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The interview
Iñaki Rivera.
Iñaki Rivera: “Torture occurs in the hidden places of society and it is very hard to make it visible”
20/05/2019
Iñaki Rivera, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, dedicated his academic career to the fight against torture, and against institutional violence. He has now been chosen as one of the fourteen experts in Europe –the only one from Spain- to be part of the new Observatory of National Preventive Mechanisms...
The photograph
The youngest bird can die often.
Saving the youngest owls: a pivotal food aid
12/06/2019
Helping young owls to survive –the last born birds of a brood- can be an effective action to improve the protection of species in their natural habitat. This strategy is used by the Conservation Biology Team of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio) to improve these owl babies’ survival. ...
Current affairs
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14/06/2019
Learning about real archaeology
A good way to enjoy a summer week while learning about “archaeology and creating memories worth keeping”. This is how Sofia Pejoan remembers her stay in the archaeological excavation by the Faculty of Geography and History framed within ArqueUB, the project that allows high school students...
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12/06/2019
Saving the youngest owls: a pivotal food aid
Helping young owls to survive –the last born birds of a brood- can be an effective action to improve the protection of species in their natural habitat. This strategy is used by the Conservation Biology Team of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio) to...
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07/06/2019
El Carme Cultural Centre Badalona exhibits Wei Xiaorong's contemporary Chinese paintings
Wei Xiaorong is one of the highest authorities in contemporary Chinese painting, heir of traditional painting, also based on the art of Chinese calligraphy. This is why the exhibition in Sala Josep Uclés in El Carme Cultural Centre in Badalona (c. Francesc Layret, 78-82) is a good opportunity to understand...
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06/06/2019
Carbon tax is the most efficient to face climate emergency, according to the experts in the UB-Torres Environmental Sessions
The experts who gathered on Wednesday, June 5, in the VII Environmental Sessions organized by the University of Barcelona, Familia Torres and the meteorologist and lecturer of the UB Tomàs Molina, agreed on the fact that the carbon tax is an efficient solution, albeit not the only one, to de-carbonize...
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06/06/2019
Use of artificial intelligence to improve public administration, topic of the seminar to close the UB master’s degree on anti-corruption
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05/06/2019
The UB publishes the call for the top gender perspective bachelor's and master's degree final projects
The Equality Unit of the UB publishes the call –for the first time, of the Awards to the top gender perspective bachelor’s and master’s degree final projects (TFG and TFM), funded by the Vice-rector’s Office of Equal Opportunities and Social Action. The aim is to promote the...
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03/06/2019
Open registration for next year's University of Experience
People aged over fifty-five who wish to register in any of the fourteen training programs offered by the University of Experience (UdE) for next academic year –can make their pre-registration from June 3 to 7, online and in person, in the head offices of the Area of Further Learning of the UB....
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03/06/2019
Are taxes the solution to climate change?, debate in the VIII UB-Torres Environmental Sessions
On Wednesday, June 5, World Environment Day, Barcelona will celebrate the VIII Environment Sessions, organized by the University of Barcelona, Familia Torres and the meteorologist and UB lecturer Tomàs Molina. Under the motto “Are taxes the solution to climate change?”, the meeting will...
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03/06/2019
This year’s Els Vespres de la UB, with a true Barcelona essence
The poster for Els Vespres de la Universitat de Barcelona proposes six musical performances that gather the cross-bording songs by Marcel Lázara and Júlia Arrey, the Mediterranean rumba and salt of Hijos del Trueno, the elegant and dreamy pop of Her Little Donkey, the honest friendship and love storyes...
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31/05/2019
Five students receive "la Caixa" grants to study postgraduate studies abroad
The award ceremony for “la Caixa” grantholders took place last May 28. Out of the 120 selected candidates in the 2018 call to study postgraduate studies abroad, five of them are UB students. The rector of the UB, Joan Elias, attended the ceremony, which took place in CaixaForum Madrid, and...
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29/05/2019
Editions and Publications of the University of Barcelona presents new publications in the Madrid Book Fair
From May 31 to June 16, the 78th Madrid Book Fair will take place in Parque del Retiro. Editions and Publications of the UB will participate with its own stand, with Estrella Montolio’s Tomar la palabra, and Mercè Bernardo’s El éxito internacional de la cocina catalana, among others. ...
