The UAB's UNESCO Chair in Communication (InCom-UAB) has been renewed until 2024 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Professor Amparo Huertas is now the newly appointed director.
A research team has developed a tool to evaluate the quality of urban green spaces to better understand their beneficial effects on health. The study has been led by ICTA-UAB, ISGlobal and the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC).
UAB Rector Javier Lafuente spoke on the lines of action for 2021 in an extraordinary meeting of the University Senate in which he expressed his gratitude for the "titanic efforts" being done by the university community with reagrds to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time ever, the senate meeting was held online and streamed live.
Jeroen van den Bergh, ICREA research professor at ICTA-UAB, will be one of the participants of the 2020 edition of the Disputatio of Barcelona, organised by the Academia Europaea – Barcelona Knowledge Hub (AE-BKH). The event will be coordinated and moderated by Alexander Fidora, ICREA research professor at the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the UAB.
Students of the Laboratory and Virtuality in Primary Education subject of the degree in Education Studies, in collaboration with the UAB Open Labs, has created the campaign Pla’t pel canvi to foster the recycling of plant-based plastic on campus.
The ECIU University aims to have a real impact on society through the resolution of challenge-based problems. Of the over 30 new challenges programmed for this second semester, the UAB will be offering four.
In an extraordinary session held on 15 January, the UAB Governing Council passed three exceptional measures concerning student evaluations during the 2020/21 academic year in view of the emergency situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UAB once again receives the HR Excellence in Research award from the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation in recognition for its efforts in improving its human resource policies with regards to researchers.
Lecturers Maria dels Àngels Calvo, Maite Martin and Natàlia Majó form part of the new One Health Committee, created by the Council of the Veterniarian Association of Catalonia (CCVC) as a consulting agency for zoonotic diseases.
Chair Professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Francesc Gòdia was recently elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Blood and Tissue Bank (Banc de Sang i Teixits).
The INc-UAB researcher Raül Andero, neuroscientist and psychobiologist, has been granted a Senior Research Professor position, awarded by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).
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