Lluís Tort, president of ECIU
Lluís Tort has been appointed president of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), a leading network in higher education, committed to innovation in both learning and knowledge transfer.
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UAB Solidarity Run returns on 13 December
4th edition of the UAB Solidarity Run-TV3 Marathon – divided this year into four categories so there's room for everyone: 6 km run, 6 km walk, 10 km run and run for persons with reduced mobility.
"Spain is one of the world's laboratories for social movements"
Thomas Tufte, a lecturer at Roskilde University (Denmark) and an expert on the concept of Communication for Development, conducts research on the social changes being facilitated by communication in many parts of the world. He studies the ways in which citizens are mobilising to make themselves heard, and the many changes this is bringing about.
Put the FM in your pocket
Music and dance performances, castellers, student stalls, rugby, gymkhanas and many other activities will liven up the UAB Festa Major 2015. Psychology student, Karen Dayanna, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology student, Martí Gibert, will give the opening speech.
"Quixotes of the Autònoma" exhibition opens at UAB
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.
Glosses made by Nicholas of Cusa discovered in Vatican Library manuscript
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.
UAB, best university in Spain and number 62 worldwide in Humanities
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.
Europe's universities defend open access to research
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.
