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.
Students from the degree in Physics recently won two of the three gold medals and three silver medals of the total of 34 medals awarded in the competition. A total of 197 teams from around the world participated.
Researchers at the Institut de Neurociències describe a protein responsible for associative memory which is disrupted in patients suffering from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
The study, published in Science of the Total Environment, shows that contamination of heavy metals experienced a very important growth between the 1930s and 1980s, and a drastic descent in levels in the 1990s.
UAB has opened the admissions period for its 2017/18 official and specific master's degrees and graduate diplomas. Over a hundred programmes are available, covering all academic areas. Find in our website the full list of master's degrees and graduate diplomas for the 2017/18 academic year and apply for admission!
The University occupies 14th place worldwide in the latest ranking conducted by the University of Indonesia based on environmental criteria.
The Engega! programme is a training initiative to help UAB-campus researchers generate market solutions for the energy efficiency and clean technologies sector.
"Should governments have control over the media?" was the subject of the Ninth UAB Debate League. Team R, with Anna Vilà and Edward Bernal, are the winners of the debate and will represent the UAB against other universities on 24-27 April.