The first archaeological project in Egypt to be fully directed from the UAB, under the guidance of Professor Joan Oller, finalised its first campaign of excavations. It was conducted under the "Sikait Project" and focused on an extensive site dating back to the Roman era.
Dr Carme Riera, professor of the Department of Spanish Studies at the UAB, has been selected to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the Balearic Islands after being nominated by the Spanish, Modern and Classic Philology Department.
From 12 to 17 February, the UAB organises its International Welcome Days, a week in which it helps all new international students get orientated.
If you need to certify your level of English now you have a new option to do so: the multilevel TOEIC. The next sitting is on 2 March.
The UAB received €34.4M from the Horizon 2020 programme for 73 projects in the 2014-2017 period. This data makes it third in funding for Spanish universities, following the technical universities of Catalonia (UPC) and Madrid (UPM).
A new service, OPINA UAB, allows all those interested to transmit to the university administration their opinions, suggestions, complaints or compliments on any of the university activities and services offered by the UAB.
The UAB's online journal UABDivulga recently received the National Research Prize 2017 from the Government of Catalonia and the Catalan Research and Innovation Foundation (FCRi) in the category of Scientific Communication.
Interview with Jens Ivo Engels, lecturer at the TU Darmstadt, who gave the opening lecture of the first "International Conference on Political Corruption in Contemporary Spain (19th-21st centuries)".
As in previous years, the UAB centres will be closed during the period 23 December 2017 to7 January 2018. Some services, however, will still be operating.