Campaign seeks to give visibility to the consequences of sexist humour
The UAB Observatory for Equality launches the campaign "El sexisme no fa gràcia" (Sexism Is Not Funny) to give visibility to the consequences of sexist humour.
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The UAB-CIE Sphere celebrates ERC's 10th anniversary
The UAB and the UAB-CIE member institutions will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council on Thursday 30 March at 11 a.m., at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG). The meeting will unite researchers who have received funding from this European programme in the past 10 years.
Ládio Veron explains the struggle of Guarani-Kaiowá communities at the UAB
On 21 March, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will host a conference with indigenous representative Ládio Veron, who will talk on the reality and problems of the Gaurani-Kaiowá communities, affected by the policies of the current Brazilian government.
The UAB academic programmes at the education fairs
The UAB showcased its academic programmes for the 2017-2018 academic year at the Saló de l'Ensenyament (22 to 26 March) and Futura (24 and 25 March). Both education fairs took place at the Montjuïc Fair venue.
The New Theory of Economic “Agrowth” Contributes to the Viability of Climate Policies
ICTA-UAB researcher Jeroen van den Bergh publishes in Nature Climate Change a study in which he proposes a new economic theory compatible with the fight against climate change.The “agrowth” proposal comes up as an alternative to the opposing economic strategies of “green growth” and “degrowth”.
Marta Martín Flix receives a grant from the Dexeus Women’s Health Foundation
Researcher Marta Martín Flix, lecturer of the UAB Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, received one of the Fundació Dexeus Salut de la Dona 2016 research grants, a call which this year reaches its 13th edition.
“I strive to maintain the romantic spirit of palaeontology amidst so much technology”
Juan Luis Arsuaga, palaeontologist and co-director of the archaeological site of Atapuerca, recently visited the UAB to give a conference at the Faculty of Biosciences in celebration of its 10th anniversary.
Juan Luis Arsuaga reveals similarities between human evolution and Game of Thrones at Biosciences
The palaeontologist and co-director of the digs at Atapuerca gave the conference “Game of Thrones in the Pleistecene” on 23 February at the Faculty of Biosciences, as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. The hall was filled with people attending the two-hour conference.
RecerCaixa programme awards six UAB projects over half a million Euros
Six UAB research projects will receive a total of €576,056 of the 1.6M Euros the RecerCaixa programme awards to promote scientific research of excellence in Catalonia in the fields of social sciences and health.