In the past report "Indicadors Bibliomètrics de l’Activitat Científica Espanyola 2005-2014" by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, the UAB was listed as the second university in Spain after the UB in number of cited publications.
The academy, with the support of the European Parliament and UNESCO, aims to connect hundreds of institutions and experts from religion-related disciplines.
UAB has opened the admissions period for its 2017/18 official and specific master's degrees and graduate diplomas. Over a hundred programmes are available, covering all academic areas. Find in our website the full list of master's degrees and graduate diplomas for the 2017/18 academic year and apply for admission!
The University occupies 14th place worldwide in the latest ranking conducted by the University of Indonesia based on environmental criteria.
"Should governments have control over the media?" was the subject of the Ninth UAB Debate League. Team R, with Anna Vilà and Edward Bernal, are the winners of the debate and will represent the UAB against other universities on 24-27 April.
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.