The Campus Ítaca is here once again and will offer two sessions, one to be held from 28 June to 6 July and the other from 8 to 16 July. A total of 295 students from 60 secondary school centres in the Vallés Occidental and Oriental regions will participate.
The UAB welcomed the students taking part in this year's UAB Barcelona Summer School in an event which took place on 21 June at 9 a.m. at the Auditorium of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The event was streamed live and will be available of the Dinamització Comunitària's YouTube channel.
The UAB leads the European project Se4All to produce selenium-enriched milk products and cheeses by biofortifying alfalfa with this micronutrient through foliar application. The aim is to find a solution to reach an adequate level of selenium in diets poor in this mineral. The kick-off meeting for the project will be taking place on 22 and 23 June.
The UAB rises four positions regarding last year's rankin and occupies the 209th position in the QS World Universtiy Rankings 2022. The classification highlights the academic reputation of the university.
UAB students can join international teams in any of the 12 institutions belonging to the ECIU University that aim to solve real-life challenges. Of the 18 challenges open for enrolment at this moment, two are offered by the UAB.
Researchers from the CEPARQ-UAB working at the Cova Gran de Santa Linya have discovered the remains of a Homo sapiens female living in the eastern Pre-Pyrennees during the Upper Palaeolithic period, around 14,000 years ago. The study of Linya, as she has been named, will allow delving deeper into what is known about them and how hunter-gatherers lived in the northeastern part of the peninsula.
PhD student in Medicine Clara Puig will represent the UAB at the final competition of the "Thesis in 4 Minutes", which will take place on 22 June from 5 to 7 p.m. The competition, organised by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, will be streamed live.
Kim Jung-sook, First Lady of South Korea, visited the UAB to meet with students from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, which is also the headquarters of the King Sejong Institute in Barcelona.
The fourth edition of the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, which classifies the top universities in 54 different academic subjects, ranks the UAB among the top 100 universities worldwide in 7 academic subjects: Veterinary Sciences, Geography, Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology, Ecology, Economics and Oceanography.
Pilar Benejam, retired professor of the Department of Language and Literature Education and Social Science Education, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of hte Balearic Islands.
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