The five centres of excellence “Severo Ochoa” and the two units of excellence “María de Maeztu” located on the UAB Campus organise a workshop to discuss the strategies to reach the highest scientific level.
Researcher at ICMAB and lecturer of the UAB master's degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology has been awarded 15,000 Euros to research nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
The UAB maintains its position as one of the top 200 universities in the world in the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, published by the National Taiwan University (NTU).
Professor Joan Martinez Alier has been recognised with the award Economics, Equity, and the Environment from the Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute.
UAB researchers, in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, have discovered in Vallcebre an impression fossil of the surface of the skin of a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, a period shortly before they went extinct. Its characteristics make it a unique discovery in Europe.
On 17 and 18 October, the restaurants at the faculties of Science and Bioscience will offer free solidarity breakfasts in exchange for a kilogram of non-perishable food in commemoration of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
The UAB's Sustainable and Safe Mobility Week will take place from 24 to 28 October, with mobility-related activities every day on the Bellaterra Campus for the entire community. On Thursday 27 October bicycles will be the stars during the celebration of "Bicycle Day".
The GECS on equality, discrimination and violence by the UAB and the EGERA is now open.
Rosa Maria Calaf spoke on education as the people's "catalyst of rights", defended the role of journalism in democratic societies and called to continue fighting for gender equality at the opening lecture of this new academic year, in an event celebrated on 3 October at the Rectorat building.