On 15 February an information session will take place at the cinema hall of the Plaça Cívica to talk about the Fulbright grants for graduates interested in enrolling in master's degrees, PhD programmes or predoctoral research projects in American universities.
The UAB is one of 16 institutions participating in the Active Campus Europe project, coordinated by the RWTH Aachen University and with the objective of fostering physical activity and fighting against sedentary lifestyles among students.
Oceans between one and two billion years ago may have contained more nitrogen than previously thought, allowing marine organisms to proliferate at a time when multi-cellularity and eukaryotic life first emerged.
The UAB has signed a collaboration agreement with Thompson Rivers University in which students enrolled in the degrees of Biology, Microbiology and Chemistry can follow part of their studies in Canada, and vice versa, and then obtain a degree from both institutions.
Once again, the UAB is organising its Open Days to make its academic programmes known to future students, who will be able to download information on scholarships and aids, international mobility and internships in companies.
The UAB will be the only retransmission point in Catalonia of the Women in Data Science conference, celebrated at Stanford University and simultaneously at 25 other locations around the globe on 3 February.
This year, the UAB will offer new Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), available on Coursera, the world's leading platform for online courses. The four new courses focus on persuasion, finances, sustainability and heritage of the Valley of the Kings.
In the past report "Indicadors Bibliomètrics de l’Activitat Científica Espanyola 2005-2014" by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, the UAB was listed as the second university in Spain after the UB in number of cited publications.