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Noemí Pereda: “This country has cases of sexual violence and abuse”
20/11/2018
"The main problem of children violence sexual abuse is the silence and secrets that go with these situations", notes Noemí Pereda, lecturer of Victimology at the Faculty of Psychology and director of the Research Group on Child and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) of the University of Barcelona....
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Autoritats i representants de les dotze universitats catalanes, durant l’acte d’inauguració oficial dels campionats. Foto: Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet.
Catalonia University Championships 2019 start in l’Hospitalet
23/11/2018
The vice-rector for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Salvador García Fortes, with the mayor deputy of Sports and Youth of the City Council of l’Hospitalet, Cristian Alcázar, and the secretary-general for Sports of Generalitat de Catalunya, Gerard Figueres, opened the Catalonia University Championships (CCU) 2019, coordinated by the UB this year. The activity took place on November 21, in...
Current affairs
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04/12/2018
Tickets for the Christmas Concert, available on Monday
On the 13th and 14th of December, the Paranimph of the Historical Building will hold the traditional Christmas Concert offered by the UB as part of the 32nd Cycle of Music at the University, organized by the Vice-Rector’s Office of Arts, Culture and Heritage. Since there is a high demand, the...
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30/11/2018
The UB awards the best bachelor degree final projects on gender perspective
The existence of a glass ceiling for members of the Congress of Deputies between 1977 and 2018 or gender sensitivity in national health plans are some of the topics in the bachelor degree final projects that have been awarded in the first edition of the Awards to the best TFG on gender perspective at...
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29/11/2018
Homage to Jorge Wagensberg
On Saturday, December 1, CosmoCaixa Barcelona will hold a session to pay homage to the UB lecturer Jorge Wagensberg. The activity, organized by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), will remember all the sides of the lecturer andscientific communicator who died last March. ...
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28/11/2018
First Pharmacy Business Forum
Around thirty companies and entities and more than a hundred students are taking part, on November 29, in the first edition of the Pharmacy Business Forum, organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences. The aim of the meeting is to bring together students of last year and master and postgraduate...
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27/11/2018
A chatbot to detect the risk of mental disorders among university students, awarded in the UB Innovation Day
A chatbot for university students to prevent mental health problems, an app to promote walks around Barcelona and another to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables among youngsters aged between 18 and 22 are the three awarded projects on the Innovation Day. The contest, which took place on...
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23/11/2018
Second Annual LERU Rectors' Assembly
Last November 16 and 17 the Second Annual LERU Rectors’ Assembly took place. Joan Elias, Rector of the UB, the only Spanish university member of the network, attended the meeting. During the meeting, the Director-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, Jean-Eric Paquet,...
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23/11/2018
Catalonia University Championships 2019 start in l’Hospitalet
The vice-rector for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Salvador García Fortes, with the mayor deputy of Sports and Youth of the City Council of l’Hospitalet, Cristian Alcázar, and the secretary-general for Sports of Generalitat de Catalunya, Gerard Figueres, opened the Catalonia University Championships...
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23/11/2018
Carme Junyent: "There have always been languages that die, but not at the speed and amount it's happening now"
"There have always been languages that die, but not at the speed and amount that it is happening now", stated the lecturer of the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the UB Carme Junyent in the fifth debate of #DebatsUB: Catalunya i Espanya. Junyent, who focuses her...
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23/11/2018
‘Homines dum docent discunt’: Biology honors the teaching staff who received higher scores from the students
Homines dum docent discunt (Humans learn when they teach) is a quote by Seneca that gives the name to the new award the Faculty of Biology gives to the teaching staff. The award, which is given now for the first time, honors those lecturers that are best valued by the students according to the opinion...
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21/11/2018
(In)security as business, topic of an international conference
ShockMonitor Observatory, launched by the International Institute for Nonviolent Action – NOVACT, from the Study Center for Peace J.M Delàs and Solidaritat UB Foundation are organizing on Thursday, November 22, in the Aula Capella in the Historical Building, the international conference “Confronting...
