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Training parents online and over the telephone significantly decreased preschool children's disruptive behaviour, shows the new Strongest Families study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku. The intervention programme decreased children's aggressiveness, noncompliant behaviour, ADHD symptoms, and emotional problems as well as strengthened their ability to feel empathy.

The good reputation of the higher education institutions in Turku and a specific degree programme are determining factors when international students choose to study in Turku. Nearly half of the international students would like to stay in Turku after graduating if work is available.

Share your innovative idea at the Falling Walls Lab Turku, win a scholarship and travel to the Finale in Berlin!

The rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe has now been measured very accurately by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Turku and the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO together with an international team of astronomers. It is the first time that the rotational rate and mass of a supermassive black hole has been measured with a closer accuracy than one percent.

Academician of Science, Academy Professor Sirpa Jalkanen won second place in the EU Prize for Women Innovators contest.

The University of Turku was placed as 141st in the Times Higher Education ranking of European universities. Of the Finnish universities, the University of Turku was third after the University of Helsinki and Aalto University.

The results of a Finnish study show that patients with neurofibromatosis have an increased risk for cancer and a poorer prognosis than that of the comparable population. The results were published in the esteemed Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Separated by several hundred kilometres from its next of kin, a new species of blue-tailed monitor lizard unique to the remote Mussau Island has been described. Unknown to science until recently and formally termed the "isolated", it is the only large-sized land-living predator and scavenger native to the island.

Turku School of Economics organises its first joint ceremonial conferment of doctoral and Master's degrees on 12–14 May 2016.

The University of Turku wants to advance the open access and utilisation of research data with the newly-published data policy.