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Library has opened new return boxes at the Turku Campus. 

New Health Campus Turku research, development and testbed service TERTTU boosts the testbed activities in the healthcare sector in Southwest Finland and enables co-creation of new solutions with health care professionals. 

The University of Turku was placed 287th in the QS World University Rankings 2021. All in all, 1,000 different universities were globally ranked according to six indicators.

The corona crisis affects the well-being, learning and education of children and adolescents in many different ways. It is likely that in most children, the long-term disadvantages of the corona crisis are related to the economic and social impacts on families with children. However, it is possible to minimise the detrimental effects on their well-being. For example, the negative effects of parental unemployment on children's education are most effectively reduced by preventing unemployment itself.

The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) has nominated an original innovative clinical research article conducted at the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital as one of the three best clinical papers of the years 2019–2020. The first author of the article, Specialising Medical Doctor Iftakher Hossain, was also selected for the 3rd position of the Aesculap EANS Research Prize 2020. 

Universities across the U.S. are being obliged by state laws to allow concealed handguns on campus. Researcher Albion M. Butters writes how the John Morton Center examines this issue at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Cancer Drug Resistance laboratory is looking for two doctoral candidates to join a new and exciting research group in the University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Women who have experienced childhood trauma become mothers earlier than those with a more stable childhood environment shows a new study conducted in collaboration between the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki. The trauma children experience form living in war zones, natural disasters or perhaps even epidemics can have unexpected effects that resurface later in their lives.

Everything you wanted to know about the Baltic Sea is now gathered in one place. Go to MarineFinland.fi to find real-time data from the sea and the best places to visit. Or maybe you want to learn more about marine habitats, different species and changing sea nature? It’s all there.

Food Studies Online provides researchers archival content, visual ephemera, monographs and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us. Food studies is a relatively new field of study; key disciplines include history, biology, anthropology, environmental studies, business and sociology.