The Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine of the University of Turku is hiring five postdoctoral researchers and four senior researchers. The Turku Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Turku is hiring five postdoctoral researchers and a director for a three-year period.
The University of Turku confers 12 honorary doctors in the Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees that is organised in May. They will be conferred as honorary doctors either for their scientific merits, collaboration with the University of Turku or because of their impact on society.
AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) has selected 35 most inspirational innovative practices from its member universities through the Innovations That Inspire initiative. Altogether 315 practices from 188 institutions in 33 countries were submitted by AACSB member universities. AACSB is an U.S. organisation that accredits business schools all over the world.
Researchers from the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Turku, Finland, have studied over ten million DNA variations and found new links between the human genome and inflammation tracers. The study uncovered new possibilities
Salofa Oy will commercialise the blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) test originally developed by the University of Turku and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Salofa intends to bring the easy-to-use quick test to the Nordic consumer market first, during 2017.
Finnish researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery revealing new molecular information on how the brain regulates depression and anxiety. They found that a protein called JNK when active, represses the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus. By inhibiting JNK solely in newly generated nerve cells in this region, they were able to alleviate anxiety and depressive behaviour in mice.
Natalie Koscielny and Liepa Mažulytė are Erasmus students at the University Consortium of Pori. Natalie is an MA student in Media and Communication from the University of Passau in Germany, and currently an exchange student at Turku School of Economics, and Liepa is a BA student in Entertainment Industries from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania, and is now studying at Tampere University of Technology.
A unique mobile service will be created for the new students of the University of Turku and it will help them in adjusting to the new city and study environment. At the beginning of the year, new exchange students can test the application and in the autumn the University will offer it to all new students.
Tanzania offers Finnish geospatial companies a possibility to become international and to create new services. At the same time, the companies take sustainable business to Tanzania and support the development of local business culture. The University of Turku is involved in the project that aims to develop new business solutions related to geospatial and ICT technologies for the markets of developing countries.
The new Nordic Centre of Excellence, led by Academy Professor Eva-Mari Aro from the University of Turku, applies top-level basic research in blue bioeconomy. The aim is to foster commercial applications particularly from algae and to strengthen entrepreneurship in the field of bioeconomy.
