The UAB is promoting the use of bicycles as a means of transport between the university campus and surrounding towns. In September work will begin to construct a bicycle lane connecting Badia del Vallès and the campus, and more lanes will be built from Sabadell and, in the future, from Cerdanyola.
The latest classification of the world's most influential scientists, conducted by Stanford University, places a total of 112 researchers from the UAB amongst the top 2%.
A study led by the UAB on the remains of animals found at the site of the Chaves cave obtains new data on the control of breeding and feeding of the first domesticated sheep herds found in the western Mediterranean region during the Neolithic period.
A study involving the ICTA-UAB determines that Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is a very important source of nutrients for the coastal ocean and that, therefore, SGD represents an essential component of the functioning and vulnerability of coastal ecosystems, both at local and global scales.
The Government of Catalonia's PANDÈMIES 2020 call was created to analyse the impact of COVID-19. Seven projects proposed by UAB research groups will receive funding for a total of over 1.5 million euros.
A team of researchers with the participation of UAB professor Esther Julián has monitored, for the first time, the behaviour of a swarm of nanorobots inside living mice. The study has been published in Science Robotics.
The UAB has published the revised version of its Code of Good Practice in Research (CBPR). Released digitally in Catalan, Spanish and English, it aims to be a tool to continue developing research and transference at the University with the highest ethical standards.
The Generalitat's Ministry for Health has organised health screenings from 8 to 15 April for all members of the UAB, to detect asymptomatic cases and those who have already had Covid-19.
The Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia recently appointed Vicent Fonollosa i Pla, professor at the Department of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, a new member of the academy.
UAB Vice President for International Relations Màrius Martínez was recently elected new president of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) in a session held by the ECIU Board on 19 March 2021. Until now, Martínez had been a member of the Presidium.
ICTA-UAB researcher was appointed member of the Scientific Council of the Spanish Committee of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of the UNESCO on behalf of Catalonia.
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