The prizes will be awarded to Bacherlor Degree’s Final Papers of this year 2016-2017 that address subjects on gender equality and non-discrimination, or sustainable development and global justice
The socio-educational programme Campus Ítaca will take plane at the UAB Bellaterra Campus during the months of June and July. The aim of the programme is to give more opportunities to adolescents from unfavourable economic backgrounds and good grades to encourage them to continue with their studies.
A study conducted by the universities Pablo de Olavide and the UAB has identified a functional brain pattern linked to cognitive behavior able to activate an iPad’s touchscreen. Results may be useful in brain-machine interfaces, for people with physical difficulties to communicate.
The IUNE Observatory 2017 report on Spanish universities' R&D&I shows an increase in scientific productivity, visibility and the number of patents granted between 2006 and 2015, despite a loss in leadership in the experimental sciences field.
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona moves up 8 positions and reaches 195 in this new 2018 edition of the QS World University Rankings. The classification places the UAB within the l.1% of the best university centres in the world.
The internationally renowned dramatist received an honorary doctorate from the UAB in a ceremony which took place on 27 June at noon at the Rectorat building.
An international workshop will take place on 8 and 9 June at the CEHIC in which experts from both disciplines, the history of science and environmental history, in order to explore interactions between the two. The workshop will include the participation of international experts such as Marco Armiero from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
The UAB Department of Social Anthropology professor and director of the Wassu-UAB Foundation Adriana Kaplan was awarded the Lluís Companys Memorial Prize from the Josep Irla Foundation and the DKV Prize in Medicine and Solidarity for her professional trajectory.
ICTA-UAB researcher Dr Martí Boada has been appointed UNESCO's scientific advisor on issues of conservation of biosphere reserves.