During the month of August, UAB campus services will have special opening hours and some will close for a short period. Until 2 September, the service of the FGC Barcelona-Vallès train line will be affected by construction work at Sabadell's Can Feu and Gràcia stations.
The UAB aims to award five grants for the contracting of PhD-holding research staff with an accredited research profile, on a co-financing basis. Deadline for applications is 25 September.
The UAB once again occupies 9th place worldwide in the field of veterinary medicine according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), compiled by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The new ranking places the UAB among the top universities in Europe in teaching excellence, and highlights the academic resources of the institution and the inclusive environment found on campus.
The ICTA-UAB analyses and quantifies the waste generated by tourists in eight islands of the Mediterranean as part of the European BLUEISLANDS project. Plastic litter and cigarrete butts are the main problems on beaches.
The UAB's combined bachelor's degree in Physics+Mathematics holds once again the highest cut-off mark in Catalonia (13.318 of 14 possible points). The entrance marks confirm a great demand for the UAB's new 2018/19 undergraduate courses.
A single administration of a therapeutic vector in mouse models cures type 2 diabetes and obesity in the absence of long-term side effects. The research was directed by Fàtima Bosch and is published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine.
The UAB will be offering new programmes covering a wide range of academic fields, all highly interdisciplinary.
On 2 July, economist Cristina Narbona and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo will close the 2017/18 edition of the Master's Degree in Business Administration of the CITIUS Programme. Narbona's conference on the convergence of economics and ecology, entitled "Economia i ecologia: la necessària convergència", and Jahanbegloo will speak on "Martin Luther King: Our Contemporary".