Starting on 18 February, non-UAB students will be able to sign up for this year's UAB Barcelona Summer School, a series of three-week courses offered mainly in English. Students enrolling before 15 April will get a 10% early bird discount.
The third archaeological dig campaign of the Sikait Project ended recently. The campaign was directed by Department of Antiquity and Middle Ages' lecturer Joan Oller Guzmán. The work has uncovered a small votive altar, documented life in an emerald mine from the Roman period and begun to consolidate the main buildings found on the site.
"QSPainRelief" aims to identify new drug combinations to solve a crucial problem since about 20% of Europeans suffer from chronic pain. Jesús Giraldo, researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences and the Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Preventive Medicine and Public Health, is participating on behalf of the UAB.
The European LoupO project has been launched. This comprehensive and standardised plan monitors and follows bear and wolf populations with the aim of protecting and improving biodiversity on both sides of the Pyrenees. The project is coordinated by the UAB.
A study co-directed by Esther Dalfó, researcher at the INc, has identified a model of chromosome X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (x-ALD) in the earthworm C. elegans. This is a rare disorder of the nervous system with no treatment available. The model will permit to accelerate the research, which is studying the mechanisms and the possible pharmacological targets for the neuronal alterations of this disease.
The research group MIRAS coordinates the Erasmus+ project “Empowering Young Language Brokers for Inclusion in Diversity” (EYLBID), designed to create awareness of the existing phenomenon of young interpreters across Europe and empower these interpreters within school contexts and society.
The project directed by Department of Geography lecturer Carme Miralles-Guasch was one of the finalists of the programme's call, with a total funding of one million euro. The CREAF poject MosquitoAlertBCN will also receive funding from the programme.
With regard to the current state of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the UAB is adhering strictly to the instructions dictated by the Catalan and Spanish Ministries for Health and the Catalan Public Health Agency, and is in constant contact with those who have been to or are currently in affected areas.
European mobility programmes with the UK are guaranteed to continue during the 2020/21 academic year, and therefore the UAB will maintain the list of students enrolled in exchange programmes for next year.
Interview
American judge Ginger Lerner-Wren considers it necessary to humanise justice and make it more empathetic in order for it to function. Pioneering the creation of the Nation's first Mental Health Court, Lerner-Wren visited Barcelona to participate in the Justa-Ment seminars co-organised by the UAB Core in Mental Health.
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