Keyword: University Communications

The Functional Foods Forum (FFF) at the University of Turku has conducted research on food for 15 years already. Their research on multisensory experiences, such as how listening to music can affect the sense of taste, was the starting point for a seminar organised in Turku in October 2018. In the event, various researchers and artists discussed the practical applications of sensory perception research.

Finnish-American research group has studied whether parents’ gender preferences and investment in offspring are affected by their status, wealth, education or childhood environment. Instead, parental preferences were best predicted by their sex. These results help to make sense of the often contradictory findings on offspring sex preferences.

The University of Turku establishes a new professorship focusing on the research of plants grown in Finland, supporting the export of Finnish foods based on sustainable development, and promoting well-being with healthy foods. For the first five years, the position's basic funding is provided by the Raisio plc’s Research Foundation.

A team from the University of Turku has developed a mathematical model that predicts which patients become symptomatic after viral exposure using gene expression levels in blood prior to exposure.

​A 3D graphical representation of a generic influenza virion's ultrastructure.

In the Best Global Universities Rankings, the University of Turku was ranked globally as 310th and as 141st in Europe.

The University of Turku has received the Fairtrade University title. The title was awarded to the University for committing to promoting ethical trade and making more ethical purchases. The title was awarded by Fairtrade Finland.

The University of Turku's Amazon Research Team's (UTU-ART) botanical acquisitions focus especially on ferns and medinilla plants. After spending weeks in the jungle, the researchers’ plant specimen findings end up in the University's Herbarium and databases. The Amazonia is home to innumerable unknown species and therefore it is important to develop the databases.

​A specimen belonging to the Amazon Research Team's collections

Staff members of Egyptian universities and VET-schools participated in a pedagogical and management training for project based learning in Turku. The training was organized by University of Turku and Machine Technology Center Turku. The aim of the training was to encourage the teachers to use project-based learning as a part of teaching and to develop the soft skills of the students.

​The participants and teachers of the training.

On Thursday 25 October, a Russian-Finnish symposium presenting the countries’ collaboration in drug development was organised for the fifth time. During the symposium, presentations on collaboration projects and the possibilities and challenges of the present and the future of the drug industry were given.

The BepiColombo orbiters were launched into space on Saturday, 20 October 2018 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Journeying to the innermost and smallest planet of our Solar System, the orbiters are carrying Finnish high technology with them. Head of Space Research Laboratory at the University of Turku, Professor Rami Vainio has been responsible for the particle detector of the SIXS instrument aboard the Bepi orbiter.