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Núria Sara Miras: “Differences are a source of joy”
09/03/2022
Núria Sara Miras has been appointed rector’s delegate for the management of the UB Equality Unit just the week before International Women’s Day (March 8). She tells us she is linked to feminism from three sides: as a researcher, she specialized in pragmatist feminism and has focused on the...
The photograph
The Barcelona School of Economics turns twenty
02/06/2022
The celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Barcelona School of Economics, a research centre with UB participation, took place in the Historical Building. The event combined the institutional commemoration with the reflection on current economic issues. ...
Current affairs
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20/05/2022
The UB holds a conference by Seema Jayachandran within the prestigious cycle Kapuscinski Development Lectures
Seema Jayachandran graduated in Electric Engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a doctorate in Economics from Harvard University and a master’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford. She is currently a professor of Economics at the Northwestern...
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19/05/2022
Overcoming adversity and facing the future
“A proof of what we have been able to do”. Joan Guàrdia, rector of the University of Barcelona, defined with these words the event held on May 18 in the Paranimph to appreciate the task carried out by the university community during the pandemic. The memory of those people who passed away...
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18/05/2022
The UB awards an honorary doctorate to Adela Cortina and Robert D. Schreiber on May 25
Philosopher Adela Cortina (Valencia, 1947) and the immunologist Robert D. Schreiber (Rochester, 1946) will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Barcelona on Wednesday, May 25, in a ceremony that will take place at the Paranimph of the UB at 12 noon. Researcher Adela Cortina will...
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18/05/2022
Ibero-America and the European Union: common challenges in higher education
As part of the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022, which takes place in Barcelona from May 18 to 20, the University of Barcelona hosted, on May 16 and 17, the Ibero-America – European Union Meeting: A shared look at the future of higher education. The objective was to delve into and...
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17/05/2022
The UB and COIB create a chair to assert the nursing s contribution to public health
The University of Barcelona and the Official School of Nursing of Barcelona (COIB) presented yesterday the new UB COIB Nursing Chair in an event at the Chapel of the Historical Building of the UB. The main aim of the chair is to promote research, training, dissemination and transfer in the field...
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17/05/2022
Presentation of the Barcelona Chair for Housing Studies at the UB
Today, the UB held the presentation of the Barcelona Chair for Housing Studies, launched by the Barcelona City Council, the Catalan Government, the Spanish Government, the Technical University of Catalonia and Pompeu Fabra University. The event, presided over by the rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, included...
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13/05/2022
A push for the future Geological Garden of the UB
The project of the Geological Garden of the UB is included in the tourism sustainability plan of the Barcelona City Council to carry out projects which will be funded by the Next Generation EU funding. The Garden, which is planned to be located in calle Menéndez y Pelayo, will serve to disseminate the...
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13/05/2022
Public recognition to effort, dedication, and generosity of the university community during the pandemic
On March 14, 2022, the state of alarm was declared after the covid pandemic. For the University, this involved the sudden closure of buildings and suspension of all face-to-face academic activities. It was an unusual situation, in which keeping the University of Barcelona running involved extraordinary...
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12/05/2022
The UB hosts a series of activities as part of the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference
From May 18 to 20, Barcelona will host the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference. This is the first time the conference will take place outside the UNESCO Paris headquarters, which makes it one of the most important events worldwide to take place in Barcelona in 2022. Under the title “Reinventing...
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12/05/2022
UB-ZEISS Chair on Digital Imaging for Ophthalmology
The University of Barcelona and the technology enterprise on optics and optoelectronics ZEISS presented, yesterday, the new UB-ZEISS Chair on Digital Imaging for Ophthalmology in an event at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona. The chair aims to studying...
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12/05/2022
Results of the elections renew the members of the University Senate
The names of the members of the Senate that were elected in the elections that took place yesterday, corresponding to the academic staff and the administrative and service staff collectives, have been published. The corresponding list is available in this link. For further information, please visit...
