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Xavier Mas Craviotto.
Xavier Mas Craviotto: “People have many prejudices against human sciences studies”
20/12/2018
Xavier Mas Craviotto (Navàs, 1996) is a lover of the Catalan language. Aged only twenty-two, he has received many awards already. This 2018, he has been awarded more than twelve prizes, among which are Pepi Pagès de Narrativa de Granollers, with the story El roure; the first edition of the Art Jove...
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The members of the team Sentit Comú, Gustavo Gómes de Oliveira and Andreu Amengual Tugores.
The team Sentit Comú wins the 13th Internal Debate League of the UB
19/02/2019
Is the European Union beneficial? This was the topic for the finalists of the 13th Internal Debate League of the University of Barcelona, which was held on February 13, in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building. It was the final session of a competition which, after three days of debates, gathered around twenty students from different faculties of the UB. ...
Current affairs
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19/02/2019
The team Sentit Comú wins the 13th Internal Debate League of the UB
Is the European Union beneficial? This was the topic for the finalists of the 13th Internal Debate League of the University of Barcelona, which was held on February 13, in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building. It was the final session of a competition which, after three days of debates, gathered...
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19/02/2019
Distinction to CRAI UB for its support to #SalvaPeironcely10 project on cultural heritage of Civil War
In 1936, the photographer Robert Capa published one of his most known photographs, in which we saw some kids playing around the remains after the German and Italian bombings in the neighbourhood of Vallecas. In particular, they were in front of the building number 10 in Perioncely Street, which was...
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14/02/2019
La UB, un any més, amb la Barcelona Magic Line
La Universitat de Barcelona s’adhereix, un any més, a la Barcelona Magic Line (BML), la mobilització solidària que organitza l’Obra Social Sant Joan de Déu a favor de les persones en situació vulnerable. Tot i que l’esdeveniment principal d’aquesta acció és una caminada solidària...
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14/02/2019
Building the UB 2030 Agenda
On September 25, 2015, a hundred and ninety-three world leaders signed the United Nations 2023 Agenda for sustainable development: a total of seventeen goals to end with poverty, to protect the planet and make human rights a reality for all people within fifteen years. Reaching these objectives does...
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13/02/2019
Laura Borràs: “Reading is like living more, it is living borrowed lives”
Today, February 13, the minister of Culture Laura Borràs has inaugurated the third edition of the postgraduate studies course of Reading Prescription of the Faculty of Library and Information Sciences, together with the dean of the Faculty Miquel Térmens. Borràs has given a lecture on the power of words...
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12/02/2019
The conference series From California to Catalonia starts
Lecturers from the universities of California will take part in the first edition of the conference series From California to Catalonia, with the subtitle “contributions to a cultural dialogue”. This approach aims to show research projects, documentaries and publications by academicians...
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11/02/2019
Fifth edition of Unirun, the race for Catalan universities
Today the fifth edition of Unirun has been presented. This is the race promoted by twelve Catalan universities to promote new challenges in university athletics. The race will take place on Sunday, March 3, in the cities of Barcelona and Sant Adrià de Besòs. The University of Barcelona, as the coordinator...
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11/02/2019
Homage to Professor Pere Santanach, former Dean of the Faculty of Earth Sciences
The Aula Magna of the Faculty of Earth Sciences will hold the ceremony paying homage to Pere Santanach, former dean of the Faculty and current emeritus professor of the UB, on Wednesday, February 13, at 11.30 a.m. During the ceremony, the special issue of the journal Geologia Acta, dedicated to the...
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11/02/2019
UB Internal Debate League competitions start
From February 11 to 13, the Aula Magna of the Historical Building holds the thirteenth edition of the Internal Debate League of the University of Barcelona, organized by the Debating Association of the UB (ADUB) and the Vice-Rector’s Office of Students and Language Policy, with the support of...
