Dr. Laura Elo, Adjunct Professor in Biomathematics at University of Turku, has received a five-year Career Development Award from JDRF, the world’s leading charitable funder and advocate of Type 1 diabetes research.
The Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize is awarded to an Erasmus student, who has completed an exchange in a member university of the European Coimbra Group and whose graduation the exchange has furthered.
Peter Kivisto is eagerly waiting for the turn of May and June. The Professor of the Augustana College, United States, knows that he will experience two memorable moments then. The University of Turku will confer an honorary doctorate on him and he will, for the first time, step into the childhood home of his Finnish grandfather in Jalasjärvi.
Finland Futures Research Centre affiliates to Turku School of Economics within the University of Turku, and thus acquires the possibility to grant Master’s and Doctor’s degrees.
A dental filling material developed by the Turku Clinical Biomaterials Centre (TCBC) is stronger than dentine.
According to Senior Researcher Samuli Helle, giving birth to boys lowered mother’s lifespan in pre-industrial time. Demographic data collected from Finnish parish registers kept by the Lutheran Church were used as research material.
The Turku Centre of Statistics and the more than 1,775 organizations in 121 countries participating in the International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) today join women around the world in the celebration of International Women’s Day.
The 93rd anniversary of the University of Turku was marked on Kalevala´s Day, Finnish Culture Day 28th February.
Rector of the University of Tartu Volli Kalm lectured in the University of Turku and started a joint guest lecture series. Volli spoke of the long traditions between the two universities and the future, where international networks and business collaboration play a key role.
Rectors Volli Kalm and Kalervo Väänänen answered the audience`s questions together.
A study conducted by the University of Turku shows that overfishing can drive fish populations into extinction. When gene complexes that are adapted to local conditions are lost, fisheries recovery becomes difficult.
