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The interview
Últim Consell de Govern del curs 2020-2021
14/07/2021
La renovació de la docència i el desenvolupament del teletreball, punts destacats de l’informe del rector al Consell de Govern L’impuls al programa de renovació de la docència, la constitució de la Comissió de Tecnologia Educativa i l’acord marc per al desenvolupament del teletreball...
The photograph
Award ceremony.
Licia Verde receives the King Jaume I Award to Basic Research 2021
19/11/2021
Licia Verde, cosmologist at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, has received the King Jaume I Award to Basic Research 2021. The awards ceremony of this 33rd edition of the prize, given by the Premios Rey Jaime I Foundation took place on Friday, November 19, in Valencia. ...
Current affairs
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03/12/2021
The works ‘Neisit Point Lighthouse’ and ‘Observant’ receive the first prizes in the fotoNAT-UB 2021 contest
Neist Point Lighthouse, by Patricia García, student of the bachelor’s degree of Biology at the Faculty of Biology and Observant, by David Lecegui, former student of the CRBA wildlife photography courses, are the awardees in the categories of wildlife and zoology, respectively, of the 15th edition...
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02/12/2021
Award ceremony for the Board of Trustees of the UB and Bosch i Gimpera Awards to research and knowledge transfer
On Wedndesday, December 1, the Aula Magna of the Historical Building hosted the award ceremony for the Board of Trustees and Bosch i Gimpera Awards. The rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, the president of the Board of Trustees, Joan Corominas, and the director of the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, Carme Verdaguer,...
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30/11/2021
LERU rectors debate on new European research and university policies
The rectors of the 23 member universities of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) took part in the 40th Rectors’ Assembly hosted by the University of Cambridge this November. The rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, attended this meeting, which counted on the participation of the UB...
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29/11/2021
Presentation of the World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022)
The 3rd World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) was presented today in the Paranimph of the UB. The Conference will take place in Barcelona from 18th to 20th May 2022, under the motto “Reshaping higher education for a sustainable future”. The meeting will treat questions such as the...
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26/11/2021
Official presentation of the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022
UNESCO, in collaboration with the Spanish Government and the main Catalan public institutions, will officially present, in the University of Barcelona, the third World Higher Education Conference. The presentation will take place on Monday, November 29, 2021, at 12 noon, in the Paranimph of the Historical...
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24/11/2021
Launch of BCN Health Booster accelerator
Eleven innovative companies with high social impact will be able to participate in a new business growth program and will have access to a laboratory at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) for three years. This opportunity will be possible within the framework of the new BCN Health Booster accelerator,...
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23/11/2021
The UB and GSK present a new chair on autoimmune diseases
The UB and the pharmaceutical company GSK presented today the new UB-GSK Chair on Autoimmune Diseases, an initiative to improve the health of those patients who live with autoimmune pathologies promoting teaching, research and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of these diseases. ...
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19/11/2021
Gaudí’s piece from the heritage of the UB, exhibited in MNAC
The University of Barcelona has ceded a drain cover from the Gaudí Pavilions to be part of the exhibition “(Re)discovering Gaudí”, inaugurated in MNAC, dedicated to the great architect. This is a drain cover for a sink, made of limestone, which dates from 1884. During the loan period, the...
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19/11/2021
Licia Verde receives the King Jaume I Award to Basic Research 2021
Licia Verde, cosmologist at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, has received the King Jaume I Award to Basic Research 2021. The awards ceremony of this 33rd edition of the prize, given by the Premios Rey Jaime I Foundation took place on Friday, November 19, in Valencia. ...
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18/11/2021
Students of the Faculty of Fine Arts take part in the cross-sectional program 'Cultures d'Avenir'
The students of the master’s degree on Production and Artistic Research (ProdArt) of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UB take part in the European project named Cultures d’Avenir. Promoted by the Paris Pompidou Centre, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, and the Barcelona Contemporary...
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12/11/2021
Agreement for the Campus of the Arts
Today a framework agreement has been signed between the institutions, universities and entities promoting the Campus of the Arts, a project led by the University of Barcelona that aims to strengthen higher education in the arts. ...
