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M. Carme Junyent.
M. Carme Junyent: “The only we need for a language to survive is to use and spread it”
01/07/2021
M. Carme Junyent, lecturer at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the UB has led the publication of the book El català, la llengua efervescent (Viena, 2021), about the situation of Catalan and the actions we should take to turn it into the common language in Catalonia, regardless...
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Els Vespres de la UB
Els Vespres de la UB, like never before
16/06/2021
The sixteenth edition of Els Vespres, the cycle of concerts of the University of Barcelona, changes its location and goes to the Agustí Pedro i Pons building, a unique place at the bottom of Collserola with a great view of Barcelona. The program, for the first time brought by the cultural service cooperative L’Afluent, includes four concerts. Like in previous editions, it opts for...
Current affairs
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27/07/2021
The new stage of Els Vespres seduces a thousand people
Changing the location of the concerts of Els Vespres of the University of Barcelona has been a successful idea. Nearly a thousand people went to the Agustí Pedro i Pons villa, at the bottom of Vallvidrera, to enjoy good music in a unique and charismatic environment. This edition included four concerts...
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23/07/2021
UB student Jaël Bestué to compete in Tokyo 2020
The athlete and student of Medicine of the University of Barcelona Jaël Bestué Ferrera will take part in the 32nd Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo (Japan) from July 23 to August 8. This will be the Olympic debut for the student, who combines her top-level sports career in FC Barcelona and her studies...
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15/07/2021
Genocides and their prevention in the digital age
The Faculty of Law and the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) are organising the international conference "Genocide and its Prevention in the Digital Age: Challenges in the 21st Century" from July 19 to 23. Topics such as the spread of hatred through social media and the...
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14/07/2021
The UB, the top popular first-choice option
The UB is once again the Catalan University with the highest number of first-choice option in the applications for the academic year 2021/2022. Out of the most requested degrees in Catalonia, four are from the University of Barcelona: Medicine (Clinic Campus), with 1,764 applications as first-choice,...
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14/07/2021
Good music and a lot of emotion at Carlota Flâneur's concert in Els Vespres
The concert series of the University of Barcelona kicked off its sixteenth edition yesterday with the excitement of opening its new location at the Agustí Pedro i Pons building and with more enthusiasm than ever to offer live performances in the open air. The faithful audience of Els Vespres did not...
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12/07/2021
The UB starts a reformulation of the teaching model with a session open to the university community
The University of Barcelona is organizing, on July 21, a reflection session on teaching titled “Higher education in the current world. Re-think teaching from today’s outlook”. This session, which can be followed telematically on UBtv with previous registration, will feature several...
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08/07/2021
Carme Junyent and Jordi Díaz, dissemination prizes
Lecturers Carme Junyent and Jordi Díaz are the winners of the 8th Awards of the Doctors’ Senate and Board of Trustees of the UB to the top scientific and humanistic dissemination activities. This award aims to promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge to society. On Monday, July 12, at...
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07/07/2021
Let’s UB!: a meeting point for entrepreneurship
The Ferran Soldevila gardens and several places of the Historical Building of the UB will hold on July, 13, the first Let’s UB! session, to be opened by the rector Joan Guàrdia. This is a meeting for the university community and agents from the field of entrepreneurship in Spain. Investors, managers...
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01/07/2021
M. Carme Junyent: “The only we need for a language to survive is to use and spread it”
M. Carme Junyent, lecturer at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the UB has led the publication of the book El català, la llengua efervescent (Viena, 2021), about the situation of Catalan and the actions we should take to turn it into the common language in Catalonia, regardless...
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01/07/2021
Awards of the Board of Trustees and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation
On Tuesday, July 6, at 6:00 p.m., there will be a ceremony in the Historical Building with limited room capacity for the Awards of the Board of Trustees and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation corresponding to the 2020 edition. The ceremony, which was not held last year due to the pandemic, will be presided...
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01/07/2021
The UB and ISDIN build a chair dedicated to research on skin health and ageing
The University of Barcelona and ISDIN, international laboratory specialized on dermatology and photoprotection, have created the UB-ISDIN LIVE YOUNG Chair, the first to study skin health and exposome, that is, the internal and external factors that influence on skin ageing. The chair is affiliated at...
