The School of History, Culture and Arts Studies of the University of Turku established the Popular Culture Studies Master’s Degree Pathway on Tuesday, 9 September, with This is Popular seminar.
Susanna Paasonen presented the Popular Culture Studies programme.
The University of Turku reached the place 208 in the QS World University Rankings. The University received particularly strong evaluations in reputation and the teacher-student ratio.
The University of Turku will confer 12 honorary doctors in May. Ten of them receive the recognition for their scientific merits and co-operation with the University. Of the prominent figures of the society, President of the Supreme Court Pauliine Koskelo and Chief of Defence, General Jarmo Lindberg will be conferred.
– Without the University of Turku, my scientific career would never have continued, says Stefan Hell and ”raises” a glass of champagne via telephone to the crowd gathered in the break room of the Laboratory of Biophysics at the University of Turku.
Stefan Hell published the idea of the Stimulated Emission Depletion, i.e. STED, microscopy for the first time in 1994 when he was working in the University of Turku.
– Without the University of Turku, my scientific career would never have continued, says Stefan Hell and ”raises” a glass of champagne via telephone to the crowd gathered in the break room of the Laboratory of Biophysics at the University of Turku.
Stefan Hell published the idea of the Stimulated Emission Depletion, i.e. STED, microscopy for the first time in 1994 when he was working in the University of Turku.
The Falling Walls Lab, which was organised in Finland for the first time, presented young researchers’ solutions to the challenges of our time.
The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Turku has chosen Global Clinic Turku as the Humanist Act of the Year. The clinic offers health care for undocumented immigrants and for others foreigners outside the social security. The Humanist Doctor of the Year is Marika Räsänen and the Humanist Masters are Pauliina Peltonen and Niina Myllys.
11 student teams took part in the Challenge Turku innovation camp, which was organised for the second time, and the judges praised that all the ideas of the teams were feasible. The winning team wanted to develop the cultural destinations of Turku in order to make them more attractive.
The Challenge Turku competition was won by Team White: team tutor Esteban Soto (left), Sobhan Niroula, Jose DeCos and Karyna Yanchohola.
