A project led by the ICTA-UAB, ISGlobal and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the Peruvian Amazon analyses the health effects of oil spills in people living close to oil extraction areas in developing countries.
The UAB spin-off Aslogic has started a pilot programme on campus – with 500 people already signed up – through the VAOpoint application, aimed at helping people carpool to and from campus, where every day 13,000 cars can be found with an average occupation of 1.2 people.
Are you planning to study abroad? The International Day is the perfect time for you to find out more about it and meet local and international students who have participated in an exchange programme themselves.
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.