The University of Turku had its 99th Anniversary Celebration on 28 February. At the event, Editor-in-chief Ville Pernaa was awarded as the Alumni of the Year. In addition, Rector Kalervo Väänänen highlighted the autonomy of academic education and degree system in his speech.
The University of Turku was ranked in the world’s top 500 universities in four broad subject areas and 12 disciplines in the 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The University of Turku opens the call for applications to the Pentti Malaska Futures Award on the national Futures Day on 1 March 2019. We are looking for research-based, visionary, and boundary-crossing solutions supporting the building of a more sustainable global future.
Did you know that you can ask the library to acquire information resources for your department? Save your time and let the library help. We acquire both the printed and the electronic books and journals and other possible information resources from your department’s budget.
The latest issue of the Baltic Rim Economies (BRE) review was published on 28 February introducing articles on current topics concerning the Baltic Sea region.
Doctoral Candidate Tiina Lehtiniemi from Turku Doctoral Programme of Molecular Medicine has won the 2019 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. She will represent the University of Turku in the international 3MT competition organised by Coimbra Group with her presentation: Quality sperm – how it’s produced and the secrets within!
The functionality of the Libguides platform of the library will be enhanced and clarified. Also the ResearchGuides web pages will be renewed according to the graphic directions of the University of Turku during the spring 2019.
The higher the cotinine levels were in the mother’s blood during pregnancy, the greater was the child’s risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in life, showed an epidemiological study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku. Globally, it is the first study in which the connection between fetal nicotine exposure and diagnosis of ADHD was shown by measuring cotinine levels from pregnant maternal serum specimens.
Researchers from the Universities of Helsinki, Turku and Missouri as well as the Family Federation of Finland present the first results from a new, extraordinarily comprehensive population-wide dataset that details the lives of over 160,000 World War II evacuees in terms of integration. The results demonstrate that migrants’ integration into a host community involves a trade-off between gaining increased social status and having fewer children.
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