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29/05/2019
The world of crystals shines again in the 8th Contest of Crystallization at the School
About 1,900 students from around Catalonia have taken part in the eighth edition of the Crystallization at the School contest, a competition for teachers and students of second year of secondary school (EDO) and upper secondary school to promote the applications of the scientific method and critical...
Research
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14/06/2019
Decoding the source of asymmetry in DNA - RNA hybrids to improve gene therapy efficiency
A study published in the journal CHEM furthers the understanding on the asymmetry between nucleic acid hybrids and gives new perspectives to promote the efficiency of genic therapies that can be applied in several pathologies. Through a combination of protocols and experiments, “we could understand...
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14/06/2019
Heritage, tourism and sustainability, main topics of the fifth International Congress on Food
One more year, Alícia Foundation and the Food Observatory (ODELA) of the University of Barcelona hold the V International Congress on Food which, this year, focuses on the relation between heritage, tourism and sustainability. From June 19 to 21, the Faculty of Geography and History of the UB and la...
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13/06/2019
Vegetables’ health benefits increase when cooked with extra virgin olive oil
Cooking vegetables in the sofrito (sauté) with extra virgin olive oil favours the absorption and release of bioactive compounds of its traditional ingredients (garlic, onion and tomato), according to the study conducted by a research team of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences at the University...
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12/06/2019
LIRA - PANTHALASSA: a dual infrastructure to study the trace of radiogenic and environmental isotopes
Studying the chemical footprint of environmental pollution since the industrial revolution, tracking the carbon cycle in the deepest oceans, improving clinical diagnostic tools and identifying fraud cases in the food industry are some of the action fields of the laboratory LIRA - PANTHALASSA, an infrastructure...
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12/06/2019
A study analyses the quality of the last two centuries of rain records in Catalonia
Catalonia has daily and continuing data on the rain since 1855, before the first modern meteorological stations were opened and standardized measures were taken. The reliability of these data is essential to understand the effects of the climate change in this area. Therefore, a team of researchers...
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11/06/2019
Globalization and climate change are the passport to new epidemic diseases worldwide
How do climate change and globalization affect the appearance of emerging viruses? What pathogens with viral origins could cause new epidemic outbreaks? Are viruses the future great biotechnological tools in biomedicine? Nowadays there are around two-hundred species of viruses that are pathogens for...
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07/06/2019
Computational simulation to predict the shape of a molecule according to its environment
Hydrogen bonds are non-covalent electrostatic attraction forces between a hydrogen atom with lightly positive charge and an electro-negative atom. These bonds can appear between two different molecules or between different parts of the same molecule, and are the forces that keep the DNA, proteins and...
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05/06/2019
A science study reveals mites and ticks represent one evolutionary lineage only
Mites and ticks represent only one evolutionary lineage –and not two, which was thought so far- according to a new article published in Nature Communications. The first author of the article is Jesús Lozano, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University...
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31/05/2019
A new molecular mechanism could explain the origins of the depressive symptoms in Huntington’s disease
About 40 % of the affected patients with Huntington’s disease –a neurodegenerative pathology- show depression symptoms, even in early stages before the apparition of the typical motor symptoms of the disease. An altered function of Cdk5 kinase –an essential enzyme in several cell signalling...
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31/05/2019
Cliffs, ropes and rappel to study an owl population in Vallès Occidental and Baix Llobregat
Rappelling in the cliff walls until reaching the nests is a common activity in scientific monitoring of the owl population (Bubo bubo) and other birds of prey, promoted by the Conservation Biology Group led by lecturer Joan Real, from the the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental...
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30/05/2019
A project on the music by Catalans deported to Nazi concentration camps gets the XIV UB Research Prize for Peace
Coinciding with the award ceremony for the XIV UB Research Prize for Peace, the new website recercapau.ub.edu has been published, reconverted in a guide on the research project for upper secondary education students. The project La música dels catalans deportats als camps de concentració nazis. Buscant...
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29/05/2019
The Bioethics and Law Observatory of the UB warns about the risks of online access to medicines and food
Digitalization of consumption in platform economy is making online shopping popular in many fields, even in medicines and food. This practice can bring benefits, but it also involves risks for people’s health and privacy. Despite the clear advantages of new technologies and online shopping, are...
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