This week, the UB officially welcomed its foreign students in an event organized jointly by the Vice-Rectorate of International and Institutional Relations and the Vice-Rectorate of Students and Language Policy. The event took place on Thursday, 12 November, at 16.30h, in the Paranimf. The speakers were the Rector Dídac Ramírez and the Vice-Rectors Carles Carreras and Gemma Fonrodona.

The UB is again the only Spanish university included in the ranking of the world’s top 200 universities published by The Times Higher Education Supplement. Harvard University (US) continues to head the list.
This year the UB has risen further up the table, from 186th place in 2008 to 171st place. The University of Bologna (which came 174th) and the UB are the only two universities from southern Europe in the classification.

The results of six clinical trials in Africa have confirmed the benefits of a preventive treatment for malaria with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (known as IPTi: “intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants”). Published in The Lancet, this is the largest study to date of the effects of the IPTi strategy, which is already recommended by the WHO.