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.
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.
Six UAB research projects will receive a total of €576,056 of the 1.6M Euros the RecerCaixa programme awards to promote scientific research of excellence in Catalonia in the fields of social sciences and health.
Mercedes Unzeta, emeritus professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the UAB, was awarded a prize in the institutional event commemorating International Women's Day on 8 March at the UAB.
A series of activities will be held on campus during this month in commemoration of International Women's Day. This year's institutional ceremony was held in honour of the career path of chemist Mercedes Unzeta.
Juan Luis Arsuaga, co-director of the excavations at Atapuerca, will give a conference to inaugurate this year's second semester at the Faculty of Biosciences on Thursday 23 February. The conference forms part of the events celebrating ten years since the faculty first opened.