Genetic material from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time
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31/03/2020
URV information on COVID-19
All buildings and facilities are closed until further notice. Teaching and assessments will continue at a distance, as far as possible (last update: 03/04/2020)
The dean of the Faculty of Nursing, María Jiménez, explains the importance of distributive justice in triage and calls for the mental health of health professionals to be protected given the ethical decisions that they have to take
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
Seven 3D printers from different departments at the University have started to produce equipment, in particular face masks, which will be distributed to healthcare staff throughout the Tarragona region
The researcher from the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Àlex Arenas, is one of the signatories of the document alongside Oriol Mitjà
This is not just a health crisis. It is a social and universal crisis
This estimation has just been made using the mathematical model designed by URV researchers and Unizar if current mobility is maintained. Portugal, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay have already got in touch with the research group to request data on the spread of the virus in these countries
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
In his design of the 20 chimneys that crown the rooftop of the Palau Güell, Gaudí combined ornamentation with smoke extraction. However, the results of combining these two functions were by no means optimal in all of them. URV researchers have examined not the decorative function of these chimneys but their draft
Researchers from the NFOC-Salut group at the URV have analysed the results of the latest studies carried out in the frame of the AppleCOR project, which examines the effect of consuming anthocyanin-rich apple flesh on reducing cholesterol
Teaching will continue at a distance, as far as possible
All other attended academic activities to continue as normal
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
COIL is a learning methodology that links a class at one educational institution with another in a different country
More than 150 students have come to the University this second semester through mobility programmes
Researchers at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Universidad de Zaragoza have developed the tool, which provides its results on a website that is updated daily
It is an environmental distribution method that aims to prevent the more influential countries from conditioning the climate change negotiations
The URV former student and translator for the European Commission, Helena Romero, shares her experience in sessions with students at the University
Doctoral students are challenged to explain their research to the general public. The winner will go through to the final round to compete against representatives of other Catalan universities