On 16 January Marie-Paule Kieny will receive one of the five exceptional honorary doctorates being awarded this year in celebration of the university's 50th anniversary. The event will be streamed live by the YouTube. Read more
On 17 January the UAB Migrations, Education and Childhood Research Group (Emigra) organises a seminar on early school leaving in Catalonia within the European context, in which researchers will be presenting the results of the project Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe RESL.eu. Read more
A new study based on electron microscopy techniques at low temperatures demonstrates that, during mitosis, chromosome DNA is packed in stacked layers of chromatin. The research, published in EMBO Journal, confirms a surprising structure proposed by UAB researchers over a decade ago, but criticized due to the limitations of the technique used. Read more
The exhibition “Neuromarketing: science, business and advertising. I can't get it out of my head!”, commissioned by Professor Pere Navalles was inaugurated on Thursday 10 January. The exhibition can be vistited until 15 February at the Exhibitions Hall of the Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives. Read more
A study conducted by the UAB and IMIM used neuroimaging techniques to show that social exclusion increases the number of ideological and group values worth fighting and dying for in populations vulnerable to radicalisation. The study focused on neural activity in a region of the brain related to rule retrieval and sacred values. Read more
After six years of cataloguing hundreds of millions of distant galaxies, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has finalised its data collection stage. The project is an international collaboration including the involvement of the IFAE and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, located on the UAB campus. Read more
Starting on 1 January 2019, travelling to the UAB from Barcelona and the metropolitan area will cost between 26% and 49% less thanks to a new ATM flat rate to be shared by all municipalities of the Barcelona metropolitan area.
The NanoEduca programme, with the involvement of the UAB, was awarded the 2018 National Prize for Scientific Communication, granted by the Government of Catalonia and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation for "introducing nanoscience and nanotechnology to upper secondary education students and teachers".
Writer and translator Ramon Folch i Camarasa died on 2 January in Mollet del Vallès. Author of more than a hundred novels and translator of over 200 works, Folch i Camarasa was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UAB in 2006.
Interview
Interview with Carla Sharp, professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, who has conducted pioneering research on borderline personality disorder in children and adolescents. Dr Sharp visited the UAB Faculty of Psychology.
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