Guillem Gavaldà, second-year student of the degree in Classical Studies at the UAB, received first prize in the Francesc Garriga poetry competition thanks to his piece entitled Fam Bruta, which was published this past December.
A study directed by researchers from the UAB and IMIM are the first to reveal how pregnancy causes long-lasting alterations in brain structure, probably related to improving the mother’s ability to protect and interact with the child. The research was published in Nature Neuroscience.
New research conducted by ICREA, the UAB and the University of York reveals that Europe’s earliest humans had a balanced diet of meat and plants. The dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin indicates that food was eaten raw, backing the hypothesis that intentional use of fire had not yet occurred.
European research commissioner Carlos Moedas, Secretary of Universities and Research Arcadi Navarro, and UAB Rector Margarita Arboix inaugurated the centre on Friday 16 December. The IEE-UAB will foster joint interdisciplinary research into issues concerning the European Union.
PhD students and junior postdocs interested in improving the social impact of their research have the opportunity of enrolling in the workshop “Responsible Research and Innovation: How to maximise the local impact of my research?” which will begin on Wednesday, December 14, at the UAB Theatre.
The UAB adheres to this solidarity campaign with the aim of offering support, together with other institutions, to entities searching for a solution to the severe humanitarian crisis existing in Europe today.
Matthias M. Tischler will be the new ICREA Senior Research Professor at the Institute for Medieval Studies starting in January 2017. Tischler co-directs the European project HERA on the construction of Europe after the fall of the Carolingian Empire and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies.
The UAB Rector has appointed as new director of the Observatory for Equality journalist and writer Joana Gallego, professor of Communication Studies and co-director of the master's degree in Gender and Communication.