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Wednesday:

Presentation of the first translation into Catalan, by Oriol Ràfols, of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle (Edicions del Cràter). The event will include the participation of UAB lecturers Xavier Roqué and Carlos Tabernero.

Place: Institut d'Història de la Ciència (UAB)

Date: Friday 16, February de 2024 - 12:00h

Promotor: IHC

Wednesday:

Ana Barajas, Ana Aznar and Daniela León, PhDs and lecturers from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, will be in the expert's seat of the Science Carriage this week from 9:41 a.m. to 2:22 p.m. They will be talking with train passengers about the stigma related to mental illnesses. 

The first trajectory will begin at 9:41 a.m. from Sarrià to Sabadell Parc del Nord.

All three lecturers have participated in the Science Carriage podcasts, which are available here.

Next expert carriages

Place: Science Carriage, FGC. BCN-SABADELL 9:41 a.m. -> SABADELL PARC DEL NORD

Date: Thursday 22, February de 2024 - 09:41h

Wednesday:

Neus Sabaté from the Institute of Microelectronics in Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC) and Helena Arias, student of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering at the UPF, will explain the experience of the Hypatia I crew and present the new challenges to be faced by the second crew. 
  
The conference will be offered as part of the activities related to International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the UAB and of the exhibition “Women Scientists and Engineers to Come”.

Place: BCT Area, Library of Science and Technology

Date: Tuesday 27, February de 2024 - 13:30h

Wednesday:

Lecturer David Sánchez will be in the Science Carriage expert's seet this week on the train travelling from Barcelona to the UAB and leaving from Plaça Catalunya at 11:28 a.m. Sánchez, lecturer in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and director of the Reseearch Group in Health and Weight-Related Problems, will be talking with passengers about obesity and eating disorders, and the associated stigma.

Sánchez has participated in the podcasts of the Science Carriage, which can be consulted at this link.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC Plaça Catalunya-UAB 11:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 29, February de 2024 - 11:20h

Wednesday:

UAB researchers will participate in this conference, which will include the presentation of the results of the scientific research conducted on the archaeological site of Montanisell Cave (Coll de Nargó, Alt Urgell), dating back 5,500 years, and of the researchers' most outstanding discovery: a woman around 35 to 45 years old buried with extraordinary funerary objects, who they have named "The Lady of the Mountains".

The conference, organised by the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC), will include the participation of Núria Armentano and Cristina Santos, researchers in Physical Anthropology at the UAB, who will speak of the first anthropological results and the palaeogenetic studies and future research possibilities. Also speaking will by researchers from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), who conducted the stable isotope analysis of the archaeological site.

More information and conference programme

Place: Auditorium of the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC)

Date: Friday 8, March de 2024 - 09:00h

Date: Friday 8, March de 2024 - 17:30h

Promotor: Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC)

Wednesday:

The Institut de Neurociències (INc) and the UAB CORE in Mental Health once again organise the conference series Cervella’t, in commemoration of Brain Awareness Week. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the research conducted in neuroscience and mental health. The conferences will be given by experts collaborating with the UAB.

Attendance is free, but those interested in attending must sign up here.

Place: Online event

Date: Monday 11, March de 2024 - 18:30h

Date: Thursday 14, March de 2024 - 19:15h

Promotor: INc and UAB Core in Mental Health