09/06/2020
Living through the pandemic away from home
International students who have remained in Tarragona and local students who have not been able to return home at the end of their studies abroad describe their lockdown experiences
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The move online and the opportunity to study part-time help students as they prepare for their professional careers
Classes will finish in accordance with the academic calendar but the assessment period will be extended until 16 July for students who are not undergoing continuous assessment and for subjects that cannot be assessed online
Genetic material from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time
Half of the URV’s 55 university masters offered in 2020-21 will be taught online or combination of online and classroom-based learning (blended) or will allow students to decide if they want to study in the classroom or online. Pre-registration is now open on the University’s website
This is not just a health crisis. It is a social and universal crisis
All URV buildings and facilities will be closed except for the essential basic services, mechanisms to ensure non-presential working and teaching are established, and the deadlines for internal URV regulations and procedures are suspended until further notice
The researcher has also joined the International Evaluation Committee of WordCall, the international association of teachers and researchers in the field of computer-assisted language learning
The URV former student and translator for the European Commission, Helena Romero, shares her experience in sessions with students at the University
Alba Buendía is a student on the URV’s Bachelor’s Degree in English and has spinal muscular atrophy, a disease that leads to the loss of muscle mass. For this reason she has started a crowd funding campaign so that she can get the assistance she needs in order to complete her studies at York Saint John University (United Kingdom)
Alba Buendía, student on the Bachelor’s Degree in English
The book presents the evolution of Catalan folk literature studies in the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories from the 19th century
It has been revealed through the study of cut marks on fossils from Atapuerca and other European sites. The research has been led by Francesc Marginedas, a student of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution Degree at the Rovira i Virgili University
She is the first person in Spain to have been awarded the Snorri Sturluson Fellowship grant for researchers, writers and translators
Local participants can learn about Chinese culture and phrases in Chinese for daily use through conversation with Chinese students
This ranking weighs the results of 13 indicators corresponding to the areas of teaching; research, citations, internationalisation and transfer
The journal Nature has reported the finding of a rhinoceros tooth at the site in Dmanisi, Georgia, where members of IPHES and the URV are working
The study, led by researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, analyzes the new trend in this genre, which has traditionally been considered sexist
A series of activities took place from 5 to 19 May to inform people about urban life in classical antiquity
The debates were open to questions from citizens through the Twitter account @ElDebatURV
Researchers at the URV have adapted to Kiswahili an app originally developed for improving English reading skills (StratApp). Students can improve their reading skills in this language by playing with the app