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20/11/2018
Noemí Pereda: “This country has cases of sexual violence and abuse”
"The main problem of children violence sexual abuse is the silence and secrets that go with these situations", notes Noemí Pereda, lecturer of Victimology at the Faculty of Psychology and director of the Research Group on Child and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) of the University of Barcelona....
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19/11/2018
Lecturer Carme Junyent gives the conference “Llengua i identitat”
The lecturer from the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the University of Barcelona will give the conference “Llengua i identitat” in the fourth debate of #DebatsUB: Catalunya i Espanya, to take place on Thursday, November 22, at 6.30 p.m. in the Aula Magna of the...
Research
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05/12/2018
Current map of river salinization: one out of three peninsular rivers is affected
One out of three rivers in the peninsula has salinization mainly due the impact of agricultural activity and territory urbanization. This environmental problem will affect hydric ecosystems due global warming, the growing use of water and the exploitation of soil natural resources. These are some...
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04/12/2018
A study describes the dynamics of chromatin during organ and tissue regeneration
Researchers from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (UB), in collaboration with the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have described thw genes and regulatory elements of their expression that are required during...
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03/12/2018
Inés Domingo and Pietro Tierno, distinguished with two European Research Council Consolidator Grants
UB researchers Inés Domingo, from the Faculty of Geography and History, and Pietro Tierno from the Faculty of Physics, have been honoured with two Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) within the frame of the 2018 call. The new edition of the ERC aids, which are part of the European...
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29/11/2018
Conference by Terry Hughes, one of the top 10 scientists in 2016, on the impact of global warming in coral reefs
The Australian Great Barrier Reef is in danger because of the effects of global warming. Moreover, there are less and less opportunities to recover the rich biodiversity in this great biological structure. This is the main message of the scientific studies by Professor Terry Hughes (James Cook University,...
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28/11/2018
Researchers redefine the classification of glutamate receptors, essentials in the central nervous system
Researchers from the research group Molecular Physiology of the Synapse at the Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona(UAB), the University of Barcelona and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) have proved that two families of the...
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28/11/2018
Influenza vaccination would reduce the severity of the flu in vaccinated patients who have not prevented the infection
When influenza vaccination is ineffective in preventing the flu, it could have an additional effect reducing the severity of the infection, according to an epidemiological study which has the participation of members of the research group Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases...
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27/11/2018
The University of Barcelona, the Catalan institution with most highly cited researchers worldwide
Fourteen researchers of the University of Barcelona appear in the list of the most influential scientists worldwide, published by Clarivate Analytics –leading company in the innovation field-, which identifies experts that lead studies with the highest international scientific impact in several...
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27/11/2018
Ruth Rodríguez Barrueco, L'Oréal-UNESCO Research Award for Women in Science
IDIBELL-UB researcher Ruth Rodríguez Barrueco has been awarded one of the five L'Oréal-UNESCO Research Awards 'For Women in Science' in its 2018-19 call. The award, worth 15,000 euros, will support and promote the project carried out by Ruth Rodríguez, which focuses on the discovery of new targets for...
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26/11/2018
ICCUB launches the dissemination portal ServiPartícules
Cosmology, gravitation, particle physics, atomic physics and nuclear physics are the topics to be treated in a disseminating way in the new portal of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB): ServiPartícules. ...
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23/11/2018
A large volcanic eruption shook Deception Island 3,980 years ago
A large volcanic eruption shook Deception Island, in the Antarctica, 3,980 years ago instead of 8,300, as it was thought so far, according to an international study published in Scientific Reports. This event was the largest volcanic eruption in the continent during the Holocene (the last 11,700 years...
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23/11/2018
First genetic map of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
An international study, focused on the analysis of the genome of more than 50,000 people worldwide, has identified twelve specific fragments of DNA related to the vulnerability of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, involves more...
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22/11/2018
The first global database of the Earth's vegetation
Why do some plant species grow in certain places instead of other places? Why do some species appear next to certain species and not others? Diversity of global vegetation can be described with some traits from each species. This revealed in a study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution....
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