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“The poem is an unshakeable experience”: Pere Gimferrer, awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Barcelona 20/03/2025

News | Institutional | Academic

History’s forgotten women regain their place in an exhibition at the University of Barcelona 20/03/2025

News | Culture | Divulgation | Equality
This slice of the DESI data maps celestial objects from Earth (center) to billions of light years away. Among the objects are nearby bright galaxies (yellow), luminous red galaxies (orange), emission-line galaxies (blue), and quasars (green). The large-scale structure of the universe is visible in the inset image, which shows the densest survey region and represents less than 0.1% of the DESI survey’s total volume. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration.

New DESI results strengthen indications that dark energy changes over time 20/03/2025

News | Research
A study confirms the success of some actions to restore corals seized from poaching — actions promoted by the UB and the ICM (CSIC) — which have allowed both the survival of the transplanted corals and the rapid recovery of the associated coral community.

Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands 18/03/2025

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Kopenawa ha rebut la distinció de mans de la vicerectora Sauras i la degana Rosina Girones.

The University of Barcelona honours Davi Kopenawa for his defence of the rights of indigenous peoples and the Amazon 14/03/2025

News | Institutional | Divulgation | Sustainability
The CLIVAR-Spain 2024 report highlights the climate challenges of the coming decades and highlights the rapid retreat of the cryosphere, accelerated warming of ocean waters and the effects of climate change on geography and climate across the country.

Glaciers, ice and snow are shrinking at an accelerated rate on the Iberian Peninsula 14/03/2025

News | Research

History’s forgotten women regain their place in an exhibition at the University of Barcelona 12/03/2025

News | Culture | Divulgation | Equality

The UB stands out in 44 disciplines and it is the leading institution in Spain in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 12/03/2025

News | Institutional | Rankings
The bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112-metre deep depression in the Ionian Sea, contains one of the highest concentrations of marine debris in the deep ocean: it is yet another testimony to the increasingly worrying human footprint that has turned seas and oceans into a vast waste dump.

Marine litter has already reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea 11/03/2025

News | Research
Photo: Ricardo Martín

The UB awards an honorary doctorate to writer Pere Gimferrer 11/03/2025

News | Institutional | Academic
Kach Kouch is located ten kilometres from the present-day coast, near the Strait of Gibraltar, and thirty kilometres southeast of Tétouan. 

UB researcher leads discovery of first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb 04/03/2025

News | Research

The University of Barcelona is ranked 103rd in the world and is the Spanish leader in the Best Universities ranking 04/03/2025

News | Institutional | Rankings
Professor Isabel Almudi, one of the lead authors of the study, is a member of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) at the UB..

Study reveals how tiny changes in gene expression can lead to big differences in eye size 03/03/2025

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The study, now featured on the cover of <i>Science</i>, provides a ground-breaking perspective on the evolutionary history of molluscs.

Finding the evolutionary code of molluscs 28/02/2025

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L'acte va tenir lloc a l'aula 111 de l'Edifici Històric.

Comença l’Any Assumpció Català i Poch 27/02/2025

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Itziar González Virós, filla dels advocats, i el rector de la UB, Joan Guàrdia.

La Universitat de Barcelona incorpora el fons dels catedràtics José Antonio González Casanova i Maria Rosa Virós i Galtier 25/02/2025

News | Culture | Institutional
The experts Núria Llorca Isern and Oriol Rius, from the Characterization and Processes in Materials Science Research Group (CPCM).

New strategy to fight emerging pollutants that threaten the environment and human health 25/02/2025

News | Research
Joan López-Moliner.

A UB study designs a new model that accurately predicts the movement of elite athletes to catch the ball in parabolic flight 24/02/2025

News | Research
From left to right, Robert Fabregat, Jordi Valls, Joan Guàrdia, Maria Terrades and Lorenzo di Pietro.

BCN Health Booster accelerator companies close the programme with 107.5 million euros in new funding 21/02/2025

News | Institutional | Innovation

UB researchers travel to Easter Island to study the conservation state of the Moai statues after the fire of 2022 20/02/2025

News | Research | International
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