The UAB Governing Council has approved the nomination of an honorary doctorate in biochemistry for Margarita Salas and in fine arts for Josep Maria Flotats. They were nominated by the Faculties of Sciences and Biosciences, and by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, respectively.
The UAB Observatory for Equality launches the campaign "El sexisme no fa gràcia" (Sexism Is Not Funny) to give visibility to the consequences of sexist humour.
The UAB and the UAB-CIE member institutions will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council on Thursday 30 March at 11 a.m., at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG). The meeting will unite researchers who have received funding from this European programme in the past 10 years.
During the ice ages, an unidentified regulatory mechanism prevented atmospheric CO2 concentrations from falling below a level that could have led to runaway cooling, reports a study conducted by researchers of the ICTA-UAB published online in Nature Geoscience this week.
The UAB showcased its academic programmes for the 2017-2018 academic year at the Saló de l'Ensenyament (22 to 26 March) and Futura (24 and 25 March). Both education fairs took place at the Montjuïc Fair venue.
ICTA-UAB researcher Jeroen van den Bergh publishes in Nature Climate Change a study in which he proposes a new economic theory compatible with the fight against climate change.The “agrowth” proposal comes up as an alternative to the opposing economic strategies of “green growth” and “degrowth”.
Researcher Marta Martín Flix, lecturer of the UAB Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, received one of the Fundació Dexeus Salut de la Dona 2016 research grants, a call which this year reaches its 13th edition.
Researchers at ICTA-UAB recently presented the predictions of pollen and spore levels for this spring. The mild daytime temperatures and rain distribution point to significant pollinations of plane trees, parietaria, gramineae, plantago major, goosefoot and olive, among others.
María Josefa Yzuel, emeritus professor of the Department of Physics, has been awarded this year's igUAltat 2107 prize by the University of Alacant in recognition for her commitment to gender equality and her academic career.