MiraMon, the geographic information system developed by the UAB and CREAF, celebrated its 30th anniversary in an event that will be followed by other activities during 2025. With more than 200,000 users in 42 different countries, this software is a key tool in Catalonia for monitoring changes on land. Thanks to MiraMon, a large number of PhD theses and key research works in the fields of geography, biology and climate have been carried out.
The evaluation surveys for the first semester of the 2024/25 academic year corresponding to the teaching performance of faculty members and subjects/modules will be available until 17 January 2025.
The vaccination campaign organised by the UAB Healthcare Service will offer the Tetanus Diphtheria Vaccine to university community member aged over 40.
Javier Lafuente was elected rector of the UAB on 7 November. He took office on 21 November in an event that includes speeches by Núria Montserrat, Minister for Research and Universities; Tania Nadal, President of the Social Council and Esther Zapater, secretary General of the UAB.
Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Uppsala University (Sweden). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). He engages widely with governments, industry and civil society, and remains research active with publications in Climate Policy, Nature and Science. He has a decade’s industrial experience in the petrochemical industry, is a chartered engineer and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Anderson gave the inaugural lecture of the 2024-2025 academic year of the UAB.
Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB, and Jordi Herreruela, executive director of Barcelona Events Musicals (Festival Cruïlla), presented the ENIA UAB-Cruïlla Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Music and the Arts today. The new chair will provide research support and experimentation in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, with a strong commitment to transfer knowledge to the ecosystem of cultural industries. With a budget of €800,000, the chair will have an initial duration of three years.
In November, the UAB Open Labs will offer four workshops aimed at undergraduate and graduate students on the principles of circular economy, eco-design, degrowth and gender perspective. The workshops are free. All those interested in participating have until 4 November to register.
A UAB study in collaboration with the UVic-UCC and the ALBA synchrotron concludes that the Iberian culture (8th to 1st centuries BCE) newborns buried within domestic spaces died of natural causes, such as complications during labour or premature births, and not due to ritual practices. Researchers applied an innovative methodology, based on the study of the neonatal line of baby teeth using optic microscopy and microflourescence with synchrotron light, to analyse the teeth from 45 infant skeletal remains and precisely identified the moments of both birth and death.
Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota and one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy, will visit the UAB and offer a conference at the Rectorat building on 10 October. The conference will be open to all members of the community and will focus on the revolutionary potential of a care democracy.