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Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson: "We have to stop carbon emisions, a reduction is not enough"

Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Uppsala University (Sweden). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). He engages widely with governments, industry and civil society, and remains research active with publications in Climate Policy, Nature and Science. He has a decade’s industrial experience in the petrochemical industry, is a chartered engineer and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Anderson gave the inaugural lecture of the 2024-2025 academic year of the UAB.

Presentació de la càtedra UAB-Cruïlla

The UAB and Festival Cruilla unite to bring innovative, ethical and sustainable artificial intelligence to art shows

Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB, and Jordi Herreruela, executive director of Barcelona Events Musicals (Festival Cruïlla), presented the ENIA UAB-Cruïlla Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Music and the Arts today. The new chair will provide research support and experimentation in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, with a strong commitment to transfer knowledge to the ecosystem of cultural industries. With a budget of €800,000, the chair will have an initial duration of three years.

Nou curs sobre disseny responsable

New course on responsible design

In November, the UAB Open Labs will offer four workshops aimed at undergraduate and graduate students on the principles of circular economy, eco-design, degrowth and gender perspective. The workshops are free. All those interested in participating have until 4 November to register.

Enterrament perinatal íber i imatge microscòpica línia neonatal dental

Microscopic study of milk teeth reveals mystery of death of Iberian culture newborns buried inside homes

A UAB study in collaboration with the UVic-UCC and the ALBA synchrotron concludes that the Iberian culture (8th to 1st centuries BCE) newborns buried within domestic spaces died of natural causes, such as complications during labour or premature births, and not due to ritual practices. Researchers applied an innovative methodology, based on the study of the neonatal line of baby teeth using optic microscopy and microflourescence with synchrotron light, to analyse the teeth from 45 infant skeletal remains and precisely identified the moments of both birth and death.

Joan Trunto

One of the world's top defenders of the ethics of care and democracy to visit the UAB

Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota and one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy, will visit the UAB and offer a conference at the Rectorat building on 10 October. The conference will be open to all members of the community and will focus on the revolutionary potential of a care democracy.

Cromosomes

Researchers explain the organization of DNA in chromosomes from repetitive interactions between nucleosomes

An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study published in the journal Small Structures demonstrates that the multilaminar organization of DNA, proposed from previous experimental research carried out at the UAB, is fully compatible with the structural and functional properties of chromosomes. This organization can be explained by weak interactions between nucleosomes, which are the repetitive blocks that fold the DNA double helix.