Keyword: News

Welcome to the 20th Futures Conference organised by Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku:

The library has subscribed to as much as 75 new humanist and social sciences databases from ProQuest this spring. All the databases will be in use for at least three years. Part of the sum that has been invested in the subscription may be used yearly for buying the most used ones for perpetual use.

Children born in Finland who had an immigrant father were two times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than those with two Finnish parents, discovered researchers from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku. Researchers stress that schools and clinicians should become more aware of intergenerational transmission of trauma.

According to a new research, circulating tumor DNA can be used to detect treatment options for ovarian cancer patients who don’t benefit from chemotherapy.

Documents on British Policy Overseas archive database sheds light on Britain’s international relations and diplomacy throughout the twentieth century.

WORK2019 conference examines the effects of digitalization on working life in a multidisciplinary and multidimensional way, with the theme Real Work in the Virtual World. 

A recent study revealed students at an international school in Finland significantly outperformed U.S. students on tasks which measure digital literacy in social media and online news. The researchers suggest this may be due to the Finnish and International Baccalaureate curricula’s different way of facilitating students’ critical thinking skills compared to the U.S. system and curriculum. The results of this study were published in the Journal of Research in International Education in April.

Library News in Brief brings you the latest news of the Library's work, new developments, acquisitions and services.

Turku Centre for Biotechnology, a joint unit of the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, celebrating its 30-year anniversary offers technology services and produces top research in biosciences. In honour of the anniversary, the name of the Centre was changed to gain more visibility and to strengthen its position at the heart of technology services in Turku. In the future, the Centre's brand name will be Turku Bioscience – in Finnish, Turun biotiedekeskus. 

For the first time, the University of Turku participates in the international iGEM Competition on synthetic biology this year. Consisting of students from the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, the team Aboa’s goal is to improve tests that are based on antibodies and to succeed in the high-level competition.