University’s Redesigned Website Published
The University of Turku published its redesigned website on 28 November 2018. The new website highlights the research conducted at the University as well as the education opportunities.
The University of Turku published its redesigned website on 28 November 2018. The new website highlights the research conducted at the University as well as the education opportunities.
A new linguistic electronic resource is now available for students and staff of Turku University.
Infant brain development is still poorly understood. Thus, research on the topic is vital as developing brains are sensitive to early environmental factors. Recognising this, the FinnBrain imaging study conducted in Turku explores brain structure in newborns.
Researchers at the University of Turku's PET Centre and the Technical University of Munich have collaboratively demonstrated a new manner of activating brown fat and producing a sense of fullness. The results have been published in the esteemed journal Cell.
Brown fat consumes energy, reduces the amount of harmful cholesterol and improves the body’s sugar levels. Stock photo.
QS Rankings has ranked nearly 500 universities globally on the grounds of working life perspectives. The University of Turku was highly successful being ranked in the 300–500 class.
The University of Turku is in charge of organising a high-level event on climate change in the European Parliament today on Monday, 19 November. The event includes speeches by Finnish universities’ top researchers from different disciplines.
Quantum Garden is a citizen science project where everyone can contribute to solving a quantum physics research problem of crucial importance for the outbreak of quantum technologies. The project is a collaboration between the University of Turku, the School of Science and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University and it is sponsored by the Centre for Quantum Engineering (CQE).
A research team comprised of scholars working at the forefront of Nordic region and international archaeology, ancient history, and cultural heritage preservation has been awarded a workshop grant from NOS-HS (The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences). It funds three workshops for over two years in Stockholm (mid-2019), Oslo and Kristiansand (spring 2020), and Helsinki (autumn 2020).
In a new study, researchers at the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki identified the diet of the most common Finnish bat species. The diet of the bats included a considerable amount of various invertebrates, including ground dwelling beetles, gnats, mosquitoes, and a wealth of moths. The researchers were able to determine a total of over 500 different prey species from the approximately 1,200 bat droppings collected for the study.