News
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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19/01/2022
Invitations to Els Vespres d’Hivern
The invitations for the first concert of Els Vespres d’Hivern cycle will be available on January 20. The first concert will be the performance by Flamenco Queer, which will take place on February 4. There has been a schedule change in the second concert, which will be offered by Anna Mieke instead...
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11/01/2022
New music proposals in Els Vespres d’Hivern
The Els Vespres d’Hivern are back. The UB brings back its support for emerging artists. Once again, culture and music meet in the heart of the UB: the concerts of this cycle, projects with personality and with a great artistic value, will take place in the Paranimph of the Historical Building,...
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23/12/2021
CHARM-EU Annual Conference
The European university CHARM-EU is organizing, on January 13, the CHARM-EU Annual Conference: European universities’ cooperation. Towards sustainable, transdisciplinary partnerships. The meeting, which will be held virtually, will focus on the innovation and trends of higher education, and on...
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20/12/2021
New psychological support program
The UB has started a new psychological support program for the university community. The initiative is part of the objective of including the wellbeing, both physical and emotional, in the academic model of the University of Barcelona. Those interested can access the psychological support program through...
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10/12/2021
The end of national literatures?
The volume Weltliteratur i literatura comparada. Perspectiva des d’Europa (UB Publications and Editions, 2021), curated by Antoni Martí Monterde, lecturer of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the UB, and Enric Sullà, professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature...
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09/12/2021
University autonomy, threatened by EU data protection regulation?
The digital architecture of universities is increasingly dependent on dominant platforms of private companies. At the same time, it is unclear how universities are affected by the European data legislation which is currently under debate. The rectors of the institutions that build up the League of European...
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09/12/2021
Deadline for submitting projects to UNI-ECO's "Green Challenges" extended until January 2
The deadline for submitting proposals in the second edition of the campaign "Green Challenges: towards a more sustainable campus", organized by the European project UNI-ECO, has been extended until January 2. The initiative is aimed at members of the university community who want to contribute...
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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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03/12/2021
This holiday season, we meet again at the UB
This December, the University becomes a meeting point for celebration, a place with the light and joy of the holidays for the city. The lightening of sixteen Christmas trees, one per each UB centre, in the hall of the Historical Building, and the Christmas decorations have marked the beginning of the...
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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...
Research
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21/01/2022
Researchers design an artificial light-fuelled molecular machine
A molecular machine is a series of molecules that can conduct different mechanical movements as a response to a stimulus. This is a key structure for the development of different cellular functions. Professor Lluïsa Pérez-García, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the UB, took part in...
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20/01/2022
Mediterranean diet associated with a lower risk of mortality in older adults
A greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet which had been assessed through an index made with biomarkers during a 20-year scientific monitoring is associated with a lower mortality in adults over 65. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Cristina Andrés-Lacueva, head of the Research...
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19/01/2022
Climate crisis drives Mediterranean coral populations to collapse
A new study led by teams of the Faculty of Biology, the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the UB, and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona has revealed that marine heatwaves associated with the climate crisis are bringing down the populations of coral in the Mediterranean,...
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18/01/2022
INPhINIT and Junior Leader grants at the UB
Several researchers of the UB have been selected in the new call for doctoral grants (INPhINIT) and postdoctoral grants (Junior Leader) of La Caixa Foundation. The aim of these grants is to retain local talent of excellence and attract international researchers offering competitive salaries and complementary...
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17/01/2022
Researchers find a molecular mechanism involved in the cholesterol cell transport
A team of the UB and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) identified a mechanism involved in the movement of cholesterol inside the cells. The study, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, shows how the SNX13 protein plays a key role when transporting this lipid outside...
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13/01/2022
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument DESI creates the largest three-dimensional map of the cosmos
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of observation, completing all previous studies of galaxy three-dimensional surveys. After only the 10% of the five years of observation, DESI has completed the largest and most detailed map of the universe to date....
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12/01/2022
Researchers identify a disordered region of Src protein that regulates its oncogenic capacity
The Src protein takes part in the regulation of many physiological processes such as the survival, migration or cell adhesion as a response to stimuli received from several receptors of the membrane. Although it is demonstrated that its deregulation is involved in the proliferation of cancer in humans,...
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10/01/2022
The Doctors' Senate Awards honors, in its 25th edition, a research study on Parkinson's disease
The Doctors’ Senate Award of the UB reaches its twenty-fifth edition with a consolidated prestige among the university community. The award, which receives more and more candidates every year, honors those doctoral theses presented at the UB that have made the most relevant contributions to the...
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22/12/2021
Study reveals a greater diversity of Iberian spiders previously unknown
Populations of Iberian spiders that make aerial webs and move around by ballooning (using a thread of silk as a parachute) are genetically more homogeneous and are better connected between them. On the other side, species of nocturnal spiders, which hunt on the ground and have a low dispersal capacity,...
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21/12/2021
New UB Antarctic campaign to study global threats affecting the marine benthos
Studying the impact of the anthropic pressure and the natural threats that affect the Antarctic benthos —organisms that live in the seafloor— is the main objective of the new Antarctic campaign of the Challenge research project, led by Professor Conxita Àvila, from the Faculty of Biology...
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21/12/2021
Researchers find a new genetic regulation pathway associated with obesity
A study published in the journal Advanced Science describes for the first time a mechanism involved in the development of obesity. The study states that a group of microRNAs —small molecules that regulate the expression of specific genes— could prevent the expansion of the obesity-associated...
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20/12/2021
Space and time: how to better understand biological processes in plants
If the perspective of space and time is not properly applied to plant research, the understanding of biological processes is limited as well as the response to the threats that endanger the life of plants worldwide. This is one of the main conclusions of an article published in the journal Trends in...
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