11F: exhibition pays tribute to the UAB's female honorary doctors
The University's Library Services has prepared an exhibition entitled "The UAB's female honorary doctors", which will be inaugurated on 11 February in the Science and Technology Library, as part of the activities of International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
The exhibition pays tribute to the 18 women who have been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University throughout its history. Between 1976 and 2024, the UAB has awarded a total of 117 honorary doctorates, of which only 18 have been awarded to women. The exhibition that is now dedicated to them wants to show who they are and in what social, cultural or research field they have excelled and thus pay them the tribute they deserve.
The joint exhibition can be visited virtually and also physically, distributed throughout the libraries on campus, and also the Vall d'Hebron and Josep Laporte teaching units, where there will be an exhibition on women in their area of knowledge. The first libraries to open the exhibition will be the Science and Technology, Medicine, Communication and General Newspaper Archives, Veterinary Medicine and the university library of Sabadell, where visitors will find Lynn Margulis, evolutionary biologist (awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007); Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow, physicist (2009); Margarita Salas Falgueras, molecular biologist (2018), and Lisa Randall, physicist (2019), and many more.
A complementary colloquium
The inauguration of the exhibition will be accompanied by a colloquium on honorary women in the fields of science, biosciences and engineering. UAB researchers Montserrat Llagostera (Department of Genetics and Microbiology), María J. Yzuel (Department of Physics), Núria Barniol (Department of Electronic Engineering), and Xavier Roqué (Institute of History of Science and Department of Philosophy) will participate. All of them will reflect on what an honorary recognition represents, how it is achieved and why there are fewer women awarded in all fields of knowledge.
Talks by UAB researchers in different school centres
In addition, during the week of 11 February, several researchers from the University will give talks in schools in Catalonia. Nine of these researchers will be doing so under the framework of the action #cientifiques.cat, organised by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology: Elena Hernández del Amo and Esther Julián Gómez (Department of Genetics and Microbiology), Esther Molina Peñate (Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering), Eva Cortés Velasco (Department of Clinical and Health Psychology), Imma Martínez Rovira (Department of Physics), Mariona Terradas (Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology), Enea Sancho Vaello (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Ainamar Clariana Rodagut (Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising) and Marian Berihuete Azorín (Department of Prehistory).
Researchers from the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) Tamara Fernández Cabada, Irantzu Pallarès Goitiz (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and Mercè Martí Ripoll (Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology), and researcher from the Institute of Neurosciences (INc-UAB) Gemma Comes Orpinell (Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology) will also be giving talks at schools. Both the INc and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) will also carry out campaigns to raise awareness of the work conducted by their female researchers on the social network Instagram.