The 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson for their advances in auction theory and for inventing new auction formats to the benefit of buyers, sellers and contributors around the world
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10/10/2020
Feeding peace
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for its efforts to fight hunger in the world and especially in conflict zones, “avoiding the use of hunger as the weapon of war”
09/10/2020
Contemplating Light and Darkness
The choice of Louise Glück for the Nobel prize for literature this year is one that many poets have openly celebrated. She is a poets’ poet, and certainly as good as any poet writing today. Writing, that is, in a voice that is uniquely her own, and yet of universal appeal
08/10/2020
The copy & paste of molecular biology
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, in recognition of their research into “molecular scissors”, which can rewrite the code of life
07/10/2020
The irresistible attraction of black holes
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 has been to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”
06/10/2020
The discoverers of the hepatitis C virus
The Nobel Prize has been awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, who have had a significant impact on improving global health. Thanks to their discovery, there are now highly sensitive blood tests that enable hepatitis C to be eliminated after a blood transfusion
First author is Marina Lozano (IPHES-URV), who has published a paper about this research in the Journal of Archaeological Science
The TecnATox research group (URV-IISPV) is a member of the SPRINT consortium of the European Horizon 2020 Program. The project will develop a global risk assessment toolbox to assess the impact of pesticides on human health and adverse effects on plants, animals and ecosystems
Since 2006, fifteen promotions of master students have been graduated and more than 200 research works have been completed
This has been established in the URV’s Contingency Plan for the 2020-21 academic year, which stipulates how all members of the URV community must act in order to prevent the spread of the disease on its campuses
All courses will be taught following a blended format and priority will be given to the face-to-face activities of first-year bachelor’s degrees
It has been selected by the International Medical Informatics Association from among nearly 1400 scientific articles published in indexed journals in this ambit during 2019
This Tuesday, 15 September, the application period was opened for both of the programme’s sections: the standard section, for which there are 45 places on offer, and COFUND, for which there are 31. The deadline for applications is 15 November 2020
University Rovira i Virgili, University of Innsbruck, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and together with the Iberoamerican Knowledge Foundation (GECON) have won a Horizon 2020 “Science with and for society” or SWAFs grant in the amount of 300.000 Euros for a total duration of 24 months
Since 2014, URV has received 7.9 million euros for two projects of the COFUND-doctoral programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
A study by the URV has tested the method by which neural networks infer the laws of physics by accurately listing all possible combinations
It is the 4th Catalan university in the Shanghai ranking
An international team of archaeologists compiles recent research on the reconstruction of prehistoric technologies
Is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies published to date. These results suggest that overweight/obesity prevention should be considered at an early age to avoid deleterious effects on reproductive health
Both tools have been found during this field-season at Unit TD08, and they are around 600,000 years old, a time characterized in Europe by a striking scarcity of human presence