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10/05/2022
Election to renew the representatives of TRS and AdSS in the University Senate
The teaching and research staff (TRS) and the administrative and services staff (AdSS) are called to the election to renew their representatives in the University Senate via e-voting. Both collectives can vote from Wednesday, May 11 at 10:00 a.m. to Thursday, May 12, at 10:00 a.m. ...
Research
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09/05/2022
Citizen science study detects vast amount of microplastics in Catalan bathing areas
The presence of microplastics in the oceans is widely documented/reported by the oceanographic research, but data on the pollution in the nearshore are scarce, due to the scientific boats’ access difficulties. Researchers from the Consolidated Research Group on Marine Geosciences of the Faculty...
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09/05/2022
New psychological therapy to be efficient in women with fibromyalgia and symptoms of depression
Fibromyalgia is a rheumatological disease of unknown origin, which features a chronic pain, and it usually goes together with depression symptoms. It mainly affects women and does not have a cure, although several treatments can alleviate the symptoms. Cognitive-behavioural psychological therapty is...
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05/05/2022
Margarita Díaz-Andreu, receives National Research Award
ICREA research professor Margarita Díaz-Andreu received the Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Award in the field of Humanities. Díaz-Andreu, member of the Department of History and Archaeology of the UB, received the award for the quality, creativity and international impact of her research career in the...
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03/05/2022
The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry honors researchers Francesc Illas and Albert Cortijos
Professor Francesc Illas, member of the Faculty of Chemistry and the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTC) of the UB, received the Medal of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), an institution dedicated to the promotion, dissemination and development of the discipline...
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29/04/2022
Lecturer Maria Teresa Anguera receives an honorary doctorate from the University of La Laguna
The UB emeritus lecturer Maria Teresa Anguera received an honorary doctorate this Friday, April 29, at the University of La Laguna. During the ceremony, Carmen Rosa Sánchez López, tenured lecturer from the Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology of La Laguna, pronounced Anguera’s...
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27/04/2022
Researchers design nanochips that penetrate inside cells as mechanical drugs
A research team put devices of 50 nanometre-thick —one thousandth of a hair’s part— inside living cells in order to find their division process and alter it, and even destroy cells. The new study, which sheds light on the exploration pathways in the field of nanomedicine, includes...
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26/04/2022
New mechanism to transfer chirality between molecules in the nanoscale field
If we compare the right to the left hand, we can see these are specular images —that is, like symmetrical shapes reflected in a mirror— and they cannot superimpose on each other. This property is chirality, a feature of the matter that plays with the symmetry of biological structures at...
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21/04/2022
Open call for the Board of Trustees and Bosch i Gimpera Foundation Awards to research and knowledge transfer
The period to submit candidacies for the Board of Trustees and Bosch i Gimpera Foundation Awards to research and knowledge transfer is open. ...
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21/04/2022
UB lecturer Salvador Cañigueral, new chairperson of European Pharmacopoeia
Salvador Cañigueral, lecturer of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the UB, has been appointed new chairperson of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission for the 2022/2025 period. Cañigueral’s appointment, to be...
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14/04/2022
MAGIC telescopes detect vampire star nuclear explosion
A research team taking part in the MAGIC collaboration —international consortium including participation from experts of the University of Barcelona— detected very high-energy gamma rays from a recurrent nova in the Milky Way. The results of such observations and the new findings on these...
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04/04/2022
Researchers identify neuronal mechanisms that control food cravings during pregnancy
Many people have felt the sudden and uncontrollable urge to eat a certain food. These urges —known as cravings— are very common, mostly during pregnancy. At this stage, the mother’s body undergoes a series of physiological and behavioural changes to create a favourable environment...
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01/04/2022
Stop ghost fishing: more than 100 extraction operations of lost fishing gears in the Catalan coasts
The Catalan coasts have undergone a total of 102 extraction operations of lost fishing gears in the seafloors since 2009, when the first removal of lost gears took place in the Montgrí, Illes Medes and Baix Ter Natural Park, under the scientific assessment by the experts of the Faculty of Biology and...
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