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09/11/2021
Barcelona Pensa comes with more activities than ever
Coinciding with the UNESCO World Philosophy Day, the third Thursday of November, the eighth edition of the festival Barcelona Pensa is here. It will take place from November 15 to 19, in different places of the city of Barcelona, and it includes more than thirty free activities, which take different...
Research
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01/12/2021
A new system for analysing thoracic CT scans with deep learning enables COVID-19 lesion detection
A new automated system that involves deep learning technology enables the detection of COVID-19 lesion via the analysis of a computed tomography (CT) scan. This system, described in a study published in the journal Computers in Biology and Medicine, has been carried out by researchers of the UB, the...
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01/12/2021
How does the climate crisis affect the Antarctic fur seal?
The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill —small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain— during summer in some areas of the Antarctica. This involves a decrease in the food abundance for female Antarctic fur seals in summer and a decrease in their reproductive...
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30/11/2021
Tumour cells create ribosome reservoirs that allow them to survive under adverse conditions
Researchers of the University of Barcelona and IDIBELL have found a mechanism that could explain the reappearance of tumours after clinical treatment. According to their research study, tumour cells are able to detect when the levels of nutrients and energy decrease, and they enter a low energy consumption...
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30/11/2021
Dinosaurs and amber: a site in Teruel opens a unique window to the Cretaceous world from 110 million years ago
New findings of amber in the site of Ariño in Teruel have enabled the reconstruction of a swampy paleoenvironment with a rich coastal resin forest from 110 million years ago, from the era of dinosaurs. This place featured conifers and understories of gymnosperms and ferns, and flower plants, where insects,...
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26/11/2021
A tool to improve children's cognitive development
In what skills are parent’s most proficient in? How can we encourage them to better support children’s cognitive, social and language development? We can find it out in no time with PICCOLO, the direct observation tool designed to assess and control the quality of parent-children interactions....
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25/11/2021
A study reveals the presence of murine coronavirus in Canary Islands mice population
A study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science reveals the presence of murine coronavirus ─the murine hepatitis virus or M-CoV─ in mice of the Canary archipelago that could have reached the islands by maritime transport from the European continent. This is the first ecoepidemiological study to...
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23/11/2021
New tool to assess epilepsy cases that need surgery
The Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group of the UB, IDIBELL, and the Bellvitge University Hospital have found an indicator that could help predict the evolution of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy who need surgery. According to an article published in the journal BMC Neurology, everything indicates...
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19/11/2021
First gene therapy approach for MLC leukoencephalopathy designated as orphan drug
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has designated as an orphan drug the first gene therapy approach to treat megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC), an ultra-rare disease that appears in childhood and leads to various neurological complications. Those behind this study, including...
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17/11/2021
Matters of the Heart: an exclusive research at the UB, makes the cover of ‘Nature’
The cover of this week’s edition of Nature, with the eye-catching title “Matters of the heart”, features a basic research study carried out exclusively by the Research Group on Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo) of the Genetics Section of the Faculty of Biology of the UB. The study...
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16/11/2021
The UB is once more the leading institution in Spain with most researchers among the highly-cited worldwide
The University of Barcelona appears one more year as the leading university in Spain with the most researchers among the most influential worldwide and it is the second most influential research centre in Spain, following CSIC (Spanish National Research Council). The ranking, published by Clarivate...
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12/11/2021
Research on the only skeleton of a calf of straight-tusked elephant in Europe
UB researchers Montserrat Sanz and Joan Daura have studied the only remains of a calf in Europe, a species known as the straight-tusked elephant: Palaeoloxodon antiquus. The study has been carried out jointly with Maria Rita Palombo, of the Sapienza University of Rome and researcher at the Institute...
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11/11/2021
Spain holds the 12th position in a new European ranking on the elderly’s quality of life
The Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UB, Ramon Alemany, and Mercedes Ayuso, professor of Statistics, have presented the Indicator of quality of dignified and sustainable life of the elderly (SDG-IVDS65+). An index that groups eleven Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in eight domains...
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