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The University of Barcelona is helping those affected by the dana
The UB Solidarity Foundation recommends that the university community should channel its support through financial donations.
Culture
The University of Barcelona commemorates 100 years of radio in Catalonia with a conversation between Jordi Basté and Mònica Terribas
The event will take place on 12 November at 4.15 p.m. in the Paranymph Hall of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Academical
The UB to host a conference on language management in secondary school teacher education
Education experts will discuss the needs, resources and strategies for teachers’ better language training.
Solidarity
“I never thought I would go to university”
The UB’s first studies aimed at people with intellectual disabilities receive an international award.
Technology
The UB analyses the dangers of artificial intelligence in the media field
Experts in artificial intelligence and communication will reflect on the ethical challenges and social consequences of the use of this technology in the audiovisual sector, in an activity promoted by the UB and 3Cat Chair in AI and Media.
Research
Searching for new treatments to control paediatric cancers
The Sunrise project, coordinated by the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and involving the University of Oxford and the University of Barcelona, has obtained a grant from the European Research Council to study neuroblastoma, the most common tumour in children.
Research
A new strategy to curb bacterial infections
A study led by the UB and IBEC reveals how the use of proteins known as histones can help fight bacterial multidrug resistance, which has become a global health problem.
Academical
Inauguration of a new edition of the master's degree in Lifelong Learning in Social Inclusion and Citizens’ Rights of People with Disabilities
This degree has made the UB a benchmark institution in the training and inclusion of people with disabilities.
Research
The University of Barcelona counts 161 researchers among the most influential in the world
It also leads a new ranking of researchers with the highest impact over the past year.
Institutional
“We have normalized the presence of older people in the classroom”
The University of Experience commemorates the International Day of Older Persons with a conference on active and healthy ageing.
Solidarity
A conference and exhibition at the UB brings together children’s and women’s memories of the war in Europe
The temporary exhibition “Childhoods in a World at War (1939-1945)” can be visited from 22 to 30 October in the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona.
Research
A methodology to read QR codes on uneven surfaces
A study by the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya presents a mathematical solution to make it easier to read these two-dimensional codes on deformed surfaces, such as courier packages or food trays.
Solidarity
A voice to denounce horror
Massouda Kohistani, a student of the UB’s Support Programme for Refugees and People from Conflict Zones (UB Refugi), took part in the international summit for the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan to demand an end to the Taliban regime’s gender apartheid.
Institutional
Àlex Nogué inaugurates the 2024-2025 academic year at the Faculty of Fine Arts with a letter to young lecturers
The artist and professor, with a long career in the restoration and creation of installations, reflects on the role of art education and the commitment to teaching today.
Institutional
Awards to teaching quality and the inclusion of the gender perspective
Distinctions for Professors Pere Serra and Javier Casado, the master’s degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship, and the teaching team in Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology.
Research
Babies, prosody and language
Speech rhythm and intonation are essential for the baby's language acquisition.
Research
Bacterial contamination and microplastics threaten Colombia’s largest and most productive coastal lagoon
A study led by researchers from the UB and the Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR) in Colombia warns of the impact of microplastic pollution and pathogenic bacteria in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta in Colombia, and outlines strategies to address this environmental problem in coastal lagoons around the world.
Solidarity
Campaign to donate blood and bone marrow at the University of Barcelona
Several UB faculties will set up donation areas.
Research
Climate change accelerates the vulnerability and loss of resilience of a key species for the Mediterranean ecosystem
A UB study shows that red gorgonians exposed to marine heatwaves decrease the ability to resist and recover from other disturbances, accelerating the risk of extinction of these populations.
Research
Cosmologist Licia Verde receives the Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics
This award recognises her excellent scientific career in the field of cosmology and her important contributions to the study of the origin, composition and evolution of the Universe.