The UAB leads this year's edition of the El Mundo ranking - in charge of analysing the 50 most popular university degrees in Spain - and is the university to have the most number of degrees in the first 5 positions, with a total of 24. The top UAB degrees include Veterinary Medicine, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Environmental Science and Political Science and Public Management.
The Faculty of Communication Sciences will host a masterclass on La Marató de TV3 on Tuesday, May 21, at 11:00 in order to showcase the keys to the success of this television show, It has become a benchmark. Gemma Nierga -Alumni UAB- and Ramon Gener, presenters of the program in the 2018 edition, will conduct the event.
On 9 and 10 May the IBB will open its doors with the aim of sharing its activities with the rest of the university community and undergraduate students interested in research conducted at the institute.
The UAB will be celebrating spring with Primavera a la UAB on 29 April in Plaça Cívica. This celebration will also offer a solidary lunch against food waste.
From 8 to 12, the last activities of the Health and Sustainability Week addressed to the university community will be taking place. On Tuesday 9 April, there will be a walk at the Sabadell campus and another walk on 11 April at the Northern Axis of the Bellaterra campus, with food-trucks from 12 noon to 2 p.m.
As in recent years, centres at the Bellaterra Campus will be closed during the spring break: from 15 to 22 April 2019. Only certain services will be operating on campus.
In celebration of International Day of Light on 16 May, the faculties of Sciences and Biosciences have organised a flash fiction competition, open to all members of the UAB. The stories must reenact situations in which light is an essential element of the plot. Submissions must be made by 28 April.
UAB’s Care Center for Disability (PIUNE) offers this service addressed to university students with an auditory disability.
Harvard professor in theoretical physics and renowned science communicator Lisa Randall was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Randall pointed out the surprising connections between the most abstract physics and the reality of our everyday world.