Professor Jagat Narula, world expert in cardiovascular diseases and high-risk arteriolosclerosis plaques and in the use of cardiovascular imaging technologies, will be awarded an honorary doctorate on 1 September at the Aula Magna of the UAB Casa Convalescència. Read more
Five members of the Spanish water polo team, who have just won silver in the World Championships, are students at the UAB and form part of the Tutoresport Programme: Anna and Clara Espar, Beatriz and Matilde Ortiz and Laura Ester. Read more
A scientific study by the ICTA-UAB and ISS-EUR quantifies the environmental impact of oil extraction activities and contamination in headwaters of the Amazon. For years an average of 5 tonnes of lead and 3.7 million tonnes of salt have been dumped into the rivers, increasing the salinity of the Amazons by 30%. Read more
A UAB research analyses fathers living in the urban areas of Spain to detect changes in their involvement in raising their children and verifies the existence of a gap between fathers with a higher educational level, who give great importance to child-rearing, and those with a lower educational level. The study was recently published in Spain's leading sociology journal. Read more
Researchers at the UAB have come up with a method that allows measuring the strength of the coherence of superposition in any given quantum state, similar to the famous Schrödinger's cat, which was simultaneously dead and alive. The method is based on the measurement of experimental parameters related to the visibility of interference fringes pattern produced when the two states are superimposed. Read more
The university will award five grants for the contracting of PhD holding research staff The initiative wishes to encourage the capture and retention of research talent at the UAB. The deadline for submitting applications is 25 September. Read more
The UAB condemns the attacks on the Ramblas of Barcelona and Cambrils and expresses its support and solidarity to the victims and their relatives and friends.
During the month of August, UAB campus services will have special opening hours and some will close for a short period.
The UAB recently signed an agreement with other universities, the Generalitat and other institutions to create the Information and Intelligence System for Tourism of Catalonia.
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María Lagostena earned this year's highest admission mark in the area of Arts and Humanities (13.774). In September she will begin the degree in Translation and Interpreting (French). Read more
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