An important collection of copies of the Quixote, donated by Professor Francisco Rico, are on display at the UAB exhibitions hall (Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives, Plaça Cívica) from 9 November to 16 December.
UAB professor José Martínez Gázquez has identified a new set of annotations and commentaries made in the 15th century by Nicholas of Cusa, in the margins of a Latin manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library, following his reading of a Latin Koran.
In Humanities, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is the best university in Spain and is in 62nd position worldwide on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has issued a statement, subscribed to by the UAB, advocating open access to research publications in the face of the high cost of payments to specialist journals.
The European project P-SPHERE is offering 31 research positions in various fields related to food, health, smart and sustainable cities, cultural heritage, materials and energy, such as computer vision, Big Data, nanoscience and nanotechnology.
From 26 to 30 October UAB is holding its Sustainable and Safe Mobility Week, for the whole university community: different activities to raise awareness of more sustainable ways of getting around.
A study in which the UAB is involved will investigate whether assistance with the transition into the community for people who have served a prison sentence improves reintegration levels. Members of the university community can take part as mentors during the final months of the sentence and the first few months on release.
The UAB is in 165th position in the world on the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, published by National Taiwan University (NTU).