18/12/2020
The book Història breu de l’Anatomia Patològica a Catalunya has been recently published. The book, whose authors are the emeritus professors of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Josep Antoni Bombí, Miquel Bruguera and Jacint Cobella, was requested by the Catalan Society on Pathological...
12/02/2021
The Catalan Agency for Cultural Heritage of the Catalan Government has presented the 3D digitalization of the bronze sculpture of Isabel II (1869), by Agapit Vallmitjana. This piece, which is part of the Collection of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, will be accessible for all audiences, thanks to this initiative, which offers a digital replica of the original piece, and which offers...
The Catalan Agency for Cultural Heritage of the Catalan Government has presented the 3D digitalization of the bronze sculpture of Isabel II (1869), by Agapit Vallmitjana. This piece, which is part of the Collection of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, will be accessible for all audiences, thanks...
The piece Pescador galàctic, by Pablo Bou, Pablo Bou, AdSS member of Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, was the winner in the zoology category of the fourteenth edition of the wildlife photography contest fotoNAT-UB. The winner notes that “by working with continuous light and flash techniques, I got...
After its launch on February 10, the first images from Solar Orbiter have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed 'campfires', near the surface of our closest star. According to the scientists behind the mission, seeing phenomena that were not observable in detail before hints at the enormous...
Does the current educational system guarantee people’s progression? This is the topic on which the finalists of the 14th Internal Debate League of the University of Barcelona had to debate. The debate took place on February 14, in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building. The closing session...
The team of Institut Llavaneres (Sant Andreu de Llavaneres) won the fifth edition of the League of Debate for Secondary Schools of the UB, which took place from the 3rd to the 5th of February as part of the competition launched by the University Vives Network. The team was formed by the students Júlia...
In 1997, the University of Barcelona expanded its bibliography collection with the personal library on cooking from Rudolf Grewe, distinguished expert on gastronomy and food studies. This is how the Collection Grewe: food and gastronomy was born. This Tuesday, January 14, the Esteva Grewe family –headed...
The winner of the 12th VidaCaixa Seguros UB Award to the top master’s degree final project was Esteban Vargas Galarza, for his study Using Shiny as a tool for evaluation of health insurance pricing models, co-supervised by Eva Boj del Val and María Teresa Costa Cor, both lecturers at the Department...
Bosch i Gimpera Foundation held, on November 26 and 28 the fifth edition of Science + Partners, the meeting which gathers research staff from the University of Barcelona and experts from the business and the investment fields. With a dynamic and agile format, the activity helps to improve the entrance...
Bosch i Gimpera Foundation held, on November 26 and 28 the fifth edition of Science + Partners, the meeting which gathers research staff from the University of Barcelona and experts from the business and the investment fields. With a dynamic and agile format, the activity helps to improve the entrance...
“Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity about any kind of catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is’. On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientists signatories from around the world,...
The Water Research Institute of the UB (IdRA) received a visit from the delegation of the China Department of Water Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of Water Resources, built by members of the government and representatives of research institutions and companies from China. The visit, which...
Bike helmets, bellows, repair set, notes and pen, and mostly, a public transportation card and a bike. This is the material six hundred students from the Faculty of Biology used to contribute, since 2016, to decarbonize the atmosphere and limit greenhouse effect gases to go to their practicals in Delta...
The piece Pescador galàctic, by Pablo Bou, Pablo Bou, AdSS member of Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, was the winner in the zoology category of the fourteenth edition of the wildlife photography contest fotoNAT-UB. The winner notes that “by working with continuous light and flash techniques, I got...
After its launch on February 10, the first images from Solar Orbiter have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed 'campfires', near the surface of our closest star. According to the scientists behind the mission, seeing phenomena that were not observable in detail before hints at the enormous...
Does the current educational system guarantee people’s progression? This is the topic on which the finalists of the 14th Internal Debate League of the University of Barcelona had to debate. The debate took place on February 14, in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building. The closing session...
The team of Institut Llavaneres (Sant Andreu de Llavaneres) won the fifth edition of the League of Debate for Secondary Schools of the UB, which took place from the 3rd to the 5th of February as part of the competition launched by the University Vives Network. The team was formed by the students Júlia...
In 1997, the University of Barcelona expanded its bibliography collection with the personal library on cooking from Rudolf Grewe, distinguished expert on gastronomy and food studies. This is how the Collection Grewe: food and gastronomy was born. This Tuesday, January 14, the Esteva Grewe family –headed...
The winner of the 12th VidaCaixa Seguros UB Award to the top master’s degree final project was Esteban Vargas Galarza, for his study Using Shiny as a tool for evaluation of health insurance pricing models, co-supervised by Eva Boj del Val and María Teresa Costa Cor, both lecturers at the Department...
Bosch i Gimpera Foundation held, on November 26 and 28 the fifth edition of Science + Partners, the meeting which gathers research staff from the University of Barcelona and experts from the business and the investment fields. With a dynamic and agile format, the activity helps to improve the entrance...
Bosch i Gimpera Foundation held, on November 26 and 28 the fifth edition of Science + Partners, the meeting which gathers research staff from the University of Barcelona and experts from the business and the investment fields. With a dynamic and agile format, the activity helps to improve the entrance...
“Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity about any kind of catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is’. On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientists signatories from around the world,...
The Water Research Institute of the UB (IdRA) received a visit from the delegation of the China Department of Water Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of Water Resources, built by members of the government and representatives of research institutions and companies from China. The visit, which...
Bike helmets, bellows, repair set, notes and pen, and mostly, a public transportation card and a bike. This is the material six hundred students from the Faculty of Biology used to contribute, since 2016, to decarbonize the atmosphere and limit greenhouse effect gases to go to their practicals in Delta...