is a member
The name Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for " puffin island " ( Lundey ), lundi being the Norse word for a puffin and ey, an island, although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area.
Lund, with a municipal population of over 100, 000 and home to one of Scandinavia's major universities, is together with Malmö the region's economic and education hub.
Malmö is thought to have been founded in 1275, as a fortified quay or ferry berth of the Archbishop of Lund, some 20 km to the north-east.
The region's leading university, along with its associated hi-tech and pharmaceutical industries, is located in Lund about 16 km to the north-east.
* The Faculty of Medicine, which is located in both Malmö and Lund.
* 1185: The cathedral school ( Katedralskolan ) in Lund, Sweden, is founded.
* 1085: the Katedralskolan, Lund school of Sweden is established by Canute IV of Denmark
* December 25 – Christopher I of Denmark is crowned King of Denmark in Lund Cathedral
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Upon returning to the states, Lund heard about the Morrill Act, and pitched a vision for the college that would receive widespread support among the Territorial Legislature, who was at the time seeking to reapply for statehood.
Hans Rausing and his wife Märit have donated large sums to charities and research in the UK and Sweden, among others to large medical research projects at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University.
Eilert Lund Sundt ( 8 August 1817 – 13 June 1875 ) was a Norwegian theologist and sociologist, known for his work on mortality, marriage and other subjects among the working class.
The researchers were unable to identify which types of cancer were most common among Lantus users, said Hakan Olsson, lead researcher and professor of oncology at Lund University.
Lund is also a popular LDS fiction writer, having written the The Work and the Glory series as well as the Kingdom and the Crown series among other books.
Back in Lund, he played a leading role in the creation of SMIL ( Digit-machine in Lund ), which was the first computer developed in Lund and among the first in Sweden.
The group has participated in several exhibitions, among them at Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm during the " vårutstälningen " ( spring exhibition ), the museum of Jönköpings län and " kulturnatten " in Lund.
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