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08/02/2019
Hamelin Laie International School Wins the 4th League of Debate for Secondary Schools of the UB
The team of Hamlein Laie International School (Montgat) won, February 6, the fourth edition of the League of Debate for Secondary Schools of the UB, organized as part of the competition by the Vives Network. The team was formed by the students Alexandra Teixidó, Blanca Jiménez, Elizaveta Korchevaya,...
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08/02/2019
What are the future challenges for university mediation services?
On Monday February 4, the University of Barcelona held the 1st Scientific Dissemination Session on Conflict Mediation Services, a meeting aiming to set synergies between the different university mediation services, to analyse its current state and to consider future challenges the universities have...
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07/02/2019
Taking a third language up was never easier
The Secretariat for Universities and Research, in collaboration with the Language Services of the Catalan Universities, launched a new website to ease the learning of third languages. This website, Aprenc idiomes (learning languages), is mainly aimed at university students in Catalonia. It provides...
Research
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20/02/2019
New therapeutic strategy to treat Alzheimer’s
Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro) have identified a potential therapeutic strategy to treat Alzheimer’s, according to a study published in Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows, in a model of the illness in mice, that astrocytes –a...
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20/02/2019
Four researchers of the UB, honoured with Narcís Monturiol Medal
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19/02/2019
Researchers create mini-kidneys vascularized from human stem cells
A study published in the journal Nature Materials describes how organoids, or mini-organs, which look like the human embryonic kidney during the third trimester of pregnancy, and it shows how these three-dimensional imitate fundamental aspects during the formation of the kidney, such as distribution,...
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19/02/2019
Researchers create low-cost respiratory care devices for developing countries
Researchers from the group led by Professor Ramon Farré, have worked on and assessed the technical aspects of two low-cost devices to ease the application of adult and paediatric respiratory support, respectively, in developing countries. The results have been published in the journals American Journal...
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19/02/2019
Social awareness event for EUDONORGAN project at the European Parliament in Brussels
More than 120 professionals from the field of health and other experts from thirty-three countries worldwide have taken part in the social awareness event of the EUDONORGAN project, an initiative directly launched by the European Parliament and led by the University of Barcelona, together with the Bosch...
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18/02/2019
Active systems change structure similarly to how liquid crystals grow
Some groups of bacteria or cell tissues create active systems that show a complex behaviour and change from ordered to disordered states spontaneously. This behaviour pattern is similar to the one presented by active nematics. Now, a team of researchers of the UB has published an article in Nature Physics...
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14/02/2019
Synchrotron light to analyse mining waste in marine sediment taken by UB experts in the Portman bay
The light of ALBA Synchrotron will enable revealing the environmental impact of the tons of mining waste thrown for over forty years in the Portman bay (Murcia), as part of the research project by the Consolidated Research Group in Marine Geosciences of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University...
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13/02/2019
Dog burial was a common funerary ritual in Neolithic populations of the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula 6,000 years ago
Coinciding with the Pit Grave culture (4200-3600 years before our era), coming from Southern Europe, the Neolithic communities of the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula started a ceremonial activity related to the sacrifice and burial of dogs. The high amount of cases that are recorded in Catalonia suggests...
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12/02/2019
The Observatory on Bioethics and Law of the UB takes a position against surrogate pregnancy
The debate on surrogate pregnancy in Spain has recently intensified, with initiatives such as the law presented by the political party Ciudadanos to regulate this practice. In this context, the Observatory on Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona has published the Report on surrogate pregnancy....
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12/02/2019
‘Software Fallo 0’, a UB project to create an error-free software system
All software contain bugs; even those that control the aeronautical or military industry have bugs in their final version. This situation is particularly troubling because of the increasing dependence on software of key processes such as computer voting mechanisms, medical technologies, and applications...
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06/02/2019
A scientific study reveals the enigmas on social behaviour of western lowland gorillas
A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences reveals one of the enigmas related to the social behaviour of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the heart of the African equatorial rainforest. These primates show a dynamic social structure...
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05/02/2019
The entity CRU working on climate change incorporates WeMOI index, created by UB researchers, to study the weather in the Mediterranean area
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