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23/06/2021
UB lecturers drive the construction of a new surgical block built in the Arusha Mount Meru Hospital, in Tanzania
On June 20, the first base for a new surgical bloc at the Mount Meru Hospital, in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, was set. The new building will be built thanks to the collaboration of the members from the Department of Odonto-Stamology of the Bellvitge and Sant Joan de Déu campuses (Faculty of Medicine...
Research
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29/07/2021
Simulated microgravity system created to experiment with materials
Crystallization studies conducted in space laboratories, which are costly and unaffordable for most research laboratories, showed the valuable effects of microgravity during the crystal growth process and the morphogenesis of materials. Now, a research study led by a scientific team of the University...
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28/07/2021
New findings on the function of mitofusin 2 in the cellular energy metabolism
Mitofusin 2 is a key protein in the regulation of the physiology of mitochondria ─cellular organelles that produce energy─ involved in several neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, as well as in cancer. Now, a study published in the journal EMBO Reports reveals that the regulation of the bioenergetic...
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26/07/2021
Two new variants of the ‘TLR7’ gen associated with severe COVID-19 infections in young and healthy men, described
Advanced age, male sex or chronic diseases such as diabetes or obesity have been related to the development of severe forms of COVID-19. Now, a study published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology identifies two new variants of the TLR7 gene that could predispose to severe COVID-19 and would explain...
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26/07/2021
New transformative agreements to promote open-access publications
Transformative agreements are contracts between library consortiums and publishers to transform the current subscriptions at no cost to open-access publications, maintaining the access to reading. Over the last months, these agreements for the Spanish universities have been carried out at CRUE and CSIC...
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22/07/2021
Being born with a low weight can cause changes in the heart that persist into adulthood
People who have been born underweight, that is, babies in the first decile (corresponding to 10% of babies born with the lowest weight), have more cardiovascular problems when they are adults. This means that these people are up to three times more likely to suffer from a myocardial infarction. They...
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22/07/2021
The UB will lead TRUE project to promote entrepreneurship, funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
The University of Barcelona will lead the international project "Transforming universities towards entrepreneurship" (TRUE), which aims to eliminate the obstacles in innovation and entrepreneurship and boost these activities. TRUE, to be managed by StartUB!, will receive funding from the Innovation...
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21/07/2021
Management measures improve the conservation of the steppe bird in Lleida
Over the last forty years, the agricultural intensification, as well as the urban and farming development in the Lleida Plain, have reduced the expansion and quality of the available habitat for the steppe birds of this area, which covers a great part of species of such kind in Spain. The report on...
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21/07/2021
CaixaResearch call for Health Research promotes UB research
La Caixa Foundation announced today the thirty projects that were selected in the call CaixaResearch on Health Research 2021. The UB leads one of these projects and takes part in two others. These are excellence projects on biomedicine and research on health presented by research centres and universities...
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16/07/2021
Manel Esteller, elected member of the Academia Europaea
Manel Esteller, UB professor of Genetics at the Department of Physiological Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been elected member of the Academia Europaea in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section. ...
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16/07/2021
The African lake Sonachi: behind the mysteries of the great production of methane in extreme habitats
A study published in the journal Communications Biology, from the Nature publishing group, reveals the unusual high concentrations of methane in surface waters of the volcanic soda lake Sonachi (Kenya), in the African Rift Valley. The metabolic plasticity and the high productivity of the prokaryotic...
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15/07/2021
A project on sustainable tissues receives the StartUB! Sprint Awards in the Let’s UB session
The project Hemp and Love on production, distribution and commercialization of sustainable hemp tissues won the StartUB! Sprint awards to the top entrepreneur ideas by UB students. The award ceremony took place during the closing ceremony of Let’s UB, the meeting session for the entrepreneurship...
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15/07/2021
Mathematician Xavier Ros Oton, awarded with the Gold Medal Guido Stampacchia
Xavier Ros Oton, ICREA research professor and professor at the University of Barcelona, has been distinguished with the Gold Medal Guido Stampacchia. This international award, given by the Italian Mathematician Union, honors experts aged up to thirty-five whose research studies are significant in the...
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