A scientific article published in “Nature Scientific Reports” reveals that the oxidation of the amino acid methionine is a blood marker that indicates the oxidation of good cholesterol. This oxidation prevents the cholesterol from maturing and, therefore, from carrying out its protective function. This study -carried out by CIBERDEM/URV researchers jointly with researchers from the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital- has been carried out in a group of girls in the initial stages of polycystic ovary syndrome, which can lead to a high risk of anovulatory infertility, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome in adulthood.
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Number 23 of the Revista URV is now available. The cover of the latest edition highlights the University’s commitment to quality on all areas of its activities through its Quality Assurance Plan. 6000 copies of the magazine will be printed and it can be read, downloaded, printed and shared online in Catalan, English and Spanish at the following link http://issuu.com/revistaurv
In a public tender with competitors from around the world, the CTNS stood up with a contract of more than $500,000 for a nutritional intervention study with 250 volunteers to evaluate the benefits of consuming 100% orange juice
Analysing the measures taken by Ireland since the housing crisis and comparing them with those adopted by Spain. This was the aim of the first international round table “Lessons from the crisis”, which was held organised and held by the URV’s Housing Chair on 8 May
The University has opened the pre-registration period for 50 university master’s degrees covering practically all areas of knowledge and 30 URV-specific postgraduate programmes aimed at quality professional development and specialisation
The Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution is conducting an international search for a new director after Eudald Carbonell announced that he was standing down in order to spend more time carrying out research in Africa. He will also return to teaching as a professor at the URV and will continue to play a key role in the Atapuerca Foundation
URV professor Neus Esmel has participated in the 1st International Integrative Nursing Symposium, which was held from 18 to 21 May in Reykjavik. She gave a presentation on the current status of alternative therapies in Catalonia and how they are being successfully integrated into the URV’s Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
A total of 117 bachelor’s students received their diplomas in an academic ceremony on 22 May in the Main Auditorium of the URV’s Catalunya campus. The number of students was higher than the previous year
On Friday 15 May the URV awarded an honorary doctorate to Paul Preston, 69, in an academic ceremony in the Auditorium at the Offices of the Rector. The URV is the first university in Catalonia and in the Spanish State to award an honorary doctorate to Paul Preston, who was born in Liverpool and is one of the most widely respected historians of contemporary Spanish history
Agustín Mihi, a researcher with the Nephos researcher group at the URV’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering, has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The grant is worth 1.5 million euros over a period of five years and is for a project to create photonic structures for controlling the propagation of light in emerging technologies such as solar cells, sensors and the next generation of LEDs
The 100 under 50 ranking, which is compiled by the journal “Times Higher Education”, has placed the URV in 80th position in its list of the top 100 universities in the world under the age of 50. It is the second year running that the URV features in the top 100 of this ranking, which has been conducted since 2012
The URV’s management team sends its heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and the management team of Moi University in Eldoret (Kenya), to which Garissa University College belongs
The aim of the visit from the University of Porto was to learn how to set up and manage study abroad programmes
Two URV undergraduate students will attend the International Chinese Language Program during the second term of the academic year 2014-15
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Fruitful visit from Dayeh University Taiwan
Mr Adolfo Wu, a lecturer in European languages at the Dayeh University Taiwan and former URV student, visited the URV
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The URV visits India
The aim of this mission was to see the reality of these universities first hand and explore the possibilities of Indian students enrolling at the URV
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Catalan universities in Brussels
At the beginning of every year, most Catalan universities make a group trip to attend the seminar “What’s New In Brussels?”
The four Chinese students from Shenzhen Polytechnic University (SZPT) had spent a whole semester at our university
The doctoral thesis “From the projected to the transmitted image: The 2.0 construction of tourist destination image and identity in Catalonia” authored by Dr. Estela Mariné Roig under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Salvador Anton Clavé within the Doctoral Program in Tourism and Leisure of the Rovira i Virgili University has been selected as the winner of the International Federation for Information Technologies and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) Thesis Excellence Award for a Doctoral Thesis. Among the competing nominees, the Dr. Estela Mariné´s thesis stood out for its innovativeness, scientific rigor, and relevance to the tourism field
Stella Junior is an initiative of the Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) that aims to increase the employability of university students, to make the CGU member universities better known and to support the training mobility of students all over the world